Planet · Certain
Venus
The classical planet Venus in historical correspondence systems.
Overview
Venus is the bright classical planet of attraction, joining, beauty, pleasure, and cultivated harmony. Ptolemy describes it as temperate, warm, and chiefly moist, classifies it as benefic, and assigns it Taurus and Libra. Later sources gather around it Venusian plants, perfumes, stones, Friday, copper, and green.
Core Magical Themes
Historical and Astrological Context
Venus appears across learned astrology, Renaissance occult philosophy, astrological herbalism, and later magical practice. Similar themes recur, but the database does not treat repetition across eras as proof of one timeless system. Vervain, for example, carries separate Agrippan, Culpeperian, folkloric, and modern histories.
Traditional and Modern Rulerships
Ptolemy assigns Taurus and Libra to Venus in Book I, Chapter XX. These are classical domicile relationships and remain separate from the planet’s name collision with the Roman deity Venus.
Traditional Qualities
Ptolemy places Venus in a temperate balance of warmth and moisture, with moisture predominant, and numbers it among the benefics. These classifications are preserved as classical vocabulary rather than universal moral judgments.
Plants, Stones, Metals, and Ritual Materials
Agrippa’s Venusian layer includes air and water, violet, thyme, coriander, myrtle, labdanum, red sandalwood, emerald, carnelian, and brass. The Key of Solomon connects Venus with Friday, copper, and green. Vervain has independent source support in Agrippa and Culpeper.
Modern Practice
Modern Venus-oriented practice often turns toward affection, pleasure, attraction, friendship, reconciliation, and artistic refinement. Any practical selection should follow the direct, sourced edges and the separate safety record of the material involved.
Identity Boundary
The planet Venus and the Roman deity Venus have the same name but are separate records. The deity is not stored as an alias or as automatic evidence for a planetary correspondence.
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
Explicit Source
element under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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element under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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plant or tree under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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plant or tree under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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plant or tree under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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plant or tree under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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aromatic material under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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aromatic material under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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stone under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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stone under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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metal under Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
Cross Source
plant associated with Venus
2 attestations · high confidence
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herb of Venus
Culpeper's Venusian attribution is preserved alongside Agrippa's solar and Jovial attributions; the database does not reconcile the alternatives.
1 attestation · high confidence
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weekday of Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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metal ruled by Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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color ruled by Venus
1 attestation · high confidence
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traditional ruler of Taurus
Classical domicile rulership recorded directly from Ptolemy; later and modern co-rulership layers remain separate.
1 attestation · high confidence
Explicit Source
traditional ruler of Libra
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