Spica fixed star election for wealth and good fortune

Under the Spike they made the image of a bird, or of a man laden with merchandise; it confers riches, and makes one overcome contentions, it takes away scarcity and mischief – Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, Chapter 47 On the Images of the Fixed Behenian Stars (transl. Joseph H. Peterson)

Spica is one of the most fortunate and benevolent stars described in Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy as well as earlier works on astrological magic. It is one of the brightest stars in the heavens and is located in the ear of wheat in the Virgo constellation.

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