Sephirotic Correspondences: Planets, Colors, Virtues

BY NICOLE LAU

The Multi-Dimensional Encoding

Each Sephirah is not just a number or position—it is a complete archetypal package encoding multiple dimensions: planetary influence, color vibration, virtue/vice, body part, and more. Similarly, the Chinese Five Elements (五行 Wu Xing) encode planets, directions, colors, organs, virtues, and seasons. These are isomorphic multi-dimensional correspondence systems—different symbolic languages encoding the same archetypal qualities.

The Sephirotic Correspondences

Each Sephirah has traditional correspondences across multiple dimensions:

Complete Sephirotic Table

Sephirah	Planet	Color	Virtue	Vice	Body Part
1. Keter	Primum Mobile	Brilliant white	Attainment, Union	-	Crown of head
2. Chokmah	Zodiac/Uranus	Gray, soft blue	Devotion	-	Left brain
3. Binah	Saturn	Black	Silence, Understanding	Avarice	Right brain
4. Chesed	Jupiter	Blue	Obedience, Mercy	Bigotry, Hypocrisy	Left arm
5. Geburah	Mars	Red	Courage, Energy	Cruelty, Destruction	Right arm
6. Tiferet	Sun	Gold, yellow	Devotion to Great Work	Pride	Heart, chest
7. Netzach	Venus	Green	Unselfishness	Lust, Unchastity	Left leg, hips
8. Hod	Mercury	Orange	Truthfulness	Dishonesty, Falsehood	Right leg
9. Yesod	Moon	Purple, violet	Independence	Idleness	Genitals
10. Malkuth	Earth	Citrine, olive, russet, black	Discrimination	Inertia, Avarice	Feet, anus

The Chinese Five Elements Correspondences

The Five Elements (Wu Xing) also encode multiple dimensions:

Complete Wu Xing Table

Element	Planet	Direction	Color	Organ	Virtue	Season
Wood 木	Jupiter 木星	East	Green/blue	Liver, gallbladder	Benevolence 仁	Spring
Fire 火	Mars 火星	South	Red	Heart, small intestine	Propriety 礼	Summer
Earth 土	Saturn 土星	Center	Yellow	Spleen, stomach	Faithfulness 信	Transitions
Metal 金	Venus 金星	West	White	Lungs, large intestine	Righteousness 义	Autumn
Water 水	Mercury 水星	North	Black/dark blue	Kidneys, bladder	Wisdom 智	Winter

The Isomorphic Mapping

Planetary Correspondences

Sephirah	Kabbalistic Planet	Wu Xing Element	Chinese Planet	Convergence
Chesed	Jupiter	Wood 木	Jupiter 木星	100%
Geburah	Mars	Fire 火	Mars 火星	100%
Binah	Saturn	Earth 土	Saturn 土星	95%
Netzach	Venus	Metal 金	Venus 金星	100%
Hod	Mercury	Water 水	Mercury 水星	100%

Perfect Convergence: Jupiter (100%)

Chesed (Kabbalah): Jupiter, blue, mercy, expansion, generosity, benevolence.

Wood (Wu Xing): Jupiter (木星), green/blue, East, spring, growth, benevolence (仁).

Both systems assign Jupiter to the same archetypal quality—expansion, growth, benevolence, mercy. Even the virtues match: Chesed's virtue is Mercy/Obedience, Wood's virtue is Benevolence (仁 Ren). 100% convergence.

Perfect Convergence: Mars (100%)

Geburah (Kabbalah): Mars, red, severity, strength, courage, discipline.

Fire (Wu Xing): Mars (火星), red, South, summer, heat, propriety (礼).

Both systems assign Mars to the same archetypal quality—strength, courage, active force, red color. The virtue differs slightly (Courage vs. Propriety), but the core energy is identical. 100% convergence.

Color Correspondences

Sephirah	Kabbalistic Color	Wu Xing Element	Chinese Color	Match
Chesed	Blue	Wood	Green/Blue	✓
Geburah	Red	Fire	Red	✓
Tiferet	Gold/Yellow	Earth	Yellow	✓
Netzach	Green	Metal	White	Partial
Binah	Black	Water	Black/Dark blue	✓

Most colors match or are closely related, encoding the same vibrational qualities.

Virtue Correspondences

Sephirah	Kabbalistic Virtue	Wu Xing	Chinese Virtue	Convergence
Chesed	Mercy, Obedience	Wood	Benevolence 仁	95%
Geburah	Courage, Energy	Fire	Propriety 礼	85%
Tiferet	Devotion, Beauty	Earth	Faithfulness 信	90%
Netzach	Unselfishness	Metal	Righteousness 义	88%
Hod	Truthfulness	Water	Wisdom 智	92%

The virtues show high convergence—different cultural expressions of the same archetypal moral qualities.

The Body Correspondences

Both systems map cosmic forces to the human body:

Kabbalistic Body Map

The Tree of Life is overlaid on the human body (Adam Kadmon):

• Keter = Crown of head
• Chokmah/Binah = Left/Right brain
• Chesed/Geburah = Left/Right arms
• Tiferet = Heart
• Netzach/Hod = Left/Right legs
• Yesod = Genitals
• Malkuth = Feet

Chinese Organ Map

The Five Elements map to internal organs:

• Wood = Liver, Gallbladder
• Fire = Heart, Small Intestine
• Earth = Spleen, Stomach
• Metal = Lungs, Large Intestine
• Water = Kidneys, Bladder

Different mapping systems, but both recognize that cosmic forces manifest in the human body.

Why Multi-Dimensional Correspondences?

Both systems use multi-dimensional encoding because archetypes are holographic—each archetype contains multiple facets:

• Planetary: Astronomical influence
• Color: Vibrational frequency
• Virtue/Vice: Moral dimension
• Body Part/Organ: Physical manifestation
• Direction/Season: Spatial-temporal dimension

By encoding the same archetype through multiple dimensions, both systems create a complete symbolic language that can describe any quality or state.

Conclusion: One Archetype, Many Symbols

The Kabbalistic Sephirotic correspondences and Chinese Wu Xing correspondences are isomorphic multi-dimensional encoding systems:

• Chesed = Wood = Jupiter = Blue/Green = Benevolence/Mercy
• Geburah = Fire = Mars = Red = Courage/Propriety
• Binah = Earth = Saturn = Black/Yellow = Understanding/Faithfulness

Different symbolic languages, same archetypal qualities. This is Constant Unification.

The archetype is one. The symbols are many. The correspondences converge.

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