al-Qalb
Healing of fevers and infirmities of the belly, and protection from serpents (IV.9); victory over enemies, strengthening of buildings, destruction of friendship (I.4).
One of the twenty-eight Arabic manazil al-qamar, each 360/28 = 12°51'25.7" of the tropical zodiac from 0° Aries. The Picatrix/Agrippa scheme is tropical; sidereal practice shifts the whole series by the ayanamsa. The angel column is the least secure: the 1651 Agrippa list is a Latin overlay that only partly matches the Picatrix mansion-lords, and the Arabic tradition gives a different angel set. The mansion-lord is the Picatrix IV.9 name where the text gives one; the talisman for mansion 22 is lacunose in the standard English Picatrix and is left null rather than invented.
Correspondences
- Number
- 18
Sacred timing
- Sign
- Scorpio
Practice
- Magical Use
Healing of fevers and infirmities of the belly, and protection from serpents (IV.9); victory over enemies, strengthening of buildings, destruction of friendship (I.4)
- Magical Uses
- Talisman magicElectional astrologyMixed
Nature and meaning
- Translation
The Heart (of the Scorpion)
- Nature
- Mixed
Details
- Arabic
- القلب
- Start Degree
- 218.571
- End Degree
- 231.429
- Degrees
- 218.571-231.429
- Fixed Star
- Antares (α Scorpii)
- Angel
- Egibiel
- Mansion Lord
- Egrebel
- Talisman
- A wax adder holding its tail above its head, censed with stag's horn and buried in a vessel beneath the house; lord Egrebel.
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionMixed
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