“Draw the far star near, and call it friend.”
The Angel
Umabel opens the sign of Aquarius, and its name is traditionally rendered God above all things — a joining of a root of exaltation and superiority to the divine suffix -el, “God.” Yet the angel of transcendence is, paradoxically, the angel of intimacy. Its office is affection and friendship, the warmth that binds one soul to another, and its governance extends over the sciences that measure the heavens — physics and astronomy — as though to teach that the God who stands above all things is also the pattern by which distant things are drawn into relation.
The virtue Umabel bestows is companionship freed from possessiveness. It softens the heart toward friendship, heals the wounds of estrangement, and helps those who have loved unwisely to love well; it is invoked to be liberated from a passion that has become a bondage, and to find instead the steady affection that gives without grasping. Fittingly for an Aquarian intelligence, Umabel favours the observer of nature, the one who reads the sky and the atom alike and finds in their orderliness a mirror of friendship's own quiet laws. It teaches that the highest thing is not aloofness but connection understood from above.
Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | 61 |
| Name meaning | “God above all things” |
| Zodiac | 0–5° Aquarius |
| Virtue / Domain | Friendship, affection, physics and astronomy |
| Paired Goetic spirit | Zagan |