STONES & METALS · LESSON 2 OF 7 · 15 MIN
The Seven Metals
Gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, iron, tin and lead — the planetary metals, their lore and their safe use.
The seven planets had seven metals, and the pairing runs through alchemy, talismanic magic and the language itself: jovial tin, mercurial quicksilver, saturnine lead. The alchemical symbols for the metals are simply the planetary glyphs.