Benefic planet The Sun and Mars Malefic planets – Mercury, Venus, The Moon, and Saturn Neutral planet – Jupiter Benefic planets – Venus and Mercury. Malefic planets –Jupiter, The Moon, and Mars Neutral planet – The Sun Benefic planets – Saturn and Mercury. Malefic planets – Mars, The Sun, Jupiter, and Mars Neutral planet – The Moon and Venus Benefic planets – The Moon, The Sun and Jupiter Malefic planets – Mercury and Venus Neutral planet – Saturn and Mars Benefic planets – Mars, The Sun and Jupiter Malefic planets – Mercury, Venus, and The Moon Neutral planet – none Benefic planets
Planet only planet whose name in English is not derived from Greco-Roman mythology. Because it was only generally accepted as a planet in the 17th century, there is no tradition of naming it after a god. (The same is true, in English at least, of the Sun and the Moon, though they are no longer generally considered planets.) The name originates from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word "erda", which means ground or soil and was first used in writing as the name of the sphere of Earth perhaps around 1300. As with its equivalents in the other Germanic languages, it derives