Grimoires / Saturn
Saturn
Banishing, protection, endings, and the binding of habits.
The free operation, The Great Banishing, runs on any edition of the station, including the free one.
Saturn rules boundaries, endings, restraint, time, the land, and the dead. His day is Saturday. His colours are black and the dark blue-grey of slate, his metal is lead, and his incense myrrh; the Heptameron's perfume for Saturday is sulphur. Agrippa gives him the smallest of the magic squares, of three, with Agiel as his intelligence and Zazel as his spirit, and writes that the square, engraved on lead under a fortunate Saturn, serves "to make a man safe, and powerfull". The Heptameron names Cassiel as the angel of his day, and the Arbatel names Aratron, who "reconcileth the subterranean spirits to men". The divine name of his sphere is YHVH Elohim.
These operations call on that chain in order: the name, the angel, the intelligence, then the work. They banish, guard, bind, end, and endure. On the station they run slowest of all: frequencies near one, black frames, the element of Earth, and pre-hypnosis wherever the work has to reach a mind.
Begin banishings, bindings, and endings while the Moon wanes; begin guarding, patience, and sales while it waxes, or whenever the need presses. Saturn is the slowest of the planets and the most thorough, so give his operations their full length. The hard works of Saturn, binding an enemy and crossing, are in Sword & Sickle; nothing here is aimed at anyone's harm. Keep a record of what changes during an operation, however small: a quieter house, a habit skipped, a letter answered. Saturn works through weight and time, and a record is how you watch him work.
The operations
The Great BanishingFree
To drive unwanted influences out of a home or away from a person, and to shut the door behind them.
Binding a Habit
To bind a habit the operator wants to be rid of, such as smoking or drinking, and to strengthen the will that keeps it bound.
The Clean Ending
To bring a situation, partnership, or contract to a clean end, without rancour on either side, so that each can go on.
Guarding House and Land
To set the guard of Saturn over a house and its land: to keep its bounds and turn back whoever would trespass on it.
Patience and Endurance
To give the operator the patience of Saturn: the discipline to keep at long work, day after day, until it is done.
Calling the Ancestors
To call on the operator's ancestors: to honour them, to ask their counsel and protection, and to open the way between the living and those who went before.
Sale of a House or Land
To bring a house or land to a fair sale: to draw the right buyer and carry the business through to the signing.
Stilling the Restless
To still a very agitated or worried person: to slow their racing thoughts, steady them, and bring their feet back to the ground.