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is accompanied by Mars and the seventh is Libra and it is
accompanied b\ Venus then he said Bakh Bakh and the
ler asked him what is that? And he said that means that
the rising sign and the seventh had agreed to the matter
that vou want because Mars and Venus are planets of
matrimony and pleasure. Then he made Mars the trader*
sign and symbol and Venus the boys sign and symbol.
Then he looked at their location astronomically for when
they connect in a trine and there was forty days till that
connection at the time. So the Indian man said in forty
days time the boy will come to you and stay with you.
Then he took a piece of lodestone and crushed it real fine
like tiny dust particles and kneaded it with Quasfita (it is a
bitter Medical plant used to core patients with intestines
problems) till it became one well mixed dough then he
made a little figure shaped like the trader and then he took
hard garlic and mashed it with wax and made of that the
bovs figure and then he dressed the figures with clothes
similar to their own.
Then he took a jug made of pottery and lined seven
sticks made of Myrtle, Aleppo Pine, Pomegranate, Quince,
Mulberry, Daphne and Buttonwood then he put four under
and three on top in the shape of a cross. Then he installed
me trader's figure in the jug first then the boy's figure with
his back to the trader's figure. He did this as Venus was
racing Mars and he kept coming back every day at the
same lime he mounted the figures in the jug and the boys
e leans toward the trader's figure slowly everyday till
e day of the trine then the boy's figure was facing the
"gure of the trader and they stuck race to face. Then he
olded the boy's figure away from the trader's figure and
covered the jug and ordered the trader to bury the jug
J nder a furnace with some coal and then he incensed the
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