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Planetary occupations and social correspondences

agricultura; navigatio; literati; Leviticus; metallarii; Vespillones; Soli; Lunae; Marti; Mercurio; Iovi; Veneri; Saturno

The catalogue assigns royal authority and wealth to the Sun; agriculture, navigation, and travel to the Moon; warfare and weapons to Mars; learned people and mechanical arts to Mercury; law, courts, and religious ministry to Jupiter; music and sexual activities to Venus; and underground workers and their tools to Saturn.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

The catalogue assigns royal authority and wealth to the Sun; agriculture, navigation, and travel to the Moon; warfare and weapons to Mars; learned people and mechanical arts to Mercury; law, courts, and religious ministry to Jupiter; music and sexual activities to Venus; and underground workers and their tools to Saturn. These are the source’s cosmological correspondences, not empirical evidence that planets determine a person’s profession, conduct, or social standing.

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  1. Book 9 · Signature · Passage 68Latin“quicunque in & infra terram operantur”