The Birth Angel: 72 Shem Angels. Using Birthstones from Agrippa & Renaissance Magic. Shem ha-Mephoresh. Our Series with Geomancy Continues with Conjunctio. Taliesin McKnight. Esoteric Coffee Hour 7.
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The Birth Angel: 72 Shem Angels. Using Birthstones from Agrippa & Renaissance Magic. Shem ha-Mephoresh. Our Series with Geomancy Continues with Conjunctio. Taliesin McKnight. Esoteric Coffee Hour 7.
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Esoteric Coffee Hour: Tuesday, February 20, 2024. Today, we take a look at the idea of the birth angel. This is a popular practice, in which one looks at the degree of the Sun at our birth, and works with the angel that governs those degrees as one's personal angel or angel of one's birth. This birth angel concept based upon the arrangement of the heavens at birth is found throughout Agrippa and is resonant with Renaissance magic and the classical worldview. Agrippa mentions in several places methods of obtaining the name of one's guardian or personal angel or spirit based on various methods. Clearly, the 72 shem angels govern 5 degrees of the zodiac each, so this can be used to find the shem angel of your birth. Moving to the more modern shem angel lore, Lazare Lenain in his "Science of Kabbalah" actually lists 3 personal shem angels based upon the place and time of one's birth. Lenain bases this idea on Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy," Book 3, chapter 22. However, Lazare Lenain essentially invented these Qabalistic Tables. Some people find his tables useful, such as using his twenty minute cycle to speak to the shem angels, but these are his creations toward the early part of the 19th century. What Lazare Lenain espouses is inspired by, but certainly not based exactly on Agrippa. It is for each person to decide what works for him or her in practice. We also return to our geomancy series! We discuss the next geomantic figure: Conjunctio. Please be sure and have a pen and paper ready, so that we can all draw a figure together! Tune in or drop by to say hello! These are streamed live Mon-Fri at 8am central time.
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