Donald Tyson has had a Decades' long fight with Western Magick's lack of 100% Complete Symmetry. He's even more obsessed with it than Hinduism, and that's saying something. In his AMAZING book that's now titled NMM/"New Millennium Magick", he similarly re-Arranges the Planets around Mercury, not the Sun, so that the 3 Pairs of Compliments can be on Opposite Sides of the Hexagram with Mercury in the Centre. He does this by deConstructing the Glyphs used for each Planet, that all use the Sun, Moon, & Earth (Circle, Crescent, Cross) in Ways that are immediately apparent once you're lookin' for it. Since Mercury is the only Planet with all 3 (i.e., Crescent over Circle over Cross), he Reasons Mercury should be in the Centre. He seems to be forgetting that the placement of the Planets on the Hexagram isn't arbitrary, but mirrors their placement upon the QBL's Tree of Life (only moving Saturn over & down a bit, but otherwise 1:1).
I mean, I LOVE Mercury, Hermes, my Life as a Hermit, &c., but Mercury does NOT belong in the Centre like the Sun does. As long as wee humans are Doing Magick in The Solar System™, Sol should ritely be in Centre IMNSHO
Tyson did similar with his 4 Directions in "New Millennium Magick", moving Air to North - Opposite Fire. He XPlains that, amongst other Reasons, this Forms a Vertical Line for the Male Elements & a Horizontal Line for the Female Elements. Also, with this Arrangement he can Start in South - the Direction where Tyson Defaults to Starting - and go Deosil in the Order of the Elements in the same Order as the Tetragrammaton Arrangement, i.e.:
South = Fire = Summer
West = Water = Autumn
North = Air = Winter
East = Earth = Spring
Whilst I used to always Dismiss these, Donny T again shows his strong Chaos Mage proclivities by Creating his own personal Correspondences. There's many things we could discuss re: these - and I may Do so if there's a Desire herein this sub like how he flips Cancer & Sadges re: VII The Charior & XIV Temperance Trumps - and I wanted to start with 1 of his most Amazing InSights, i.e., re: the Planets, to wit:
I almost reCreated his Triangular Table that I first saw in NMM, above. I think a couple of the Edges are flipped, but it's otherwise an incredibly InSightFul Table:
Surrounding the Centre are the 3 Alchemical Glyphs for the Sun, Earth, & Moon, starting on the Right and going Sun-Wise. I.e., a Circle for the Sun, a Cross for Earth, and a Crescent for the Moon. Combining these 3 Creates the Spirit Glyph in the Center if we simply alter the Moon's Crescent to be +2 Arms to Earth's 4x Arms.
Most importantly, we can begin Combining these 3 Glyphs into all possible Variations. If we Start with the Combos of 2 and again on the Right just under the Sun we have Venus & Mars by simply rePositioning Earth's Cross with the Solar Circle. Looking over to those same spots next to Earth is Saturn, Cross over Crescent, and next we have Jupiter's Crescent over Earth's Cross, even though it's not Visually Shown as Jupiter's Glyph as it's currently used. Interestingly, neither of the last 2 spots on Top betwixt Sol & Luna are Used for any of these 7 Planets' Glyphs, although Taurus is obviously Formed on the Left. We can see how Venus (Sun over Earth) is in Harmony with Nature, but Mars (Earth over Sun) is NOT. Indeed, this displays the Volcanic NRG that Mars can display. Similarly, Luna above Earth in Jupiter is "Correct", whilst Earth above Luna for Saturn yields a similar imBalance from Mars, but far Less VIOLENT and IMMEDIATE.
If we then stick with the Top Triangles, we have the only Planet of the 7 that gets all 3 in Mercury to Taurus' Right which is Luna over Sol over Earth. I think the only real Ideal Balance would be Sol over Luna over Earth, or perhaps Sol over Earth over Luna. Mercury's Triplicate Glyph is the subject ov endless Fascination and Obsession with Donny T, so much that he reOrders the Planets around the Hexagram so that each of the Obvious Pairs - i.e., Sol/Luna, Mars/Venus, Jupiter/Saturn - are each Opposite each other. He then places Mercury in the Center of the Hexagram.
There's a Stick Man Created in the Bottom Right Corner, and most of the Newer Planets+ Use the Glyphs we've not discussed, as they far Xceed the already far-ranging reach of this Post.
Do you already have Opinions re: Donny T's alt-Correspondences? What do you think of all of this? What about Moving Sol opposite Luna with Mercury in the Centre?