#cauda draconis

The Symbolism of the Rope

The Hebrew word נִקְפָּה (nikpáh), translated as rope, girdle, or braided cord, derives from the triliteral root נק״ף (naqaf). The semantic field points to the act of circling, surrounding, or encircling. In Scripture, naqaf describes the movement of going around a city (Joshua 6:3) and also the gesture of forming a ritual circle. The image is always the same: to draw a perimeter that distinguishes, consecrates, and protects, mostly popularized by the ritualistic magic circle.

The rope corresponds to the instant when the profane is set apart from the world. It is a return to primordial nakedness, that state in which the soul is treated as material for the Work. The neophyte receives the rope as a demarcation: it marks the beginning of the operative space of transmutation.

This symbolism finds a remarkable architectural echo in the Manueline style, the initiatory art associated with the Order of Christ in early sixteenth-century Portugal. The central motif of that style is precisely the rope, carved, braided, coiled around columns, portals, and windows.

This same principle of rope and enclosure finds its perfect emblem in the Ouroboros. When its head and tail are read as the Lunar Nodes, Caput Draconis (the North and Benefic Node) and Cauda Draconis (the South and Malefic Node), the image acquires an unmistakably initiatory dimension: the eternal beginning and eternal rebeginning that bind Spirit to matter and vice-versa.

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Listen up fuckos, Imma learn you a thing.

So I'm chillin, listening to my Grifter playlist and counting the change in my tea bottle. I get the total but then I found a penny. (I kept a coin from the various increments to keep track of how many dollars I had rounded.) Well fuck. So now I have two numbers it can be. So, as I am wont to do, I translate them in to geomantic figures (divination system) for funsies to see what they say. Cauda Draconis. Amisso. The dragon's asshole and loss. Awesome sauce.

So I'm thinking. Okay well if I put these two figures together I could do an In Case of Emergency fund sigil (more on what that means in a few).

Then the exorcist in me was like THROW IN RUBEUS (aka fuckery) AND YOU GOT A QUICKIE'CISM!

So here we go. That bit where I was talking about combining them, quick backstory: often when I do a reading with figures, I will use a system to make, what I call, a compass for the path that the reading has revealed.

This is honestly just dividing and overlapping the figures in varying vertical space to create a sigil.

So, that being said, you combo Amisso and Cauda, with Cauda shifted down one and place that over Rubeus.

Now, I'm not going to be a fuck and have you look up the figures to figure out (heh) why this works. My favorite thing around about geomancy is that it's 16 figures that represent everything in the universe...,,,,,,, so yeah.

So here's my take:

While Cauda does SUCK like 99 times out of 99.5, you can take that point five and turn it into an end of a journey.

Combo that with Amisso being a loss of the possessor and you get a crafty okaybye.

I haven't been able to find anything on Rubeus much other than its a not good. Like everything I've read [HEH] is just like nah. not good. maybe it's the devil?

So it's easily translated as the possesor.