RVFVS OPVS

Agrippa · Book III, Chapter 26

The Genius & the Evil Daimon

The twenty-two Hebrew letters are cast around the heavens, one to a degree. Cast from the first degree of Aries with the order of the signs, the letters falling on the five Hylegian places of your nativity spell your Genius. Cast backward from the last degree of Pisces, they spell your Evil Daimon.

The guide: finding your five places, and conjuring the Genius →

From your birth

Your date, time and place of birth. The five places are worked out for you, prenatal syzygy included.

Check this against your own natal chart. Time zones and daylight time were a local matter in many places before about 1970, US towns especially, and the time-zone database can apply daylight time to a birth where nobody was using it. That moves the whole chart by an hour, and the rising sign is usually the first thing to go wrong. The calculator now corrects for the US states that kept standard time all year before 1967, but towns that set their own clocks can still slip through. If what you get here obviously disagrees with your own chart, trust your chart: type the offset your chart used into “UTC offset used” after you calculate, or enter your five places by hand in the section below.

Not listed? Enter coordinates instead

The five places

Entering your own: type the degree exactly as your chart prints it, 0 to 29, and leave off the minutes.

Why “read as” is one higher: a chart counts degrees from zero, like a clock counts minutes, but the letters are cast on the first through thirtieth degrees of each sign. A planet at 22°57′ Taurus has finished 22 degrees and is standing in the 23rd, so it takes the letter of the 23rd degree. This is the “round up to the next degree” in the guide, and the generator does it for you — don’t add one yourself. If you’re reading the tables by hand, look up the “read as” number.

Showing an example — enter your birth or your own places.

Genius · the good daimon

Evil Daimon

Drawn against the order of the signs, from the last degree of Pisces.

PlacePositionGeniusEvil

Your Lamen

The Lamen of the Genius, with your Genius’s name written in the Celestial Script. Wear it over your heart for the conjuration.

Lamen of the Genius

Method: H. C. Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book III ch. 26 (1651), by the five Hylegian places; after Rufus Opus, The Red Work: The Genius and the Evil Daimon. Positions: tropical, geocentric, from Astronomy Engine; the Part of Fortune reverses by night. Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Celestial Script: NI Celestial, a freeware font created by the Nu Isis Working Group. Everything is worked out in your browser; nothing you enter is sent anywhere. Read the guide.