Venus conjoined Spica

"From Venus...the virtue of causing loves and enthusiasms and expelling sorrow and sloth, invigorating the appetite, increasing generation, multiplying children...." (Picatrix)

“[Spica] will increase gold, accumulate riches, bring victory in lawsuits, and free men from evil and anguish.” (Quindecim Stellis)

This an excellent choice for anyone who wants to experience the blessings of Venus with the additional strength of Spica, one of the most favorable fixed stars that is also of a Venusian nature. According to traditional sources, this combination amplifies and reinforces both. The election is both rare and exceptionally potent.

Venus embodies pleasure, whether it is sensual, intellectual or spiritual.  She is the force in the human mind that appreciates beauty. When you're happy to see a beautiful place in nature or admire a work of art, Venus is at work within you.  She is the part of creation at work when you appreciate the taste of your food, hear music or enjoy having sex.  A Venus talisman is suitable for anyone who wants to add beauty, friendship, love and happiness to their lives. According to Picatrix, Book 4, Chapter 4, "Ask from Venus the desire for copulation, the virtue of causing loves and enthusiasms and expelling sorrow and sloth, invigorating the appetite, increasing generation, multiplying children...." 

Spica or “the ear of grain” has been regarded throughout history as perhaps the most benefic star in the sky. According to the Quindecum Stellis, a medieval Hermetic text, a Spica talisman will “increase gold, accumulate riches, bring victory in lawsuits, and free men from evil and anguish.” Spica is one of the fifteen Behenian fixed stars which were highly regarded by occultists in the medieval Arabic and European world.

In Book 4, Chapter 4 of Picatrix, 45 aphorisms are selected from a Hermetic text called Secret of Secrets. The twelfth through fourteenth aphorisms state that the combination of a planet with a fixed star of its own nature is especially valuable:

12. The images of the fixed stars are considered more enduring in

their effects than the images of those things that are capable of retrograde

motion.

13. If you do a planetary working with the aid of some fixed star of the

same nature, it will be more complete and more perfect because it will have

the vigor of the planet and the endurance of the fixed star.

14. When the ascendant, the petition, and the planet are of one nature,

and you aid yourself therein with a fixed star, and you have firm belief and

will, your petition will swiftly be fulfilled, and it will be strengthened from

the vigor of the planet.

Spica, according to Agrippa, is of the nature of Venus and Mercury. He explains that the nature of a star will ultimately prevail over a planet, and that if a planet is conjoining it with similar attributes the combination will strengthen it. He explains it as such:

“And although many effects proceed from the fixed stars, they are attributed to the planets being more near to us, more distinct and known, because they execute whatsoever the superior stars communicate to them.

“Know that all the fixed stars are of the signification and nature of the seven planets, but some are of the nature of one planet, and some of two. Hence as often as any planet is joined with any of the fixed stars of its own nature, the signification of that star is made more powerful, and the nature of the planet augmented. But if it be a star of two natures, the nature of that which shall be the stronger with it shall overcome. For example, if it is of the nature of Mars and Venus and Mars is stronger with it, the nature of Mars will prevail. If Venus, the nature of Venus will prevail (….) The star called Spica [….] is of Venus and Mercury.”  (Book 2, Chapter 31)

How They Were Made

Picatrix Book 2, Chapter 10 says, “Of the metals, Venus has ruby and part of silver and glass and blue stones and coral and malachite and has part of quartz and lodestone.” Elsewhere it says, “She rules bronze and copper among stones.” According to Quindecum Stellis and other sources, the appropriate material for Spica is emerald which is also a Venus stone.

Venus images were engraved based on Picatrix, Book 2 Chapter 10. Two number squares were also engraved in copper using instructions in Agrippa, Book 2.

“If, under the influence of Venus, you make the image of a woman whose body is human with the head of a bird and the feet of an eagle, in her right hand an apple and in her left hand a wooden comb, and write OAOIOA on the figure, everyone who carries this image with them will receive good and be liked by everyone.”

“If, under the influence of Venus, you make the form of a woman, holding an apple in her right hand and a comb in her left hand, in white stone, the first face of Libra ascending, whoever has or carries the above image will always laugh and be cheerful.”

Emeralds were engraved with the sigil of Spica, some using the version from the Quindecum Stellis and others using Agrippa's version, and Spica’s image of a bird as well as Venusian symbols. The Venus images included the Spica sigil. They were suffumigated with frankincense incense.

The source texts say that Spica will “increase gold, accumulate riches, bring victory in lawsuits, and free men from evil and anguish.”

Election

This is an incredible election that combines Venus with the fixed star Spica, arguably the most benevolent of the 15 Behenian stars. Venus is rising in her domicile Libra and in her hour as the evening star at 20 Libra 26.  She is tightly conjoining Spica (24 Libra 11), within three degrees and forty-three minutes, which is optimal. The Moon is powerful in her domicile of Cancer, culminating in the midheaven and applying to square Venus. The Moon receives Venus by triplicity.

The Chart

10:15 am, 2 September 2021, Augusta GA