Silver Ring of the Seated Woman (Third Lunar Mansion)

For the third mansion, Athoraye (the Pleiades), the Picatrix prescribes a silver ring with a square bezel or table. On it is engraved the figure of a woman, well clothed and seated, her right hand raised above her head. The ring is fumigated with musk, camphor, mastic and aromatic oils, and then worn on the finger. Because the mansion falls at the end of Aries and the beginning of Taurus, where the Moon is exalted, it was regarded as among the most fortunate of the stations. Agrippa's version in Book II ch. 46 keeps the seated woman with raised hand and attributes good fortune to it, though without specifying the ring or the fumigation.

Purpose

The Picatrix presents this ring, made when the Moon is in the third mansion, as bringing "all good things"; Agrippa similarly calls it an image of happy fortune.

Timing

Lunar mansion

The moon in mansion 3 (the twenty-eight mansions)

Made when the Moon is in the 3th mansion (Athoraye, approx. 25°43' Aries to 8°34' Taurus); 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

• silver (for the ring)
• musk
• camphor
• mastic
• aromatic oils

Tools

• engraving tool
• censer

Camphor is toxic if ingested; use only as a fumigation in a ventilated space.