Author: briery

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The Sun, the Moon and the Planets: meaning

The Sun: represents the essence of
your self, your will, your individuality, your vitality and your desire
for power. More than any other planet, it represents who you are. It
also symbolizes man in general.

The Moon: represents your emotions, your subconscious, your instincts, your habits and your memory. It also represents women in general.

Mercury: symbolizes your communication style, your reasoning skills, and the way you think.

Venus: represents the areas of your life concerned with love, seduction, beauty, material goods and the arts.

Mars: is the planet of desire and aggression. It represents
your physical energy, your combativeness, your spirit of enterprise and
your courage.

Jupiter: is the planet of expansion and good fortune. It
represents growth, prosperity, abundance, wisdom, generosity and higher
consciousness. Jupiter’s position in the sky map indicates where you are
lucky.

Saturn: represents limitation, restriction, prudence,
organization, endurance and discipline. It tells you where you have to
deal with your fears – and also where you have ambition.

Uranus: represents originality, independence, spirit of rebellion, inventiveness, insight and all that is not foreseen.

Neptune: represents spirituality, dreams, psychic abilities, intuition, disintegration, compassion, self-sacrifice, deceit and illusion.

Pluto: represents elimination, destruction, regeneration, renewal and transformation.

The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th century

This collection of texts on magic and fortune-telling – popularly known as the Rawlinson necromantic manuscript
– is written in Latin and Middle English. It contains spells,
conjurations, invocations and ‘experimenta’ (true experiences) of
angels.

The two devices shown above are sigils, and pentagrams such as the
one on the left have long been accredited with esoteric powers. The
ancient Greeks saw in them a demonstration of mathematical perfection,
while medieval Christians saw in them an image of the five wounds of
Christ, while many now see it as an occult sign used by practitioners of
magic to invoke both heavenly and diabolic spirits.