The six glyphs of the planets surround the Sun; each glyph occupies another triangle of a hexagram. Picture is from Opus Medico-Chymicum, an alchemy book by Johann Daniel Mylius published in 1618. The usage of the six-pointed star to represent the planets is a new discovery for me, and I’ll appreciate it if readers could refer me to articles about this subject, or to other pictures that show this kind of usage.
I reckon that the planets in this illustration represent the days of the week, while the zodiac signs represent the months:
- Sun Day
- Moon Day
- Mars day
- Mercuri day
- Jupiter's day
- Venus Day
- Saturn day
Copyright: “abramelin” from Flickr 2008
