This week's election
for using Astrological Magic and
Astrological Talismans was pointed out
to me by one of my students, Francis Mercuri. Thanks Francis!
It is for the Lesser Benefic
Venus, though Moon is also
well dignified. As always you can do your own Venus or Moon talisman using
the election provided below. For these elections you can use the tables,
seals and characters of
Venus found on the Venus Talisman page or
those at the Moon Talisman page.
Cornelius Agrippa says the Venus talisman,
"[P]rocureth concord, endeth strife, procureth the love of women [and men],
conduceth to conception, is good against barreness, causeth ability for
generation, dissolves enchantments, and causeth peace between men and women..."
and that the Moon table,
"[R]enders the bearer thereof grateful, amiable, pleasant, cheerful, honored, removing
all malice, and ill will. It causeth security in a journey, increase of riches,
and health of body, drives away enemies and other evil things from what place thou
pleaseth..."
Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy Bk. II, Chapter 22 (Tyson ed.)
page 319.
However, because I have become very interested in making
gem stone talismans inscribed with images, I will use this election to make lapis
lazuli cabachon talismans.
The image descriptions for this week's talisman come from
Picatrix, an encyclopedic work of
medieval Arabic astral magic. We are fortunate to have the
new English translation from Arabic of the Picatrix from
Ouroboros Press which we can
compare to the Latin Picatrix edited by David Pingree which is
available from the
Warburg Institute.
We turn to page 130 of the
Ouroboros translation of Book Two, Chapter Ten of Picatrix.
"Another action of Venus in its hour is to carve a picture of [a] naked maid in a stone
of lapis azure near the picture of a man wearing a chain necklace around his neck.
A young child is behind her holding a sword. The holder of this stone will be '
attracted and loved by women.
Here is the corresponding talisman from the Latin
Picatrix,
Si ex formis Veneris formam puelle [puella] nude feceris, in eius
collo cathenam circa eam tenetis, et iuxta eam hominem habentis,
retro vero formam pueri parvi ensem elevantis, in hora Veneris,
lapide lazuli, qui hanc ymaginem secum portaverit a mulieribus
diligetur et quod voluerit faciet.
Of the image of Venus make the image of a nude boy [girl] with a
chain around his neck that a man nearby is holding, behind them is
the form of a small boy holding up a sword, in the hour of Venus,
in the stone lapis lazuli, and whoever carries this women will like him
and do what he wishes.
Translation by Christopher Warnock, Esq.
The elected time and date are
February 7, 2003 at 1:52 pm EST (+5) at Cleveland Park, a
Washington, D.C. neighborhood, 38 N 56 77 W 03,
The Moon is in her exaltation, Taurus and trining Venus
Venus is dignified by being in term and triplicity, as she
is the day ruler of the earthy signs in Dorothean triplicity
system. Venus is the almuten of the 7th and conjunct
the 7th house cusp. It is the day and
planetary hour of Venus.