Number and Planet Correspondences
One of the Numerology tables in the Ensoul Grimoire.
Modern, and internally inconsistent across the sources, which is why the variants are recorded. The Uranus and Neptune assignments are impossible before their discovery and are the clearest evidence that the one-to-nine table is a 19th or 20th-century construction rather than an ancient one. Do not present it as Pythagorean.
Nature and meaning
- Meaning
- The planets attached to the digits one to nine, which is what lets a numerologist hand a number over to the planetary layer of the corpus.In the common modern set, one is the Sun, two the Moon, three Jupiter, four Uranus, five Mercury, six Venus, seven Neptune, eight Saturn and nine Mars. The seven classical planets supply seven of the nine, and the two modern outer planets are inserted where the table has a gap: this is the set the English-language handbooks print most often.The older planetary number doctrine is a different thing. The Pythagoreans gave numbers to the planets in their own order and the seven-planet week gave each day to a planet, but neither assigned the digits one to nine to planets in this manner. The one-to-nine table is a modern overlay on older correspondences, and it should be presented as such when it is used in a working.Two disagreements are recorded here rather than resolved. The corpus's own numerology_reference gives four to saturn, while the four entry in this file gives uranus with saturn as its alternate planet; the standard set above follows the four entry. And seven is neptune in the modern set, moon in some older tables and saturn in a few; the moon has the better claim to seven in the systems that keep only the classical planets, since that leaves Mars to nine and Saturn to eight.
Details
- Correspondences
- 1Sun2Moon3Jupiter4Uranus5Mercury6Venus7Neptune8Saturn9Mars
- Alternate Correspondences
- 4SaturnSun7MoonSaturn8Mars9Neptune
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