Correspondences

Abstract

Planetary correspondences are among the most recognizable features of traditional astrology and Western astral magic. Gold belongs to the Sun, silver to the Moon, iron to Mars, lead to Saturn; particular colours, stones, plants, perfumes, animals, numbers, days, and ritual substances are likewise assigned to the seven classical planets. Yet the apparent simplicity of these tables conceals a much more sophisticated doctrine.

Historically, planetary correspondences were not conceived as arbitrary symbolic associations. They arose from the theory of celestial sympathy: the proposition that things in the sublunary world participate, to different degrees, in the qualities of the celestial powers. A substance was considered Solar because its brilliance, vitality, form, behaviour, colour, medicinal reputation, or other perceived qualities resembled the nature of the Sun; Martial substances tended to be sharp, fiery, red, corrosive, thorny, aggressive, or cutting; Saturnine things were heavy, dark, slow, cold, old, subterranean, austere, or enduring.

This principle is explicit in Cornelius Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, where natural things are classified according to their resemblance to planetary rays, motions, forms, colours, odours, and effects. Agrippa consequently treats the entire sublunary world as participating in planetary rulership rather than assigning each object to a planet through a simple one-to-one taxonomy.

The Picatrix, whose Arabic antecedent belongs to the medieval tradition of astral magic and whose Latin version profoundly influenced Renaissance occult philosophy, develops the same principle operationally: colours, foods, incenses, garments, stones, and other substances are assembled so that several terrestrial things simultaneously reproduce the nature of the celestial power being invoked.

The purpose of this study is therefore not merely to provide another correspondence table. It is to explain why correspondences exist, why historical authorities sometimes disagree, which correspondences are most stable, and how an astrologer should choose among them intelligently.

I. What Is a Planetary Correspondence?

A planetary correspondence is a terrestrial or symbolic phenomenon considered analogous to the nature of a planet.

This definition is more useful than saying that an object simply “belongs” to a planet. Traditional sources frequently assign the same stone, plant, colour, or substance to more than one planetary power. This is not necessarily an error. A natural object may express several celestial qualities simultaneously.

A sapphire, for example, might be considered Jovial because of its nobility, clarity, or celestial colour, yet another author might emphasize a different property and place it elsewhere. Agrippa himself gives overlapping planetary assignments to metals and stones rather than maintaining the rigid seven-item tables familiar from many modern occult manuals.

The classical logic is therefore analogical:

planetary nature → terrestrial resemblance → sympathetic affinity.

Agrippa explicitly explains that planetary rulership may be recognized through resemblance of rays, motion, form, colour, odour, and effects.

This also explains why planetary correspondence systems expanded continually. An astrologer living in the Mediterranean, medieval Persia, Renaissance Germany, or Victorian Britain encountered different plants, minerals, dyes, perfumes, religious symbols, and technologies. New objects could be interpreted according to an already existing planetary principle.

The correspondence therefore belongs primarily to the quality, not merely to the object.

Iron does not define Mars because somebody arbitrarily placed iron in the Mars column. Iron was understood as Martial because weaponry, cutting, hardness, blood, violence, heat, warfare, and the smith’s fire all participate naturally in Martial symbolism.

II. The Sevenfold Planetary Order

Traditional planetary correspondence belongs primarily to the seven visible planets:

Saturn → Jupiter → Mars → Sun → Venus → Mercury → Moon

This sequence, conventionally known as the Chaldean order, arranges the planets according to their apparent speed in the traditional geocentric cosmos, from slow Saturn to swift Moon. It also provides the sequence used in planetary hours. Agrippa discusses planetary days and hours as part of the broader requirement to work according to appropriate celestial times.

The sevenfold structure also became integrated with Renaissance and later Qabalistic systems. In the familiar planetary magic-square sequence, Saturn receives the number 3, Jupiter 4, Mars 5, the Sun 6, Venus 7, Mercury 8, and the Moon 9. Agrippa describes these planetary tables as numerical representations of celestial order.

A useful working summary is:

*Copper is the later standard Hermetic and alchemical attribution. Agrippa himself gives Venus silver and brass, illustrating why historical correspondence systems must not be treated as perfectly uniform.

III. Stable Correspondences and Variable Correspondences

Not all planetary correspondences possess the same historical authority.

The most stable layer consists of the seven planets themselves, their general astrological natures, planetary days, the classical planetary metals, and broad symbolic functions. The sequence:

lead – tin – iron – gold – copper – quicksilver – silver

became particularly influential in later alchemical and ceremonial tradition.

Colours are less stable. Stones and herbs are considerably more variable. Perfumes may differ substantially between texts. Angelic names, divine names, spirits, intelligences, Qabalistic Sephiroth, colour scales, magical weapons, and ritual formulae belong to still more specific traditions.

This distinction is essential.

A modern practitioner often encounters statements such as:

“The colour of Jupiter is blue.”

This is useful, but incomplete.

Agrippa gives Jupiter several airy, sapphire, purple, golden, and mixed qualities. William Lilly also preserves planetary colour symbolism that does not perfectly reproduce modern ceremonial tables.

The Golden Dawn complicates the matter further by employing four colour scales rather than one universal colour for every planetary force. Saturn may therefore appear as dark indigo, black, blue-black, or black rayed with blue depending upon the operative scale; Jupiter likewise appears in violet, blue, or related combinations.

Consequently, disagreement between correspondence tables is not automatically evidence that one is wrong.

The correct question is:

Which symbolic system is being used, and at what level?

IV. Saturn — ♄

Essential Nature

Saturn signifies contraction, time, endurance, age, restriction, solitude, boundaries, necessity, agriculture, land, minerals, decay, preservation, contemplation, poverty, authority derived from seniority, and the slow consolidation of form.

Its traditional temperament is cold and dry.

Saturn is frequently misunderstood because modern popular astrology reduces it to “obstacles.” In traditional cosmology Saturn is equally the principle by which things become stable, durable, separate, defined, and resistant to change.

A wall is Saturnine.

So is a prison.

So is a monastery.

So is an archive.

So is a mountain.

The same principle can therefore preserve or imprison depending upon the purpose and condition in which it manifests.

Traditional Correspondences

Agrippa associates Saturn with lead and with dark, heavy, earthy substances. Among his stones are onyx, brown jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, and lodestone; among Saturnine vegetation appear rue, cumin, mandrake, cypress, and plants associated with burial, bitterness, sterility, or narcotic qualities.

Historical Saturnine recipes sometimes contain poisonous plants, animal substances, or other materials unsuitable for contemporary use. They are valuable as historical evidence but should not be reproduced literally. Agrippa’s surviving fumigation formulas demonstrate precisely why correspondence lists must be distinguished from practical safety recommendations.

Choosing Saturn

Choose Saturn when the desired outcome depends upon duration, containment, separation, discipline, resistance, maturity, or reduction.

For constructive operations involving long-term stability, a simple Saturnine combination such as a dark colour, a durable stone, an austere resinous fragrance, and Saturnian timing is usually more symbolically coherent than attempting to reproduce an exotic medieval recipe.

Saturn should also be distinguished from Mars.

Mars cuts.

Saturn closes.

Mars acts through force and rupture; Saturn acts through denial, limitation, crystallization, and time.

V. Jupiter — ♃

Essential Nature

Jupiter represents expansion, abundance, legitimacy, justice, wisdom, religion, law, generosity, honour, patronage, prosperity, political favour, social elevation, and the orderly increase of life.

Traditionally Jupiter is hot and moist and is considered the Greater Benefic.

Where Venus attracts by pleasure and affinity, Jupiter benefits through increase, protection, legitimacy, and favourable authority.

Agrippa associates Jupiter with air, blood, the spirit of life, nourishment, growth, pleasant sweetness, and fruitful increase.

Traditional Correspondences

Agrippa’s list is remarkably expansive: oak, olive, fruit trees, grains, pleasant foods, and other things associated with nourishment and prosperity participate in the Jovial nature.

Choosing Jupiter

Jupiter is normally the first planetary candidate when the desired result involves prosperity, professional advancement, social favour, legal success, patronage, generosity, reputation based upon respect, or expansion of resources.

It is useful to distinguish Jupiter from the Sun.

Jupiter gives increase and favour.

The Sun gives centrality and eminence.

A person seeking patrons, opportunity, financial expansion, judicial favour, or institutional support usually expresses a strongly Jovial objective. A person seeking prominence, leadership, fame, sovereignty, or personal distinction is moving toward the Solar sphere.

For wealth specifically, Jupiter is often preferable to simply treating “money” as a universal Venusian correspondence.

VI. Mars — ♂

Essential Nature

Mars is the principle of force, heat, division, penetration, struggle, courage, aggression, competition, surgery, weapons, conflict, defence, and decisive action.

Its traditional temperament is hot and dry.

Mars creates separation because it introduces enough force to break an existing continuity. This is why Martial symbolism governs both warfare and surgery: both require cutting, penetration, and decisive intervention.

Traditional Correspondences

Agrippa gives Mars iron and red brass, together with fiery, red, sulphurous substances. Bloodstone, jasper, diamond, and lodestone appear among his stones. His Martial plants tend to burn, sting, poison, produce tears, possess thorns, or otherwise imitate the aggressive quality of Mars. Garlic, mustard, nettle, onions, and similar pungent plants are characteristic examples.

Choosing Mars

Choose Mars where action itself is the remedy.

Mars is excellent symbolism for courage, athletics, emergency response, competition, confrontation, severing, protection through active resistance, and any operation requiring rapid decisive intervention.

It is less suitable when the principal objective is peace, reconciliation, stability, diplomacy, or gradual consolidation.

Mars and Saturn are sometimes both used for separation, but their logic differs substantially:

Mars: sever, strike, expel, penetrate.

Saturn: obstruct, deny, bind, isolate, terminate.

Understanding that distinction is far more useful than memorizing two lists of herbs.

VII. The Sun — ☉

Essential Nature

The Sun represents unity, sovereignty, vitality, illumination, honour, visibility, success, kingship, confidence, intelligence in the sense of clarity, personal authority, health, glory, and the organizing centre.

Among the seven planets, the Sun is structurally unique. It does not merely signify one competing function among others: symbolically it acts as the centre around which the visible planetary cosmos is ordered.

Agrippa describes Solar things through brilliance, life, radiance, and resemblance to sunlight. Gold is Solar principally because of its splendour and perceived incorruptibility.

Traditional Correspondences

Agrippa’s Solar fumigation includes saffron, laurel, cloves, myrrh, frankincense, and other prestigious aromatics, illustrating the recurring Solar principle of splendour and nobility.

Choosing the Sun

Choose the Sun when the objective requires being seen, recognized, obeyed, respected, illuminated, strengthened, or placed at the centre.

The Solar sphere is particularly appropriate to leadership, honour, public distinction, reputation, confidence, vitality, intellectual clarity, and success through personal excellence.

The distinction between Jupiter and the Sun deserves emphasis:

An election for general prosperity might therefore emphasize Jupiter, whereas an election intended to make a person prominent, famous, authoritative, or widely recognized may appropriately favour the Sun.

VIII. Venus — ♀

Essential Nature

Venus governs attraction, pleasure, affection, union, friendship, beauty, harmony, sexuality, fertility, ornament, music, art, diplomacy, reconciliation, luxury, sensual enjoyment, and the power by which separate things become desirable to one another.

Her traditional temperament is cold and moist, although she is generally understood as temperate and life-supporting.

Venus is not merely “romance.” Her deeper principle is attractive coherence.

She reconciles.

She beautifies.

She joins.

She makes one thing pleasurable or desirable to another.

Traditional Correspondences

Agrippa assigns Venus air and water, pleasant sweetness, beauty, fertility, delightful perfumes, flowers, and numerous attractive or reproductive animals. His list includes beryl, chrysolite, emerald, sapphire, green jasper, lapis, coral, violet, vervain, labdanum, myrtle, and rose. Interestingly, his metals are silver and brass rather than the rigid copper attribution found in later Hermetic tables.

This is an excellent example of why one should specify the tradition rather than declaring a single table universally correct.

Choosing Venus

Choose Venus when the desired outcome depends upon attraction rather than command.

This includes romance, friendship, social charm, reconciliation, aesthetics, artistic inspiration, pleasure, diplomacy, marriage affection, and the cultivation of desirable surroundings.

Venus differs from the Moon in relationship matters.

Venus signifies attraction, pleasure, affection, and erotic or aesthetic affinity.

The Moon is more closely connected to nurture, bodily familiarity, household life, habit, emotional responsiveness, fertility, and changing states.

Thus a working concerned with romantic attraction is principally Venusian; one concerned with domestic cohesion or motherhood may be predominantly Lunar.

IX. Mercury — ☿

Essential Nature

Mercury governs language, writing, calculation, interpretation, commerce, exchange, travel, mediation, learning, memory, cleverness, imitation, dexterity, negotiation, information, technical skill, and the movement of things between systems.

Unlike the other planets, Mercury is fundamentally adaptive.

Traditional astrology repeatedly emphasizes that Mercury changes according to its associations. Its correspondence system therefore appropriately contains mixed colours, mixed substances, complex shapes, artificial objects, and things displaying versatility.

Agrippa explicitly assigns Mercury things of mixed nature and varied colour, together with quicksilver, tin, glass, agate, topaz, hazel, marjoram, parsley, and animals noted for intelligence, speed, adaptability, or cunning.

William Lilly likewise describes Mercurial colours as mixed, unusual, or difficult to classify, reinforcing the same principle from the astrological tradition.

Traditional Correspondences

Actual elemental mercury is toxic and should not be handled, heated, burned, or incorporated into contemporary ritual objects. A Mercurial glyph, glass, paper, ink, a safe alloy, or another symbolically appropriate material provides a much more sensible modern substitute.

Choosing Mercury

Mercury should be chosen whenever success depends upon information moving correctly.

Language learning, writing, study, mathematics, commerce, negotiation, contracts, messaging, translation, intellectual agility, analysis, and technical systems all naturally fall within Mercurial symbolism.

Mercury is also useful when an operation cannot be described as simply benefic or malefic because the desired effect is primarily transmission, mediation, adaptation, or exchange.

The apparent inconsistency of Mercurial correspondence tables is consequently almost appropriate: variety itself is Mercurial.

X. The Moon — ☽

Essential Nature

The Moon signifies generation, fertility, embodiment, moisture, growth, change, habit, memory, imagination, dreams, travel, the household, crowds, popular sentiment, mothers, infancy, nourishment, the rhythms of life, and everything that receives and reflects.

Her traditional temperament is cold and moist.

Where the Sun represents a stable centre, the Moon represents continuous becoming.

She receives light rather than generating it.

She increases and decreases.

She governs tides, phases, bodily rhythms, and the visible measurement of changing time.

Traditional Correspondences

Agrippa assigns the Moon silver, crystal, pearls, selenite, beryl, watery and white substances, and plants connected symbolically to moisture or Lunar motion.

Choosing the Moon

The Moon requires greater attention to temporal condition than perhaps any other planetary correspondence.

A silver object may be Lunar regardless of the date, but the symbolic meaning of a Lunar operation changes dramatically with the Moon’s phase, sign, aspects, speed, latitude, relationship to the Sun, and other conditions.

For simple symbolic practice, the waxing Moon naturally supports increase and development while the waning Moon supports reduction and release. Serious astrological magic, however, should go beyond this elementary distinction and examine the actual condition of the Moon.

The Moon is particularly suitable when the desired result concerns receptivity, imagination, fertility, home, bodily rhythms, dreams, travel, public response, memory, or gradual manifestation.

XI. Why Historical Sources Disagree

Disagreement between planetary correspondence systems has several causes.

First, different authors inherit different textual traditions. The Arabic astral magic preserved in the Picatrix does not always reproduce exactly the same material taxonomy that appears in later European alchemy.

Second, translation alters terminology. Medieval names for stones, plants, pigments, perfumes, and minerals cannot always be identified confidently with modern substances.

Third, one material may express several planetary virtues.

Fourth, astrology, alchemy, natural magic, Renaissance magic, Qabalah, the Golden Dawn, and twentieth-century ceremonial systems sometimes organize the same celestial symbolism at different metaphysical levels.

Finally, later occultists systematized older material more rigidly than the older sources themselves.

The Golden Dawn is an important example. Its colour doctrine contains multiple scales corresponding to different levels of manifestation. A single statement such as “Venus is green” is therefore true only within a specified context. The surviving Golden Dawn tables assign several colours to each planet according to scale.

A historically responsible astrologer should therefore avoid asking:

“Which table is the correct table?”

The better questions are:

“What tradition does this table belong to?”

and

“Does the correspondence express the planetary nature required by the operation?”

XII. A Hierarchy for Selecting Correspondences

When several possible correspondences exist, they should not all receive equal weight.

A sound working hierarchy is:

1. Determine the precise intention.
   Do not begin with a planet and search for something to do with it. Define the desired quality first.

2. Choose the correct planetary principle.
   Prosperity may be Jovial; visibility Solar; commerce Mercurial; attraction Venusian; defence Martial; permanence Saturnine; fertility Lunar.

3. Examine the planet astrologically.
   Traditional astral magic repeatedly places celestial condition above decorative correspondence. Agrippa instructs the operator to observe celestial opportunity, including planetary dignity and timing, while the Picatrix similarly emphasizes the condition of the planet whose power is sought.

4. Choose one strong material anchor.
   A canonical metal, when safe and practical, creates a clear planetary foundation: gold for Sun, silver for Moon, iron for Mars, tin for Jupiter, lead for Saturn, copper for Venus in later Hermetic practice.

5. Add sensory correspondences coherently.
   Colour, perfume, plant, stone, garment, and imagery should reinforce the same planetary logic.

6. Remain within a coherent textual family where precision matters.
   A reconstruction of an Agrippan operation should preferentially use Agrippan correspondences. A Golden Dawn ritual should employ Golden Dawn colour and Qabalistic structures. A Picatrix-based talisman should not casually substitute twentieth-century correspondences without acknowledging the change.

7. Treat rare historical ingredients as symbolic evidence, not mandatory instructions.
   Poisonous plants, heavy-metal vapours, animal blood, toxic minerals, and endangered substances have no necessity in responsible contemporary practice.

This hierarchy prevents a frequent error in modern planetary work: assembling ten correspondences while ignoring the actual condition of the planet.

A perfect blue candle cannot repair a severely unsuitable Jupiter election.

XIII. Selecting the Planet by Objective

Because human goals frequently overlap several planets, planetary choice should be based upon the mechanism by which the desired result is expected to occur.

The table demonstrates an important principle: correspondences should follow causation, not merely keywords.

“Career” is not a planet.

A career operation seeking visibility may be Solar.

One seeking a promotion from superiors may be Jovial.

One seeking clients may combine Mercury and Jupiter.

One seeking artistic popularity may emphasize Venus with Solar or Jovial support.

One seeking permanent institutional authority may involve Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn in very different roles.

The more precisely the mechanism is understood, the easier planetary selection becomes.

XIV. Planetary Days and Hours

Planetary days and hours form another layer of correspondence.

The traditional sequence of hours follows:

Saturn → Jupiter → Mars → Sun → Venus → Mercury → Moon

continuously.

The first planetary hour after sunrise belongs to the ruler of the weekday. Thus Sunday begins with the Sun, Monday with the Moon, Tuesday with Mars, Wednesday with Mercury, Thursday with Jupiter, Friday with Venus, and Saturday with Saturn. Agrippa explicitly integrates planetary times with the broader doctrine of celestial opportunity.

Planetary hours should nevertheless be regarded as a timing reinforcement, not as a substitute for electional astrology.

A Jupiter hour with Jupiter retrograde, severely afflicted, combust, cadent, or otherwise unsuitable does not automatically become an excellent Jovial election simply because the clock declares a Jupiter hour.

Conversely, an astrologically excellent Jupiter may provide a far more meaningful celestial foundation even if every secondary correspondence cannot be made perfect.

For serious work, the sky should lead and the material correspondences should follow.

XV. Correspondence Does Not Mean Maximum Quantity

There is a modern tendency to believe that planetary efficacy increases simply by accumulating correspondences:

Jupiter day + Jupiter hour + blue robe + tin + sapphire + oak + basil + four candles + Jupiter seal + Jupiter incense + Jupiter hymn + Jupiter number.

Traditional sympathetic theory certainly encourages harmonious accumulation, but quantity alone is not the principle.

The purpose is coherence.

Three strongly justified correspondences are preferable to twelve randomly copied from unrelated tables.

A well-dignified Jupiter, an appropriate Jovial intention, a tin talisman, and a suitable traditional fumigation constitute a far more coherent symbolic structure than a confused combination of Agrippa, Crowley’s 777, modern crystal books, New Age colour therapy, and internet lists whose textual origins are unknown.

Correspondence is strongest intellectually when every element can answer the question:

Why is this Jovial?

If the only answer is “because a table says so,” the symbolism has not yet been understood.

XVI. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto present a fundamentally different problem.

They were unknown to the classical, medieval, and Renaissance authors who created the traditional correspondence system. Consequently there is no authentic ancient planetary metal, weekday, planetary hour, magic square, Agrippan intelligence, or Picatrix suffumigation for Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto.

Modern astrology has developed meaningful symbolic associations:

Colours and materials may be assigned to these planets by modern occult schools, but such assignments should be explicitly identified as modern extensions, not retroactively described as classical tradition.

This distinction is particularly important in serious astrological writing.

It is perfectly legitimate to construct a Uranian correspondence through electricity, unusual materials, asymmetry, technological symbolism, or sudden disruptive effects.

What is not legitimate historically is to claim that Renaissance magicians possessed a canonical Uranian metal or Uranian planetary hour.

For traditional planetary magic, the seven visible planets form a complete operative system.

For modern symbolic astrology, the outer planets can be added as a separate interpretive layer.

The two systems need not be confused in order for either to remain useful.

XVII. The Most Reliable Method

The most effective way to work with planetary correspondences is not to memorize enormous tables. It is to understand the planetary grammar from which those tables were constructed.

Saturn contracts.

Jupiter expands.

Mars divides.

The Sun centralizes and illuminates.

Venus attracts and harmonizes.

Mercury connects and translates.

The Moon receives, reflects, nourishes, and changes.

Once these verbs are understood, traditional correspondences become intelligible.

Lead is Saturnine because it is heavy.

Iron is Martial because it becomes the weapon.

Gold is Solar because it shines and resists corruption.

Flowers are Venusian because they attract through beauty and fragrance.

Mixed and ingenious things become Mercurial.

Pearls and silver become Lunar through whiteness, reflection, moisture, and association with water.

Fruitful trees become Jovial through abundance and increase.

Agrippa’s vast catalogue ceases to appear arbitrary when read in this manner. His planetary chapters repeatedly classify things according to observable or symbolic participation in the planetary quality.

XVIII. Final Recommendations

A professional use of planetary correspondences should observe three principles above all others.

First, distinguish planetary essence from correspondence tables.
The essence of Mars is more fundamental than whether a particular medieval manuscript attributes one specific stone to Mars.

Second, preserve historical context.
Agrippa, the Picatrix, Lilly, the Golden Dawn, and Crowley’s 777 belong to related but distinct intellectual environments. Their tables can be compared, but they should not be flattened into an imaginary universal tradition.

Third, allow astrology to govern the correspondence rather than correspondence to replace astrology.
Traditional astral magic is celestial before it is decorative. The proper planet, properly conditioned and chosen for the proper purpose, is the foundation. Metals, colours, stones, plants, perfumes, images, numbers, days, and hours reinforce that foundation.

This principle is already visible in Agrippa’s insistence upon celestial opportunity and in the Picatrix’s demand that the operator understand the nature and condition of the planet whose powers are being gathered.

Planetary correspondences are therefore best understood not as a catalogue of occult trivia but as a language of celestial analogy.

A colour, metal, fragrance, stone, plant, number, image, hour, and planetary condition can all speak the same language.

When they do, the correspondence is coherent.

And coherence—not the mechanical accumulation of ingredients—is the central principle of planetary symbolism.

Conclusion

The doctrine of planetary correspondences represents one of the most enduring attempts in the history of astrology to describe the cosmos as an interconnected hierarchy rather than as a collection of unrelated objects.

The seven planets form seven fundamental modes through which terrestrial phenomena may be interpreted:

Saturn gives form through limitation.
Jupiter gives abundance through expansion.
Mars gives change through force.
The Sun gives order through centrality.
Venus gives union through attraction.
Mercury gives connection through exchange.
The Moon gives manifestation through reception and change.

Metals, colours, stones, herbs, perfumes, animals, numbers, days, and ritual images become meaningful insofar as they participate in these principles.

For this reason, the best planetary correspondence table is never merely the longest one.

It is the one whose internal logic is understood.

The accomplished astrologer should therefore ask not merely:

“What belongs to this planet?”

but:

“What quality of this planet does this thing express?”

That question transforms correspondence from memorized symbolism into a genuine method of astrological reasoning.

How this application uses correspondences

The correspondence data this application ships (visible in the Advanced Magic Layer) is a compact editorial set for the seven classical planets only. Each planet carries a short list along a few axes — colours, incense, metals, day, and hour keywords.

• It is project editorial policy, not a historical attribution. The dataset is this site’s correspondence tables; no claim is made that any single historical source assigns exactly these values. The scholarly article above is the doctrine; the shipped set is a deliberately small, practical selection.
• Scope. Seven planets. No correspondences for signs, houses, elements as ruling bodies, decans, or the modern planets in this set.
• Where it appears. The Magic Layer surfaces the current planetary hour’s colours, incense and keywords; it never contributes to any Election or Search score.