Agrippa connects Saturn with old age, melancholy, hidden treasure and things gained with difficulty.
This page follows Agrippa's writings. For Saturn in a birth chart, see the astrology page.
What Agrippa associates with Saturn
Book I lists the qualities, plants, animals and materials he places under each planet.
Planetary nature in Agrippa
Agrippa connects Saturn with old age, melancholy, hidden treasure and things gained with difficulty. He also puts heavy, dark and long-lasting materials under Saturn. These are associations in his book, not a description of everyone born under the planet.
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
Agiel
Printed at 45, the square's square total.
Sources (1)
Three Books of Occult Philosophy, English translation, J.F., London 1651 — Book II, chapter XXII, names answering to the numbers of Saturn
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
Zaphiel [Zaphkiel]
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 says to make Saturn images in Saturn's hour, with the planet rising or well placed. His figures include an old man, dark clothing, a sickle and a staff.