Planetary magic · Moon
Agrippa connects the Moon with change, growth and everyday life.
This page follows Agrippa's writings. For Moon in a birth chart, see the astrology page.
Book I lists the qualities, plants, animals and materials he places under each planet.
Agrippa connects the Moon with change, growth and everyday life. Water, silver and things that appear to wax and wane belong to his lunar list. His Moon images are meant to help with travel, health and fertility.
Summarized from Agrippa's account of the planet and the things he places under it.
This is Agrippa's 9 × 9 square. The numbers along the right and bottom show the sum of each row and column. Both diagonals add to that number too.
| 37 | 78 | 29 | 70 | 21 | 62 | 13 | 54 | 5 | 369 |
| 6 | 38 | 79 | 30 | 71 | 22 | 63 | 14 | 46 | 369 |
| 47 | 7 | 39 | 80 | 31 | 72 | 23 | 55 | 15 | 369 |
| 16 | 48 | 8 | 40 | 81 | 32 | 64 | 24 | 56 | 369 |
| 57 | 17 | 49 | 9 | 41 | 73 | 33 | 65 | 25 | 369 |
| 26 | 58 | 18 | 50 | 1 | 42 | 74 | 34 | 66 | 369 |
| 67 | 27 | 59 | 10 | 51 | 2 | 43 | 75 | 35 | 369 |
| 36 | 68 | 19 | 60 | 11 | 52 | 3 | 44 | 76 | 369 |
| 77 | 28 | 69 | 20 | 61 | 12 | 53 | 4 | 45 | 369 |
| 369 | 369 | 369 | 369 | 369 | 369 | 369 | 369 | 369 | ✓ |
Note on the printed plate: The 1651 plate is defective in two cells and they are corrected here, out loud. It prints 45 in the first row's eighth cell where the arithmetic requires 54, and 34 in the eighth row's first cell where it requires 36. Both are certain rather than guessed: the row and the column through each cell fall short by exactly that difference — nine and two — which no misreading of the surrounding cells could produce.
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.
Malcha betharsism hed beruah schehalim
Printed at 3321, the square's square total.
See Malcha betharsism hed beruah schehalim in the correspondence map →
The Moon's name is a long phrase in the printed text. “Malcha” is a shortened form used in an editor's note.
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.
Gabriel
This is Agrippa's first list. He gives another list in the same chapter; neither list names the square intelligences.
Read about Gabriel → · Map this angel
Gabriel
Agrippa gives this alternative name a few lines after his first list. These are not the names printed with the squares in Book II.
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.
Agrippa places Moon images in the Moon's hour, with the Moon rising strongly. His figures wear white or green and may have horns, a mirror or several heads.
He says these images were made to help travellers and to protect against poison or illnesses of children. He also connects them with growth of the earth.