Planetary Associations

In this post, I want to look at planetary associations, particularly those between Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn as well as the luminaries (Sun and Moon). The first association I'll examine is that of metals. What metals are associated with what planets. 

PLANETS AND METALS

To quote from "Letters and Numbers Book" by Zachary K. Hubbard:

To the Greeks, the word planet meant “wanderer”, and they earned this name because they were the only objects in the sky wandering to the naked eye. It is for these 7- heavenly bodies that we have the 7-days of the week, as we learned about in Chapter 5. In Alchemy, the sun is associated with gold, the moon with silver, Mars with iron, Mercury with quicksilver (what we commonly call mercury), Jupiter with tin, Venus with copper, and Saturn with lead. Above all, notice it is the sun representing gold, and Saturn

representing Lead. The moon representing silver is also fascinating and later you will learn about The Wizard of Oz and why Dorothy wore silver slippers on the yellow brick (gold) road in the book version of the story, which is entirely related. Dorothy and Toto aside, most commonly in Alchemy you will hear the reference of Lead into Gold, meaning from one end of the spectrum to the opposite, playing on the principle of Polarity. As we mentioned earlier, it is the sun that is 93-million-miles from earth, the true keeper of time, and it is ‘Saturn’, the most distant of the planets to the ancients and having Ordinal Gematria of 93 that is considered to be the keeper of time by the occult. Understand, it is no coincidence that these two heavenly objects, the bookends of time of the 7-Luminaries, represent Gold and Lead in this ancient study, and share overlap in letters and numbers. Instead, it is a reminder of duality, and how everything in this world has an equal and an opposite. 

Figure 1 summarises this information in a table:

Figure 1: source

In terms of atomic number (the number of protons in the nucleus), we have:

• ☉ Au Gold: 79 
• ☽ Ag Silver: 47
• ♂︎Fe Iron: 26
• ☿ Hg Mercury: 80
• ♃ Sn Tin: 50
• ♀︎Cu Copper: 29
• ♄ Pb Lead: 82

Figure 2 shows the position of these metals in the Periodic Table:

Figure 2: source

Of the atomic number of the planets is not related to their numbers as derived from Gematria, mentioned in the earlier quote. This brings us to our second association: what numbers are associated with the various planets when Gematria is applied to their English names? 

PLANETS AND GEMATRIA

There are various ciphers that can be applied and all of them are accessible via an Internet site called Germatrinator. I'm going to use Ordinal, Reduced Ordinal, Ordinal Reversed, Reduced Ordinal Reversed and English Extended. See the previous link for a detailed explanation of these ciphers. Figure 3 shows the results for the Sun.

Figure 3: source

Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shows the results for the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

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The English Extended cipher is closest to the Greek and Hebrew system of assigning values to numbers. In this system, once ten is reached the progression is 20, 30 etc. until 100 is reached after which the progression is 200, 300 etc. The English Ordinal is probably the most straight forward cipher with numbers assigned as A=1, B=2 etc. until Z=26 is reached, after which the numbering returns to 1. In Full Reduction, 10 is treated as 1, 11 as 2 etc. For these three ciphers, the results are:

• Sun: 450 and 54 and 9 - common digital root of 9 with 450 being a reflection of 54
• Moon: 210 and 57 and 21 - common digital root of 3
• Mars: 231 and 51 and 15 - common digital root of 6 with 51 being a reflection of 15
• Mercury: 1228 and 103 and 40 - common digital root of 4
• Jupiter: 684 and 99 and 36 - common digital root of 9
• Venus: 855 and 81 and 18 - common digital root of 9 with 81 being a reflection of 18
• Saturn: 741 and 93 and 21 - common digital root of 3

The digital roots of all three numbers must always be the same. Reflections are important in gematria, hence my comments above. The Reverse Ordinal and Reverse Full Reduction are the same as their non-reverse counterparts except that counting starts from Z and proceeds toward A. Again, digital roots for both are the same. However, the results for the Moon (51 and 15) are the same for Mars listed earlier which is a bit confusing. It's probably better to ignore the Reverse ciphers when it comes to the planets.

PLANETS AND MAGIC SQUARES

Another association of interest are the magic squares and their associated magic constants. Figures 10 and 11 show the magic squares of the various planets and luminaries.

Figure 11: source

So to summarise, the magic constants for the planets and luminaries:

• Sun: 111
• Moon: 369
• Mars: 65
• Mercury: 260
• Jupiter: 34
• Venus: 175
• Saturn: 15

PLANETS AND THE DAYS AND HOURS OF THE WEEK

Another association is that between the planets and the days and hours of the week. As this Wikipedia article explains:

The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed in Hellenistic astrology, it has possible roots in older Babylonian astrology, and it is the origin of the names of the days of the week as used in English and numerous other languages.

The classical planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, and they take rulership over the hours in this sequence.

The sequence is from slowest- to fastest-moving as the planets appear in the night sky, and so is from furthest to nearest in the planetary spheres model. This order has come to be known as the "Chaldean order".

As each day is divided into 24 hours, the first hour of a day is ruled by the planet three places down in the Chaldean order from the planet ruling the first hour of the preceding day, that is a day with its first hour ruled by the Sun ("Sunday") is followed by a day with its first hour ruled by the Moon ("Monday"), followed by Mars ("Tuesday"), Mercury ("Wednesday"), Jupiter ("Thursday"), Venus ("Friday") and Saturn ("Saturday"), again followed by Sunday, yielding the familiar naming of the days of the week.

In other words:

Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, ...

This same system works for the hours of the day as shown in Figure 12:

Figure 12: source

PLANETS AND THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY

Yet another association is that between the planets and the human body. Figure 13 summarises information about this:

Figure 13: source

There's are many other associations of course but this post is at least an introduction to the topic. I may add some additional information at a later date.