Tag: planetary magick

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A Guide to Different Planetary Geometric Arrangements

Pretty much everyone in magic is familiar with the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, the ritual used by the Golden Dawn as a standard banishing ritual, which involves drawing the pentagrams in the air on the four corners and so on. As each point of the pentagram is connected to an element, a different but similar ritual, the Greater Ritual of the Pentagram, may be used to tune your ritual space for elemental invocation. The same may be done for planetary forces, but in GD logic the pentagram is a sign of the microcosm (elements), while for macrocosmic forces (planets) the hexagram is used instead, which is the figure 1 in the image above.

In the Greater Invoking Ritual of the Hexagram, thus, you draw the hexagrams in the air according to the planet assigned to each corner, clockwise (anti-clockwise banishes). This neatly arranges them in a way that mimics the distribution of planetary correspondences in the Hermetic-Qabbalistic Tree of Life system used by the GD (in which Binah = Saturn, Chesed = Jupiter etc).

You’ll notice though that only the sun has no corner because it’s treated as the sum (no pun intended) of all planets, so a GIRH for the sun involves drawing ALL 6 other hexagrams. This literally hurts.

There are other systems, though, which, in a more practical fashion use a heptagram (7 corners, 7 planets). Figure number 2 is the one used in Sorita D’Este and David Rankine’s version of the planetary ritual explained in their book Practical Planetary Magick (Sorita also explains how it works on her blog). It features the chubbier variation of the heptagram (called a 7/2 heptagram) and the planets are arranged in a week-day cycle order. Number 3 is the skinnier heptagram (7/3) used by the Aurum Solis order (source: Melita Dennings and Philip Osbourne’s Planetary Magick: The Heart of Western Magick). Starting from Saturn at the top, as you follow the line you’ll get the same order as from the GD hexagram (Saturn-Jupiter-Mars-(Sun)-Venus-Mercury-Moon), also mimicking the descent from the 3rd sephirah, Binah, all the way down to Yesod.

The bottom three figures are purely theoretical and, as far as I know, are yet to be actually used in ritual, though they might be useful for me as I’m searching for a more Babylonian-centric system. Numbers 4 and 5 are derived from an academic paper by Peter James and Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs called “Ziggurats, Colors, and Planets: Rawlinson Revisited”, which aims at understanding what planetary order ancient Babylonians used, as well as their color correspondences, based on archeological evidence. Thrillingly for the occultist, they arrive at a pentagram and heptagram distribution: “As it happens, the Ecbatana ziggurat order can be correlated with the standard Neo-Babylonian sequence by means of a pentagram, by plotting either on the corners and reading along the diagonal lines. Such a result is not a mere curiosity. It is well known that, in imperial Roman times, the sequence of the weekdays (by their tutelary deities) was derived from the quasi-heliocentric (“Chaldaean”) planet order then in vogue (Cassius Dio 37.18–19; Boll 1911: 372–75; Neugebauer 1957: 169; 1975: 691) by taking leaps of two.” The pentagram layout excludes the two luminaries, however, though I suppose the Sun could be conflated with Saturn and the Moon with Jupiter due to some weird Babylonian logic that would take too long to explain here (see Ulla Koch-Westenholz’s Mesopotamian Astrology for more info). Their heptagram layout, though, is shockingly similar to Sorita and Rankine’s version, as it also follows the week-day order cycle, though with a different starting point (its top corner is the moon, for Monday, while Sorita and Rankine’s starts with Saturn).

The final figure, number 6, is another scholarly supposition, drawn by Sara de Rose in a paper called “Is CBS 1766 a Tone-Circle?” which attempts to interpret a 7/3 hexagram drawing on a clay tablet as a musical pattern. Its corner attribution also follows the week-day order cycle. I can’t comment on it further, however, due to my lack of musical knowledge.

I have decided to put all of these figures together for my own studies, but I share them here with whomever might be reading this because I think it might be interesting to other magicians who work with planetary magick.

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A Solomonic Garden Fertility Ritual

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This ritual is in beta testing. Feedback on it’s efficacy is welcome and appreciated.

Taken in part from the 6th & 7th Books of Moses and Grimoire Verum

Clean, exorcise, and consecrate a weather-proof, durable object that can be placed or buried in your garden in the manner appropriate to your tradition. On the hour and day of Venus, inscribe the Fourth Table of the Spirits of Earth onto the object in green paint, doves blood ink, or any similarly Venusian ink.

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Light a green or white candle and place it upon the Table of Earth, then light a Venusian incense and recite the following three times:

In this, by this, and with this, which I pour out before Thy face, O God, my God, who art blessed, Three and One, and in the most sublime exaltation, who sittest above the Cherubim and above the Seraphim, who wilt judge the world by fire. Hear Thou me!

Lift up your eyes to heaven and say:

O Lord Almighty, who dost cause all things to move according to Thy good pleasure! Hear Thou my prayer and may my desire be agreeable unto Thee! Lord, O Lord! If Thou wilt, condescend to look upon this [item] and bless it, that so Anael, one of Thy servants, may pause thereon with her companions to satisfy me, [name], Thy poor and humble servant, O God, blessed and exalted above all the heavenly spirits, who livest and reignest forever and ever! Amen.

O Eternal! O King Eternal! God Ineffable! Thou who hast created all things for love of me, and by a secret judgment for the health of Man do Thou deign to look upon me [name], Thy most unworthy servant, and upon my intention. Vouchsafe to send unto me Thy Angel Anael, even upon this [item], who doth order, command, and ordain her companions and Thy subjects, whom Thou hast made! O Thou Almighty Lord, who hast been, who art, and who shalt remain eternally, that in Thy Name may they judge and act justly, instructing me in all that I shall require of them.

Then, breathe upon the [item] and say:

Come, Anael! Come! And may it be thy good pleasure to be with me by thy will, in the name of + the Father most mighty + of the Son most wise + in the name of the Holy Spirit most living +  Come, Anael, in the name of the terrible JEHOVAH! Come, Anael, by the virtue of the immortal ELOHIM! Come, Anael, by the right arm of the mighty METATRON! Do thou come unto me [name], and so command thy subjects that in love, joy, and peace they may manifest unto my eyes the bounty of the Lord’s harvest! So be it. Amen.

I [name] command you, Awijel, by Otheos as also by Elmez through Agios. I [name], a servant of God, conjure you, Ahenatos Elion, as also Adon was cited and called Zabaoth.

Read the following Bible verses over the [item]:

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. (Psalm 65:9)

And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail (Isaiah 58:11)

Like valleys that stretch out, Like gardens beside the river, Like aloes planted by the LORD, Like cedars beside the waters. (Numbers 24:6)

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and  praise To spring up before all the nations. (Isaiah 61:11)

Make the Sign of the Cross over yourself and the [item] and bury the [item] in your garden. Make the sign of the cross over yourself and the [item] every day for seven days or every Friday in hour of Venus for seven weeks (recommended). 

Venusian workings on Fridays to procure the blessings of Anael are highly recommended. These can be as simple as lighting a candle and a brief prayer or as extensive as a full planetary or angelic evocation. As should be apparent from the verses chosen, water is a major issue in my area so feel free to adapt and modify the Bible verses to suit your particular situation.