Planetary spirit

Planetary spirits are one of the seven divine beings associated with each of the seven traditional planets of astrology. Each planet is part of the Great Chain of Being and has a vast hierarchy of spirits, planetary intelligences, angels, deities, plants, stones and minerals as partaking in its nature.

Good vs. evil

In some respects, the planetary spirit many be thought of as the negative aspect of a planet's energy, while the planetary intelligences embody the positive aspects of a planet's energy. Through the many centuries of scholarship on this topic, these positive and negative traits have been conflated into angels and demons, although they are not explicitly good or evil.

Use in ceremonial magic

Planetary spirits are invoked through ritual magic, often through the creation of astrological talismans.

Most magicians view these spirits (and the intelligences which control them) as malefic in their natures, preferring to call them "planetary demons." Most ceremonial magicians are extremely wary of working with the planetary spirits and planetary intelligences.

List of planetary intelligences

This list is derived from the 1651 english translation of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy.

Planet	Spirit	Sigil	Intelligence
Saturn	Zazel "Destroyer"		Agiel
Jupiter	Hismael "Spice of God"		Jophiel
Mars	Barzabel "Soldier of God"		Graphiel
Sun	Sorath "The Banished"		Nachiel
Venus	Kedemel "The God Before"		Hagiel
Mercury	Taphthartharath "Violently Spitting"		Tiriel
Moon	Hasmodai "Destroyer of God"		Malcha