Monday, November 21, 2016

The Planetary Work - Jupiter

This article is Part Two in a series. Part One can found here.

Today I will be moving on to working with Jupiter, the next planet in sequence according to the Chaldean Order. Liber 777 associates Jupiter with the "Power of Acquiring Political and Other Ascendancy." So Jupiter is the planet that you would work with for political operations. Also, because our modern society so closely associates money with status, Jupiter can be called upon for financial gain, and as such this article may be thought of as an updated version of this one.

The Sun can also be called upon for money, as it corresponds to the "Power of Acquiring Wealth." But there is a difference, at least in my experience. If you are wanting to get more money working a job as opposed to running your own business, Jupiter is more appropriate. And since that's how most people make their living, the money spell that I published ten years ago calls upon Jupiter. The Sun is more appropriate when you are working for yourself, such as running your own business, or to increase the value of investments and the like.

Jupiter is referred to as the Major Benefic in astrology, but just like Saturn, the Major Malefic, it has two sides. Since Jupiter rules over things like jobs and political offices, it can be called upon to make a political candidate lose or cause a person to be fired or demoted. A commenter on Facebook last week wondered if working with Jupiter might be associated with gaining weight (since the planet rules expansion in general), and while I suppose it could be used that way, I've never seen it just happen on its own as some sort of side effect.

To review, in Qabalah the planets correspond to the double letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The letters are so named because they correspond to two specific sounds each, and this is reflected in the dual nature of the planets. On the Tree of Life, each planet corresponds to both a sephira or a path. Many magicians refer to the sephiroth as "spheres," and you may catch me doing that sometimes as well. It is, however, not a direct translation. The word actually means "emanations" - as in, emanations of divinity. But they are drawn as circles on most diagrams of the Tree of Life, and in addition, "sephira" and "sphere" sound very similar in English.

The important thing to understand about this for practical magick is that the sephira represent states of emanation, while the paths represent movement between them. Invoking the emanations themselves produces particular visions and states of consciousness, and invoking the paths produces particular practical effects. In Liber 777, the paths and sephira have separate sets of colors, separate angels, and even separate godnames. It is relatively common for people working practical magick to ignore these factors, and, say, conjure the angel of a sephira rather than a path. Often said angel is smart enough to figure out what you really want, but it works better if you go for the right aspect from the start.

As an aside, if you happen to believe that magick shouldn't be used for financial purposes, I recommend that you go read this - because Jason is right on the mark. If your goals in life don't include being rich, you don't have to be rich. However, to paraphrase Liber Librae, you do need a stable foundation from which to direct the forces of nature, and as I see it there's absolutely nothing wrong with using magick to create an abundant life that supports your spiritual work.

At any rate, for the Path of Jupiter, the four scales of color are Violet, Blue, Rich Purple, and Bright Blue Rayed Yellow. For ceremonial forms, you use the King scale, which is Violet. Its complement is yellow. All four scales should be used to construct the sigil of the angel. The first piece of sigil is the character of Jupiter, which looks like this:

The angel of the path of Jupiter is Sachiel, spelled Samekh-Cheth-Yod-Aleph-Lamed. The Jupiter kamea is 4 x 4, so the valuations for Samekh and Lamed need to be reduced to single digits. This yields 6 (60), 8, 10, 1, 3 (30), to produce a sigil on the kamea that looks like this:

The final sigil is created by combining the two figures. The grid is not necessary, but I have still included it here to show the geometry. There is no formal method for determining which color goes where on the sigil, but it should include all four scales so that it will span all four Qabalistic worlds and thus constitute a complete symbol. This is largely left to your own ingenuity.

From Liber 777, incenses appropriate to Jupiter are Saffron and "all generous odors." Associated plants are Hyssop, Oak, Poplar, Fig, Arnica, and Cedar. The associated metal is tin, and the associated precious stones are amethyst and lapis lazuli.

The plants may be dried and ground into a powder using a mortar and pestle and can be sprinkled onto the paper talisman as an offering to the angel. Likewise, a piece of tin, amethyst, or lapis lazuli may be placed on top of the paper talisman for the conjuration. You then use the paper to wrap up the whole thing when the ritual is complete and somehow bind or tape it together.

The god-name in Assiah for the path of Jupiter is ABA (Aleph-Beth-Aleph) or AL AB (Aleph-Lamed, Aleph-Beth). It is far more common for Jupiter operations to be taught using Al or El as the god-name for Jupiter, but this is actually the god-name appropriate to Chesed, the sephira of Jupiter. This is a key distinction that few teachers make, and is a method that we have explored at the local Leaping Laughter Lodge Ritual Workshop. It appears to be quite effective, and allows you to make a meaningful distinction between sephiroth and paths in the context of the ceremonial forms.

The full ritual is performed as follows:

0. The Temple

The best time to perform a Jupiter operation is on a Thursday, during the hour of Jupiter. To calculate the hours, divide the time between sunrise and sunset into twelve equal parts to get the hours of the day, and the time between sunset and sunrise into twelve equal parts to get the hours of the night. Days begin at sunrise. The first hour of the day is attributed to the planet ruling the day, and the subsequent hours are assigned according to the Chaldean Order.





1. Opening


2. Preliminary Invocation



Thee I invoke, who art Universe!
Thee I invoke, who art in Nature formed!
Thee I invoke, the vast and the mighty!
Source of Darkness, Source of Light.


3. Tuning the Space

Perform the Greater Ritual of the Hexagram for Jupiter. Beginning in the east, go to each quarter in turn and perform the following actions.

  1. 1. Trace the Hexagram of Jupiter in violet while vibrating ARARITA (ah-rah-ree-tah). The hexagram of Jupiter is traced by starting at the upper right point and tracing the first triangle clockwise, and then moving on to the lower left point and tracing the second triangle clockwise from there.
  2. Trace the symbol of Jupiter in the center of the hexagram in yellow while vibrating ABA (ah-bah).


Then, recite the Orphic Hymn to Jupiter. The use of the Orphic Hymns as planetary prayers is a technique that I picked up from Rufus Opus, who explains the method in detail in his excellent Seven Spheres.

O Jove much-honor'd, Jove supremely great,
To thee our holy rites we consecrate,
Our pray'rs and expiations, king divine,
For all things round thy head exalted shine.
The earth is thine, and mountains swelling high,
The sea profound, and all within the sky.
Saturnian king, descending from above,
Magnanimous, commanding, sceptred Jove;
All-parent, principle and end of all,
Whose pow'r almighty, shakes this earthly ball;
Ev'n Nature trembles at thy mighty nod,
Loud-sounding, arm'd with light'ning, thund'ring God.
Source of abundance, purifying king,
O various-form'd from whom all natures spring;
Propitious hear my pray'r, give blameless health,
With peace divine, and necessary wealth.

The space should now be tuned for the conjuration.

4. The Conjuration

O thou mighty angel SACHIEL, ruler of TZEDEQ, by the name of the True and Living God ABA, I call upon you and ask that you along with the spirits of your domain manifest themselves unto me, for I am a true worshiper of the highest. Let them come forth in a friendly and peaceful manner that I may partake of the wisdom and the pure essence of Jupiter, and that they may attend to my behest. AMEN.

At this point, vibrate the name SACHIEL repeatedly until the presence of the angel and spirits of Jupiter is perceived within the Table of Art. Various methods may be used to accomplish this, from simply waiting until a presence makes itself known to scrying for an image in a crystal or dark mirror. If this is being performed as a group ritual, with everyone chanting the name together, it is helpful for the officiant or scryer to have a bell chime that can be rung once he or she perceives a presence in whatever manner. At the bell chime, the chant stops.

5. The Charge


As I mentioned above, Liber 777 catalogs the powers attributed to the planet Jupiter as the "Power of Acquiring Political and Other Ascendancy." For best results, your charge should fall within that area. Otherwise, you may be asking for something outside Jupiter's sphere of influence. Jupiter's sphere of influence does include employment, which is one of the areas I have worked many times and gotten good results.




6. The License to Depart

Mighty SACHIEL and the spirits of Thy domain, because thou hast-diligently answered unto my demands, and hast been very ready and willing to come at my call, I do hereby license thee to depart unto thy proper place, without causing harm or danger unto man or beast. I charge thee to withdraw peaceably and quietly with the blessings of the great god ABA, and that peace be ever continued between us. So mote it be!

7. Closing




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Dacia Pacea said...

Can I call upon Jupiter by the path name ABA and instead of calling Sachiel, I would call Tzadkiel? I use the same sigil for him that RO uses, which is the same as the one for Sachiel in The Magical Calendar.

Scott Stenwick said...

Personally, I would not. For Tzadkiel, you use El or Al because that is the god-name for the sephiroth Chesed and Tzadkiel is the angel associated with Chesed. The point of making a distinction between sephiroth and path is to make the attributions more precise, and this just sounds like muddling them up again.

It's not that it wouldn't work, necessarily. I conjured Tzadkiel for practical stuff back before I was using the sephiroth/path distinction and still got pretty good results. The higher angels are intelligent spirits that can usually get things done, or know enough to delegate to another spirit that can.

What are you hoping to gain by changing the godname here? Have you had problems getting El/Al to work? If anything, with Tzadkiel the sephiroth godname should work better than the godname for the path.

Dacia Pacea said...

I'm hoping to help someone with financial issues, business opportunities and such. I started regular workings including asking Tzadkiel to bring the energies of Jupiter into the person's personal sphere, so that their microcosmos would become more attuned to receiving financial opportunities, as well as developing the right mindset.

It works good so far, but it's a bit slow. This would be somewhat understandable due to real life situations. But I think working directly with the path - ABA would speed up things a bit.

It was my fault in the first place because I totally forgot the distinction between the sphere and the path. Even though I used the color scale for the path in the GIRP, I went ahead with the godname of the sphere - stupid me :)

I will follow your advice and use ABA and Sachiel from now on in these kinds of workings.

Thank you! :D

Scott Stenwick said...

You could just go ahead and conjure Sachiel (via ABA) and give the same charge that you used for Tzadkiel. Two angels are better than one, after all, and there's nothing wrong with re-using a charge and giving it to a different spirit.

According to my model, that should about double the effect (since in my experience, Sachiel and Tzadkiel are similarly powerful). That could give you the boost that you want for your operation.

Dacia Pacea said...

*the previous post needs some editing :s

I'll definitely do that. It's funny how you posted the first answer and I realized I had mixed the sphere with the path just as the hour of Jupiter began in my time zone. Guess all that pathworking pays off and this was a clear sign for me I'm on the right track. Curiously thought, the effects of the path of Jupiter were some of the hardest... at first :)

I'll post updates in the future with the results.


Arthur Yanik said...

This may sound like a stupid question, but so far all my planetary operations have been with talismans, and not as a 'spell' by itself, but I wish to go that way now. The question is: Do I dispose of the sigil after the ritual? After the intent has been carried out?

Blessings :)

Scott Stenwick said...

That is not a stupid question at all. If your sigil is just the Jupiter character and the sigil of the angel, you can reuse it. I have a set of tablets that I made years ago that have the characters and so forth on them, so I am basically ready to go when I need to do a planetary operation of whatever sort.

If your sigil is more specific, such as one that includes the sigil of the angel, the name of a target, something to do with your specific intent, and so forth, you can dispose of it once you have performed the ritual, or after the spell runs its course. In my experience either of those is fine.

Arthur Yanik said...

Many thanks for answering. Your blog and writings are proving themselves to be an amazing aid and tool for my development.

Greetings from Argentina :)

Scott Stenwick said...

You are very welcome. I am glad to hear that they are working out so well for you!

Unknown said...

I noticed the ritual no longer includes the planetary intelligence or spirit. Can you talk about how you arrived at this change?

Scott Stenwick said...

I primarily dropped it for this series to simplify and standardize the methodology. You can, of course, still include them if you want, especially if you have an established relationship working with them.

The idea is that the angel rules over the intelligence and spirit, and is intelligent enough to delegate to them as necessary depending on your charge. There may be some cases where calling on the intelligence and/or spirit is necessary, but I have found that for the most part the angel is capable of handling that aspect of the work.

To include the intelligence and/or spirit, draw their names onto the kamea along with the angel. Then, call upon them explicitly by working down the hierarchy as per the previous ritual form.

Dacia Pacea said...

Jupiter is getting closer and closer to a perfect conjunction with Spica at 24*04' Libra and I recently found out that this is a very auspicious timing for financial operations. Instead of only one ritual, I'm thinking of creating a talisman that would be charged with the powers of both the star and the planet.

I read some comments exchanged between you and the reader relating to this kind of operation, and I found it great to include the GIRH of the sign in order to draw the energy of the start even more. I wonder if it would be even more effective to conjure Zuriel and ask him to focus the energies of Spica into the talisman, before conjuring Sachiel and asking him to do so with the jovial energies. The talisman would thus contain the names and seals for Jupiter, Sachiel, Spica, Zuriel and Libra...

What do you think of this? I mean, do you think it could add extra oomph to the talisman?

Scott Stenwick said...

That sounds pretty much like how I would do it. GIRH for Libra first, conjure Zuriel and deliver charge, then GIRH Jupiter, conjure Sachiel and deliver charge. Then you can license them both to depart together once you've done your Jupiter charge.

Spica is the most auspicious of the fixed stars, so I would expect it to make a Jupiter talisman stronger. I haven't experimented with that myself, but it makes sense to me that it would work.