History
Treatises on the Ptolemaic planets and their influence on people born "under their reign" appear in block book form, so-called "planet books" or Planetebücher, from about 1460 in southern Germany, and remain popular throughout the German Renaissance, exerting great iconographical influence far into the 17th century. A notable early example is the Hausbuch of Wolfegg of c. 1470. Even earlier, Hans Talhoffer, in a 1459 manuscript, includes a treatise on planets and planet-children.
These books usually list a male and a female Titan with each planet, Cronus and Rhea with Saturn, Eurymedon and Themis with Jupiter, Hyperion and Theia with Sun, Atlas and Phoebe with Moon, Coeus and Metis with Mercury and Oceanus and Tethys with Venus.
The qualities inherited from the planets by their children are as follows:
- Saturn: melancholy and apathy
- Jupiter: hunting
- Mars: soldiering and warfare
- Sun: music and athleticism
- Moon: association with water and travel
- Mercury: money and commerce
- Venus: amorousness and passion.
Read more about this topic: Planets In Astrology
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