The Planetary Rulerships

By Ruth H. Johnson

Ruth Johnson created this table of planetary rulerships for Edna Lister's use when she lectured on certain spiritual aspects of the seven planets visible to the naked eye by the ancients. These celestial bodies have a subtle effect on the vitality and physical and desire bodies of all living things, from plants to humans.

Sun: Anabolism, back, barrenness, blood, brain structure, cell nuclei, circulation, constructive energy, dorsal spine, heart, heat, heredity, internal diseases, memory, oxygen in the blood, pons of the medulla oblongata, sinews, sympathetic nervous system, vitality, and vitamins.

Moon: Abdominal cavity, acute disease, alimentary canal, bowels, brain function and substance, breasts, cellular tissue building, cerebellum, childbirth, constructive functions, corpulence, digestion, edema, epilepsy, esophagus, fertilization, glands, heart functions, inspiration of breath, intermittent fevers, intestinal canal, lachrymal ducts, lactation, lymph and the lymph system, menopause, menses, mucous surfaces, nerve sheaths, ovaries, palate, pericardium, peristalsis, pregnancy, saliva, stomach, swallowing, sweat, sympathetic nervous system, synovial fluid, tears, throat, thyroid, tonsils, urine, uterus or womb.

Mercury: Bile, brachial plexus, brain function and substance, bronchial tubes, cerebral hemisphere (right), cerebrospinal nervous system, chylification, pulmonary circulation, coordination, ears (hearing), Eustachian tubes, mental faculties, nervous functions (voluntary), gall, hair, innervation, intestine (small), larynx, lips, lungs, memory, motor segment of spinal cord, mouth, nerves, nerve fibers; nerves of the arms, bowels, genitals, hands, hearing, heart, legs, stomach, urinary tract; nerve impulses to muscular action, optic nerve, pulmonary circulation and innervation, respiration, sensory nerves, shoulders, sight, small intestines, thyroid gland, tongue, touch, trachea, vocal cords and vocal organs, voluntary nervous system, windpipe.

Venus: Abdomen, appetite, atrophy, aural ducts, venous blood, breast, cell reproduction, cellular tissue building, cheeks, chin, complexion disorders, diuretics, Eustachian tubes, face, generative organs, growth, kidneys, liver, naval, neck, nostrils, nutrition, olfactory nerve, ovum, renal papillae, renal process, reproduction, semen, seminal vesicles, spine, stomach veins, throat, thymus gland, tissue building, umbilicus, upper lip, uterus, veins, venereal diseases, venous blood and circulation.

Mars: Accidents, anger, assimilation, astringents, bile, red blood corpuscles, blood fibrin, blood-making, burns, cerebral ganglia, left cerebral hemisphere, constructive energy in the body, cuts, diaphragm, digestion, ductless glands, elimination of wastes and poisons, eruptive action, excretion of urine, face, fevers, fibrous tissue building, gall and gall bladder, external genitalia, growth, muscles of bowels, hemoglobin, head, heart muscles, inflammation, injuries, intercostal muscles, intestinal ganglia and plexuses, iron in blood, liver, motor segment of spinal cord, muscles, nasopharynx, motor nerves and sympathetic nervous system, palpitations, rectum, smell, taste, tension, testicles, urethra.

Jupiter: Adipose tissue (fat), adrenal glands, amniotic fluid, arteries and arterial blood and circulation, assimilation, carbohydrates, cellular tissue building, defensive forces of the body, digestive organs and function, conservation of energy, feet, glycogen, hands, lungs, nutrition, phagocytes, pleura, ribs, starches, sugar, storage of fat, teeth, transforming functions in the body.

Saturn: Abortion, age, arthritis, astringents, atrophy, auditory organs, barrenness, bladder, bones, bruises, calcification, cartilage and cartilaginous tissue-building, catabolism, cervical vertebrae, chronic diseases, circulation, clots and clotting, coagulation, congestion, constrictor nerves, cramps, crystallization, decay, deficiencies, degeneration, depression, emaciation, fractures, hypochondria, joints, knees, leukocytes, ligaments, liver, peripheral sympathetic nerves, pernicious anemia, pneumogastric nerve, retention in the body, ribs, senility, skin, spleen and splenic action, teeth, tendons, uric acid, urinary organs, vagus nerve, and the spinal vertebrae.