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Saturday (the Sabbath day) is governed by the influential and often severe planet Saturn, making its conjurations and operations distinct within ceremonial magic.

Based on the sources, here is a comprehensive overview of the rulership, recommended timing, operations, and specific conjurations associated with Saturday 🪐.

🪐 Rulership and Celestial Correspondences of Saturday

Saturday is definitively ruled by the planet Saturn. In the Qabalistic system, Saturn corresponds to Binah, or Understanding.

Primary Rulers and Spirits

• Planetary Ruler (Archangel): The archangel presiding over Saturday is Cassiel. He is also referred to as Caphriel.
• Other Ruling Angels: Machatan and Uriel are also listed among the angels of Saturday.
• Planetary Ruling Spirit: The spirit who embodies Saturn’s essential virtues is Sabathiel.
• Planetary Intelligence: Agiel.
• Planetary Spirit/Demon: Zazel.
• Demon of the Day (Grimoire of Honorius): Guland.
  • Note: One source lists Silcharde as the Demon of Saturday, although Silcharde is traditionally attributed to Thursday in other texts.
• King of the Air: Maymon.
• Ministers of the Air: Abumalith, Assaibi, and Balidet.
• Governing Wind: The angels/spirits of the air for Saturday are subject to the South-west wind.

Timing and Materials 🕰️

Magical operations performed on Saturday benefit from the planet’s energies, aligning with its themes of structure, time, and ending.

🎯 Operations of Saturday

The nature of the spirits and the operations conducted on Saturday emphasize destructive, controlling, disciplined, or terminating actions.

Saturnian (Angelic) Operations (Cassiel/Sabathiel)

• Structure and Discipline: Saturn is the planet of discipline, structure, and responsibility. Its energies test balance and endurance.
• Positive Effects: Saturn’s power can be used to improve concentration, discipline a lazy mind, become better at work, and motivate the self.
• Knowledge: Spirits under the domination of Cassiel teach all kinds of Sciences and the profoundest mysteries of the Paths of Wisdom.
• Limitations/Endings: Saturday is a time for evaluation, cleansing, and bringing matters to a close. Lead (Saturn’s metal) is associated with change, transition, formation through restriction, and learning through trial and error, symbolizing limitation.

Aerial Spirits and Demonic Operations (Maymon/Guland/Zazel)

The spirits of the air on Saturday are traditionally associated with negative or destructive acts:

• Discord and Destruction: Their nature is to sow discords, hatred, evil thoughts and cogitations.
• Violence: They can give leave freely to slay and kill every one, and to lame or maim every member.
• Illness: The demon Guland is associated with causing all illnesses.
• Necromancy: The Spirit Zazel can be petitioned for more destructive purposes, such as summoning the souls of the naturally deceased.
• Obedience: If Guland is invoked at the appointed time, he will obey anything requested immediately, provided he is given burnt bread.

🗣️ Conjuration and Appearance

Appearance of Saturnian Spirits

The familiar shapes of the spirits of Saturn generally reflect their severe, dark, and often horrifying nature.

• Body and Face: They generally appear with a tall, lean, slender body and an angry countenance.
• Four Faces: They are described as having four faces: one on the back of the head, one in the front, and one on each side, which are beaked or nosed. They also have a face on each knee.
• Color and Motion: They have a black shining colour. Their motion is like the moving of the wind with a kind of earthquake.
• Sign of Appearance: Their sign is the manifestation of white earth, whiter than snow.
• Particular Shapes: They may appear as a king, bearded, riding on a dragon; an old man with a beard; an old woman leaning on a crutch; a hog; a dragon; an owl; a black garment; a hook or sickle; or a juniper tree.

Specific Conjuration Texts

The Conjuration of Saturday (Angelic/Cassiel)

This is the ritual text used to conjure Cassiel or Caphriel, the chief ruler of the day, found in sources like the Heptameron and The Magus:

• Opening: “I conjure and confirm upon you, Caphriel, or Cassiel, Machator, and Seraquiel, strong and powerful angels; and by the name Adonai, Adonai, Adonai; Eie, Eie, Eie; Acim, Acim, Acim; Cados, Cados; Ima, Ima, Ima; Salay, Ja, Sar, Lord and Maker of the World, who rested on the seventh day…”.
• The conjuration proceeds by invoking the name of God who created the world and rested on the seventh day, appeals to the angels serving in the seventh host before the great angel Booel, and commands the chief ruler Caphriel (or Cassiel) to labor for the operator.

Invocation for Saturday (Saturnine Spirits)

A shorter invocation calls specifically upon the Saturnine spirits:

• “Come out of your gloomy solitude ye Saturnine spirits, come with your cohort, come with diligence to the place where I am going to begin my operation under your auspices; be attentive to my labours and contribute your assistance that it may rebound to the honour and glory of the Highest”.

Conjuration for Guland (Demonic)

When invoking the demon Guland, specific writing and words are required:

• Circle Inscription: Write in the circle: “Enter not, Guland! Enter not, Guland! Enter not, Guland!“.
• The Conjuration: “I conjure thee, O Guland, in the name of Satan, in the name of Beelzebuth, in the name of Astaroth, and in the name of all other Spirits, to make haste and appear before me. Come, then in the name of Satan and in the names of all other demons. Come to me, I command thee, in the name of the Most Holy Trinity…”.

Based on 140 Source Texts accessible via my AI NotebookLM: click here

The source texts emphasize that knowledge of these rulers and their timings is not merely theoretical but establishes a precise temporal framework for all magical work, aligning the ritual with the specific cosmological forces.