Is the November Angel Adnachiel or Advachiel?
Adnachiel in Lansdowne MS 1203 and Agrippa, the modern alias Advachiel, and the faculty of anger that modern November readings leave out
Every historical table cited here gives November and Sagittarius to Adnachiel. The spelling Advachiel comes from a modern month list that offers it as an alias without naming a source.
The same old table gives Adnachiel a faculty, anger, which modern November readings about relationships and independence never mention.
Quick Facts
- Spelling in the old tables
- Adnachiel, twice in Lansdowne MS 1203 and once in Agrippa, Book II, chapter 14
- Origin of Advachiel
- A modern month list gives it as an alias, with no source
- Lansdowne faculty
- Anger (La Colère)
- Sign and body part
- Sagittarius in both tables; Agrippa adds the hams
- Birthdays before about 23 November
- Scorpio dates, which both tables give to the October angel: Zetachiel in Lansdowne MS 1203, Barbiel in Agrippa
Which sources write Adnachiel, and where does Advachiel come from?
Only a modern month guide writes Advachiel. Angels of the Months, published by Archangels and Angels, titles its entry "The Angel of November - Adnachiel (AKA: Advachiel)", and the site's editor adds that its author gave no references.
Birthday pages that follow such month lists add Aduachiel and Adernahael as further spellings.
None of these forms appears in the Lansdowne manuscript, in Agrippa or in Peterson's Magical Calendar note, and none of those texts explains where they came from.
The older books write Adnachiel, the Lansdowne manuscript twice. In Joseph Peterson's edition, the sign table on page 52 sets Adnachiel beside Sagittarius and November, and the list of the angels' characters on pages 59-60 spells the name the same way.
Peterson corrects several other names in that second list but leaves Adnachiel alone. At one of the Sagittarius pentacles, his note points to the Magical Calendar's characters of the angel of Sagittarius, again named Adnachiel.
Agrippa agrees. His sign scale in Book II, chapter 14 makes Adnachiel the ninth of the twelve angels ruling the signs, beside Sagittarius, November and the hams ("Hamnes" in the 1651 English).
Adnachiel is the spelling to cite when a claim rests on the older tables. Advachiel can be reported as the modern guide's alias, without treating it as a second historical name.
Why does the old table give Adnachiel anger when modern pages speak of relationships?
The Lansdowne table has a fourth column for each angel's "capacity", the things over which it has power, and the Sagittarius and November entry is La Colère, anger. The column runs through twelve human faculties, from eyesight in the Aries row to sleep in the Pisces row.
Modern readings of the November angel use other words. The Angels of the Months guide says Adnachiel urges us to appreciate the part others played in reaching our goals, so that "relationships during this period are therefore extremely important"; some birthday profiles call Adnachiel an angel of independence.
None of those themes appears in the Lansdowne row or in Agrippa's scale. They belong to the modern writers, and anger, the one faculty the old table does give, drops out of their accounts.
Anger is not tied to Sagittarius even among older texts, as three sources show side by side:
- Lansdowne MS 1203, page 52: Sagittarius and November, with the faculty of anger.
- Sefer Yetzirah, supplement to chapter 5 (found in some versions; Westcott's translation): Sagittarius with sleep and Kislev in the Jewish calendar, while anger goes to Capricorn and Tebet. The July page sets this list beside the Lansdowne column.
- Angels of the Months, a modern guide: November with the support of others and relationships, and no sign named.
Anger in the Lansdowne table labels a sign, and relationships in the modern guide are a seasonal theme written for a northern autumn.
Neither describes the temper of someone born in November, and neither names that person's guardian.
Sources
- (2001; updated 2021). The Veritable Clavicles of Solomon: Lansdowne MS 1203, pages 52 and 59-60. Esoteric Archives; table of signs, months, angels and their capacities, and list of the characters of the angels of the signs. Link
- (1651 English translation; digital edition 2000, updated 2019). Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 14: the scale of the number twelve. Esoteric Archives. Link
- (1887). Sepher Yetzirah, chapter 5 and its supplement. Sacred Texts; the twelve faculties paired with signs and months. Link
- (Undated). Angels of the Months. Modern practitioner interpretation; not a historical authority. Link
- (Accessed October 6, 2026). Astrological sign. Wikipedia; approximate start dates of the tropical signs. Link
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