Principle / Ruledraftschool: jyotisha· Frawley — Astrology of the Seers
Elemental classification of the planets (and Frawley's modification)
rul-planet-element-classificationPrāṇa relevance
Each graha's element is the first link from planet to the five mahabhutas and thence (via the doshas) to the body — the core of this project's prana axis. The Mercury/Saturn divergence is therefore a flagged uncertainty in that chain.
Sources
- txt-frawley-astrology-seersElements of the Planets (book pp.71–72)Traditional✓ verifiedtraditional element table + Frawley's Saturn→earth, Mercury→air modification
Other attributes
- Rule Class
- taxonomy
- Statement
- The 'traditional association of elements and planets in Vedic astrology': ETHER — Jupiter; AIR — Saturn and Rahu; WATER — Moon and Venus; EARTH — Mercury; FIRE — Sun, Mars and Ketu. Each planet also has a secondary element, and several different but related elemental systems coexist because a planet's element is not entirely fixed (depends on location, aspects, rulerships). Frawley states a personal MODIFICATION: make Saturn rule earth and Mercury rule air.
- Tag
- TRADITIONAL
- School Positions
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- Note
- Frawley explicitly modifies the traditional table for Mercury and Saturn — the two divergence points. The element table is the constitutive (own-element) scheme, distinct from the graha→direction governance scheme of Book 1's dir- entities.