{ "corpus": { "version": "f9f80c0ae425", "files": 83, "entries": 3120, "licence": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "attribution": "The Grimoire corpus — https://ensoul.so/grimoire" }, "query": "the sun", "mode": "all-terms", "count": 20, "total": 604, "facets": { "section": { "divination": 48, "workings": 33, "celestial": 132, "foundations": 25, "forces": 238, "esoteric": 10, "materials": 100, "oracles": 10, "elements": 8 } }, "results": [ { "score": 60, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "the_sun", "name": "The Sun", "file": "tarot_complete.json", "collection": "tarot", "collection_title": "Tarot", "section": "divination", "type": null, "summary": null, "provenance": { "tradition": "golden_dawn" }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "fifth_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The Fifth Pentacle of the Sun", "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 VIII fig. 36; 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 angel is named; the radii carry spirits' names in the Passing of the River script. Verse: Ps 91:11-12. 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_the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "first_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The First Pentacle of the Sun", "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 VII fig. 32; 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' text carries a Latin inscription, not a Hebrew versicle: 'Behold His face and form by Whom all things were made, and Whom all creatures obey.' Popular lists call it the Metatron pentacle; that identification is Mathers' note, not the pentacle's own title." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/first_pentacle_of_the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "fourth_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The Fourth Pentacle of the Sun", "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 VIII fig. 35; 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. The names round the radii are in the 'Passing of the River' script; Mathers' identifications of those characters are partly conjectural. Verse: Ps 13:3-4. Where a Psalm is cited, the numbering is Mathers' English (KJV); the Hebrew numbering is lower." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/fourth_pentacle_of_the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "hour_of_sun", "name": "Hour of the Sun", "file": "planetary_hours.json", "collection": "planetary_hours", "collection_title": "Planetary hours", "section": "celestial", "type": null, "summary": "The Hour of the Sun is one of the planetary hours, in the Hellenistic tradition. It is used for success, authority and leadership. Avoid it for secrecy, shadow work and hiding.", "provenance": { "tradition": "hellenistic" }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/hour_of_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "kamea_sun", "name": "Square of the Sun", "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_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "second_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The Second Pentacle of the Sun", "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 VII fig. 33; 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 says this pentacle 'and the preceding and following' share the purpose, so the three are a group. No verse is given for this one; the letters are the Sun's characters and four angel names." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/second_pentacle_of_the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "seventh_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The Seventh Pentacle of the Sun", "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 IX fig. 38; 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. The only pentacle Mathers explicitly says to engrave in gold. The four angels on the arms (Chasan, Arel, Phorlakh, Taliahad) differ from the four rulers named between the arms (Ariel, Seraph, Tharshis, Cherub). Where a Psalm is cited, the numbering is Mathers' English (KJV); the Hebrew numbering is lower." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/seventh_pentacle_of_the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "sixth_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The Sixth Pentacle of the Sun", "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 VIII fig. 37; 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 says the characters are 'sadly mangled in the MSS' and offers his reading of the surrounding text (Gen 1:1) only as opinion: the clearest lacuna in the set. Where a Psalm is cited, the numbering is Mathers' English (KJV); the Hebrew numbering is lower." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/sixth_pentacle_of_the_sun" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "sun_image", "name": "The Image of the Sun", "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. 41, 'Of the Images of the Sun', drawing on the Picatrix, Book II, ch. 10; the balanite identification is Tyson's note after Pliny.", "note": "Agrippa's first stone is balanite, which is not a catalogued id and is probably the fossil spine known as lapis judaicus; ruby is the alternative he himself gives, and is used here. The second image is in diamond, and a variant in cornelian — three stones for one planet, which is normal in this chapter and a reminder that the recipes are a compilation rather than a system. The metal is gold by the planet's correspondence, not by the chapter, which names no metal at all." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/sun_image" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "sun_seal", "name": "The Seal of the Sun", "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 Sun operations from the same chapter. English of J.F. (1651), in Tyson's annotated edition.", "note": "The character and the radiant king on a lion that planetary_talismans.json calls the Sun's seal are different objects; the king is the image of Book II, ch. 41. The golden plate is Agrippa's own instruction for the solar table, one of the few places where he names the metal as well as the stone. The six-by-six square's total of 666 is printed in the same chapter and is the number that binds the seal, the spirit and the later legends together." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/sun_seal" }, { "score": 20, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "third_pentacle_of_the_sun", "name": "The Third Pentacle of the Sun", "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 VIII fig. 34; 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 says the versicle is 'somewhat similar to' Daniel 4:34 rather than quoting it exactly, so the citation is approximate." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/third_pentacle_of_the_sun" }, { "score": 17, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "sun_wukong", "name": "Sun Wukong", "file": "deities.json", "collection": "deities", "collection_title": "Deities", "section": "forces", "type": null, "summary": "Sun Wukong is the stone-born monkey of Wu Cheng'en's sixteenth-century novel Xiyou ji (Journey to the West), built on earlier Tang and Song storytelling and on older monkey and water-demon figures. He learns immortality, takes the Ruyi Jingu Bang from the Dragon King, erases his name from the registers of death, is pinned under the Five Elements Mountain by the Buddha after wrecking heaven, and becomes the Victorious Fighting Buddha at the end of the pilgrimage. The novel is fiction, but the cult of Qitian Dasheng, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, is a real and living one in Fujian, Taiwan and Chinese communities across Southeast Asia.", "provenance": { "culture": "chinese", "note": "Wukong is a literary character with a living temple cult, not an ancient god with a classical mythology; the cult is real and should not be dismissed as fandom. The frequent claim that he derives from Hanuman is a modern speculation with no textual support in either tradition, and Hanuman's own tradition does not make it. Mercury and Wednesday are a Western overlay." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/sun_wukong" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "amaterasu", "name": "Amaterasu", "file": "deities.json", "collection": "deities", "collection_title": "Deities", "section": "forces", "type": null, "summary": "Amaterasu is the Japanese sun goddess, ancestress of the imperial line, who withdraws into a cave when her brother ravages her weaving hall and is drawn out by music and a mirror. She is the light that can be lost by offence and returned by laughter.", "provenance": { "culture": "shinto_japanese" }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/amaterasu" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "aten", "name": "Aten", "file": "deities.json", "collection": "deities", "collection_title": "Deities", "section": "forces", "type": null, "summary": "Aten is the sun disk, and under Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV, c. 1353-1336 BCE) it became the sole object of royal worship - the first sustained monotheism in the Egyptian record. The Great Hymn to the Aten praises the disk as the source of all life, seen in its rays. After Akhenaten's death the cult was dismantled, the capital at Amarna abandoned, and his name erased from monuments.", "provenance": { "culture": "egyptian", "note": "The planetary, elemental, zodiacal, stone, herb and tarot values are modern Western correspondences chosen for coherence with the rest of the corpus, not ancient attributions. Aten is the disk rather than a personified god, which is why the entry carries no gender and no consort." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/aten" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "budha_aditya", "name": "Budha-Aditya Yoga", "file": "jyotish.json", "collection": "jyotish", "collection_title": "Jyotisha", "section": "celestial", "type": null, "summary": "Mercury never travels far from the Sun, so this combination occurs in roughly a third of all charts, and its strength turns almost entirely on how far Mercury stands from the Sun. It is the standard combination for a scholar, an administrator or a writer.", "provenance": { "tradition": "vedic_jyotish", "source": "B. V. Raman, Hindu Predictive Astrology; Komilla Sutton, The Essentials of Vedic Astrology; David Frawley, The Astrology of the Seers. The combination is standard in the handbooks rather than one of the named yogas of the Parashari yoga chapters", "note": "The doctrinal tension is worth stating: the yoga is formed by conjunction in a sign, but the same conjunction within the combustion orb burns the significations it promises (asta). The classical handbooks do not resolve this, and the practical reading is to require Mercury to be free of combustion; BPHS itself warns that a combust planet is impotent." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/budha_aditya" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "combustion", "name": "Asta", "file": "jyotish.json", "collection": "jyotish", "collection_title": "Jyotisha", "section": "celestial", "type": null, "summary": "A graha within a fixed number of degrees of the Sun is asta, combust: it does not rise heliacally, its light is lost in the Sun's, and its significations are read as burnt. The orbs BPHS gives are the Moon 12 degrees, Mars 17, Mercury 14 direct and 12 retrograde, Jupiter 11, Venus 10 direct and 8 retrograde, and Saturn 16.", "provenance": { "tradition": "vedic_jyotish", "source": "Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (R. Santhanam trans.), ch. 3, Planetary Characters and Description; Komilla Sutton, The Essentials of Vedic Astrology; David Frawley, The Astrology of the Seers", "note": "The nodes are never combust: BPHS says plainly that Rahu and Ketu should not be treated as combust however close they are to the Sun, since they are mathematical points and eclipse the Sun rather than being burnt by it. A combust graha is weakened but not destroyed, and the classical texts allow that a combust graha in its own sign or exaltation suffers less - though BPHS's translator argues the opposite for Venus and Saturn, against the common belief that those two keep their rays. The orbs vary between tables (Saturn is printed as 15 in some) and the table is recorded here rather than presented as uniform across the tradition." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/combustion" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "helios", "name": "Helios", "file": "deities.json", "collection": "deities", "collection_title": "Deities", "section": "forces", "type": null, "summary": "Helios drives the chariot of the sun across the sky and sees everything that happens beneath it, which is why oaths are sworn before him. He is the witness of the day rather than its ruler: in Greek telling the sun is his work, not his throne.", "provenance": { "culture": "greek" }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/helios" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "khepri", "name": "Khepri", "file": "deities.json", "collection": "deities", "collection_title": "Deities", "section": "forces", "type": null, "summary": "Khepri is the rising sun, the scarab-faced god who pushes the morning disk up out of the underworld as the beetle rolls its ball of dung. He is one of the three forms of the sun - Khepri at dawn, Ra at noon, Atum at evening - and the name means 'he who comes into being'; in the Amduat he takes the helm of the solar barque in the twelfth hour. The scarab amulet, including the heart scarab buried with the dead, carries his image and his promise of renewal.", "provenance": { "culture": "egyptian", "note": "Khepri had no cult of his own; he is a form of Ra, and that solar identity is Egyptian, while the planetary-correspondence system, the zodiacal and tarot values and the Wiccan sabbats are later Western overlays. The heart scarab is a funerary amulet inscribed with spell 30B of the Book of the Dead, placed on the mummy's heart so that it would not testify against the deceased - it is not an offering to the god, and the two should not be merged." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/khepri" }, { "score": 14, "matched": [ "the", "sun" ], "id": "kuafu", "name": "Kuafu", "file": "deities.json", "collection": "deities", "collection_title": "Deities", "section": "forces", "type": null, "summary": "Kuafu is the giant of the Shanhaijing who chased the sun from the east to the west, drinking the Yellow River and the Wei River and then the Great Sea to cool his thirst. He died on the way, and his staff became the Deng Forest, a grove of peach trees. The story is usually read as a parable of futile ambition, but the peach forest makes it also a story about what the pursuit leaves behind.", "provenance": { "culture": "chinese", "note": "The Shanhaijing gives the chase and the peach forest; the drinking of the rivers is the Huainanzi's telling. The planetary, elemental, zodiac and tarot values are modern overlays; the traditional associations are the sun, thirst, the staff and the peach grove." }, "untraced": false, "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/kuafu" } ] }