The Sky Library · Mansion 23 of 28
Sa'd Bula'
Sa'd Bula' · The Luck of the Swallower
Span12°51′26″ Capricorn – 25°42′51″ Capricorn (tropical)
Determinant starsAlbali (Epsilon Aquarii) with Mu and Nu Aquarii
The swallower's luck, which takes down the bitter dose and calls it medicine.
The second luck, the swallower, which Agrippa lists as Zabadola or Zobrach with the gloss swallowing. It is a mansion of release and recovery, favoring the sick who mend and the bound who go free, and it will also part what asks to be parted.
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
- the liberty of captives
- health to the sick
- partings sought on purpose