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In the Sefer Yetzirah current

☉Sun

Its letter and path

Sun rides the double letter Kaph (כ), on the path that connects Chesed ↔ Netzach.

Its sphere and correspondences

Its sphere is Tiphereth (תִּפְאֶרֶת) — Beauty / Harmony, the heart center, in the world of Yetzirah.

Consciousness, balance, integration of opposites, the authentic self.

Further planetary correspondences (day, metal, incense) to be added from source.

Its tarot, in this current

The card on this path is The Sun. The Golden Dawn places Wheel of Fortune here instead, having assigned the letter to a different planet.

Its polarity

The letter Kaph carries the polarity Wealth / Poverty (Sefer Yetzirah §37). The polarity is a property of the letter; Sun supplies the energy that leans it one way or the other.

In the Sefer Yetzirah

The planetary assignment follows the Chaldean order set out at §§41 and 44; the polarity pair is given at §37 (Hayman critical edition).

Annotated passages to be added.

Related angels

The 72 Shem HaMephorash angels →

Where the Golden Dawn differs

In this current, Sun rides Kaph (The Sun). The Golden Dawn moved Sun to the letter Resh, and reassigned Kaph to Jupiter ♃ — so on their tree the Kaph card became Wheel of Fortune.

The Golden Dawn in the lineage map →