Frimost & Klepoth by Jake Stratton-Kent

Author:Jake Stratton-Kent
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Hadean Press
Published: 2012-11-27T23:00:00+00:00

Some of these associations may involve henbane’s power as a potent clitoral stimulant and a likely ingredient of witches flying ointments.

Another important star in this mansion, with a pedigree in stellar lore thousands of years BC, is Vindemiatrix (Epsilon Virgo) at 9.48 Libra. 700 years ago it marked the boundary between Virgo and Libra. A ‘mischief making star’ in medieval Arab astrology, it is nowadays a prominent significator of Widowhood in natal charts. It is connected too with loss and depression, also with witch hunts. However it also predisposes to study and learning, mysticism and the occult.

Klepoth is most certainly not to be confused with a typical ‘love goddess’; even though Libra is ruled by Venus, it is as well to recall that it is also the exaltation of Saturn. Plainly the female partner of Lucifer is not a totem for happy mortal wives. The associations of Vindemiatrix suggest a Lamia-like sorceress figure, lurking behind the impersonal degrees and numbers and their tabulated meanings.

The Fifteenth Mansion has occult inter-relations with the Twenty-first. The spirit of this Mansion is Humots, a learned spirit who assists the magician as regards rare and mysterious books. The stellar associations of this spirit’s ‘Mansion’ are manifold but one in particular stands out in relation to Klepoth and her connection with Draco. This is Eltanin, ‘The Dragon’s Head’, also called Rastaban, at 26.35.27 of Sagittarius. Known to astronomers as Gamma Draco, it is one of the Eyes of the Dragon. In early Egypt it was worshipped as representing Isis. Prior to this Apet, Mut, Taurt and Sekhet were all thought to be different names of the Goddess of this star. In other words the Eye of the Dragon was associated with major female deities in ancient Egypt from the earliest times.

In later Greco-Egyptian magic the Lunar Mansions were seen as expressing the universality of Hecate. In this role she was seen as a female and lunar pantheistic deity comparable with the solar and male Helios or Abraxas. The Mansions played the same role as her symbols as the solar months and days did for them. In this schema the 15th mansion was symbolized by the Egyptian Baboon; in modern attributions the symbol of the Pelican has been added as an alternative. Either may be employed in the ‘heraldry’ of Klepoth, or as symbols in rites under her auspices.

So too nominally each Mansion corresponds with one of the seven days of the week, or on another level the Seven Days of Creation. The Day of Creation proper to this Mansion is Sunday, as befits its connection with the Equinoctial point. The colours, to be used in talismans or altar decorations etc., are Gold with Silver and Green.

The Hazel Rod

Of the two wands employed in the rituals of the True Grimoire, one is traditionally of hazel and marked with one or more sigils of Klepoth. As seen earlier the other, attributed to Frimost, is of elder and is held in the hand during rituals of evocation. This is its plain purpose when employed separately from that of Klepoth.

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