7 Archangels and Their Traditional Planetary Associations: A Historical & Esoteric Guide

If you've ever searched for archangel planet correspondences, you've probably noticed the problem. One chart says Michael rules the Sun. Another says Mercury. One lists Zadkiel with Jupiter, another leaves him out and offers Sachiel. A third sets Uriel beside Venus, and a fourth has never heard of that pairing.

None of these charts is lying. They are drawing from different centuries, different texts and different ideas about what an "archangel" is.

This guide sorts out the 7 archangels and their planetary associations, starting with the grimoire sources and moving toward the modern charts. It will help you tell historical correspondence from later adaptation, so you can work with whichever system you choose, knowing where it came from.

Why There Are Seven (and Why the Lists Differ)

The number seven carries the whole system. The ancients knew seven wandering lights in the sky: the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Those seven gave us the days of the week, the planetary hours and the metals of alchemy. Medieval and Renaissance magicians set an angel over each one.

The "seven archangels" also appear in Jewish and Christian texts, but there they are a separate tradition. The Book of Enoch names its own seven: Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Sariel, Gabriel and Remiel. The Book of Tobit has Raphael describe himself as one of seven who stand before God. These lists were not originally planetary. The two traditions merged over the centuries, and that merging is why your charts disagree.

The Planets, Angels and Metals at a Glance

Before the angels, the planets. Each had a traditional day, metal and character:

• Sun: Sunday, gold, vitality and authority
• Moon: Monday, silver, dreams and intuition
• Mars: Tuesday, iron, courage and conflict
• Mercury: Wednesday, quicksilver, speech and learning
• Jupiter: Thursday, tin, abundance and law
• Venus: Friday, copper, love and beauty
• Saturn: Saturday, lead, boundaries and time

Tradition One: The Grimoire Angels of the Days

This is the layer most researchers mean by "traditional." The Heptameron (attributed to Peter de Abano) and the Key of Solomon assign an angel to each day of the week, and so to each planet.

Planet	Day	Angel
Sun	Sunday	Michael
Moon	Monday	Gabriel
Mars	Tuesday	Samael (Camael in some editions)
Mercury	Wednesday	Raphael
Jupiter	Thursday	Sachiel
Venus	Friday	Anael
Saturn	Saturday	Cassiel

This is the core of the older system. Manuscripts vary in spelling and in which angel rules which hour, and later editors such as Francis Barrett (The Magus, 1801) chose different forms of some names. Even so, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Anael and Cassiel are remarkably stable across centuries.

What this means for your list: Uriel, Jophiel and Zadkiel do not appear in this day-and-planet scheme. Camael appears only as a variant of the Mars angel. Sachiel, the traditional Jupiter angel, is the one often replaced by Zadkiel in later charts.

Tradition Two: Agrippa's Kabbalistic Scheme

In Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa linked planets to the Hebrew divine names and their angels. This is where Camael and Zadkiel come from:

• Saturn: Zaphkiel
• Jupiter: Zadkiel
• Mars: Camael
• Sun: Raphael
• Venus: Haniel
• Mercury: Michael
• Moon: Gabriel

Look closely at the Sun and Mercury. Agrippa's scheme swaps them relative to the grimoire tradition: Michael is the Sun's angel in the Key of Solomon, but Mercury's in the Kabbalistic scheme, while Raphael moves the other way. The Golden Dawn later adopted the Kabbalistic arrangement, which is why ceremonial magicians and grimoire traditionalists often disagree on this one point.

Agrippa also lists planetary Intelligences, a separate class of spirit from the archangels above. The Intelligence of Jupiter, Iophiel, is a close relative of the "Jophiel" you meet in modern charts.

Tradition Three: Trithemius and the Ages of the World

In 1508 the abbot Johannes Trithemius described seven "secondary intelligences" who govern the world in turn, each for roughly 354 years: Oriphiel (Saturn), Anael (Venus), Zachariel (Jupiter), Raphael (Mercury), Samael (Mars), Gabriel (Moon) and Michael (Sun). It is a different idea. These angels rule epochs of history, not days. Later esoteric writers borrowed his names freely, which adds to the tangle.

Tradition Four: The Modern "Seven Archangels"

The list in your search, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Camael, Jophiel and Zadkiel, is closer to a modern composite. Contemporary charts blend three sources:

1. The Kabbalistic scheme for Camael (Mars) and Zadkiel (Jupiter)
2. The Enochic tradition for Uriel
3. Twentieth-century "ray" systems (Theosophical and New Age) for Jophiel and Zadkiel, where each archangel is tied to a colored ray of light

These systems are not "wrong." They are modern frameworks with their own internal logic. But they are not what the Renaissance grimoires teach, and a modern chart won't map neatly onto the Heptameron. Placements for Uriel and Jophiel especially differ from author to author, so check what any given chart is drawing on.

The Seven Angels, One by One

Michael: Sun. Protection, courage and authority. Grimoires place him over Sunday and the Sun, and Kabbalistic charts shift him to Mercury. Gold and sunlit rituals suit him.

Gabriel: Moon. The most stable assignment in the whole system. Gabriel governs Monday, dreams, water and intuition across nearly every source, from the Heptameron to modern practice.

Raphael: Mercury (grimoire) or Sun (Kabbalistic). Healing, travel and learning. Look to the Wednesday tradition for study and communication work.

Uriel: no classical planet. In 1 Enoch he watches over the world and the underworld. Modern practitioners often place him with earth and sometimes Venus, but this belongs to modern correspondence, not the grimoires.

Camael: Mars. The angel of strength and righteous severity. He enters through Agrippa and the Golden Dawn, and variants of the Mars angel's name show up in grimoire manuscripts.

Jophiel: modern (and Agrippan Jupiter intelligence). Beauty, wisdom and clear thinking in ray systems. Her Agrippan namesake, Iophiel, is the Intelligence of Jupiter.

Zadkiel: Jupiter. Mercy, memory and abundance. In grimoire sources the Jupiter angel is Sachiel, while Zadkiel comes through the Kabbalistic scheme.

A Note on Sigils

Planetary angel sigils vary by manuscript. The Heptameron, the Key of Solomon and Barrett's Magus each preserve different forms. If you work with sigils, name your source and use the one belonging to the system you've chosen. Mixing sigils from different traditions is a common source of the confusion this post tries to clear up.

How to Work With Planetary Angels Today

Whichever tradition you follow, keep these in mind:

• Choose one system and stay with it. Pick the grimoire days, Agrippa's scheme or a modern chart, and apply it consistently.
• Match day and hour. Planetary hours follow the Chaldean order, and the day's first hour belongs to the day's ruling planet.
• Keep a record. Note which source each correspondence comes from. Future you will be grateful.
• Read the originals. Translations of the Heptameron and the Key of Solomon are freely available, and reading them yourself settles most chart disputes.

Videos to Deepen Your Study

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• "Heptameron angels of the days explained" for the grimoire layer
• "Agrippa planetary angels Three Books of Occult Philosophy" for the Kabbalistic scheme
• "Planetary hours explained" for timing practice

Embedding two or three relevant videos with a sentence of context around each helps keep readers on the page longer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which archangel rules which planet?
It depends on the tradition. In the Key of Solomon and Heptameron: Michael (Sun), Gabriel (Moon), Samael or Camael (Mars), Raphael (Mercury), Sachiel (Jupiter), Anael (Venus) and Cassiel (Saturn).

Is Uriel a planetary archangel?
Not in the classical grimoires. He comes from Enochic literature and later modern charts.

Where do Camael and Zadkiel come from?
Mainly from Agrippa's Kabbalistic scheme, later adopted by the Golden Dawn.

Which chart should I trust?
Whichever you can trace to a source. The older grimoire list is the "traditional" one. The later systems are valid for their own traditions.

Go Deeper

This guide covers the surface of a very deep subject. For the celestial hierarchies, the full angelology and a practical walkthrough of daily planetary hours, see Chapter 1 (the Angelology section) of The Complete Book of Shadows:

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Two things to know:

1. I adjusted your framing. The list in your brief (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Camael, Jophiel, Zadkiel) isn't the one the Key of Solomon uses. The Key lists Sachiel, Anael and Cassiel instead. I wrote the post around that contrast, which fits your "solves conflicting charts" angle and is more accurate, so readers who know the sources won't lose trust in you.
2. I didn't insert video links. My search didn't turn up verified YouTube URLs, and I don't want to risk a dead or irrelevant link in a post meant to rank. The search phrases above should get you good ones quickly.

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