Secrets of Planetary Ritual by Christopher Warnock

Author:Christopher Warnock [Warnock, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Renaissance Astrology
Published: 2012-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

When you want to pray to Venus

When you want to pray to Venus and ask her for something among those things that pertain to her, see that she is far from the infortunes, direct and not retrograde, and in good condition. Then dress yourself and adorn yourself in one of two manners, of which the best is the garments and ornaments of the exalted men of Arabia.19 Dress yourself in white garments, and wear a white cloth on your head, which is their sign. The other manner is to adorn yourself entirely as a woman. Dress yourself in a long garment of silk and gold mixed together, precious and beautiful, and on your head wear a crown ornamented with pearls and precious stones, and on your hand a golden ring ornamented with a pearl, and golden bracelets on your wrists; and in your right hand hold a mirror, and in your left carry a comb. Place before you a jug of wine, and sprinkle your garments with powdered aromatic spices and sweet-smelling things and nutmeg, as women do. Then take a thurible of gold alloyed with silver, and put burning coals into it; onto these put the suffumigation we will describe shortly. As the smoke rises, say the following.

“May God bless you, O Venus, you who are queen and fortune, and are cold and moist, equitable in your effects and complexion, pure and lovely and sweetly scented, beautiful and ornate.

You are the lady of adornment, of gold and silver; you delight in love, joy, ornaments and jests, elegance, songs and music that are sung or played on strings, written music and songs played on organs, games and comforts, rest and love.20 In your effects you remain equal.

You take delight in wine, rest, joy, lying with women, for in all of these your natural effects consist. I invoke you by all your names: that is, in Arabic, Zohara [Zuhara]; in Latin, Venus; in Persian, Anyhyt [Anahid]; in Roman, Affludita [Aphrodite]; in Greek, Admenita {Tijanija]; in Indian, Sarca [Surfa].

I conjure you by the Lord God, the lord of the highest firmament, and by the obedience you offer to God, and by the power and lordship He has over you, that you listen to my prayer, and consider my petition, and do such and such for me.”

Here speak your petition.

“And I conjure you by Beyteyl [Bita’il], who is that angel whom God has set beside you to complete all your powers and effects.”

When you have said the foregoing, prostrate yourself to the ground toward Venus, and repeat the foregoing while you remain prostrate to the ground. Then raise yourself up and repeat the foregoing words again. When this is done, behead a pigeon and a turtle-dove, and eat their livers; their bodies are to be burned in the thurible that has already been mentioned. While you do the aforesaid, let the suffumigation be in the fire of the thurible. The composition of this suffumigation is this. Take aloes wood, gall, costmary, saffron, opium, mastic, poppy hulls, willow leaves, and orris root in equal parts.

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