Agrippa's Angel Finder
Agrippa's Angel Finder
Two methods from Our Guardian Angels. The first casts the name of your genius from the birth chart, by Agrippa's rule in Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book III, chapter 26. The second finds your three angels among the seventy-two of the Shem HaMephorash, by the day, period and hour of birth.
Birth data
Filled with an example: José Rizal, Calamba, June 19, 1861, about 11:30 p.m. Replace it with your own.
The name of your genius
Genius of the nativity
The chart, ranked by dignity in the four corners
You can type positions from any astrology program into this table; the name updates as you edit. Planets with no dignity in the four corners take no letter, as Agrippa directs.
| Point | Sign | Degree | Dignity | Rank | Letter |
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"Beginning from the degree of the ascendent through each degree according to the order of the signs to cast 22. of the letters of the Hebrews; then what letters shall fall into the places of the aforesaid Stars … make the name of a Genius."
Your three angels of the seventy-two
Births from March 15 to 19, and on February 29, fall outside the 360 days of the table, so all three angels are taken from the hour of birth.
How the calculation works, and the choices behind it
Chart. Planet positions are computed for the moment of birth in the tropical zodiac. The ascendant and midheaven come from local sidereal time and the latitude; the descendant and lower heaven lie opposite them. These are Agrippa's "four corners of heaven."
Dignities. Agrippa says to rank the planets by "the more dignities" they hold in the four corners but gives no point values. This page scores each planet at each corner by the traditional scale: domicile 5, exaltation 4, triplicity 3 (by day or night), term 2 (Egyptian terms), face 1 (Chaldean decans). The scores are added over the four corners, and only planets with some dignity enter the name.
Letters. The twenty-two Hebrew letters are laid on the zodiac one per whole degree, Aleph on the degree of the ascendant, Bet on the next, and so around the circle, repeating every twenty-two degrees. Each ranked planet takes the letter of its degree, and the letters are joined in rank order, with El or Iah added at the end.
The three angels. This scheme is not Agrippa's. It comes from the later French tradition of the seventy-two angels: the Body by five-day period from March 20, the Spirit by single days in a 72-day cycle from March 20, and the Soul by twenty-minute spans of the day.
Accuracy. The ascendant moves about one degree every four minutes, so an uncertain birth time can change the letters. Check your result against a chart from your own astrology program, and correct the table if they differ.
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