Third Mansion of the Moon

This is one of the most well-liked astrological talismans because it is the embodiment of "all good things" which it attracts when fashioned into a talisman.

Who Is This For?

The 3rd Lunar Mansion is one of the most beloved talismans for its purely benefic nature. It has long been one of the most popular talismans from the Shams al-Ma’arif for its all-around properties of good luck and receiving good things from people, and it is no different with Picatrix and its related sources. The 3rd Lunar Mansion brings its bearer “all good things”.

Election Standard

According to Picatrix, Book 4, Chapter 9:

“The third Mansion is Azoraye (that is, the Pleiades) and is for the acquisition of all good things. Make the figure of a seated woman with her right hand over her head, and wrap it in cloth, suffumigate it with musk, camphor, mastic and aromatic oils. Say: "You, Annuncia, make it so." Make the image in a silver ring with a square table, and put it upon your finger and it will be as you wish. Know that Annuncia is the name of the lord of this mansion.”

The Moon is fast at 13.8 degrees and culminating in the Midheaven. The Lord of the Ascendant, the Sun, is highly dignified by Exaltation and Triplicity in his Joy, the ninth house, providing its strength to its owner immediately.  The moon’s sign ruler, Venus, is extremely powerful in its Exaltation and angular in the 10th House. This is an ideal election.

Picatrix says in Book 2, Chapter 3, page 70:

“If you find both the Moon and the lord of her house favorably placed, the working will be good in all things and well completed, and you will obtain what you desire, and the end will be good. This will be even more so if the lord of the ascendant is a fortune and is in the ascendant or another of the angles, or if it is an infortune and favorably placed.”

Before the moon conjoins its ruler Venus, it completes a sextile to Saturn. Hard aspects to the malefics, the square and opposition, are the key aspects for curses in Picatrix. Some Picatrix practitioners avoid all aspects to Mars and Saturn completely because Picatrix states that the moon beholding them is afflicted; they have had undesirable results to back up this view. This statement in Picatrix is in contrast to the Book of the Treasure of Alexander, which specifically calls for soft aspects with the Moon and the two malefics in their signs when making Saturn and Mars talismans.

An informed view of this can only come from experience and from what I have seen, it varies per individual on a case-by-case basis. I have never had any negative effects from a sextile. I have seen undesirable things happen with trines to malefics in certain conditions, while others did great. Regardless, even if you deduct value for the sextile to Saturn, the Moon is conjoining the North Node which is very desirable. The North Node is widely agreed to amplify the positive effects of the benefics significantly, and the Moon in particular.

Page 48 of the Picatrix states:

“It is necessary to observe, when casting images for love and friendship, that the Moon is fortunate and waxing and not when the Moon is afflicted and waning. Here is an example of this. Make images for love and delight and to visit kings and high lords in the day of the Moon, when she is waxing, and in Sagittarius, Taurus, Cancer or Pisces (and if she is with the Dragon's Head it is powerful for workings), and always in a mansion fortunate and appropriate for the work, and when the Moon is joined to Venus in the hour of Jupiter.”

How They Were Made

Talismans were engraved on natural, untreated lunar materials: quartz crystal, aquamarine, emerald, silver, and selenite in a brief time window of only 16 minutes. They were suffumigated with frankincense and Liber Razielis lunar incense made by Adley Nichols. The petition word אֶשֶׁר (Esher), meaning “happiness” and “blessed” is engraved in Paleo-Hebrew across the middle of the talisman.

The Chart

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