Symbols and correspondences: colours, stones, herbs
Correspondences are a system of links between planets, elements, colours, stones and herbs. Venus, copper, green, the rose; Mars, iron, red, the nettle. The value isn’t in memorising tables but in grasping the logic: it’s the same across all the systems, and once you have it, you rebuild the rest yourself.
Where it comes from
From the idea that the world is built on one principle and the same qualities show at different levels: a planet in the sky, a metal in the earth, a plant, a colour, a human state. Hence the word «correspondence».
The seven classic sets
- The Sun — gold, yellow, the sunflower, the laurel.
- The Moon — silver, white, the willow, jasmine.
- Mercury — quicksilver, mixed colours, lavender, dill.
- Venus — copper, green and pink, the rose, mint.
- Mars — iron, red, the nettle, pepper.
- Jupiter — tin, blue and violet, sage, the oak.
- Saturn — lead, black and dark grey, the cypress, horsetail.
How to learn
Not as a list. Take one planet and go through all its correspondences at once — they glue into a single image. Then the next. Seven planets in a week, one a day, and the whole table settles.
What to ask
- «Tell me all the correspondences of Venus»
- «Why does iron correspond to Mars?»
- «What are the correspondences of my strongest planet?»
- «How is this used in practice?»
An important caveat
Herbs and stones here are part of a symbolic system, not medicine. No correspondence table heals or replaces a doctor. If you run into advice to «drink such-and-such herb for such-and-such illness» — that’s no longer esoterics, that’s self-medication.
One planet a day — a week for the whole system.