Agrippa connects Mercury with speech and quick thinking.
This page follows Agrippa's writings. For Mercury in a birth chart, see the astrology page.
What Agrippa associates with Mercury
Book I lists the qualities, plants, animals and materials he places under each planet.
Planetary nature in Agrippa
Agrippa connects Mercury with speech and quick thinking. His Mercury list favours mixed, varied and changeable things, including clever or swift animals. Mercurial images are meant to help with knowledge, memory and trade.
Summarized from Agrippa's account of the planet and the things he places under it.
Agrippa prints an intelligence's name alongside each square. He also gives a separate name for its spirit. The planetary angel below comes from another chapter.
Intelligence of the square
Tiriel
Printed at 260, the square's line constant.
Sources (1)
Three Books of Occult Philosophy, English translation, J.F., London 1651 — Book II, chapter XXII, names answering to the numbers of Mercury
Book III gives two lists of angels over the planets. Here is the name in Agrippa's first list, followed by the name in his alternative list. Neither is the name of the square's intelligence.
Planetary angel in Agrippa's first list
Michael
This is Agrippa's first list. He gives another list in the same chapter; neither list names the square intelligences.
Sources (1)
Three Books of Occult Philosophy, English translation, J.F., London 1651 — Book III, chapter XXIV, first list of angels over the planets
Agrippa describes images made at selected planetary times and says what they were meant to do. These are claims in the book, not proven results.
Method and election
Agrippa places Mercury images in Mercury's hour, with the planet rising in Gemini or Virgo. His figures show a serpent-wound rod, wings, a cock or a flame.