Thanks to Hrannar (Zep Iceland) for this information. This research was originally published on the inthelight.co.nz website. The Dumas text easiest reference book to locate, but there are others and it is likely that Page had a copy of Le Dragon Rouge (the Red Dragon).
The Led Zeppelin record label was Swan Song. I don’t know too much more about Artephius and I don’t promise that understanding these symbols will bring eternal life and prosperity! This infers that such a person is confident and competent in their abilities. John Paul Jones‘ symbol is one used to exercise evil spirits, with the note that a clumsy person would be unable to draw them. The photo below was taken by Pétur Friðgeirsson in 2008, and I have borrowed the image from his Flickr site. A Swan Song is a dying dirge.
Perhaps this was why this particular Saturn symbol caught his eye. Jones first gives an account of symbol: it points beyond itself, it defies clear and definitive perceptual expression, and it in some way embodies that which it represents.
Fables tell that swans are able to foresee their approaching death, and they sing a beautiful, melodious song just before the fateful event. A stylized runic representation of Jimmy Page’s name. The feather, a symbol on which all sorts of philosophies have been based and which has a very interesting heritage. The symbol does not spell the word Zoso, but this is a good name for referring to it.
John Paul Jones' Symbol -from Rudolph Koch's Book of Signs is a single circle intersecting 3 vesica pisces It is intended to symbolize a person who possesses both confidence and competence The original painting can be found in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and it is called Evening (The Fall of Day). I designed mine and everyone else had their own reasons for using the symbols that they used.\" -Jimmy Page 1977\rLed Zeppelin\r\rJimmy Page's Symbol- the symbol has existed since at least 1557 to represent Saturn, Page's Astrological sign.\r\"Page designed the symbol himself. It also mysteriously appears on the cover of a book about the Rosicrucians. No Quarter - (Double-time) Studio\r\r\"After all this crap that we'd had with the critics, I put it to everybody else that it'd be a good idea to put out something totally anonymous. I do not personally believe there is any deeper meaning than this, but there are many people out there who do.
it explains his good luck, professorbravo please watch. We aren’t certain exactly which reference book he used, but the collection of Saturn symbols dates back to at least the 1300’s and he chose the Zoso one most probably because it reminded him of the name of his first Grazioso guitar. Jimmy’s astrological sun sign is Capricorn, and if you know your astrology you will know that Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn. I'll leave it to you to figure out what the alternate meaning is. The famous ring of Solomon, who subjected the geniuses to the will of this king magician, owed all its force to the Kabbalistic characters. English: Crop of a derivative of John Paul Jones's Led Zeppelin sigil of a non-interlaced triquetra overlaying a circle, likely from page 33 of Rudolf Koch's 1930 book The Book of Signs (Koch died 1934) The original symbol was used in Led Zeppelin IV. The set of symbols for the planets appear on page 789 of a 1580 reissue of De rerum varietate and the symbols can also be found in a 1663 publication Complete Works (Opera Omnia) on page 313: An easier book to source is Fred Gettings’ “Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils” by Fred Gettings, published in 1982 by Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 0-7100-0095-2.
He clearly had better access to these “standard reference books” than us, because when I started searching I had great difficulty finding any books with any symbols and sigils that looked even vaguely similar to the symbols above. (A Grimoire is a textbook on magic).
If you want to investigate further what the structure of the Saturn symbol may mean then please check out the speculation page. This study explores the meaning and function of water as a literary symbol in the Gospel of John. Magick is very real and Pagey knows this. Robert Plant. The most accessible text to find these symbols is Grimoires et Rituels Magiques, by Francois Ribadeau Dumas, published by P Belfond in Paris in 1972 (and 1998). It can be found in “The Sacred Symbols of Mu” by Colonel James Churchward. John Paul Jones' symbol (non-interlaced triquetra overlaying a circle) is from page 33 of Rudolf Koch's 1930 book The Book of Signs (Koch died in 1934) where … The collection of symbols for Saturn are slightly different to the texts above, but the Zoso symbol stands out clearly. Cardan’s Father was a friend of Leonardo da Vinci, and whilst Cardan had a passing interest in astrology (he got into trouble for doing a horoscope for Jesus Christ) and hermetisicm, he was foremost a mathematician and he considered the writings of Artephius to be nonsense! One of the Saturn symbols in the text books looks a little bit like “zioso” of Grazioso. It's a perversion of the greek word \"sozo\", meaning salvation. I have had many debates about who the picture is. If you go looking for this book, note there are several called Le Dragon Rouge and they are quite different books.
With some research it proved possible to find the symbols for Plant, Jones and Bonham (and Sandy Denny), but Page’s symbol was elusive and this lead to greater speculation about its magical significance. The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed): (SVG file, nominally 174 × 160 pixels, file size: 3 KB). The Rosicrucians were a religious cult that has the belief that its members possess secret wisdom that was handed down to them from ancient times. That’s what the feather in the circle is all about.”. At first I wanted just one symbol on it, but then it was decided that since it was our fourth album and there were four of us, we could each choose our own symbol. No idle speculation here; just the facts and references so you can look the information up yourselves and draw your own conclusions. Jimmy Page’s symbol = Saturn (ruler of Capricorn astrology sign), John Paul Jones’ symbol = confidence and competence, John Bonham’s symbol = the Trinity, or Father-Mother-Child, Sandy Denny’s symbol = “an old symbol for the Godhead”. (For these characters see the following page).
Jones first gives an account of symbol: it points beyond itself, it defies clear and definitive perceptual expression, and it in some way embodies that which it represents.
Page did have all four symbols concecrated during a magickal ritual and trapped certain spirits of intrigue into them to work as a spiritual vaccuum, causing people to like them a lot more than one would normally get into any average rock band.
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On this page I will provide details of the source of the symbol and why Jimmy Page selected it. Page’s symbol can be found on page 127, in Chapter 10 entitled Dragon Rouge (the Red Dragon) – the secrets of the Scientist Artephius. John Paul Jones’ symbol (circle over three interlocking ovals) was found in a book of runes and purportedly represents a person who is both confident and competent. Unfortunately, William Rimmer didn’t leave us any clues and the figure doesn’t appear similar to any of the traditional ways in which Apollo or Lucifer (or Icarus or any other possible explanation) are depicted – but that is what art is all about. These 19th century texts were referencing earlier works, and Mr Robert Ansell of the fulgur site brought the 1557 Cardan text to my attention. There is another possible reference text that Jimmy Page had, which was brought to my attention by Mr Joseph Peterson from esoteric archives.