The election for the current chart is a talisman of the
planet Venus. As the goddess of love, Venus is the planet
par excellence for love and marriage talismans.
I made a limited number of
beautiful gemstone talismans of Venus for love made from lapis lazuli,
which the Renaissance mage Cornelius Agrippa
says is ruled by Venus.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy Book I, Chapter 28.
The lapis gemstones were
inscribed with a Venus image derived from our traditional sources at
the time and date shown below.
The lapis is in a
cabochon cut, 18 x 25 mm, approximately 1 inch by a half inch.
After being inscribed at the proper time, the lapis cabochon
is then mounted and strung on
a leather cord. Each talisman comes with a color Nigel Jackson image of
Venus for mediation and visualization as well as full consecration and ritual
instructions.
As of January 3, 2003 the Venus Triplicity Talismans
are sold out!
Let's take a look at the image descriptions from our
traditional sources. The first is from Cornelius Agrippa,
"They made another Image of Venus for to get the love of women,
in the Lapis Lazulus, at the hour of Venus, Venus ascending in Taurus,
the figure of which was a naked maide with her haire spread abroad,
having a looking glass in her hand, and a chain tyed about her neck,
and nigh her a handsome young man holding her with his left hand by
the chain, but with his right hand making up her hair, and they both
look lovingly on one another, and about them is a little winged boy
holding a sword or a dart."
Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Bk. II Chap. 43.
The Renaissance mage Giordano Bruno
describes several similar images for Venus,
"A youth with a silver chain; and next to him a naked maiden
dancing with a laurel crown... A golden winged boy with shining
hair whose feathers have a thousand colors holding a flaming javelin...
A youth and a girl wrestling, both naked, being bound with a golden chain."
De Umbris Idearum
Finally we have the description 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 [her] 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."
Picatrix, Bk. II, Chapter 10 (Translation by Christopher Warnock, Esq.)
We have not followed the electional instructions
exactly, but rather chosen a time when Venus is dignified and well placed.
The time chosen for
the election is December 12, 2003 at 9:24 am pm EST in Cleveland Park, a neighborhood
of Washington, D.C. 38 N 56, 77 W 03.
At this time Venus rises. She is dignified by triplicity
as the day ruler of earth signs, in an earth sign during the day.
It is the day of Venus.
She has just separated from an opposition of the very nasty Saturn, the Greater Malefic, in
detriment and retrograde. Having separated the ill effects of Saturn will not menace
her.
Here is further information on
Astrological Talismans
and Astrological Magic.
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wish to delve even deeper into this fascinating area I offer an
Electional Astrology Course, an
Astrological Magic Course, a
Planetary Magic Mini-Course
and a
Mansions of the Moon Mini-Course as
as Astrology and Magic Books and
my discussion group Spiritus Mundi.