Planet · Certain
Jupiter
The classical planet Jupiter in historical correspondence systems.
Overview
Jupiter is the great classical planet of increase, breadth, order, generosity, and cultivated authority. Ptolemy describes it as temperate, warm, and moist, classifies it as benefic, and assigns it Sagittarius and Pisces. Later sources add Jovial plants, resins, stones, Thursday, tin, and celestial blue.
Core Magical Themes
Historical and Astrological Context
Jupiter’s slow, bright passage gave it a durable place in astrological systems concerned with growth, law, honor, and abundance. Its natural correspondences differ by author: Agrippa and Culpeper can agree on some herbs while differing elsewhere, and each attribution remains independently visible.
Traditional and Modern Rulerships
Ptolemy assigns Sagittarius and Pisces to Jupiter in Book I, Chapter XX. Modern Western astrology may add Neptune as a co-ruler of Pisces, while Jupiter remains the traditional ruler.
Traditional Qualities
Ptolemy places Jupiter in a temperate mixture of warmth and moisture, with warmth predominant, and numbers it among the benefics. The terms describe a classical astrological influence, not the physical atmosphere of the planet.
Plants, Stones, Metals, and Ritual Materials
Agrippa’s Jovial layer includes air, basil, mint, violet, oak, hazel, ash, olive, mastic, storax, sapphire, and emerald. Culpeper assigns agrimony to Jupiter. The Key of Solomon connects the planet with Thursday, tin, and celestial blue.
Modern Practice
Jovial practice often concerns growth, opportunity, justice, learning, generosity, status, and prosperity. The database keeps disputed plant attributions such as mint visible as alternatives rather than averaging them into a single answer.
Identity Boundary
Jupiter the planet and Jupiter the Roman deity are separate records with a true name collision. A shared name is an identity issue, not an automatic correspondence edge.
Safety and Physical Boundaries
Planetary records describe symbolic and historical relationships. They do not authorize ingestion, burning, topical use, or handling of connected materials. Each physical entity carries its own safety review, and hazardous records are excluded from default ritual candidates.
Sources
Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy; Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal; S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon.
Direct connections and evidence
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element under Jupiter
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plant or tree under Jupiter
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plant or tree under Jupiter
Agrippa's Jovial attribution is preserved alongside his solar attribution and Culpeper's Venusian attribution; the database does not reconcile the alternatives.
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plant or tree under Jupiter
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plant or tree under Jupiter
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plant or tree under Jupiter
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plant or tree under Jupiter
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plant or tree under Jupiter
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aromatic material under Jupiter
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stone under Jupiter
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stone under Jupiter
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aromatic material under Jupiter
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governed by Jupiter
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weekday of Jupiter
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metal ruled by Jupiter
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color ruled by Jupiter
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traditional ruler of Sagittarius
Classical domicile rulership recorded directly from Ptolemy; later and modern co-rulership layers remain separate.
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traditional ruler of Pisces
Classical domicile rulership recorded directly from Ptolemy; later and modern co-rulership layers remain separate.
1 attestation · high confidence
Reviewed sources
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book One (1898)Library of Congress
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850)Project Gutenberg
- S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translator and editor, The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis) (1889)Wellcome Collection
- Claudius Ptolemy; J. M. Ashmand, translator, Tetrabiblos; or, Quadripartite (1900)Project Gutenberg