Archangels

 

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

For those who have expressed an interest, here are the images I use for the Archangels in the Quarters.  I trust not too badly mauled by the vagaries of the text processor available on my Apple II...

 

Raphael:  Fair skin, blonde hair, delicate but strong features. Dressed in yellow robe shot with mauve threads.  He holds a Caduceus. Raphael stands lightly upon a spring-green field, wet with dew.  The rising Sun backlights him in pure, golden/white morning light.  His wings are white with gold highlights.

     

Gabriel:  This is the one that may seem wierdest.   Sea-green hair, pale blue skin, in a scaled robe of blue with orange highlights.  His features are aquiline - classical Roman. He bears a great Cup. He stands above the billowing waves of the sea, backlit in Orange light by the setting Sun. His wings are white with blue-green highlights.

     

Michael:  He stands in the desert, or sometimes a sun-baked field of bare soil, under the blazing noonday sun.  Red hair, golden-tan face, strong, square features.  Red metallic robe with green highlights flashing from it. He bears a great sword two-handed.  His arms and shoulders are those of a warrior.  Wings are coppery.

     

 Auriel:  Auriel stands on the mountains - black, silent, snowcapped - but looking down over a fertile valley, filled with crops and lowing cattle and bleating sheep.  He is dressed in simple robes, almost homespun, of the four Earth colours, russet predominating.  He bears a platter of the fruits of the soil, and I often see Him bearing a shepherd's crook or staff.  It is night yet cold, silver light illuminates the scene - whether from the Moon or "the midnight Sun" I cannot yet tell. Auriel has dark hair, Mediterranean complexion, a half-round, half-square face with a pleasant smile.  His wings are dark - black with bluish highlights, like a raven's.

     

Mostly, I just get a hint of the Archangelic image.  Instead, the Solar image of the Quarter (rising, setting, noonday, etc.) floods the circle with the appropriate colour of light.  I also usually feel a breeze from Raphael, a humid tingling sensation from Gabriel, prickling heat from Michael, and solid, massive stability from Auriel.