Capricorn Decan #1: The Headless Body The first face of Capricorn entails the descent of the spirit into the body of the world itself. One sinks into the bones of the world, deeper into materiality than at any point previous. This level of identification with gross matter shocks the perception, and more subtle levels can easily be forgotten in the process. The head is forgotten as consciousness descends. For this decan, Liber Hermetis offers us the image of decapitated man, holding his head in his righthand. As the Headless One of the Greek Magical Papyri declares—“I am the headless one, with sight in my feet.” An obscure Greek fragment, The 36 Airs of the Zodiac, attributes this decan to Asklepios, the god of healing. To heal the body, we must descend into its full density. We come to inhabit our flesh that we might heal it. Meanwhile, the planetary ruler according to the descending order schema, Jupiter, suggests a descent into the material in order to redeem it. While we descend in Taurus to fructify and in Virgo to perfect, in Capricorn we fall down, down, down in order to rule and redeem.
This decan gives access to deep levels of atavistic consciousness. The mind descends into the natural world with ease, sinking from animalia to vegetalia and then down to mineralia. Yet this descent is only one part of the process. The operation requires one to bring consciousness to these deeper strata and to set those powers in motion, yet one must also use the higher, logoic functions to guide them along their course. Magically, an image of this decan might be properly impressed to attain a new position within the world. A new job, promotion or relocation would be acceptable targets for this type of operation, whose essence is expanding or changing one’s territory to gain access to certain resources. The outlines of these images might also be pondered in order to better understand the laws by which the manifest world operates, and provide suitable basis for the exploration of the mechanics of the body of Cosmos herself. On a smaller scale, this face can help provide access to the genius loci of a particular area or the hive-genius of a human institution or company.
— 36 Faces, Austin Coppock
Consider the energy…
ritual bath 🛁
burn and release ❤️🔥
bury and ferment 🥀
salt and sweep 🧹
speak and smoke 💨
A spell for…
leaving behind old energies
gratitude