Image of the Crowned King (Second Lunar Mansion)

Book I ch. 4 of the Latin Picatrix lists the twenty-eight mansions of the Moon with an image to be made in each. For the second mansion, called Albotayn and lying in the latter part of Aries, the operator melts white wax together with mastic over a fire and forms from it the figure of a crowned king. The finished image is fumigated with lignum aloes while the operator states the purpose. The Picatrix treats such images as receptacles for the virtue of the Moon's station, so the moment of the Moon's entry into the mansion is what gives the image its power. Agrippa's Book II ch. 46 repeats the crowned king for this mansion, linking it to finding treasure and reconciliation.

Purpose

The Picatrix says this image, made when the Moon is in the second mansion, removes anger between people; Agrippa's parallel list adds reconciliation with a prince.

Timing

Lunar mansion

The moon in mansion 2 (the twenty-eight mansions)

Made when the Moon is in the 2th mansion (Albotayn, approx. 12°51' to 25°43' Aries); in the tropical reckoning each mansion spans 12°51'26". The Moon passes through each mansion roughly once a month for about a day.

Materials

• white wax
• mastic
• lignum aloes (for fumigation)

Tools

• vessel for melting wax over a fire
• censer

Hot wax and open flame.