I've been really busy teaching so haven't had a lot of time with the book, grammar changed back to project from connect for virtus, I've been really going through the recipe and the instructions are so clear I think it can actually be tested. So I'm going to test it and document it on social media. The whole schedule is 178 days but the Nigredo part is only 34 and at that point it should be visible if there is a change to the sap or not. I an then decide if I want to continue with it or not. I just so happen to have Citrus aurantium at the front of my house, 3 young trees I rescued from the supermarket a few years ago and I've been meaning to move them, I totally forgot about them and when I checked they appear to be the exact ones I need. I also have an old vintage syphon coffee pot I've had for years with a glass stopper so this will also suffice as a glass heatproof flask. I have all that I need so why not!! Mercury isn't in the right position until February so that gives me time to start to collect the sap. I've put some videos up on tiktok. https://www.tiktok.com/@voynichdecoded
Had to update key a little, my grammar and the use of tenses was throwing it out of synch, Vessel receives has gone back to 'Dose Vessel' this is a human interaction, not celestial as I originally thought. And 'Influxus' must also change, in my mind it's always been the channel/the road/the thread that connects the above to the below but it isn't, it's the flow of the power itself, there is no road or channel, it's just the power. So 'Influxus' has changed to 'Draw Virtus'. Key has been updated, folios being done in the background, I'll change the dates on the links once I have finished the edit.
What I've found is quite incredible, my grammar was affecting the read of the procedures so I spent some time going back through everything. Folio 1r is the recipe for the actual PHILOSOPHERS STONE, using folio 1v bitter orange or citrus sap. If you have an alchemical flask and the sap you could actually run the recipe over the 178 days. This is why that plant is on the back of the folio, they can never be divided. Folio 1v is also medicinal for the next male treatment. It serves 2 purposes, one as the raw material needed to make the philosophers stone and the other as a medicinal treatment for male fertility. The latter follows the timing protocol on the page, the former does not, 1r just requires citrus sap. Citrus sap is different to all other saps, check it yourself. ALSO the r glyph 'Dose' the label has been changed to Vessel Receives, this is more accurate than Dose but effectively the same thing.
Another evolution......... and Lunar Phase is changing to 'Lunar Virtus' the forth Virtus, now we have Natural, Solar (2), Planetary and Lunar. Updates being done as and when I have time
Following the change with Midnight and the removal of Spiritus/World Soul, the old label “Nous” no longer fit. Further testing shows it must be relabelled. The “2” mark is a modifier attached to the c-glyph. This also made it clear that c is not Solar Virtus — c is simply Virtus (operative power), and the 2 glyph indicates that this instance is Solar Virtus. There are three types of Virtus: solar, planetary, and natural.
Spent some time on the planetary/gallows glyphs, fully understand their shapes now. The glyph shapes are visual mnemonics - simple drawings that help you remember which planet is which by encoding what makes each one distinctive. The '4' pointing left (east) appears on Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus - these are reliable morning stars you can spot before sunrise. Mars and Mercury don't have the '4' because they're not stable eastern risers. Two lines touching the ground means "crosses the whole sky" - Mars and Saturn rise in the east and set in the west in one night. One line touching ground means "doesn't complete the crossing" - Mercury stays in twilight near the Sun, and Jupiter spends months looping backward high overhead instead of simply setting. Venus hugs the horizon (the '4' sits at ground level) because it never rises high. The loops show retrograde motion - small loops for Mars and Saturn's modest backward motion, a big curl for Jupiter's dramatic four-month loop. Each shape draws in one continuous stroke - trace it with your finger like a conductor's gesture, and the motion helps you remember which planet it represents.
Every new evolution brings further understanding and with that comes knowledge of how the manuscript works. The 'a' glyph I had marked as Spiritus was bothering me, if something isn't right the code bothers me and this was one of those moments, so as I've been updating I decided to check it again. The symbol clearly shows something descending from above to the horizon. Spiritus wasn't fitting this, so after further research 'Influxus' is the right label. The astral or celestial influence of the Sun (and other planets and stars) on the terrestrial, sublunar world, including the human body and soul. Key has been updated to reflect change as have the updated and open folios
All folios are being updated and will become clickable on the website as soon as all paperwork is up to date, I've simplified the system so it should be quicker going forward.
I've taken the folios offline again as I'm simplifying how they are displayed and with the new planetary mappings, lunar phases, the 'c' glyph = World Soul has evolved. I looked at the symbol again, it's the core c shape with a forward projecting line, this has now been relabelled to 'Solar Virtus'. It's not the world soul opening, its the sun's power being channelled. I'll be updating as soon as humanly possible.
I'm updating but finding a way to combine all this info is challenging, I have day counts, planetary positions, lunar phases and all that's inbetween so you'll have to hang fire while I work out how to display it all correctly and simply! No wonder they used symbols!
It's not only the planets that map but also the moon, the lunar information has now also been added to the planetary positions and mapping
The 'y' update caused all the day counts to change, as a result I decided to try once again to map the planets. I took every planetary occurence across the lines and ran the entire sequence through star map programs and to my amazement they mapped. Every single folio maps to the planets. Every line is a map of the stars. On working this out I realised what I had labelled 'Divine Tone f' behaved the same way as the planets so I check it's position on the star map and realised it's actually Mercury. 'f' is no longer the divine tone it is now the planet Mercury. This had been labelled as g previously so that also had to be re-examined. The glyphs g and m have also evolved and all evolutions are in the key. I'm currently editing all the folios to bring in this new information. All planetary data is also now attached to every folio and the data flow has been simplified. As of this point only UP TO Folio 2r has been updated.
Going through the folios I started to notice the ambiguity of y and how it was positioned. This bothered me, because the code is so logical. I spent the day re-running y and confirmed it had been mislabelled. y is Midnight — the missing cardinal point. Google Drive & the Folios tab is currently restricted while I update all paperwork and documentation to reflect the change. Even at this point, the code demands absolute logical precision and accuracy, this just changes the day counts in the code as previously y was labelled as start, bridge and end. Overall meaning isn't impacted.
Folio 13r and 13v completed and added to website
Folio 11v completed and added to website
Folio 10v and 11r completed and added to website
Folio 10r completed and added to website, off to visit family for a few days so publishing will continue next week
Folio 9v completed and added to website
Folio 8v and 9r completed and added to website
Folio 7v and 8r completed and added to website
New video on Youtube - The Music of the Spheres. https://youtube.com/shorts/2BM_vMwygCM
Folio 7r video now added, video for Folio 7v will be uploaded to website later today.
Folio 7r now added, video for Folio 5v also added and video for Folio 6r will be uploaded to website later today.
Big new find in the De Medici section. The Medici coat of arms isn’t just decoration — it’s the solar orbit code itself. Flip it and you get the same structure as the book: five red suns marking the path, one blue Earth grounding the cycle. I’ve added a new paper and a short video showing exactly how it works — all now live in the De Medici section.
Research into Cosimo de’ Medici’s private gardens and early experiments made me look again at the plant on Folio 1v. I had identified it as lemon, but the evidence now points to bitter orange (Citrus aurantium). The morphology, especially the three-lobed cup and green-yellow leaves, fits orange far better, and historically this was the citrus Cosimo actually cultivated in Florence. Its sap is aromatic and tonic rather than acidic, which matches the page’s theme of male renewal and cleansing.
Folios are now being added daily. Videos are a little behind the folios, but I'll catch up soon.
Working on the website, will be putting the folios on as soon as possible, please keep checking as I'm updating daily.