(This is an ongoing mostly daily series of posts on my business’ official Facebook. Below are the contents of the posts, transcribed to BALG for your viewing pleasure. Depending on how much attention this thread gets, it will either be updated at the close of every week or daily.)
Each day, we will be discussing and analogizing different ways the planetary energies in our solar system express in magic. These are conceptual abstractions that should clue you, the reader, into the manifestations of these energies, and are all multi-faceted.
We will discuss solely the seven classical planets, corresponding to the days of the week. If the posts are desired, at the end of the analysis we will include the other planets and celestial bodies in our solar system. The goal of these posts is to hand you, the readers, a solid understanding of planetary energies in order to utilize them in your own practices.
Here is the weekly focus:
Week One- Elemental Expressions
Week Two- Sub-Planetary Expressions (i.e. Planetary Hours)
Week Three- Zodiacal Expressions
Week Four- Symbolic/Ritual Expressions
Week Five- Energetic Descriptions (i.e. the qualities of the raw energy)
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Sol-1
AIR: This is the intellect well nourished, and the power of words. This is half of poetry, and the birthplace of prose. This is the blessing of renown and well-reception, and the curse of inflated ego. This is song and conception, fried circuits and the reversal of time. This is civilization.
FIRE: This is the essence of time and the forge of Hephaestus. The blood of the fates and the formation of life. Mindful awareness, scouting the future with detached essence. This is the gateway of the soul, and its membrane nestled deep within each life. This is the act of perception, and the end of it.
WATER: This is the dramatic, world-engulfing pangs of the heart, for better or worse. This is the seed of species and the spoiling of youth. This is emotion, transmitted in a circular fashion and magnified to a breaking point. This is collapse with time on its side, fated death and conclusions.
EARTH: This is the exaltation of the dead, and the footsteps of the legends. This is star-fallen treasure, and the interment of potential. Royal stability and the footprints of revenants, established structures and ancient tombs. This is the guardian of the dead and the executioner of innocence.
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Luna-1
AIR: This is the heart emboldened by requited love, and drawn to madness by its end. These words form the speeches recollected by civilizations, and the bonds of intimacy. This is the font of prophecy and the the patron of omens. This is the fabric dreams are weaved of.
FIRE: This is the mingling of lovers, and the fate of the doomed. These are the seeds planted in hidden affairs, and the gateways from which our descendants find us. This is the power of puberty and the arrangement of death, the foundations of attachment laid and torn asunder.
WATER: This is the seat of the seer and the font of femininity. These are the roots of emotion and cycles, the beginning and ending of all things. This is mystical madness, augmented by death at one’s heels. The greatest risk, to one’s soul, and the tiniest slight, to one’s ego.
EARTH: This is the engine of suicide, and the call of the void. These are not the dead of men, but of other life on this planet. This is regression and ignorance given crowns, and the prison of unwanted selves. This is the Shadow of Man, and all of the atrocities kept hidden away.
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Mars-1
AIR: This is the essence of politics and governance. This is the blade of liberation and the doom-bringer held by tyrants. This is a gridlock of transportation and wills, and the manuals of the gods. These are the religions of the Middle East’ source power, and the inspiration to war.
FIRE: This foretells a conflicted, challenge-ridden life. These are the blades that rip through time, and the torches that burn cultures. This is the Tower falling, and the settling of dust before the battle has begun. This is the seed of war itself.
WATER: This is the essence of genocide, and the fight for survival. This is a battle where the stakes are all or nothing. These are wounds that coil and stretch around time, trauma haunting the deepest corners of self. These are the atrocities enabled by inaction.
EARTH: This is the mechanism of uprooting and turmoil itself, the herald of Uranus manifest. These are sudden opportunities in the way less traveled, and the temptation of the hearth. This is the snake in the nest, and poison in the foundations. This is the leveling of the playing field, by preventing both sides from accessing their past.
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Mercury-1
AIR: This is the form of lightning, and the science that attempts to understand it. This is transportation, man-made and not, trains and teleportation alike. This is the patron of scholars and scientists, and their silencing. These are the words that progress a civilization, and send them spiraling into absurdity.
FIRE: This is the breath of lightning, and its fearsome twin echoing across time. This is the chieftain of echoes and empty force, the home of delivery and action to be taken. This is a bright future for the many, or a cliff into the unconscious. This is the patron of court magicians and the vehicle of their intent.
WATER: This is Comedy and Tragedy intertwined, the glory of the actor, and the reward of patience. This is the million-mile gap between lovers, and the fruits of intellect. These are the manifestations that can be seen each day, and yet are noticed by few. This is the mingling of ages and wizards alike.
EARTH: This is the blood of Wall Street, and the patron of leprechauns. These are the people who leave home for lucrative offers from afar, and these are the spells that deliver people to death. This is the essence of finance and currency, and its applications, for better or worse.
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Jupiter-1
AIR: This is diplomacy and negotiation, discussions with high stakes and few pitfalls. This is the energy of the studious, who ever grow their intellectual abilities. This is publication and media, and affecting groups through words. These are baby booms and scatterbrains, doors flung wide open and fields marked for growth.
FIRE: This is a ticket purchased to grandeur, and the stretching of hides to release the body. This is the seed of empires and the future of tyrants, the mass plagues and famines of ages yet to come. These are the widening of options and the capacity to understand them in greater depth, the Royal Star.
WATER: This is the essence of marriage, and the fruits thereof. This is a ruler that resonates with the people, and the flesh of true elections. This is the awareness of one’s limited time, and the push to do as much as possible before the end. This is the guide into maturity, and the fall from it.
EARTH: This is the seat of monarchs, past and present, and the hordes of currency they possess. These are illicit deals and the propagation of death, blood spilled and blood money. This is buying the farm and working the land, and the spreading of one’s seed across bloodlines. This is extended family
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Venus-1
AIR: This is pregnancy and birth, the natal stay of youth. This is a formed gateway into flesh, and the power of vessels. These are the engines that bring magic to life, and imprint the intellect with passion. This is the bloom of romance and the blurred vision from its loss, intercepted fates postponed to chase hearts.
FIRE: This is commitment and attachment to passion, the fabric of the Heart. These are the wounds which we generate in the depths of intimacy, and their long-standing consequences on our psyche. This is the enrichment of females and their qualities, and the attraction of similarity.
WATER: These are the visions that arise from dedicated practice, and their integration into reality. This is the genesis of generations and the error that costs them all. This is the essence of infatuation and the vertex of its possible effects. These are the shifting emotions affected by bodily changes, and the genetics that influence them.
EARTH: This is the essence of offerings and the purchasing of favors. These are the shared resources of marriage and the stone grip of a woman tyrant’s rule. This is the allure of the past, and the romanticism affiliated with past selves and relatives. This is the acceptance of death, and the cling to shared memories.
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Saturn-1
AIR: This is the deformation of the birthed, and trauma of the intellect. This is the cutting off of a weed at the roots, the prevention of expansion. These are the seas of swords stopping escape, and the essence of imprisonment. This is a wrench in the gears, and the pull away from excess.
FIRE: This is the restriction of potential and sexuality, the inability to express oneself and the repercussions of it. These are the beginnings of famine and the tempering force of discipline, the thin line walked between necessary and excess. This is the closing of doors and roads, squeezed so tightly shut as to open others.
WATER: This is the essence of detachment, from emotions and time alike. This is the suffocating darkness of being overwhelmed, and the pigeonholed world it creates. These are the tests of fate and character alike, the trials that define our person. It is the reward of the valiant and the home of Death.
EARTH: This is the awareness of death within life, and the presence of one’s ancestors. It is also the return of the dead to their graves, and the restriction of life. This is the quelling of dissent and the optimization of construction. This is the gate which removes all excess, for better or worse.
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Sol-2
SOL: The flames of truth unleashed, pristine cognition acquired and applied. This is the power of royalty and the nature of humanity, the strength of life and its hallmarks.
LUNA: This is the union of Left and Right, Masculine and Feminine working in cohesion. These are the mystics who walk with the Sun in pursuit of holy mysteries, and the font of the virtuous emotions.
MARS: This is the essence of fuel, and the opening of doors. These are the transactions which lead to events, whether feasts or massacres. This is the blood of authority, expressed in actions and not words.
MERCURY: This is work which bears fruit, healthy communication and the enhancement of life. These are the journeys which change lives, and the lights so bright they blind the mind.
JUPITER: These are waves of power, building and crashing. This is the Crown and Throne, the Office and Scepter. These are the golden bricks in the road to building an empire to last ages, and the slung- whether words or spells- which burn the self.
VENUS: This is the essence of enabling, the allowance of occurrences. This is the stability of the home and the limitless rage of a mother protecting her children. These are the explosions which rock one’s life, and the settling of one’s heart.
SATURN: This is the power of refinement, and the foundations of training. These are the vultures circling in one’s dying days, and the wolves of death on the outskirts of life. This is the challenge we all face, and the trial of growing up.
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Has anyone any ideas on what the 13th zodiacal sign is??
I’m thinking maybe the Sphinx or some other mythological animal, even the phoenix!
I always heard that the 13th zodiac was a serpent.
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@anon68160656 how would you suggest accessing those particular aspects of those planetary intelligences?
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Some people say Ophiuchus, but this site disputes that and gives reasons why:
http://www.astrologer.com/tests/precession.htm
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Luna-2
SOL: The path of the Mysteries, the vitality of emotions. This is the accentuation of the feminine by the masculine, and the support of the seer by the king.
LUNA: The essence of madness, and the doors the deep pit opens. These are the ever-shifting spheres of experience and sanity, the cracked egg through which reality shifts.
MARS: These are the turbulent emotions associated with conflict and major life changes. This is the power of attrition in the mind, a step-by-step breakdown in the making.
MERCURY: This is the transference of emotions, and the linking of minds. These are the repercussions of feeling something, and the rewards that come of it with time.
JUPITER: These are shared visions and the reactions of community. This is the Hive of Man, nestled together under monarchs. These are the viruses of mind breeding in our kind.
VENUS: This is the power of the female Shaman, the receptive mind and body which hold and emit power. This energy rules the awakening of potential during puberty.
SATURN: This is the discipline of nature, and the essence of self-control. This is apathy and direction, visions brought by practice. These are the unsound ones culled by life, and the fruit of meditations.
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Mars-2
SOL: This is perseverance and endurance, lasting energy and the ability to always do more. This is the energy of youth, which thins and fades with time. These are crimes of passion and duty, for lovers or mothers.
LUNA: This is the power rage bestows on its disciples, and the predictions the boxer makes in the ring to best his opponent. These are the omens of conflict, and the deep wells of pain people hide.
MARS: This is a mouth holding only teeth, the volatile energy of hostility mutating. These are the moments when one is overcome by something else, and leaves a corpse in their wake. This is the strong arm of desire, impaling fate.
MERCURY: These are the tools of war being distributed, the interplay of mind and arm, the essence of strategy. This is the result of machines and man, the bastard child that is Industry.
JUPITER: This is the birth of war, and the expansion of its borders. This is the all-consuming hate which interlocks purpose with destiny, the feared opponent with nothing to lose. This is the essence of “all or nothing”.
VENUS: This is the parental protection of the young, the energy of defense and the mental implications of it. These are the swords fed by hate and blood, and the end of war. This is the power of going home.
SATURN: This is the power of patient rage, and the guidance of elders adhered to by youth. This is focus and motivation, the tunnel of progress. This is the strength brought on by time.
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