Gold (☉ Sol)

Gold is the perfected metal, the telos of the seven planetary metals — incorruptible, immune to rust and tarnish, radiant with solar virtue. In the alchemical metal-planet correspondence catalogued by the Alchemy Website's study of sevenfold affinities, gold belongs to Sol (☉), the king of the planets. Jabir ibn Hayyan's sulfur-mercury theory holds that gold results from the most perfect balance of Sulfur and Mercury achievable in nature. Every other metal is gold in an unfinished state; the Art merely accelerates what nature would accomplish given sufficient time.