The Sky Library · Mansion 15 of 28
Al Ghafr
Al-Ghafr · The Covering
Span0°00′00″ Libra – 12°51′26″ Libra (tropical)
Determinant starsIota, Kappa and Lambda Virginis, a dim veil below Spica
What is covered may be uncovered here, and what is joined may part.
A faint, veiled station whose name means the covering. Agrippa lists it as Agrapha or Algarpha and gives it to the hidden and the sundered, digging, drawing out what is buried, and the parting of what no longer holds together.
The Spirit of the Mansion
the square of Jupiter, 34 in every line
a small fire keeps the sill; on the far side, the pin at the heart of the plate answers a touch
Agrippa and the Picatrix transmit different names for the mansion spirits; both are given.
What the number square means
The grid is a kamea, one of the planetary magic squares from Agrippa's second book; every planet has one, from Saturn's three by three to the Moon's nine by nine. In a true square every row, every column, and both diagonals add to the same number, and Jupiter's adds to 34 in every line. Count any line and see. Practitioners engraved these on talismans as the planet's signature written in number, and the gilded cell marks this mansion's own number.
Elections in this mansion
- drawing out treasures
- the digging of pits and wells
- partings and divorce, where parting is sought
- workings against enemies
Contraries
Hinders travellers, and it sunders more readily than it joins; keep it away from any union.
Agrippa prints the ruling spirit as Ataliel; other transmissions give Atliel.