☉ Sun — right eye

Solar sight / anatomical right

The Sun is paired with the right eye in the common solar-lunar eye polarity, where solar sight is placed on the viewer's anatomical right. The x-coordinate is below 0.5 by the corpus convention; this is a symbolic laterality marker rather than an anatomical measurement.

☉ Sun — heart☉ Sun — right eye☉ Sun — right eye☽ Moon — left eye☽ Moon — stomach and marrow☿ Mercury — nerves, speech and tongue☿ Mercury — hands♀ Venus — kidneys♀ Venus — throat♀ Venus — reproductive organs♂ Mars — bile, gallbladder and muscles♂ Mars — left ear (variant)♃ Jupiter — liver, lungs, blood and fat♄ Saturn — spleen♄ Saturn — bones, skin and knees

Point 2 of 14 in Planetary Body Rulerships — Seven Classical Planets

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Sources

Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (secondary_translation)

English translation of Ptolemy's account of planetary qualities and astrological doctrine; later medical-astrology organ lists extend these qualities into body rulerships.

Nicholas Culpeper, Semeiotica Uranica, or, An Astrologicall Judgment of Diseases (primary)

Primary English herbal-astrology source for planetary significations in disease judgment and bodily medicine.

Nicholas Campion, A History of Western Astrology, Volume II: The Medieval and Modern Worlds (scholarly_modern)

Modern scholarly history of western astrology, including the transmission of astrological medicine from antiquity through early modern practice.

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