It’s been a good couple of days for finding materials on the internet. According to The Book of Hermes on the 15 Fixed Stars the Pleiades talisman should contain Mercury, Fennel seeds, Frankincense, and rock crystal (clear Quartz). The only difficult ingredient there is the Mercury, as the stuff is quite toxic to work with. [...]
Aug
30
Shopping the Interwebs03:24pm
Aug
27
Mercury Talisman Page Online11:08pm
A page detailing the Mercury talisman rituals and results is now online here: Talisman of Mercury I will keep this page updated as more results occur.
Aug
27
Pleiades Banners03:00pm
Seems I just finish one working and another comes along. There is an excellent election coming up for the fixed star cluster Pleiades on Friday September 19th, 2008. Pleiades fits in perfectly with some personal projects in my esoteric work, so I’ll be doing a banner for the election similar to my Spica Banner. According [...]
Aug
26
CrossOver + Solar Fire = Not So Great07:53pm
So I’ve been doing more work with Solar Fire under CrossOver Pro Mac. It works great for creating and saving a chart. Unfortunately I discovered today that the the fonts in the electional search page are garbled, rendering that feature unusable. Looks like I still need to use Parallels after all =/
Aug
23
CrossOver Mac + Solar Fire = No Windows07:39pm
After a long and somewhat annoying journey I finally got Solar Fire Deluxe 6 working on OS X without Windows. The first hurdle was getting another copy of the software. I bought Solar Fire a while ago, and when I decided to play with this I discovered that my install CD no longer worked. I [...]
Aug
22
Mercury Mojo12:11pm
For the past twenty four hours or so I’ve been trying to get a stuck CD out of my laptop. I tried everything up to, and including, grabbing the CD with a pair of forceps and pulling it out. No luck. So this morning I realize that Mercury is the ruler of communications, and a [...]
Aug
20
One Down05:11pm
One down, seven to go (Mercury talisman consecration rituals that is). Everything went smoothly for my consecration ritual this afternoon, except that I forgot just how much smoke Frankincense generates. It was a minor miracle that my smoke detector didn’t go off, and I had to pause mid-ritual to open a window for some ventilation. [...]
Aug
19
Mercury in Virgo Election04:20pm
Looks like there’s more talisman work in my immediate future. There is a good Mercury in Virgo election tomorrow. Mercury day, Mercury hour, with Mercury dignified by Sign and Exaltation. Venus could be in better shape in this election, as she is in Fall in Virgo, but the fact that she is dignified by face [...]
Aug
15
Spica Page Online02:38pm
A page detailing the Spica talisman rituals and results is now online here: Talisman of the Fixed Star Spica I will keep this page updated as more results occur.
Aug
14
Spica Banner Completed07:00pm
The consecration of the Spica banner finished at 2:35PM today when the last of the nine candles burned out. I finished hanging the banner in my temple a short while ago, so the operation is complete. I’m working on the write up for the entire ritual now. Once I complete that it’s back to working [...]