Deities & Sacred Figures

This report item names the gods, archangels and sacred figures whose attributes line up with a chart, drawn across pantheons and matched through the planets, signs and numbers they share. A reading names the figures and says what each governs, a roster of the powers a chart's placements answer to.

History

The roster this report item assembles rests on a genuinely ancient and cross-cultural practice: naming the visible planets themselves for gods. Babylonian astral religion paired the planets with named deities, the planet later called Jupiter associated with Marduk among them, and that practice of a planet carrying a god's name and character was carried forward, independently reworked, into the Greco-Roman planetary names still used in English weekday names and planet names today. A separate and independently developed instance of the same underlying idea is the Hindu navagraha, the nine grahas the Vedic Astrology report item describes, each itself a named deity as much as a planetary point.

Rather than being one bounded practice with a single history of its own, this report item is a roster drawn across material already catalogued elsewhere: the pantheons the Comparative Mythology page compares, the archangel-sephirah table the Angels and Spirits page describes, and the numerological correspondences the Numerology page sets out, matched here through the planets, signs and numbers a chart carries.

How A Reading Is Constructed

A reading takes a chart's placements and matches them against the catalogued deities, archangels and sacred figures recorded here through the shared planets, signs and numbers each already carries on its own home report item's page, naming the figures that result and what each is traditionally held to govern, drawing the roster together rather than presenting any single tradition's full pantheon on its own.

Where To Read More

• JupiterPlanetsJupiter, the planet, named across cultures for a sky and thunder power.
• RaphaelSephirotic ArchangelsRaphael, archangel of Tiferet in the Kabbalistic correspondence table.
• JupiterRoman DeitiesJupiter, the Roman sky god the planet is named for.