Livanios
Livanios is a Hellenic philosopher born in the Hellenic city Antiocheia of Syria in 314 a.C. His family was local and...
When we have to perform an important ritual it is necessary to choose the best time or at least not a bad time for it. This will take less than 50% of the energy we are going to dedicate to the ritual. It’s not enough to choose the appropriate day, planetary hour, planetary power and lunar light. For rituals of initiations, dedications, talismans, strong commitments, evocations, changing major influences or interfering to important things, we should choose the best time.
Concerning elections, there is no such thing as perfect time or if there will be, it shouldn’t be near the time you want to perform the ritual. So, keep in mind, there are many rules, but all together aren’t practical.
Planets can be divided into diurnal and nocturnal. By drawing a line (from the zodiac of the ascendant to the opposite side) in the zodiac chart finding the hemispheres we want the diurnal plants to be in the same hemisphere with the sun and the nocturnal to the opposite hemisphere. If the Sun is above the line, we have daylight. That’s even better, because the Sun in the day and with the diurnal planets rising at the daylight, we have very good conditions.
Diurnal Planets: Sun, Jupiter, Saturn
Nocturnal Planets: Moon, Venus, Mars
Hermes is diurnal in the morning if it is positioned before the Sun. If it is positioned after the Sun, it is nocturnal.
I consider this to be well known subject to anyone who practices magick, so I am not writing anything.
House 1, the Ascendant is the most powerful position in the chart. Then House 10, the Midheaven is very powerful. Then house 7 and 4 follow. Those houses are called angular and they form a cross in the chart. Place the planet you are working in one of the above positions. If you are working for yourself, enhancing your zodiac sign energy, then put the zodiac sign in the Ascendant and the ruling planet to one of the houses.
The next thing we have to do is to check if the malefic planets (Mars, Saturn) are in the cadent houses (12, 9, 6, 3). If we have the malefic in those houses, they don’t have much power. We do that if we want to do good magick. For negative magick, we place the malefic planets to the angular houses.
Another rule to check is if the malefic planets form an aversion with the ascendant and its ruling planet or the planet we are working with. So, if we don’t have aspects forming with those two bad boys, we are ok.
Lastly, we don't want any square, conjunction, opposition with the malefics. This is impractical in many cases. If this happens, then make sure your plant has a good score. Another way to avoid their influences on a bad aspect is that the malefic rays are away 7 degrees at each side and that we don’t have benefic planets interfering.
Check the dignities of the planets to find their scoring points, thus their power.
If the planet is in that mode, then we try to avoid operating, because we have a delay, obstacles, lack of coordination. If you have to work with a retrograde planet, make sure his score is good or that he forms good aspects with the benefics.
The planet that we are working should not be burned by the Sun. A distance of 12.5 to 15 degrees away from the Sun is necessary.
Lunar Positioning
(Don’t trap yourself if you aren’t performing a Moon ritual.)
Theurgy and Philosophy are two different methods which lead to the union with God.
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It amazes me how so many traditions follow these ancient protocols and roles,