A cloister physic garden at dusk, beds laid out around a central armillary sphere, an apothecary sorting specimens by lamplight

Resources

The instrument garden

Calculators, explorers, and correspondence tables for working the traditions rather than only reading about them.

The instruments

Every tool in the archive

Solar hours

Planetary Hours

Calculate the unequal planetary hours for your location using local sunrise and sunset.

Current Hour

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Reckoned from your local sunrise

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Elemental tides

Tattvic Tides

Explore the succession of elemental tides and their subdivisions throughout the day.

Current Tide

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Reckoned from your local sunrise

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Qabalistic explorer

Tree of Life Explorer

Study Sephiroth, path letters, Tarot keys, planetary attributions, Hebrew names, color scales, and tradition-labeled correspondences in an interactive Tree.

Tree of Life set within an overlapping-circle sacred geometry lattice

Cosmological instruments

Polarity, cycles, and symbolic unfolding

Open Wu Xing

Taijitu Polarity Instrument

Explore yin-yang polarity, mutual containment, cycles, Four Images, Five Phases, and the Eight Trigrams

Open

Five Phases Wheel

Explore Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water through generating and regulating cycles

Open

Bagua Instrument

Study the Eight Trigrams, Earlier and Later Heaven arrangements, line transformations, and hexagram construction

Open

Yijing Consultation Caster

Cast or transcribe six lines by coins or yarrow stalks and derive the primary, relating, and nuclear hexagrams

Open

He Tu and Luo Shu

Compare paired numbers, the nine-palace magic square, Five-Phase overlays, and Bagua associations

Open

Taoist Cosmology Map

Move through Dao, Wuji, Taiji, yin-yang, Four Images, Five Phases, Eight Trigrams, and manifest form

Open

Taoist Organ Clock

Study the traditional twelve-period organ-meridian clock as an educational, non-diagnostic model

Open

Internal Alchemy Map

Study Neidan terms, Three Treasures, dantian models, Kan and Li, and symbolic refinement without practice instructions

Open

Microcosmic Orbit

Explore front-and-back circulation route diagrams as historical educational models, not medical guidance

Open

Taoist Correspondences

Search phases, organs, trigrams, seasons, directions, symbols, and framework-labeled relationships

Open

Meridian Explorer

Browse twelve primary channels, yin-yang pairs, Five-Phase groupings, and organ-clock links

Open

Taoist Symbol Index

Explore symbol records with provenance, review status, copyright notes, and disabled talismanic review rules

Open

Celestial timing instruments

Moon, mansions, decans, and planetary days

Open suite

Qabalistic research instruments

Tree, paths, names, and correspondences

Open explorer

Language and number instruments

Letters, names, values, and transliteration

Open letters

Curated source shelf

Trusted practitioners, authors, and historical sources

A living reference list for the Aetherica research library. These names are starting points for study, citation, guest research, and future bibliography pages.

Modern practitioners / sources / authors

Ike BakerAetherica host, author, esoteric teacherOpen profile
Benebell WenAuthor, Taoist studies, tarot, I Ching, folk magic
Jaime Paul LambFreemasonry, astrology, symbolism, initiatic historyOpen profile
Samuel DavidModern esoteric scholarship and practice
David PantanoWestern esotericism and initiatic traditions
Gregory ShawTheurgy, Neoplatonism, Iamblichean studies
Wouter HanegraaffAcademic study of Western esotericism
Peter Mark AdamsEsoteric symbolism, mysticism, visual culture
Daniel WisemanAlchemy, herbalism, Secret Fire ApothecaryOpen profile
Mark StavishHermeticism, alchemy, esoteric practice
David RankineGrimoires, Qabalah, magic, ritual history
David Chaim SmithKabbalah, mystical symbolism, contemplative art
Marlene Seven BremnerHermeticism, alchemy, esoteric art and philosophy
John Michael GreerOccultism, Druidry, esoteric history
Shannon GrimesGnosticism, magic, ancient religion

Historical sources

Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaRenaissance magic, occult philosophy, correspondences
ParacelsusAlchemy, medicine, signatures, natural philosophy
PlotinusNeoplatonism, soul, intellect, the One
IamblichusTheurgy, ritual, divine ascent, late Platonism
PlatoPhilosophy, cosmology, forms, soul, initiation myths

Traditional correspondence note

These tools present inherited symbolic timing systems for study, contemplation, and historical practice. Their descriptions are traditional correspondences, not scientific claims of causation.