The Colours of the Planets and Signs
Every planet and sign gets a colour. One paragraph, painted fast.
[p. 57] ♄ Gives black colour; ♃ a colour mixed with red and green; ♂ red, or iron colour; ☉ yellow or yellow purple; ♀ white or purple colour; ☿ sky colour, or blueish: ☽ a colour spotted with white, and other mixed colours.
♈ White mixed with red; ♉ white mixed with lemon; ♊ white mixed with red; ♋ green or russet; ♌ red or green; ♍ black speckled with blue; ♎ black or dark crimson, or tawny colour; ♏ brown; ♐ yellow, or a green sanguine; ♑ black or russet, or a swarthy brown; ♒ a sky colour with blue; ♓ white, glistening colour.*
The notes
* Like a fish just taken out of the water. (a note, p. 57)
Old words on this page
- sanguine
- one of the four temperaments: warm, ruddy and cheerful (the humour of blood).
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The text is the 1852 edition by Zadkiel, checked word by word against the 1898 printing of the same plates. Pages are cited as the 1852 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).