al-Thurayya
Acquisition of all good things, wealth and favour (IV.9); safety of sailors, alchemy and works of fire, hunting, love between spouses (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
- 3
Sacred timing
- Sign
- Aries
Practice
- Magical Use
- Acquisition of all good things, wealth and favour (IV.9); safety of sailors, alchemy and works of fire, hunting, love between spouses (I.4)
- Magical Uses
- Talisman magicElectional astrologyBenefic
Nature and meaning
- Translation
The Little Abundant One (the Pleiades)
- Nature
- Benefic
Details
- Arabic
- الثريا
- Start Degree
- 25.714
- End Degree
- 38.571
- Degrees
- 25.714-38.571
- Fixed Star
- The Pleiades (M45), chiefly Alcyone (η Tauri)
- Angel
- Amixiel
- Mansion Lord
- Annuncia
- Talisman
A seated woman with her right hand raised above her head, wrapped in cloth and censed with musk, camphor, mastic and aromatic oils, set in a silver ring with a square table; lord Annuncia.
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionBenefic
- Behenian Star
- Alcyone
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