Musical Notes

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

A musical note entry records a named tone of the diatonic scale that esoteric and astrological correspondence systems have long paired with a planet, a day, or another governing factor, an association drawn from the far older doctrine of musica universalis, the music of the spheres, the idea that the cosmos itself is structured by number and musical ratio and that a planet's own motion corresponds to a specific pitch.

An entry records a note's documented name and its position within the scale, and where a specific correspondence system assigns it to a planet or another governing factor, states which system makes that assignment, since different documented correspondence traditions do not always agree on exactly which note belongs to which planet.

An entry treats musica universalis honestly as a documented ancient and medieval idea about cosmic structure, not as an empirically settled fact about the physical universe, since it is the doctrine's own long, checkable intellectual history, not any claim of scientific proof, that makes it worth recording as the root of these correspondence systems. An entry also notes, where a specific correspondence system documents it, whether a note to planet pairing follows a documented ancient scheme such as the Pythagorean or Ptolemaic ordering of the planets, since later systems did not always inherit the same ordering unchanged.

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

John Addey was an astrologer who devised harmonic astrology himself, a technique for analyzing planetary aspects mathematically, and this 1976 book is his own primary presentation of that method, documenting the tradition's own account of the technique and its claimed validity rather than any independent outside test of it.

That primary, self authored source matters for a musical note entry because harmonic astrology's own mathematical language, ratios and divisions of a circle, echoes the older musica universalis intuition that number itself governs both music and the heavens, giving a modern, clearly dated example of that ancient idea being given fresh technical form by a named individual rather than inherited unchanged.

A musical note entry therefore records, where relevant, this documented modern instance of the old correspondence idea being reworked, citing Addey's own book for what his method actually claims and how it is calculated, in the words of the person who created it, honestly distinct from any claim that the method has been independently verified to work. Addey's own book also documents the specific mathematical harmonics, dividing a chart's circle into equal fractions, that his method uses to locate a planetary emphasis, a documented technical detail distinguishing his approach from the older, simpler aspect systems it built on.