Triangle of art
A separate marked space in some Goetic ritual instructions where a summoned spirit is directed to appear.
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Glossary
A guide to the words used across this site and in the texts behind it. Definitions describe historical usage, not proven supernatural effects. A term may mean different things in different traditions; the tradition label tells you which sense is meant here.
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Trine
An approximate 120-degree relationship between chart positions, one of the classical aspects.
Triplicity
A grouping of zodiac signs sharing an element; traditional astrology also uses the word in planetary dignity schemes.
Tropical zodiac
A zodiac measured from the seasonal vernal point, with each sign occupying thirty degrees; it is not fixed to the background constellations.
Trump
Also: Major Arcana
One of the special figured cards added to the four suits in a tarot pack; early decks differ in the ordering and names of some trumps.
Trumpet
A ritual tool in Key of Solomon. A newly made wooden trumpet sounded in a fixed circuit through the four quarters before the calling begins.
Tzaddik
Also: Zaddik
A righteous one. In Hasidic usage, a leader held to be a channel between the divine and a community.
Tzimtzum
Also: Tsimtsum
Contraction or withdrawal. In Lurianic Kabbalah, God's withdrawal from a point so that something other than God can exist there.
Ushpizin
Guests. The seven biblical figures welcomed in turn into the sukkah, each associated with a sefirah.
Valentinian
Pertaining to the diverse Christian schools associated with Valentinus and their accounts of divine fullness, emanation and salvation.
Venus
A classical astrology planet. Venus describes attraction and agreement: what is valued, what gives pleasure, and how affinity is created or maintained.
Vernal
Of spring. The vernal equinox is where the tropical zodiac begins.
Vestment
A garment worn for ritual rather than for warmth, often specified in detail by the text prescribing it.
Via
One of the sixteen geomantic figures, represented by a single mark on each of its four lines. Its assigned nature is source-dependent.
Virgin parchment
Also: Parchment
Parchment prepared from an animal that had not bred, specified by the grimoires for seals and pentacles. The requirement is about the material's purity rather than its durability.
Virgo
The Virgo sign of the zodiac. Virgo is mutable earth: the patient intelligence that sorts, edits, mends, and learns a craft by attending to what the work actually requires.
Visconti–Sforza tarot
A surviving fifteenth-century luxury tarot pack associated with Milan; its historical cards predate modern occult interpretations.
Water Cup
A ritual tool in Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn's Water implement: a clear, crocus-shaped cup with eight blue petals edged and lettered in complementary orange.
White-hilt knife
A ritual tool in Key of Solomon. The Key of Solomon's general working knife, usable for the book's operations except for drawing the circles.
Witness
One of two figures formed late in the geomantic shield, each derived from a pair of Nieces.