Join us for a discussion on the the meaning and significations of the 2nd Decan of Aquarius.
(Summery by Silverius Materi)
Yavanajataka: A man with a shining sword. His tawny hair stands up. Covered with garlands of skulls, he wears armour. His is the colour of sunset clouds, and his protruding teeth are fierce. He is covered with the strings of nooses and so forth.
Liber Hermetis: It has a human likeness.
Brihat Jatakas: A woman covered with a dirty cloth in a forest, bearing pots on her head and dragging metals in a burnt cart with cotton trees in it.
Samhita Skanda Sutras: None.
Picatrix: A man like unto a king who permits much to himself and abhors what he sees. It signifies beauty and position, having what is desired, completion, detriment, and debility.
Ibn Ezra: A very black man whose beard is long and in his hand a bow and arrows, and purses that contain precious stones and gold.
Agrippa: A man with a long beard. It signifies understanding, meekness, modesty, liberty, and good manners.
Bruno: A man wearing the clothes of a counselor, seated and holding in his hand a small piece of paper with reminders on it. From his very long chin hangs a beard and he seems to have a severe countenance.
Crowley: A man arrayed like a king, looking with pride and conceit on all around him.
Rulership-
Chaldean: Mercury
Triplicity: Mercury
Daimnons/deities/spirits:
Phobos, daimon of fear, specifically representing panic and flight from a situation. His brother is Deimos, who represented terror and dread. The two were sons of Ares and Aphrodite. Andrew Watt points out that in both Hellenistic Egypt and Egyptianized Greece, this season was a period where rations were dwindling and spring was still far enough away to be worrisome, and settlements could easily be attacked by raiders. It was also a time of illness in Egypt specifically. The fear that one might not survive until the next equinox was real at this time of year and required both practical preparation and a sort of idealism, a hope for the future, which calls nicely on Austin Coppock’s ideas of this Decan and the RWS image of the 6 of Swords.