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Waxing Gibbous in Aquarius hour of Saturn, 43 min Mars's day

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The Mineral Kingdom

67 stones, each with the planet and sign the tradition gives it, its phase in the Chinese five, the centre of the body it is laid on, what it is held to be for, and one small thing you can do with it today. Where a stone is unsafe in water or in sunlight, the entry says so.

The day's stone, under Mars Magnetite Hold a paperclip near it until you feel the pull. Say what you want to come, once, then set the stone down facing the door. This hour, under Saturn Smoky Quartz Transparent to translucent smoky brown or grey, from a faint tint to almost black; six-sided prisms with a pointed termination

Every stone

The whole kingdom, in order. A drop of water marks the ones that may be put in it.

By intention

What you came looking for.

By sign

Western astrology, the twelve.

By planet

The seven classical rulers.

By centre

The seven centres of the tantric body, kept as its own tradition rather than folded into the planets.

By phase

Wu xing, the Chinese five. A cycle of generation and conquest, not a set of substances — and not the Western four translated.

By year animal

The twelve earthly branches. Chinese reckoning runs on its own cycle of five phases, not on the Western four elements.