a year ago i stumble upon something that looked like a talisman
with some latin inscriptions,



and while looking at the book : PLANT POWERS, POISONS,
AND HERB CRAFT BY DALE PENDELL

i saw this picture and 4 out 7 of the symbols on the talisman are the same as on the next picture.



Does anyone have know what the symbols from my talisman mean ?
From the looks of it they are mostly related to astrological stuff but the rest i dont know .

According to Manly P. Hall in The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Chapter 23:

The "east" position, the circle with the cross is "the character of copper of Venus." Also the female symbol.

The "south" position, the circle with the arrow is the character "of iron and Mars." Also the male symbol.

The "south-east" circle is "the second motion and the most perfect of all lines. Out of it are formed all figures and bodies imaginable."

The "north-west" crescent is "the character of silver and the moon. It signifies that silver (like gold) is a perfect metal, except that the red part of its nature is turned inward. Silver is the feminine principle of the universe."

The one in the "north-east" section, looks like a circle with a crescent on top and cross on the bottom I think is the character of "Mercury (both the planet and the element).

The one in the "south-west" section looks to me like a cross with a crescent. If so it is the character of "tin and Jupiter."

The "north" position looks like a sun or star. The center is obviously the sun. The "west" position I have no idea.

What those all mean together I don't know. According to An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper:

Iron: "Hardness; durability; strength; firmness; inflexibility; fetters. Chinese: Evil power. Egyptian: Evil; an attribute of Set and 'the bones of Typhon'." There are other meanings for iron from other cultures, they all revolve around evil.

The symbol encyclopedia has a large entry for circle, but the gist is "universal symbol. Totality; wholeness; original perfection; Hermes Trismegistus said of the circle as a symbol of God: God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference is nowhere". The number 10.

The crescent: "The crescent moon is, par excellence, the symbol of the Great Mother, the lunar Queen of Heaven. It is the passive, feminine principle.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages has a huge and varied multitude of explanations for most symbols one can think of. That talisman seems to be to be a representation of the basic "forces" of the universe. Male, female, good, evil, etc. The sun in the center, like most sun symbols, probably represents the main force, which is, according to pagan tradition, an androgynous god, symbolizing perfection and a unification of all forces into one, male and female, good and evil, spirit and material. The little sun and crescent on top probably symbolize male and female separately (moon=female, sun=male). I'm really guessing at this, which is pretty much all you do with something like this.

Hi there most illustrious misspelled father of psychoanalysis,



That's a very bizarre medallion. I'm willing to bet the inscription is not latin. I can't figure out what it means as some letters are difficult to read, but from what I get none is a latin word and difficult to make a sentence.

About the symbols, they are, as referred, the astrological symbols, but in a very bizarre way. You can track possibly 6 of the planetary symbols (Saturn is absent). Also, and most bizarrely, the Sun is represented 3 times: in the center, at about 5 o'clock and at 12 o'clock (in the form of a star). The strange symbol (?) at 9 o'clock is unknown to me, at least in the Western Mystical Tradition, from which this medallion is clearly derived.

My opinion, is that this medallion is a messy composition, mixing strange phrases (German?) and symbols in a totally illogical way (most ancient talismans and symbols had an intrinsic logic to it), so it's most probably a modern design

Oh, and by the way, the other image you present is upside down!

Thanks to both of you for looking into it.

cant tell you exactly what it says , i transcribed it once but i dont remeber where i left the paper,
i checked on the net, and it seems i wasnt the only one who found that same amulet / talisman,
and like you said Picatris its most probably of recent modern design.

I found it while helping someone move out and it fell out of one of his bags and asked him what it was and he had no clue.
Oh well .It will remain a mystery.