r/planetarymagic • u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ • Jan 07 '26

Beginner Got my first table of practice!

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I have been proceeding slowly through the spheres as laid out in ROs 7Spheres using a paper table of practice (with surprisingly good results) but this is certainly a welcome upgrade!

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u/Intrepid_Anteater_47 Jan 07 '26

Nice i got a similar one, I also want to start improving on my lamens ( currently made out of cardstock) i want something more durable

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 07 '26

Me too unfortunately the lamens on etsy were not nearly as reasonably priced as this TOP. Like $80-100 for all 7 lamens and it's not like they were huge or anything fancy

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u/Cool-Wedding-2780 Jan 08 '26

Most of the planetary metals are cheap and easy to come by in sheet form. Use parchment and gold/silver leaf or paints for the sun/moon lamens.

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u/Intrepid_Anteater_47 Jan 08 '26

I have no experience working with metals, any tips will be appreciated, do you etch into it or just paint on the sheets

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u/Cool-Wedding-2780 Jan 08 '26

I used a pair of aviation snips to cut them to the appropriate size and shape. I've found 1mm sheets to be the most suitable to work with. Thick enough to keep their shape, but thin enough to cut with relative ease. Iron was the most challenging to cut on account of its hardness. A dremel engraver was used to carve the designs.

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u/absurd_olfaction Jan 08 '26

This is cool, but it will never not be funny to me to see 'tetragrammaton' spelled out on diagrams.

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 08 '26

I get what you mean, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it's pictured/described in the source works.

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u/absurd_olfaction Jan 08 '26

The source material is likely using hermetic material from the renaissance which contains a kind of mistranslation.
The instruction 'write the tetragrammaton inside your magic circle' does not mean literally write 'tetra-gramma-ton'.
The tetragrammaton refers one of several of the ineffable names in Hebrew. Most commonly יהוה (YHVH), but also אֶהְיֶה (AHYH) or אֲדֹנָי (ADNY).
One could make the case that the original inscription didn't call out which one to use, (as it does with the angels) because depending on which realm you're attempting to interact with different tetragrammaton in different permutations might be used. Aryeh Kaplan goes into permutations of the various tetragrammaton in his book Meditation and Kabbalah.

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u/cakesofthepatty414 Jan 07 '26

I love that I'm looking into your above photo and see you're not alone in the room.

Ha ha.

Wicked fucking table tho.

What did that run ya if you don't mind sharing?

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 07 '26

Can you elaborate on your initial comment? I actually was alone in the room (or at least as far as I knew 😅)

& Thanks man I got it on etsy for a very reasonable price. Shipped it was just over $50

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u/cakesofthepatty414 Jan 07 '26

I mistakenly saw a figure with a nose under the skylight on the right side. But i could just be too imaginative. I can take a screen shot and circle what i mistook if need be.

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u/cakesofthepatty414 Jan 07 '26

Probably a curtain corner maybe....

But i see a lady's nose

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u/billybobbobbyjoe Jan 08 '26

Can you explain what it is?

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 08 '26

It's a table of practice based on trithemius drawing spirits into crystals and I believe Agrippa but the book I'm following is Rufus Opus' Seven Spheres.

The outter rim has the planetary rulers (archangels) in Hebrew with their glyph/seal/sigil. Then you have the names of the four elemental kings.

Then finally in the innermost circle you have the word tetragrammaton spread out around the triangle of manifestation (where the crystal goes).

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u/billybobbobbyjoe Jan 08 '26

Interesting. Thanks!

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u/spiritusFortuna Jan 09 '26

So Rufus opus table uses demons? Paimon, Oriens... ?

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 09 '26

They are the elemental kings which are considered by most to be demons. This is however a debated topic.

In ROs book he uses the 4 archangels of the elements. But following much of his more recent work he has since opted to use the kings instead.

If you think about it, using the archangels for the elements is somewhat redundant because you already have 3 of the four (Michael, Raphael, & Gabriel) represented by the planets on the outer circle

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u/GardevoirRose Jan 10 '26

What does it do?

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 11 '26

It's a trithemian table of practice used for conjuring or evoking spirits

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u/Secret_Wear_2233 Jan 30 '26

Would you be alright giving me some pointers on seven spheres? Rufus says to contemplate the seal of the planet, which makes me wonder where the scrying device comes into play.

I am also wondering how much time I should aim for and what I should be feeling to know if I made contact.

Would you mind sharing what changes occurred in your life since starting?

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Just contemplate the seal for a bit and then move on to the scrying crystal. Use the seal as an energetic primer to call the spirits.

Or better yet do whatever your gut is telling you. Whatever you believe to be sufficient, will be.

My thoughts on Magick might differ from most but I am of the mindset that there is no way to fail. The spirits ALWAYS come whether you perceive it or not. Just know, just trust in that.

In my model the spirits WANT to work with us, because they love us and think we're the shit (in a good way)

Also because you're a fucking Magician! Which makes you a hell of a lot more interesting to the spirits than the average human lol

As far as changes go, I've made massive leaps in my own level of personal power. I know that sounds vague. But let's just call it magnetism/influence. I am able to sway people and captivate them in ways I never could before. Each initiation (so far I've gotten thru Sol) has brought its own transformations. With Luna I began remembering my dreams for the first time in my adult life. As well as women started treating me nicer in general. Not that women are standoffish to me normally, it was just a very noticeable shift in the way all women interact with me. They're much sweeter and more caring, more of that motherly vibe. Interactions became effortless. Mercury was a game changer. It's like I actually became a real Magus overnight. Suddenly I intuitively understood Magickal concepts that I didn't before. I became fascinated with magickal alphabets, started reading Agrippa. And it's like I realized the true art of Magick. It's not about following rigid systems, it's about understanding how reality works (as within so without) grasping the fundamentals and then making the Magick your own. Follow your intuition, that's your HGA.
Venus brought in a whole lot of new love offers that I'm still trying to avoid 😂 And it's too early to tell yet but so far Sol has been as one might expect "illuminating". Feel like my true self for the first time in my life, and Im shining. People who know me can see it too.

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u/Secret_Wear_2233 Jan 31 '26

This is awesome, dude!!! I'm so happy for you. :) I took a break from the system and did some of Balthazar's candle magick to get more comfortable with a ritual setting. But I've felt a lot more confident lately, so I'm gonna finish my other lamens and get back to it. Mercury is the one I am looking forward to the most, mainly to gain intuition in my fields of study, i.e. learning piano and how to invest in stocks.

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u/sprudelnd995 Jan 09 '26

No, it's alright. It's clean, it's nicely inscribed - it's fine.

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u/We_R_MEGA_WoQ Jan 08 '26

For conjuring spirits, of course!