Scholastic Image Magic
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A fraternal society of Traditional Astrological Magicians. Now it has a name.
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THE RINGS OF THE GREEN LION: Mercury in Gemini Picatrix Rubeus page 109: “If, under the influence of Mercury, you make the image of a lion in emerald… in the hour of Mercury, Mercury rising in Gemini… whoever has this image will evade infirmities and fear, and good things will be said of them.” I…
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Picatrix Rubeus page 248: “The spirit of the magician furthers the effects of the heavens just as the harvests of nature– that is, in the way that harvests are furthered by plowing and cultivating the earth.” A magician will be able to achieve greater effects from magic increasingly over time, as skill and personal attunement develop.
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THE RINGS OF ABUNDANCE: Jupiter in Exaltation, Moon sextile Jupiter This was what I suspect was the last valid Jupiter exaltation election for the next decade or more. The details of this election are slightly unusual in many ways. Jupiter ascended on Jupiter day. The Moon was making applying benevolent aspects to both Jupiter and…
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THE RINGS OF ULTIMATE FORTUNE: Jupiter in Degree of Exaltation, Moon trining Jupiter This was a phenomenal election and I hope some of you took advantage of it. Jupiter was in his degree-of-exaltation, in his Day, with the Moon applying a lovely trine to him. The MC was furthermore fortified by Venus in her exaltation.…
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THE RINGS OF FEVER’S ECLIPSE: Moon conjoined to Arcturus [I include this post for historical reasons only; the talismans were highly malefic and extremely dangerous. They could not even be stored safely but required complex deconsecrations.] This one is one of the riskier elections I’ve done recently, to the point it almost falls out of Tradition.…
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“They then asked of him, ‘What is Perfect Nature?’ He answered, ‘Perfect Nature is the spirit of the philosopher or sage linked to the planet that governs him. This is that which opens the closed places of knowledge, and by which is understood that which cannot otherwise be understood at all, and from which workings…
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THE TALISMANS OF DESIRE: Alahue This was somewhat experimental, but worth noting. “The thirteenth Mansion is Alahue, and it is for the liberation of men who are not able to come to women and for putting love between men and women. When the Moon is passing through this Mansion, fashion from red wax the image of an…
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