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Does anyone have experience of working with Buer? In particular, I'm interested in any electional timing/general astrological recommendations. Also, one anomaly that I can't square away is that Buer (whilst I recognise the independence of the chthonic hierarchy) is generally considered under the dominion of Shem angel Eladiah - who operates as the power of Earth Element of Moon - and yet Buer is a Mercurial Demon? Further, I had read that Buer is best worked with when the Moon is in Sagittarius, and yet Steve Savedow aligns him with Cancer. Any thoughts?
 

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Buer is Apollo, the archer of Olympus, bringer and healer of pestilence. The name comes from an epithet of Apollo, "the helper in distress," and the remaining components of the grimoire entry can be easily identified in Apollo. Saint Benedict exorcised the shrine of Apollo in the 6th century, transforming the arts & culture sector of Roman society into the more familiar monastic system.
 

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Buer is grimoirically associated with the Sun being in Saggitarius. If you were to think of this in natal astrological terms, Buer would be a Sagittarius so that's why his dominion falls there. Spirits have astrological generation and the secret lies within their names. The letters in their name outline a natal chart thats tied to when they were generated.

Now his Mercurial association comes from the powers he rules over, which would be plants (medicine), philosophy, and logic. These are all classically Mercurial and Thoth attributed qualities. Now within the hermetic philosophy, Mercury is closely tied to the Moon. They are coparticipants. Within the Kore Kosmou Isis attributes her magic and initiation to Thoth, saying that he was the one who initiated her and taught her magic. Isis's Lunar qualities are attributed to Mercury in this passage. When we dig into the ancient Egyptian religion before hellenization (Isis becoming a moon goddess and Thoth associated with Mercury) Thoth was originally a lunar god. If we look beyond a surface level understanding of this being an accident of syncretism and take it from the perspective of being a process of esoteric Divine inspiration then we can reconcile Thoth and Isis, or Mercury and Luna, being closely intertwined and coparticipators.

If we think about the function of the Moon and Mercury, the Moon acts as a gateway between the Earth and the Heavens, while Mercury acts as a gateway between God and the Cosmos. They both participate in this gateway phenomenon where Mercury hands down the Divine to the Cosmos and Luna hands down the secrets of the Cosmos to Earth.

In astrology Mercury is the only planet that is both male and female, benefic and malefic, completely dependent on what he is aspecting to choose what nature he expresses. Whereas all planets are dependent on Luna's placement, Luna is the most important planet in the sky in terms of magic and it is through her ALL things pass. When we select elections for magic we must first make sure the moon is in good aspect and dignified and then we can begin to approach the other planets. So astrologically speaking both of these planets are once again showing a sympathy with each other in their nature.

The suggestion of the Moon in Saggitarius has to do with operative conjuration procedures as all things pass through the Moon and she governs the gateway it is better to conjure a spirit when the moon is in its sign. She moves faster, is more dramatic, and provides access to liminal spaces.

What you can extrapolate from all this information is a few things about Buer. His ruling planet is Jupiter as that governs his Sun sign Sagittarius and his powers fall under the auspices of Mercury. So what I would do with this information is conjure him with the Moon (she provides access to spirits) in Sagittarius and aspect Mercury either in conjunction, trine, or sextile with the moon. Bonus points if Mercury is in Saggitarius conjunct with Luna. And then even more points if you can swing Jupiter in good aspect on the chart as well.

The easiest method though, would be following the placement of the Moon in Sagittarius. Demons are powerful and immediate entities and don't require astrological intricacies to get immediate and noticeable effects, but at the same time the more attention you pay to the placement of the planets you can exponentially increase the power of your spell. And Buer would probably be incredibly pleased with that much attention to detail.

As for the cancer thing, the moon is exalted in Cancer, so conjuring Buer in Cancer would have to lean on the authority of Eladiah as the intermediary. At that point your not really working with Buer but using an auspicious time to use Eladiah to command Buer for you.
 

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Thank you for the reply. But this complicates things more to my mind. (I understand that none of this will fit neatly into categories) however, Apollo is surely a Sun God? And per my original post, Buer is a Mercurial President, yet comes under the dominion of Eladiah, a Shem angel of Earth of Moon. And whilst the archer symbolism is perfectly Sagittarius - the ruling planet of that Sign is Jupiter. I get the "abundance", "healing", "helping" connections between Mercury, Sun and Jupiter (and the associated sephiroth) but none if it helps me in trying to tie down a consistent ritual formula. I might be being stupid here, although I doubt it, which was why I wondered if anyone had had experience of working with Buer and under what conditions/ using which correspondences.
 

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Buer is grimoirically associated with the Sun being in Saggitarius. If you were to think of this in natal astrological terms, Buer would be a Sagittarius so that's why his dominion falls there.

Apollo's feast was celebrated in the lunar month roughly corresponding to October/November.
 

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Buer is grimoirically associated with the Sun being in Saggitarius. If you were to think of this in natal astrological terms, Buer would be a Sagittarius so that's why his dominion falls there. Spirits have astrological generation and the secret lies within their names. The letters in their name outline a natal chart thats tied to when they were generated.

Now his Mercurial association comes from the powers he rules over, which would be plants (medicine), philosophy, and logic. These are all classically Mercurial and Thoth attributed qualities. Now within the hermetic philosophy, Mercury is closely tied to the Moon. They are coparticipants. Within the Kore Kosmou Isis attributes her magic and initiation to Thoth, saying that he was the one who initiated her and taught her magic. Isis's Lunar qualities are attributed to Mercury in this passage. When we dig into the ancient Egyptian religion before hellenization (Isis becoming a moon goddess and Thoth associated with Mercury) Thoth was originally a lunar god. If we look beyond a surface level understanding of this being an accident of syncretism and take it from the perspective of being a process of esoteric Divine inspiration then we can reconcile Thoth and Isis, or Mercury and Luna, being closely intertwined and coparticipators.

If we think about the function of the Moon and Mercury, the Moon acts as a gateway between the Earth and the Heavens, while Mercury acts as a gateway between God and the Cosmos. They both participate in this gateway phenomenon where Mercury hands down the Divine to the Cosmos and Luna hands down the secrets of the Cosmos to Earth.

In astrology Mercury is the only planet that is both male and female, benefic and malefic, completely dependent on what he is aspecting to choose what nature he expresses. Whereas all planets are dependent on Luna's placement, Luna is the most important planet in the sky in terms of magic and it is through her ALL things pass. When we select elections for magic we must first make sure the moon is in good aspect and dignified and then we can begin to approach the other planets. So astrologically speaking both of these planets are once again showing a sympathy with each other in their nature.

The suggestion of the Moon in Saggitarius has to do with operative conjuration procedures as all things pass through the Moon and she governs the gateway it is better to conjure a spirit when the moon is in its sign. She moves faster, is more dramatic, and provides access to liminal spaces.

What you can extrapolate from all this information is a few things about Buer. His ruling planet is Jupiter as that governs his Sun sign Sagittarius and his powers fall under the auspices of Mercury. So what I would do with this information is conjure him with the Moon (she provides access to spirits) in Sagittarius and aspect Mercury either in conjunction, trine, or sextile with the moon. Bonus points if Mercury is in Saggitarius conjunct with Luna. And then even more points if you can swing Jupiter in good aspect on the chart as well.

The easiest method though, would be following the placement of the Moon in Sagittarius. Demons are powerful and immediate entities and don't require astrological intricacies to get immediate and noticeable effects, but at the same time the more attention you pay to the placement of the planets you can exponentially increase the power of your spell. And Buer would probably be incredibly pleased with that much attention to detail.

As for the cancer thing, the moon is exalted in Cancer, so conjuring Buer in Cancer would have to lean on the authority of Eladiah as the intermediary. At that point your not really working with Buer but using an auspicious time to use Eladiah to command Buer for you.
THANK YOU!!!! A brilliant reply! I have it all now. Thank you so very much. (Wednesday/Mercury/ Hod, June 11th - Moon in Sagittarius, full Moon... perfect!)
 

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Apollo is surely a Sun God?
Sort of. Read some Apollo mythology, Greek hero literature, and tell me Apollo is best described as a sun-god. He is a complex character and his cult was important to a wide swath of Greek and Roman culture as a patron of the arts.

Neither the Olympic deities nor the grimoire demons were developed with planetary and astrological associations in mind. They come from diverse sources, not a single official canon, so they are only shoved or forced into planetary and astrological associations.
 

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"Sun in Sagittarius" is actually a mistranslation of Buer's description. Actually it said that Buer might appear in the form of "star" (symbol of star was used, so it might actually mean Sun, which was often depicted in form of star). Given the way how many "Demons" are actually demonized Gods from the old traditions, it seems plausible that name Buer might actually be the corrupt form of Boedromios (Apollo's Title, and Apollo in later times was oftenly associated with Sun).

And all the astrological correspondences of spirits of Goetia as well as their correspondences to 72 Names of God was totally made up by Golden Dawn and their associates and has no foundation in earlier sources. And it is only the popular version of Goetia has 72 Names, different similar texts have different numbers.
 

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Well, thank you everybody that has replied to me here. Great information all round, and I have the practical answers I was after and much more... and clearly some interesting academic research to explore as well.
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That's a fantastic election. Hope it goes well.
Thank you Abammon. (This entire thing - well before I enquired here - has seemingly "fallen into my lap".... it bodes very well!) All the best to you.
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Sort of. Read some Apollo mythology, Greek hero literature, and tell me Apollo is best described as a sun-god. He is a complex character and his cult was important to a wide swath of Greek and Roman culture as a patron of the arts.

Neither the Olympic deities nor the grimoire demons were developed with planetary and astrological associations in mind. They come from diverse sources, not a single official canon, so they are only shoved or forced into planetary and astrological associations.
I understand that Faria - which was why I said I knew it didn't fit neatly into categories - but the correspondences do help, if they can be worked out, with practical work. Thank you for your great information.... I have some reading to do.
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"Sun in Sagittarius" is actually a mistranslation of Buer's description. Actually it said that Buer might appear in the form of "star" (symbol of star was used, so it might actually mean Sun, which was often depicted in form of star). Given the way how many "Demons" are actually demonized Gods from the old traditions, it seems plausible that name Buer might actually be the corrupt form of Boedromios (Apollo's Title, and Apollo in later times was oftenly associated with Sun).

And all the astrological correspondences of spirits of Goetia as well as their correspondences to 72 Names of God was totally made up by Golden Dawn and their associates and has no foundation in earlier sources. And it is only the popular version of Goetia has 72 Names, different similar texts have different numbers.
Thank you very much Adelina for your reply and information - great stuff.
Absolutely I understand that a syncretism of "systems" and ideas has occurred over time.... but, I guess - just like recipes - sometimes it just works. And sometimes it doesn't.
 
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