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Kjellson identifies the planets thus: Venus is the person who stands between Pisces and Aquarius, Mars is standing on the back of Capricorn, Saturn is between Libra and Virgo, Mercury between Virgo and Cancer, and Jupiter between the Leo and Gemini.

The Moon is also one of these planets, he says, and it is pictured as a round plate with an eye inscribed (between Pisces and Aries). The great planet upon Libra he has not identified, but we can guess it must be the Sun.

Let us now scrutinize his identifications. Most promising, at first, is his statement that Saturn is between Libra and Virgo. Because we can see that this figure is right above the ram-headed god which I have tentatively identified as Khnum, the god of primary creation. Saturn is connected with the dark times in which the process of regeneration is hidden from sight, and Khnum was the 'father of fathers, and mother of mothers'.

And certainly, when we look closer we can see that Kjellson's Saturn is the same person as the one who carries the henen in the blue zodiac, the 3rd figure among 12:

 

But considering the fact that the blackmarked Aries ram is looking back, shouldn't the standing blue ram be Mars rather than Saturn?

The great round plate on the 'beam' (significantly) of Libra, certainly must be the Sun, here depicted as a sitting child with hand towards mouth (the Horus child). Another recognizable sign of the juvenile Sun is his lock of hair hanging down like an S, which we can see in for instance this picture (from Lockyer) of Harpocrates (the Greek name for Sun at the horizon in the east):