Tree of Life · 6 of 10
Tiferet: beauty
Tiferet names beauty. In this arrangement it occupies the centre below Chesed and Gevurah, bringing their contrasting themes into relation.
- Position in this diagram
- Middle column
- Hermetic correspondence
- Sun
Holding giving and restraint together
Balance requires attention to the situation. An equal amount of permission and refusal is no guarantee of a fair response. The theme concerns a coherent response to different needs.
Read alongside Chesed: kindness.
Original teaching analogy
An everyday example
A manager applies a deadline while making a specific accommodation for someone who needs it. The decision preserves the purpose of the work and considers the person. This original analogy uses Tiferet to examine how the parts fit together, rather than treating compromise as an automatic answer.
The Sun correspondence
The Sun corresponds to Tiferet in the named Hermetic table. Every natal chart includes a Sun; this alone cannot make someone a Tiferet personality type.
This association comes from Mathers's 1887 table, introduction section 53.
Compare all ten correspondencesContext and sources
The sefirot belong to Jewish Kabbalah. Chabad's account of the ten sefirot explains the names and counting variants; its Sefirot chapter explains the religious context. The planetary association used here is a later Hermetic layer.
The everyday example is an Astriel analogy, not a traditional quotation. Reviewed 20 September 2026.