Claire M Pruitt's Blog – February 2016 Archive (2)

on the second version (center) i placed path colors on the tree according to which planet would naturally occupy these positions halfway between the spheres if treated as time…

the planetary order of the minutes corresponds exactly to the pattern created when the planets are arranged according to the atomic weight numbers of their metals (in ascending order):

Mars (Iron AW=26) > Venus (Copper AW=29) > Moon (Silver AW=49) > Jupiter (Tin AW=50) > Sun (Gold AW=79) > Mercury (Mercury AW=80) > Saturn (Lead AW=82)

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