Here is a reference from 1911 with the same planetary associations Gibson uses, but with an apparently very different conceptualization:
Symbolises manifestation, assertion, the positive and active principle. It stands for the Logos, the manifestation of the Infinite and Unmanifest. It represents the ego, self-assertion, positivism, egotism, separateness, selfhood, isolation, distinction, self-reliance, dignity, and rulership. In a religious sense, it symbolises the Lord. In a philosophical and scientific sense, the synthesis and fundamental unity of things. In a material sense, the unit of life, the individual. It is the 0 made manifest. It is the symbol of the Sun.
The number of antithesis; also of witness and confirmation. The binomial, as plus and minus, active and passive, male and female, positive and negative, profit and loss, etc. It stands for the dualism of manifested life—God and Nature, Spirit and Matter, and their relationships. It denotes agreement, also separation, the law of alternation, subject and object, reflection. As uniting in itself opposite terms or principles, it denotes creation, production, fruition, combination. Primarily the two conditions, the manifest and the unmanifest, the explicit and the implicit. The symbol of the Moon.
The trilogy; the trinity of life, substance, and intelligence, of force, matter, and conscious ness. Creation, preservation, and resolution. The family—father, mother, and child. The three dimensions. The three postulates—the thinker, the thought, and the thing. Duality reflected in con sciousness, as in time and space, making a trinity of states, as the past, present, and future; there fore, extension of the self; the self-extensive faculty; volition; procedure; penetration. The symbol of Mars.
The number of reality and concretion. The material universe. The cube or square. Physical laws; logic; reason. Appearance, physiognomy, science. Cognition by perception, experience, knowledge. The cross, segmentation, partition, order, classification. The swastika, the wheel of the law, sequence, enumeration. The intellect; consciousness, as discerning between the spiritual and material, the noumenal and phenomenal worlds, represented by the higher and lower triad. Hence discernment, discretion, relativity. The symbol of Mercury.
Expansion is represented by this number. Inclusiveness, comprehension, understanding, judgment. Increase, fecundity, propagation. Justice, reaping, harvesting. Reproduction of self in the material world, fatherhood, rewards and punish ments. The seed-fruit or pomegranate, multiplication. The symbol of Jupiter.
The number of co-operation. Marriage, interlacing, a link, connection. Reciprocal action, counterpoise. The interaction of the spiritual and material, the mental and the physical in man, the psyche, psychology, divination, communion, sym pathy. Psychism, telepathy, psychometry. Alchemy. Conversion. Concord, harmony, peace, satisfaction. Goodness, beauty and truth, as tested by harmony. Attainment, restitution. Intercourse, reciprocity. Connubiality, the relations of the sexes. The symbol of Venus.
The number of completion. Time and space. Duration, distance. Old age, decadence, death, or endurance, stability, immortality. The seven ages, days of the week, etc. The seven seals, principles in man, notes and colours. The triad and quaternary; the perfect man, Adam Kadmon; the cycle of evolution; wisdom, perfection, equipoise, balance, rest. The symbol of Saturn.
The number of dissolution. It denotes the law of cyclic evolution, the breaking back of the natural to the spiritual. Reaction, revolution, fracture, rupture, disintegration, segregation, decomposition, anarchism. Lesion, separation, divorce. Inspiration following respiration, afflatus, genius, invention. Deflection, eccentricity, waywardness, aberration, madness. The symbol of Uranus.
The number of regeneration. A new birth. Spirituality, sense-extension, premonition, going forth, voyaging. Telaesthesia, dreaming, clairvoyance, clairaudience. Reformation, nebulosity, pulsation, rhythm; reaching out, extension, publication; archery, prediction, revelation; a thought-wave, apparition, wraith, mist, cloud, obscurity, exile, mystery. The symbol of Neptune.
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