Benefic planet – Venus, Mercury and Saturn. Malefic planets – Mars, The Moon, and The Sun Neutral planet – Jupiter Benefic planets – Venus, Saturn Malefic planets – Mars, The Moon, Jupiter Neutral planet – The Sun and Mercury Benefic planets – The Moon, Jupiter and Mars. Malefic planets – Mercury, The Sun, and Venus Neutral- Saturn Benefic planet The term ‘benefic’ is derived from the Greek term "agathopoios" which literally means “good-doer”. According to Ancient Greek culture, planets were believed to have influences and provide guidance to humans, as they lived their lives. The planet's nature determines if it is Benefic
The empire on which the sun never sets expression, the sun never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shines upon one part or other of them : which, to say truly, is a beam of glory [...]". Thomas Urquhart wrote of "that great Don Philippe, Tetrarch of the world, upon whose subjects the sun never sets." In the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller's 1787 play, "Don Carlos", Don Carlos's father, Philip II, says, "" ("I am called / The richest monarch in the Christian world; / The sun in my dominion never sets."). Joseph Fouché recalled Napoleon saying before the Peninsular War, "Reflect that the sun never sets