Behold, friends, the latest in my ongoing series of astrologial images for study, contemplation, and enchantment.
The image of Jupiter, according to the opinion of Mercurius, is the shape of a man covered in a single linen cloth, riding upon a dragon, holding a lance or a dart in his hand.
-Picatrix Book II, Chapter 10, Paragraph 17 (Attrell and Porecca, 2019)
Some of you may recall, I shared the pencils of this image back at the beginning of September. I’m pleased to now share the digitally inked version.
This is my third attempt to work within a frame to make the images a little more artistically sophisticated (see also this Saturn and the Third Lunar Mansion), and I’m really pleased with the results so far. Eventually, as I develop my visual language through this and other projects, I plan to go back to add Art Nouveau and Arabesque frames to those that don’t have them.
Almost a dozen images into this series, I honestly feel like I’m making deeper connections to the planets and powers these images represent, and confirming (at least in my own mind) my long-held assertion that the images hold power of their own, which can be tapped outside the narrow constraints of Medeival and Renaissance astrological timing techniques.
You can find a higher resolution version of this image up on my Patreon, as well as links to collections of higher resolution astrological images. As a patreon supporter, you’ll get to see everything I do before anyone else, and a lot of things that I don’t share publically. If you’d like to support my work but don’t like Patreon for whatever reason, please consider dropping a tip in my jar at Ko-Fi.