kennethreitz.org/data/knowledge/table-of-correspondences.md

description, source

description	source
As above, so below — the single grid on which every system in this vault is a different reading.	obsidian-knowledge

Table of Correspondences

As above, so below — the single grid on which every system in this vault is a different reading.

---

This is the vault's own Liber 777: the master table that shows how the separate collections — Tarot, Astrology, the Kabbalah and its Tree of Life, the Elements, the Chakras, Alchemy, and Sacred Geometry — are all readings of one structure. A planet is also a metal, a colour, an incense, a god, an archangel, a sphere of the Tree, and a card of the deck; a sign rules a part of the body; even the Chinese trigrams echo the four elements. Read across any row and the whole web lights up.

Beneath the many named collections lie three connective spines — the Tree, the planets, and the elements — and every other system reads off one of them:

flowchart TD
    ONE["One structure — as above, so below"]
    ONE --> TREE["Tree of Life — 10 spheres, 22 paths"]
    ONE --> PLANETS["The seven classical planets — the hinge"]
    ONE --> ELEM["The four elements and aether"]
    TREE --> TAROT["Tarot — 22 trumps on the paths"]
    PLANETS --> ASTRO["Astrology — signs and rulers"]
    PLANETS --> ALCHEMY["Alchemy — the seven metals"]
    ELEM --> CHAKRAS["Chakras — the elemental ladder"]
    ELEM --> GEOM["Sacred Geometry — the Platonic solids"]
    ELEM --> TRIG["Trigrams — the Eastern bagua"]

---

The Tree of Life — The Master Glyph

Everything below is a table; this is the picture the tables describe. The ten Sephiroth are the numbered circles — each a planet, a metal, a god, an archangel. The twenty-two lines joining them are the paths, and each path is a Hebrew letter (shown on the line) which is also a tarot trump. To read a correspondence is to trace a route on this glyph: the Sun (6, Tiphareth) reaches the Moon (9, Yesod) along path ס — Samekh — which is Temperance. The whole table is this diagram, unfolded into rows.

ו ז ח ט י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ ק ר ש ת 1 — Kether 2 ✶ Chokmah 3 ♄ Binah 4 ♃ Chesed 5 ♂ Geburah 6 ☉ Tiphareth 7 ♀ Netzach 8 ☿ Hod 9 ☽ Yesod 10 ⊕ Malkuth

The three pillars — Severity (left), Mildness (centre), Mercy (right) — and the descent from crown (1) to kingdom (10). Path letters run א (11) through ת (32); the paths table below gives each its trump.

---

The Elements

Element	Qualities	Tarot Suit	Triplicity	Solid	Chakra	Direction	Jungian
Fire	Hot & dry	Wands	Aries · Leo · Sagittarius	Tetrahedron	Manipura	South	Intuition
Water	Cold & wet	Cups	Cancer · Scorpio · Pisces	Icosahedron	Svadhisthana	West	Feeling
Air	Hot & wet	Swords	Gemini · Libra · Aquarius	Octahedron	Anahata	East	Thinking
Earth	Cold & dry	Pentacles	Taurus · Virgo · Capricorn	Cube	Muladhara	North	Sensation
Aether	Quintessence	Spirit	—	Dodecahedron	Vishuddha	Centre	Transcendent

The Gemstones

Where the four elements are the abstract principles, the stones are those principles fallen all the way into matter — the correspondence web crystallized, each mineral a fixed point where a colour, a chakra, an element, and a planet meet in something you can hold in your hand.

Stone	Chakra	Element	Planet / Zodiac
Amethyst	Third Eye (Ajna), Crown	Air	Jupiter, Neptune / Pisces, Aquarius
Aquamarine	Throat (Vishuddha)	Water	Neptune / Pisces (March birthstone)
Aventurine	Heart (Anahata)	Earth	Venus, Mercury / Aries, Leo
Black Tourmaline	Root (Muladhara)	Earth	Saturn / Capricorn
Bloodstone	Root (Muladhara), Heart (Anahata)	Fire	Mars / Aries, Pisces
Carnelian	Sacral (Svadhisthana)	Fire	Mars, Sun / Aries, Leo
Citrine	Solar Plexus (Manipura)	Fire	Sun / Leo
Clear Quartz	Crown (Sahasrara), all	All	The Sun / all signs
Fluorite	Third Eye (Ajna), Heart	Air	Mercury / Capricorn, Pisces
Garnet	Root (Muladhara), Sacral (Svadhisthana)	Fire	Mars / Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius
Hematite	Root (Muladhara)	Earth	Mars, Saturn / Aries, Aquarius
Kyanite	Throat (Vishuddha), Third Eye (Ajna)	Air	Neptune / Aries, Taurus, Libra
Labradorite	Third Eye (Ajna), Throat	Water	Uranus / Leo, Scorpio
Lapis Lazuli	Third Eye (Ajna), Throat	Air	Jupiter, Venus / Sagittarius
Malachite	Heart (Anahata)	Earth	Venus / Capricorn, Scorpio
Moonstone	Crown (Sahasrara), Sacral (Svadhisthana)	Water	Moon / Cancer
Obsidian	Root (Muladhara)	Fire / Earth	Saturn, Pluto / Scorpio
Pyrite	Solar Plexus (Manipura)	Fire / Earth	Sun, Mars / Leo
Rhodonite	Heart (Anahata)	Earth	Venus, Mars / Taurus
Rose Quartz	Heart (Anahata)	Water	Venus / Taurus, Libra
Selenite	Crown (Sahasrara)	Air	Moon / Taurus
Smoky Quartz	Root (Muladhara)	Earth	Saturn / Capricorn, Scorpio
Sodalite	Throat (Vishuddha), Third Eye (Ajna)	Air	Jupiter / Sagittarius
Tiger's Eye	Solar Plexus (Manipura)	Fire / Earth	Sun, Mars / Leo, Capricorn
Turquoise	Throat (Vishuddha)	Air	Venus, Neptune / Sagittarius, Scorpio

The Planets

The seven classical planets are the hinge of the whole table: each is one identity read seven ways — a wandering light, a metal, a god, an archangel, a sphere on the Tree, and a trump in the deck. Read a planet's row and you are reading a single power under all its names.

Planet	Sephirah	Tarot	Metal	Colour	Incense	Deity	Archangel
Sun (astrology)	Tiphareth	The Sun	gold	Gold, orange	Frankincense, laurel, sunflower	Apollo	Michael
Moon (astrology)	Yesod	The High Priestess	silver	Silver, violet	Jasmine, willow, camphor	Diana	Gabriel
Mercury (astrology)	Hod	The Magician	quicksilver	Yellow, orange	Storax, fennel, mastic	Mercury	Raphael
Venus (astrology)	Netzach	The Empress	copper	Green, emerald	Rose, sandalwood, myrtle	Venus	Haniel
Mars (astrology)	Geburah	The Tower	iron	Red, scarlet	Dragon's blood, tobacco, pepper	Mars	Khamael
Jupiter (astrology)	Chesed	Wheel of Fortune	tin	Blue, purple	Cedar, oak, sage	Jupiter	Tzadkiel
Saturn (astrology)	Binah	The World	lead	Black, indigo	Myrrh, cypress, yew	Saturn	Tzaphkiel
Uranus (astrology)	—	The Fool	uranium	Electric blue	Clove, gum benzoin	Uranus	—
Neptune (astrology)	—	The Hanged Man	neptunium	Sea-green, mauve	Lotus, ambergris	Neptune	—
Pluto (astrology)	—	Death	plutonium	Deep red, black	Musk, patchouli	Pluto	—

(Khamael, Tzadkiel, and Tzaphkiel are the traditional archangels of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.)

The Zodiac

The twelve signs take those same planetary rulers and thread them through the elements and modalities — the wheel is where planet meets element meets season, each sign a specific weather of one of the four principles.

Sign	Element	Modality	Ruler	Body	Tarot Trump
Aries	Fire	Cardinal	Mars	Head	The Emperor
Taurus	Earth	Fixed	Venus	Throat & Neck	The Hierophant
Gemini	Air	Mutable	Mercury	Hands, Arms & Lungs	The Lovers
Cancer	Water	Cardinal	Moon	Chest & Stomach	The Chariot
Leo	Fire	Fixed	Sun	Heart & Spine	Strength
Virgo	Earth	Mutable	Mercury	Digestive System	The Hermit
Libra	Air	Cardinal	Venus	Kidneys & Lower Back	Justice
Scorpio	Water	Fixed	Mars (traditional) / Pluto (modern)	Reproductive System	Death
Sagittarius	Fire	Mutable	Jupiter	Hips & Thighs	Temperance
Capricorn	Earth	Cardinal	Saturn	Bones, Knees & Skin	The Devil
Aquarius	Air	Fixed	Saturn (traditional) / Uranus (modern)	Ankles & Circulation	The Star
Pisces	Water	Mutable	Jupiter (traditional) / Neptune (modern)	Feet	The Moon

The 36 Decans

The deepest layer of the table is the one that ties the most systems together at once. Each ten-degree decan is simultaneously a third of a sign, a minor-arcana pip card, a planetary ruler, and a pair of Shem angels and Goetic spirits — the seventy-two of each filling the seventy-two half-decans exactly. The full thirty-six-row cross-index lives in The 36 Decans.

The Eight Trigrams

The one Eastern system that maps cleanly onto the Western elemental grid is the bagua of the I Ching (the eight Trigrams) — eight three-line figures built from broken (yin) and solid (yang) lines, each a natural force and a member of the archetypal family. Where the West works in four elements, the Chinese scheme works in eight images and five phases, but the logic is the same: a small set of principles whose combinations describe everything.

Symbol	Trigram	Image	Attribute	Family	Direction
☰	Qian	Heaven	Creative, strong	Father	Northwest
☷	Kun	Earth	Receptive, yielding	Mother	Southwest
☳	Zhen	Thunder	Arousing, movement	Eldest son	East
☵	Kan	Water	Abysmal, danger	Middle son	North
☶	Gen	Mountain	Keeping still	Youngest son	Northeast
☴	Xun	Wind / Wood	Gentle, penetrating	Eldest daughter	Southeast
☲	Li	Fire	Clinging, light	Middle daughter	South
☱	Dui	Lake	Joyous, open	Youngest daughter	West

The directions given are the Later Heaven (King Wen) arrangement, the one used for feng shui and divination. A fuller Taoist treatment — the 64 hexagrams, yin-yang, the five phases — is its own study; here the eight sit as the Eastern echo of the Elements.

The Sephiroth

The Tree of Life is the skeleton the rest of the table hangs on: ten spheres of emanation onto which the planets, the metals, the gods, and the cards all map. Every other system in this vault is, in a sense, a way of walking this structure.

#	Sphere	Planet	Minor Arcana
1	Kether	Primum Mobile	the four Aces — W C S P
2	Chokmah	the Zodiac	the four Twos — W C S P
3	Binah	Saturn	the four Threes — W C S P
4	Chesed	Jupiter	the four Fours — W C S P
5	Geburah	Mars	the four Fives — W C S P
6	Tiphareth	Sun	the four Sixes — W C S P
7	Netzach	Venus	the four Sevens — W C S P
8	Hod	Mercury	the four Eights — W C S P
9	Yesod	Moon	the four Nines — W C S P
10	Malkuth	Earth	the four Tens — W C S P

The Major Arcana & the Paths

The twenty-two trumps are the twenty-two paths that join the Sephiroth, each a Hebrew letter and an astrological attribution.

Trump	Hebrew Letter	Path	Attribution
The Fool	Aleph א	11	Air
The Magician	Beth ב	12	Mercury
The High Priestess	Gimel ג	13	Moon
The Empress	Daleth ד	14	Venus
The Emperor	Heh ה	15	Aries
The Hierophant	Vav ו	16	Taurus
The Lovers	Zayin ז	17	Gemini
The Chariot	Cheth ח	18	Cancer
Strength	Teth ט	19	Leo
The Hermit	Yod י	20	Virgo
Wheel of Fortune	Kaph כ	21	Jupiter
Justice	Lamed ל	22	Libra
The Hanged Man	Mem מ	23	Water
Death	Nun נ	24	Scorpio
Temperance	Samekh ס	25	Sagittarius
The Devil	Ayin ע	26	Capricorn
The Tower	Peh פ	27	Mars
The Star	Tzaddi צ	28	Aquarius
The Moon	Qoph ק	29	Pisces
The Sun	Resh ר	30	Sun
Judgement	Shin ש	31	Fire
The World	Tav ת	32	Saturn

---

As Above, So Below

This table runs on one axiom, the one the epigraph borrows from the Emerald Tablet by way of Hermeticism: as above, so below. The Kabbalistic cosmos does not stay singular — it unfolds, sphere into sphere down the Tree of Life, the one light differentiating into the many orders. Every row above is a slice of that descent.

System 777 carries the living counterpart to this grid. Its Personal Angels framework reads the same emanationist logic inward: if the macrocosm is structured as a descending host of intelligences — archangels at the cardinal points, and on down — then as above, so below holds for the microcosm too, and a single soul carries the same architecture in miniature, its own inner celestial entourage. Where this table maps the orders of the cosmos, that framework maps the daimones of one interior — the Shekhinah in her indwelling aspect, the presence that dwells within rather than beyond.

Held, as that note holds itself, as worldview and meaning — a way of understanding the shape of an inner life — and not as clinical or metaphysical proof. The same correspondence web, read once toward the heavens and once toward home.

---

Related

• Liber 777 — Crowley's master table, the model for this one
• Tarot · Astrology · Kabbalah · Tree of Life · Elements · Chakras · Numerology · Alchemy
• Spirituality Hub