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2024-05-25

“Secret Keys to Astrological Remediation” @ ConVocation 2024

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture “Secret Keys to Astrological Remediation” at ConVocation 2024 For centuries, natal astrology served as a diagnosis for a client’s destiny, but when the stars predicted challenges and misfortunes ahead, people sought cures. Approximately thirty years ago, the revival of traditional astrological magic offered a hope of using astrological talismans to repair…

2017-12-11

Magic Rings of Seduction

Creation of Powerful Carnelian and Gold Venus Talisman Rings Electional Configuration This was a particularly superb election for Venus; so excellent in fact, that I went through some extraordinary efforts and even a few personal sacrifices. What was so good about it to make me jump through flaming hoops? First, we have Venus in…

2017-04-24

Gemstones and Metals in Picatrix and SIM

Scholastic Image Magic, or SIM for short, focuses somewhat upon the creation of talismans; that is, material objects in which a spirit of the heavens is ritually embedded in order to perform works of wonder. Picatrix, also known as Ghayat El-Hakim in its original Arabic title, is the largest and most detailed example of this tradition…

2017-04-23

Massive Talismans and Chimerical Spirits

I say to you further that, if the quantity of stone of which an image is composed is large (that is, between an ounce and a pound), the virtue and power of it will be able to reach from the place where it is for a hundred leagues. If it contains a combination of things…