Saturday, October 11, 2008

Hexagram with Planet Glyphs

The six glyphs of the planets surround the Sun; each glyph occupies another triangle of a hexagram. Picture is from Opus Medico-Chymicum, an alchemy book by Johann Daniel Mylius published in 1618. The usage of the six-pointed star to represent the planets is a new discovery for me, and I’ll appreciate it if readers could refer me to articles about this subject, or to other pictures that show this kind of usage.

I reckon that the planets in this illustration represent the days of the week, while the zodiac signs represent the months:

  1. Sun Day
  2. Moon Day
  3. Mars day
  4. Mercuri day
  5. Jupiter's day
  6. Venus Day
  7. Saturn day

Copyright: “abramelin” from Flickr 2008