Correspondences
Nearly every modern table of magical correspondences descends from six chapters of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, written around 1510. This library publishes that book, so what follows is not a summary of Agrippa — it is Agrippa, sorted as he sorted it, with the page cited for every line.
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Seven planets, but not seven chapters
Six of them have a chapter to themselves. The Sun does not: its list is buried inside chapter 23, which is nominally about how to tell what star a thing is under, and begins “So then Solary things, or things under the power of the Sun are”. An index built from the chapter headings alone would have produced a set of planetary correspondences with no Sun in it.
The metals are not one apiece
Later tables give each planet a single metal — Saturn lead, Jupiter tin, Venus copper — and the neatness is the giveaway. Agrippa is not neat. gold he gives to 3 of the seven (Saturn, Jupiter, The Sun); silver he gives to 4 of the seven (Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, The Moon); tin he gives to 2 of the seven (Jupiter, Mercury); brass he gives to 2 of the seven (Mars, Venus). Copper he does not assign to Venus at all: her metals are “Silver, and Brass, both yellow, and red”. The one-metal-per-planet table is a later tidying, and this page prints what the source says instead.
Checked against a second edition
The library holds this same Book I twice, in two different translations — Three Books of Occult Philosophy and The Philosophy of Natural Magic. Both were read and the seven lists compared. Across all seven, 81% of the substantive words in one appear in the other, which is about what two independent translations of the same Latin should give: the same stones, plants and birds, under different spellings.
What this is not
This is what one book says, published because the book is public domain and because reading it is more use than reading a paraphrase of it. Some of what Agrippa lists is poisonous. Nothing here is advice, medical or otherwise.
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