The seven planets

Each planet governed by three ranks of spirit

Agrippa's system, drawn largely from earlier Solomonic and Arabic sources, assigns each planet a three-tier hierarchy: a governing angel (the planet's divine intelligence in its purest, most benevolent aspect), a working intelligence (invoked in talismanic and sigil work), and a spirit (the planet's raw, unruly force — the name used with the most caution). Think of it the way a workshop has an owner, a foreman, and the machinery itself: the angel sets the intention, the intelligence carries it out, and the spirit is the power doing the physical work, indifferent to who's directing it.

Saturn

Angel Cassiel  ·  Intelligence Agiel  ·  Spirit Zazel  ·  Day Saturday

Saturn is the outermost of the classical planets and, to Renaissance eyes, the slowest and coldest — the planet of limitation, old age, structure, and the passage of time. Its magic is invoked for endurance, boundary, and long-term binding rather than speed or comfort. Agrippa-attested earlier Solomonic root

Jupiter

Angel Sachiel  ·  Intelligence Iophiel  ·  Spirit Hismael  ·  Day Thursday

Jupiter is the great benefic — expansion, governance, wealth, and lawful authority. Talismans made under Jupiter were traditionally sought by those wanting favour with the powerful, or success in matters requiring good standing rather than force. Agrippa-attested

Mars

Angel Samael  ·  Intelligence Graphiel  ·  Spirit Bartzabel  ·  Day Tuesday

Mars governs conflict, courage, and cutting force — surgery as much as war, in the old correspondence. Its workings are the most cautioned-against in the Renaissance sources themselves, treated as necessary but volatile. Agrippa-attested

Sun

Angel Michael  ·  Intelligence Nakhiel  ·  Spirit Sorath  ·  Day Sunday

Though not a planet in the modern astronomical sense, the Sun holds the central seat in the classical seven — vitality, honour, kingship, and clarity. Solar talismans were the ones most often described as safe to make for oneself, unlike Saturn's or Mars's. Agrippa-attested

Venus

Angel Anael  ·  Intelligence Hagiel  ·  Spirit Kedemel  ·  Day Friday

Venus rules love, beauty, harmony, and reconciliation — the gentlest of the seven workings in the traditional literature, aimed at drawing rather than compelling. Agrippa-attested

Mercury

Angel Raphael  ·  Intelligence Tiriel  ·  Spirit Taphthartharath  ·  Day Wednesday

Mercury governs communication, trade, learning, and cunning — the most changeable of the seven, said to take on the character of whichever planet it's paired with in a given working. Agrippa-attested

Moon

Angel Gabriel  ·  Intelligence Malkah be-Tarshishim  ·  Spirit Chasmodai  ·  Day Monday

The Moon closes the classical sequence — the fastest-moving of the seven, governing travel, the tides, dreaming, and change. Lunar workings are timed more tightly than any other planet's, since the Moon's own phase and sign were held to matter as much as its hour. Agrippa-attested

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See Sources & Attestation for what Agrippa-attested, earlier tradition, and modern synthesis mean on this site, and where each name in this table actually appears in the historical record.