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  "count": 20,
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      "materials": 75,
      "workings": 24,
      "celestial": 109,
      "forces": 210,
      "foundations": 19,
      "divination": 32,
      "elements": 22,
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      "score": 50,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
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      "id": "mercury",
      "name": "Mercury",
      "file": "alchemy.json",
      "collection": "alchemy",
      "collection_title": "Alchemy",
      "section": "oracles",
      "type": "alchemical_principle",
      "summary": "Mercury (the spirit) is an alchemical principle of air, ruled by Mercury, in the Hermetic Western tradition. It is used for communication, change and mediation.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hermetic_western",
        "note": "The three primes and the seven operations of the wet path."
      },
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      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury"
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    {
      "score": 50,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury",
      "name": "Mercury (Quicksilver)",
      "file": "metals.json",
      "collection": "metals",
      "collection_title": "Metals",
      "section": "materials",
      "type": "metal",
      "summary": "Mercury (Quicksilver) (Hg) is a metal of Mercury, air, aligned to the throat chakra. It is used for communication, transformation and alchemy.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hermetic_western",
        "note": "Quicksilver is the metal of Mercury and the 'spirit' of the alchemical work; it is highly toxic, and the corpus records the magical use without recommending handling."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 50,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury",
      "name": "Mercury",
      "file": "planetary_talismans.json",
      "collection": "planetary_talismans",
      "collection_title": "Planetary talismans",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "planetary_talisman",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "agrippa",
        "note": "The seal, intelligence and spirit are Agrippa's (Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II); the metal, stone and herb are the planet's standard correspondences. An electional talisman needs the planet's day and hour, a suitable Moon, and the planet not retrograde or combust. Mercury's archangel is Raphael; the metal is quicksilver, which is toxic and is recorded as a correspondence rather than a handled material."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 50,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury",
      "name": "Mercury",
      "file": "planets.json",
      "collection": "planets",
      "collection_title": "Planets",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": "classical_planet",
      "summary": "Mercury is the messenger of the gods, moving swiftly between all realms. As the only planet visiting both the underworld and olympus, Mercury represents the mind that can go anywhere, understand anything, and communicate across all boundaries. Also the patron of thieves, merchants, and magicians.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hellenistic"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 50,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury_roman",
      "name": "Mercury",
      "file": "deities.json",
      "collection": "deities",
      "collection_title": "Deities",
      "section": "forces",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Mercurius is the Roman god of trade, gain and the market before he is anything else: his temple stood in the Circus Maximus, the merchants' guild kept him as patron, and the Ides of May was his day, when the dealers sprinkled their wares with water from his well. The herald's staff, the winged sandals and the office of guiding the dead came to him with the Greek Hermes, with whom he was identified early. He is the god of the deal and of the road the deal travels on.",
      "provenance": {
        "culture": "roman",
        "note": "Mercurius is not simply a Latin Hermes: he is attested first as a god of trade and profit (lucrum), and the herald, the psychopomp and the thief are Greek additions that arrived with the identification. The cattle theft, the lyre and the caduceus are Greek stories. The id mercury_roman keeps this entry distinct from the planet id mercury."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury_roman"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "fifth_pentacle_of_mercury",
      "name": "The Fifth Pentacle of Mercury",
      "file": "solomonic_pentacles.json",
      "collection": "solomonic_pentacles",
      "collection_title": "Solomonic pentacles",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "solomonic_pentacle",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "grimoire",
        "note": "Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate XI fig. 48; Peterson's e-text (esotericarchives.com) lists the same sequence. The 1-44 number follows the edition's own 'Order of the Pentacles' (Saturn first: 7+7+7+7+5+5+6); later books reorder (Mastros 2023 counts from the Moon), and the pentacle's own name is its per-planet ordinal. One of two 'open doors' pentacles; the first pentacle of the Moon has the same office. Verse: Ps 24:7. Where a Psalm is cited, the numbering is Mathers' English (KJV); the Hebrew numbering is lower."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/fifth_pentacle_of_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "first_pentacle_of_mercury",
      "name": "The First Pentacle of Mercury",
      "file": "solomonic_pentacles.json",
      "collection": "solomonic_pentacles",
      "collection_title": "Solomonic pentacles",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "solomonic_pentacle",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "grimoire",
        "note": "Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate X fig. 44; Peterson's e-text (esotericarchives.com) lists the same sequence. The 1-44 number follows the edition's own 'Order of the Pentacles' (Saturn first: 7+7+7+7+5+5+6); later books reorder (Mastros 2023 counts from the Moon), and the pentacle's own name is its per-planet ordinal. No verse; the letters form the names of the two spirits, which Mathers gives as Yekahel and Agiel."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/first_pentacle_of_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "fourth_pentacle_of_mercury",
      "name": "The Fourth Pentacle of Mercury",
      "file": "solomonic_pentacles.json",
      "collection": "solomonic_pentacles",
      "collection_title": "Solomonic pentacles",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "solomonic_pentacle",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "grimoire",
        "note": "Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate XI fig. 47; Peterson's e-text (esotericarchives.com) lists the same sequence. The 1-44 number follows the edition's own 'Order of the Pentacles' (Saturn first: 7+7+7+7+5+5+6); later books reorder (Mastros 2023 counts from the Moon), and the pentacle's own name is its per-planet ordinal. Mathers gives the versicle ('Wisdom and virtue are in his house...') but no citation, and does not identify its source. The dodecagram text ('IHVH, fix Thou the Volatile...') is his reconstruction."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/fourth_pentacle_of_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "hour_of_mercury",
      "name": "Hour of Mercury",
      "file": "planetary_hours.json",
      "collection": "planetary_hours",
      "collection_title": "Planetary hours",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "The Hour of Mercury is one of the planetary hours, in the Hellenistic tradition. It is used for communication, intellect and writing. Avoid it for stability work, long term binding and rest.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hellenistic"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/hour_of_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "kamea_mercury",
      "name": "Square of Mercury",
      "file": "kamea.json",
      "collection": "kamea",
      "collection_title": "Planetary squares",
      "section": "foundations",
      "type": "kamea",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hermetic",
        "source": "Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia II.22"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/kamea_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury_image",
      "name": "The Image of Mercury",
      "file": "planetary_spirits.json",
      "collection": "planetary_spirits",
      "collection_title": "Planetary spirits",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hermetic_western",
        "source": "Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, ch. 43, 'Of the Images of Mercury', drawing on the Picatrix, Book II, ch. 10; the caduceus and flute observations are Tyson's notes.",
        "note": "Unusually for this chapter, Agrippa names no stone at all for the Mercury images, and no metal either; agate and quicksilver are supplied here from the planet's correspondence, and the note is explicit so that the gap is not mistaken for a source. Quicksilver cannot be engraved, which may be why the recipes avoid naming a material. The serpent-twined rod is the caduceus, as Tyson notes, and he suggests the dart in the right hand may originally have been a flute. The peacock of the second image is Mercury's bird, not a separate correspondence."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury_image"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury_line",
      "name": "Mercury Line (Health)",
      "file": "palmistry.json",
      "collection": "palmistry",
      "collection_title": "Palmistry",
      "section": "divination",
      "type": "line",
      "summary": "Health and nervous constitution, together with business and communicative instinct.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "palmistry",
        "note": "Palmistry is a living and highly variable practice: line names, mount attributions and hand-shape schemes differ between schools, and the corpus records one common Western scheme rather than a single canon."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury_line"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury_seal",
      "name": "The Seal of Mercury",
      "file": "planetary_spirits.json",
      "collection": "planetary_spirits",
      "collection_title": "Planetary spirits",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hermetic_western",
        "source": "Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, ch. 22 and its plates, with the fortunate and unfortunate Mercury operations and the virgin-parchment instruction from the same chapter.",
        "note": "Agrippa allows silver, tin, yellow brass or virgin parchment for this seal, so the metal field marks the planet's own metal while the text is broader; the parchment option is worth keeping because it is the only working in the chapter that a modern hand could perform without a foundry. The figure-with-caduceus that planetary_talismans.json calls Mercury's seal is the image of Book II, ch. 43, not this character."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury_seal"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mercury_stone",
      "name": "Mercury Stone",
      "file": "stones.json",
      "collection": "stones",
      "collection_title": "Stones",
      "section": "materials",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Mercury Stone is an air stone in the Folk Western tradition, ruled by Mercury. It is used for communication and divination. It is aligned to the throat chakra and associated with Gemini and Virgo.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "folk_western"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mercury_stone"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "mount_mercury",
      "name": "Mount of Mercury",
      "file": "palmistry.json",
      "collection": "palmistry",
      "collection_title": "Palmistry",
      "section": "divination",
      "type": "mount",
      "summary": "Communication, commerce, wit and quickness of mind.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "palmistry",
        "note": "The mounts are named for the planets and carry their correspondences; the scheme is the common Western one and is not universal."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/mount_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "second_pentacle_of_mercury",
      "name": "The Second Pentacle of Mercury",
      "file": "solomonic_pentacles.json",
      "collection": "solomonic_pentacles",
      "collection_title": "Solomonic pentacles",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "solomonic_pentacle",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "grimoire",
        "note": "Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate X fig. 45; Peterson's e-text (esotericarchives.com) lists the same sequence. The 1-44 number follows the edition's own 'Order of the Pentacles' (Saturn first: 7+7+7+7+5+5+6); later books reorder (Mastros 2023 counts from the Moon), and the pentacle's own name is its per-planet ordinal. Mathers prints the name with an umlaut; lists vary between Boel and Boel/Bael, and conflating it with the Goetic Bael is an inference, not Mathers' text. No verse."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/second_pentacle_of_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "third_pentacle_of_mercury",
      "name": "The Third Pentacle of Mercury",
      "file": "solomonic_pentacles.json",
      "collection": "solomonic_pentacles",
      "collection_title": "Solomonic pentacles",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "solomonic_pentacle",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "grimoire",
        "note": "Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate XI fig. 46; Peterson's e-text (esotericarchives.com) lists the same sequence. The 1-44 number follows the edition's own 'Order of the Pentacles' (Saturn first: 7+7+7+7+5+5+6); later books reorder (Mastros 2023 counts from the Moon), and the pentacle's own name is its per-planet ordinal. No verse; the four angel names are Mathers' reading of the Hebrew, and their spellings differ between lists."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/third_pentacle_of_mercury"
    },
    {
      "score": 7,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "bhadra",
      "name": "Bhadra Yoga",
      "file": "jyotish.json",
      "collection": "jyotish",
      "collection_title": "Jyotisha",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Bhadra is the Mercury form of the mahapurusha yoga. It is read as eminence in the works of the mind: scholarship, law, administration, and the kind of influence that comes from being the person who understands the matter.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "vedic_jyotish",
        "source": "Phaladeepika (Mantreswara), ch. 6, the chapter on yogas; Jataka Parijata (Vaidyanatha Dikshita)",
        "note": "Because Mercury's own sign and exaltation sign coincide (Virgo), Bhadra has only two possible base signs, Gemini and Virgo - the narrowest of the five."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/bhadra"
    },
    {
      "score": 7,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "budha",
      "name": "Budha",
      "file": "deities.json",
      "collection": "deities",
      "collection_title": "Deities",
      "section": "forces",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Budha is the Navagraha of Mercury in Vedic astrology, the son of Chandra (the Moon) and Tara, and the god of intellect, speech, commerce and learning. Wednesday (Budhavara) is his day, green his colour and emerald his gemstone; he is invoked for intelligence, communication and success in business.",
      "provenance": {
        "culture": "vedic"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/budha"
    },
    {
      "score": 7,
      "matched": [
        "mercury"
      ],
      "id": "budha",
      "name": "Budha",
      "file": "jyotish.json",
      "collection": "jyotish",
      "collection_title": "Jyotisha",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Budha is Mercury, the graha of the discriminating intellect, speech, writing and trade. It owns no single field the way the other grahas do, because it is the faculty rather than the subject: the reasoning that organises counting, language, contracts and the dexterity of the hands. A strong Mercury is a mind that can hold and arrange many things at once, and that is why it is the graha of the administrator and the merchant alike.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "vedic_jyotish",
        "source": "Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (R. Santhanam trans.), ch. 3, Planetary Characters and Description; Brihat Jataka (Varahamihira); Saravali (Kalyanavarma)",
        "note": "Exalted at 15 degrees of Virgo, debilitated at 15 degrees of Pisces; the first 15 degrees of Virgo are the exaltation portion, the next five degrees (15 to 20) the moolatrikona, and the last ten the own sign, with Gemini as the second own sign (BPHS ch. 3). Friends the Sun and Venus; enemy the Moon; Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are neutral. The navagraha metal is bronze in most lists (some give quicksilver, the corpus's metal id mercury, or tin); the gem is emerald (panna)."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/budha"
    }
  ]
}