AGRIPPA’S MAGIC SQUARE #260 MERCURY

 

Call him Mercury

Call him Hermes

Either way

He is the Magician

The Trickster

Travel and Protection deity

Aiding our Memory and

Granting us Educational success

His Magic Square adds up to 260

But be careful when you use it

Always check for retrogrades

He loves to prank

What a mountebank

Dual, easily bored

Slipping through our fingers

Like the element of Mercury

Alchemists adored

As one of the important

Seven Metals

And way back

We children soon to be hippies:

Mercurochrome

Applied to all those cuts and bruises

And one day disappeared

Banned by the FDA

But being the trickster

It has reappeared

As Mercury-free

Healing under a

Thinly disguised new name

That’s our man Mercury

Respect his allure

His charisma will endure

But only call upon him when you are sure

He is tame…

 

© 2023 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE: Agrippa’s Magic Square Mercury