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Quicksilver Comminique

February 08, 2015 by Estha McNevin
Color of the day:  Amber
Incense of the day:  Heliotrope
 
While under the influence of the adventurous and cosmic figure of the Water-Bearer (Aquarius), we have a unique opportunity to embrace our weirdest quirks as assets. This spell, inspired by the odd movements of the planet Mercury, uses our expression as a method of ensuring our own unique brand of success by giving gratitude where it is due.
Choose eight people whom you feel genuine respect for. Using a metallic silver pen on black paper, describe their influence on you and the goals or abilities that they have motivated you to pursue. Enclose each message in a silver envelope and bless it with the following invocation of Mercury, then drop the envelopes in the mail.
This passage is from Book III, Chapter 7, of The Picatrix, a grimoire of astrological magic that was originally written in Arabic and translated into Latin sometime around 1000 BCE. Nigel Jackson gives the following translation of an abridged excerpt:

Mercury, noble lord, you who
are truthful, sensible, intelligent,
you who, like the scribes, know
and spread arithmetic, calculation,
the science of the heavens
and the earth! Hotarit in Arabian,
Mercury in Latin, Haruz in Roman,
Tyr in Phoenician, Meda in
Indian. I conjure you in the first
place, O light of truth.
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