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Baraqiel
Chief of tens1 Enoch 8
Chief of astrology
Ninth chief of tens. 1 Enoch 8:3 gives him astrology, paired with Kokabiel’s constellations. Lightning is his emblem because a horoscope, in this theology, is a stolen judgment: a flash of the court of heaven, privatized.
Also named Baraqijal, Barakel, Baraqel.
- Etymology
- “Lightning of God” (baraq + ʾel).
- Cited
- 1 Enoch 6:7; 8:3
Powers
- Casting a life against the sky
- Reading lightning as a pointer
- Teaching natal and interrogational charts
- Timing a deed to a flash
What was taught
Baraqiel taught astrology: not the map of Kokabiel but the verdict — how a configuration, a flash, a rising, sentences a person.
AstrologyHost of Baraqiel
Whole decadA life can be read in a flash, if you know what the flash is for.