Welcome to the second decan of Virgo.

Magical image of the decan per 777: Tall, fair, large man, with him a woman holding a large black oil jar.

The disks are all decorated with the emblems and colors of the nine spheres below Kether, all in the Empress Scale colors of Assiah, the material world. The male figure holds the disk of Mercury, ruler of Virgo, and the Moon, ruler of the Nines. The female figure holds the disk for Venus, Chaldean ruler of the decan.

Crowley seems to have mostly used a simplified version of the Latin Picatrix images for the magical images of the decans in 777. However, here for Virgo II he seems to have based his image more like the Picatrix Virgo III image, and for Virgo III he based his on Agrippa’s Virgo III image.

Picatrix Virgo II: A man of beautiful color, dressed in leather, and over his garment of leather is another garment of iron.

Picatrix Virgo III: A white man, with a great body, wrapped in white linen, and with him is a woman holding in her hand black oil.

Agrippa Virgo II: A black man clothed with a skin, and a man having a bush of hair, holding a bag.

Agrippa Virgo III: A white woman and deaf, or an old man leaning on a staff.

I actually think it was intentional, but of course there is no way to know. Raphael’s image is: Two men, one having a purse in his hand. What the images have in common is that one of the two figures is holding something, perhaps even something of value. The tarot card, the Nine of Disks, is associated with affluence, and is called the Lord of Gain.

The Hellenistic deity, or in this case deities: The Moirai, also known as the Fates, who apportioned out the length of life. Moirai comes from a Greek word meaning an apportionment or share of the whole.

The Ptolemaic deity given in 777 is Pi-Osiris. Literally translated this would mean “House of Osiris,” but in this context could also just refer to the “domain of Osiris,” or Osiris in his function there. In Pert-M-Hru, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Pi-Osiris is associated with the Judgement Hall of Osiris, where the deceased faces judgement.

Both the Fates and Pi-Osiris as judge share an overall flavor of something being doled out, or not; a destiny assigned according to some standard of virtuous behavior, accrued over time.

The sign is ruled by Mercury, who has an affiliation with merchants. The decan is ruled by Venus, who grants bounty. Together, the combination brings material Gain. But the triplicity ruler is Saturn, whose austerity may complicate things a bit. It may be why the RWS figure seems affluent but alone in a walled garden. I don’t get much flavor of Saturn here though, except for perhaps the rewards for hard work, and the specific mention of a black oil jar.