Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

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Do different gestures have a different meaning?

I assume they do, but what it is, is anybody's guess at this point, but I am sure deeper research will reveal exactly what they mean. I think the overall gesture of one hand pointing up and another down is an expression of the hermetic principle "as above, so below." That I am certain is the general and common underlying meaning, whatever the variations.

But the variation can mean something related to the way a stone's power would, or not, affect the star's influence, depending on whether the star influence is regarded as malefic or benefic when the degree falls in a certain constellation, thereby prompting the use of a particular stone to limit or enhance the influence. If a star is regarded as influencing stones, it can do the same with plants, animals, and humans. So, the underlying structure of the Lapidary can be governing the use to which the Zodiac month degrees are put in the VM.

Say, someone is born on a particular Zodiac month birth chart, that is regarded as exalted or harmful for a planetary or star influence. An astrologer physician would say, "wear this stone" on that day when your birthday arrives, or "avoid this stone" since it will make the malefic influence worse. Likewise, he could say, "drink this plant essences or mixtures on that day, to make the positive power more effective, or to ward off any malefic effects."

As I had stated before, the detailed Voynich Zodiac month nymph gestures must be serving to visually instruct what can be done or not on those degrees/days of the Zodiac month, and in this sense, Zodiac calendar use is the most precise way of keeping track of it. Those French month names are simply errors by people who were reading the VM like us and just noted the names down. They are errors.

Christian or other calendar month days can vary and are imprecise nominal day indicators. If you follow "on May 10 wear this stone (or drink this mixture, or bathe in this essence) ..." in one year, it can fall on a different degree of Zodiac and you will be in serious trouble. Besides, given Zodiac degrees are 360 and calendar months 365 or about that, with the leap years withstanding, you do NOT follow regular calendar months, but follow Zodiac degree observations and become star map literate.

For someone wanting to make sure precisely what to do they had to know their Zodiac month and star maps, and in those days without present day lights, it would have been magnificently visible what star is where and when from your castle's rooftop, or anywhere, and using an astrolabe you could do actually a pretty good job of finding the exact degrees or even minutes, if you know how to use it, or if you have a court astrologer pharmacist instructing you.

I am certain the Lapidary figure gestures are not incidental or simply errors and omissions. What the specific gesture variations mean, I don't know yet, in either book, but I will study them more carefully myself and encourage others to do the same, if interested of course. But there is no question in my mind that the Zodiac calendar nymph figures and gestures are books in themselves, carrying important meanings.