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Decanic Reference Chart

Decanic Reference Chart

Decanic Correspondences

Decan Zodiacal Position Planet College/Path Places Materials Agchoniôn 3rd Venus Sound Sonar stations, opera and concert Bats’ ears, dolphin blood, recording houses, wind tunnels or narrow tape, seashells, theremin music, parrot canyons, echo chambers. feathers, glass shattered by sound, bright yellow-green. Akhouiy 1st Jupiter none known/ Casinos, resort hotels, some taverns, Four-leaf clovers, rabbits’ feet, upright Luck much of Faërie, fountains (with coins horseshoes, beer, dice, stones with ), wishing wells. -eroded holes through them, the small bone of a sheep’s head, honey, deep orange. Akton 3rd Moon none known/ Alcoholic wards, whorehouses, crack Vomit, maggots, vitriol, cocaine, Spirit (demons) dens, certain temples in desert lands, wormwood, venereal pus, pale yellow. slave markets, the edge of the Abyss. Alath 3rd Mercury none known/ Old-age homes, cold deserts, still Tortoiseshell, square and cubic shapes, Spirit (general) tarns, ghost towns, select gentlemen’s arsenic, ether, morphine or heroin, clubs. deep wine-purple. Alleborith 3rd Mercury Meta Magical laboratories, pentacles, Mandrake root, orichalcum, azoth, places of power, ley intersections, pyramid shapes, black whiskers, mana “wellsprings,” mystic realms of water from Atlantis, green moonstones, arcane power. pineal glands, bright azure. Anatreth 1st Jupiter Movement Tornadoes, airports, speedways or Arrows, bullets, fulgurites, cobra freeways, lightning strikes, bullet- venom, hawk or osprey feathers, trains and their tracks. methamphetamine, henbane, violet. Anostêr Capricorn 2nd Venus none known Peculiar stone circles in impossible The noise of a cat’s passage, books places, a mirage city in the desert, a never written, blood from a stone, hot spring beneath arctic ice. imperceptible colors. Arôtosael 3rd Jupiter Making and Decisive battlefields, particle Ram’s horn (and anything else in a Breaking accelerators, alchemical or chemical Fibonacci spiral), flint, clay, laboratories, blacksmith shops, radioactives, E above high C, beehives, new forests, seas of hammers, sage, murex dye or anything seaweed. else reddish-purple. Zodiacal Position Planet College Places Materials Atrax 1st Mercury Food Supermarkets, bazaars, farmland, Bread, salt, woman’s hair, storax, compost heaps, restaurants, gas saliva, fertilizer, peridots, light stations, granaries, some fields with yellowish-tan. secret historical significance. Axiôphêth Sagittarius 3rd Sun none known Underneath tons of rock, sun-baked Lead chains, iron weights, ballast from desert flats, labor camps, prisons, a ship that has traveled around the sweatshops, particularly oppressive world, depleted uranium, indigo. cubicle farms, slave galleys, certain mountains in the Pamirs. Barsafael Aries 2nd Sun none known/ Deep beneath the ocean or in hidden Ambergris, petroleum, white noise, Spirit (enigmatic caves, cities unknown to mankind, artesian water, taproots of plants, “U” powers) dinosaur burial grounds, fragmentary shapes, crimson. worlds long forgotten, very old mountaintops, limestone sinkholes. Belbel 2nd Venus none known/ Torture chambers, death camps, deep Funeral crepe, surgical steel, rust, Spirit (ghosts) in the rainforests where sunlight ammonia, neurotoxins, dried blood, never falls, widows’ walks, shadow- nettles, purple so dark that it appears burns left by nuclear blasts, the edges black. of the Abyss. Bianakith Pisces 3rd Mars Body Control Crowded cities, human-scale Lungwort, liverwort, elm, river clay, statuary, portrait galleries, gymnasia. human blood or skin, starfish, GI Joe or Barbie doll or any other idealized poppet, ivory. Buldumêch Virgo 3rd Venus none known Banks, stock market floors, gold Money, anything expensive and mines, customs houses, money hoarded, jackdaw or magpie feathers, changers, jewelers, treasure troves. cowry shells, sapphires, toad venom, gold. Charchnoumis 2nd Mars Animal/ Zoos, slaughterhouses, nature Fresh animals’ blood or skin, Form preserves, forests, fresh animal tracks bloodstones, fresh game spoor, or kills, watering holes, Mount hunters’ weapons, civet musk, hunting- Ararat. horn music, anything dark blood-red. Eneuth Sagittarius 2nd Mars / Bonfires, firestorms, tropical or Obsidian, asbestos, sulfur, fire opals, Elements (fire subtropical deserts at midday, war- sodium, magnesium, rocket fuel, ash- effects) torn lands to the south, lava flows, wands, cones, olibanum, garlic, Decan Zodiacal Position Planet College Places Materials magmatic caverns, the Plane of Fire. mustard, cayenne pepper, orange- yellow. Harpax Capricorn 1st Saturn Plant Sacred groves, rainforests, algal Green jade, holly, cedar, woodwind pools, weed-ridden croplands, hedge music, amanita mushrooms, ivy, coral, mazes. forest green. Hephesimereth Aquarius 1st Saturn none known Open abandoned pits, former Dead batteries, dust from an abandoned cemeteries with the bodies house, ashes, mistletoe, no color. disinterred, frozen Antarctic desert, the intergalactic vacuum, places where the ground has been sown with salt. Ieropaêl Virgo 2nd Saturn / Mountain caves, volcanoes, up-thrust Quartz, talc, slate, oak, lichen, worms, Elements (earth crags, gravel beds and quarries, city narcissus, orbs, dark brown. effects) parks, fertile land in the north, the Plane of Earth. Isrö Aquarius 2nd Jupiter Air/ Windstorms, steppes, inside or atop Eagle feathers, chalcedony, galbanum, Elements clouds, on balloons or airships, cities white orchids, helium, bird-bone (air/wind effects) atop plateaus in the east, the Plane of knives, aspen, pink-white. Air. Iudal 2nd Mercury Gate Bridges, crossroads, doorways Keys, two-headed coins, juniper, (especially post-and-lintel ones), alexandrites, tobacco, hollow bones, boundary markers, rivers, chalk, mirrors, rose-madder, cesium, interdimensional gates, outdoors cornmeal, amber. during an eclipse, grandfather clocks. Kumeatêl 2nd Jupiter Enchantment/ Secret laboratories or military bases, Artifacts with secrets, the number 13, Spirit (“worldly” hidden rooms or passages, labyrinths, walnuts, handcuffs, Christmas entities lost cities, conspiratorial fastnesses, wrapping ribbon, silk cord, knots with pocket dimensions, certain university hidden ends, rose (both the flower and libraries. the color). Kurtaêl Gemini 3rd Saturn Necromancy/ Graveyards, terminal wards of Rowan, cypress, myrrh, contaminated Health (harmful hospitals, ruined buildings where syringes, rats, yew, hellebore, onyx, effects) people have died, plague pits, tombs, ebony, jet, pitch, anything black. marshes, necromantic altars in Haiti, Transylvania, and elsewhere. Decan Zodiacal Position Planet College Places Materials Marderô Libra 2nd Saturn none known Revolutionary battlefields or Hammers, sickles, human blood, massacres, police stations, some pepper, tear gas, axes, five-pointed government buildings, meteor craters, stars (but not pentagrams), gunpowder, disaster sites. rhino hide, white-flecked azure. Methiax Cancer 1st Moon Illusion and Artist’s studios, movie theaters and Pyrites, zircons, flashbulbs, eggs, Creation/ movie sets, counterfeiter’s dens, pomegranate seeds, fractals, Cunning certain very old vineyards in Greece holograms, hallucinogens, fog, or and Turkey, hallucinations and anything gray. hallucinogenic spaces, induced dream states, Faërie, copy centers and scriptoria. Naôth Libra 1st Venus Communication Radio stations, printers, shared Vervain, bay leaves, “V” shapes, and Empathy telepathic experiences, shared or stringed instruments or their strings, archetypal dream states, universities, blue-gray. a few select bars, certain bookshops in London and Paris. Nefthada Scorpio 2nd Jupiter none known Almost nowhere – except for perfect Champagne, star sapphires, silk or satin moments in time or space. Some truly fabrics, morning dew, pure oxygen, wonderful gardens achieve bright green. correspondence with Nefthada on a continuing basis, as do a very few building interiors. Ouare Taurus 3rd Saturn Technology/ Garages, metallurgical laboratories, Gears and clockwork, plastic, Gadgets inside moving vehicles, virtual-reality microchips, brass, aluminum, olive- matrices, the Autobahn. green, any artificial dye such as aniline. Phoubêl Leo 1st Sun Light and Tropical beaches, outdoors at sunrise Heliotropes and other tropical flowers, Darkness or sunset, tanning salons, cathedrals, flashlights, cinnamon, “X” or cross stone circles, fireworks shows. shapes, laurel and hazel-wood, black- and-white (or black-and-red) checkerboard patterns. Phthenoth Pisces 2nd Moon Healing/ Hospitals, health resorts, spring Balm, pure water, apples, watered Health (healing) meadows after a rain, arches, fabled wine, chicken soup, potash, Greek places of rest or healing. (“+”) crosses, lavender. Roêlêd Leo 3rd Mars Protection and Anywhere under surveillance or an Owl or raven feathers, -hide, “M” Decan Zodiacal Position Planet College Places Materials Warning/ with electric-eye grid, castles and shapes, dragonsblood, unicorn horn, Protection fortresses, missile silos and radar sirens and alarms, barks, stations, firebreaks, guardhouses. lilies, Kevlar, chain links, bronze (both the and the color). Ruax Aries 1st Mars Mind Control/ Television studios or showrooms, Cathode-ray tubes, spirals, poppies, Dreams hypnosis clinics or performances, downward-pointing arrows, cerulean drug parlors and opium dens, blue. asylums, personal dreamscapes, memory palaces, certain lamaseries in Central Asia. Sahu Taurus 1st Venus Weather/ Mountainsides, the walls of famous Basalt, sequoia wood, subsonics, Nature fortress-cities, the high veldt, arrowheads, sinew, fresh animal blood, imposing statues or stone structures opals, anything red and black. such as Mount Rushmore or the Sphinx and Pyramids. Saphathoraél Cancer 3rd Venus Water/ Oceans, lakes, ships, reservoirs, wells Fish, the blood of drowned men, Elements (water and oases, ice rinks, sewers, islands aquamarines and beryl, pearls, teardrop effects) to the west, the Plane of Water. shapes, chalices, lotuses, ferns, kelp, Irish whiskey, the color blue. Sphandôr Gemini 1st Mercury Knowledge/ Computer rooms, hexagonal spaces, Agates and cat’s eyes, musk, hexagons, Knowledge paintings or images of eyes, theatrical fennel, ringing bells, russet-red. stages (especially the Globe), libraries (especially Alexandria). Tepsisem Scorpio 1st Mars none known Museums, art auction houses, badly Works of art, rouge, acid rain, faded maintained (but once attractive) photographs, broken mirrors, velvet, buildings, eroding statues. sandalwood, cut hibiscus or lilies, scarlet. SIGNIFICANT DATES Dates relate to magical theories through astrology (see above), and also through symbolism.

Magical Dates The following are some dates with deeply traditional and possibly supernatural significance in Western traditions, along with some associated for those using decanic modifiers (see above).

Yule: The winter solstice (usually around December 21), the shortest day of the year; traditionally, the birthday of kings. (Alleborith, Phthenoth) Imbolc or Candlemas: The harbinger of spring, the beginnings of light and fertility; February 1. (Kumeatêl, Phoubêl, Saphathoraél) Ostara: The vernal equinox (usually around March 21), the official beginning of spring when the day and night are in balance. (Alleborith, Charchnoumis, Harpax) Walpurgisnacht: May Eve (April 30), a day when the dead walk and winter takes its last blows. (Iudal, Kumeatêl, Kurtaêl) Beltane or Roodmas: The feast of fire and love, May Day. (Anatreth, Eneuth, Kumeatêl) Litha: The summer solstice (usually around June 21), the longest day of the year. (Alleborith, Methiax, Phoubêl) Lughnasadh or Lammas: A solar feast of first harvest and marriage; August 1. (Isrö, Kumeatêl, Naôth) Mabon: The autumnal equinox (usually around September 21), the second harvest and the official end of summer, balancing again the day and night. (Alleborith, Atrax, Bianakith) Samhain or Halloween: The feast of the dead, and the beginning of winter; October 31. (Ieropaêl, Iudal, Kumeatêl, Kurtaêl) Zodiacal Correspondences Sign (Dates) Color Metal Stone Plant Creature Scent Body Part Tool Opposing Sign Aries (Mar. 21- Red Iron Amber Willow, Ram, owl Dragonsblood Brain Horn Libra Apr. 19) bamboo, lily Taurus (Apr. Brown Bronze Bloodstone Chestnut Bull Storax Neck, head Lever Scorpio 20-May 20) Gemini (May Orange Copper Agate Holly, lotus Magpie, mule Wormwood Chest, ribs Tripod Sagittarius 21-Jun. 21) Cancer (Jun. Gray Silver Moonstone Hazel Crab, crawfish, Balm Stomach Wheel Capricorn 22-Jul. 22) sphinx Leo (Jul. 23- Yellow Gold Carnelian Apple, citrus Lion Frankincense Heart, back Furnace Aquarius Aug. 22) trees, palms, sunflowers Virgo (Aug. Indigo Aluminum Sapphire Grapevine, Dove Narcissus Bowels Lamp Pisces 23-Sep. 22) snowdrop Libra (Sep. 23- Pink Brass Chrysolite Ivy Elephant Galbanum Kidneys, hips Scales Aries Oct. 23) Scorpio (Oct. Maroon Tungsten Topaz Elder, cactus Scorpion Ammonia Genitals Whip Taurus 24-Nov. 22) Sagittarius Blue Platinum Zircon Yew, rushes Centaur, Aloe Arms, hands, Arrow Gemini (Nov. 23-Dec. liver 21) Capricorn Dark green Cobalt Garnet Rowan, thistle Cannabis Lungs Magnet Cancer (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Aquarius (Jan. Purple Uranium Amethyst Ash, olive Peacock Ozone Legs Wire Leo 20-Feb. 19) Pisces (Feb. Crimson Steel Aquamarine Alder, Fish Ambergris Feet, lymph Cross Virgo 20-Mar. 20) dogwood nodes Planetary Correspondences Planet (Day) Color Metal Stone Plant Creature Scent Tool Opposing Planet Sun (Sunday) Gold, bright Gold Diamond Acacia, saffron, Lion Laurel Orb Moon yellow birch Moon (Monday) White Silver Pearl Mushroom, Cat Jasmine, opium Mirror Sun poppy Mercury Orange Mercury Opal Lavender, Jackal, Sandalwood Pentacle None (Wednesday) mandrake Venus (Friday) Green Copper Emerald Rose, lotus, Swan, lynx Rose Chalice Mars cherry Mars (Tuesday) Red Iron Ruby Garlic, gentian, Wolf Blood, tobacco, Sword, athame Venus ironwood gunpowder Jupiter Blue Tin Jade Oak, mint Eagle Cedar, nutmeg Wand, scepter Saturn (Thursday) Saturn Black Lead Onyx Cypress, ebony Crow, raven Myrrh Sickle Jupiter (Saturday)

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