ייאזל
Yeyazel
The Angel of Comfort — a Power of Geburah who unbinds what oppresses, and answers sorrow with a steadier kind of clarity.
God who rejoices
Yeyazel is the fortieth of the seventy-two angels of the Shem HaMephorash, the sequence of divine names drawn from three verses of Exodus 14. Within the sefirotic scheme he stands among the Powers, the choir seated in Geburah — the sphere of severity, judgment, and the force that clears away what has overstayed its welcome.
What distinguishes Yeyazel within that stern company is his particular office: consolation. Where Geburah cuts, Yeyazel tends the wound left behind. He is invoked against the states that imprison a person from the inside — grief that won't lift, dependency, the tightening grip of despair — and against literal captivity as well. Several sources name him a liberator of prisoners in the plain sense of the word.
His name is most often rendered "God who rejoices" or "the God who delights every living thing," and that duality — severity's household producing a name about delight — is worth sitting with rather than resolving. It is the same paradox found in the tarot correspondence assigned to his decan: the Three of Swords, sorrow itself, from which he is said to draw out meaning rather than denial.
"He instills the courage to take the first steps toward new horizons — not by removing the weight, but by making it bearable."
Placement within the system
Yeyazel's attributions as recorded across Kabbalistic and angelological sources. Where traditions vary on spelling or minor detail, the most widely corroborated form is given.
| Hebrew | ייאזל |
| Transliterations | Yeyazel · Yeiazel · Ieiazel |
| Order | 40th of the 72 Shem HaMephorash |
| Choir | Powers |
| Sefirah | Geburah |
| Ruling Archangel | Camael |
| Planetary energies | Mars, tempered by the Moon |
| Element | Air |
| Zodiacal degree | Libra, 15°–20° (October 9–13) |
| Tarot correspondence | Three of Swords |
| Stone | Pearl |
| Colors | Blue, pale gold |
| Governing window | 1:00 – 1:20 pm daily |
What Yeyazel governs
Three threads run through the historical material on Yeyazel — each a different register of the same underlying office: release.
Consolation
Comfort in grief, relief after strain, and a way through emotional states that feel like a kind of imprisonment — anxiety, dependency, despair. Yeyazel is asked to temper intensity without dulling it.
Liberation
Freedom from literal confinement and from oppression more broadly — several sources describe him plainly as a deliverer of prisoners and those held under harsh authority.
The written word
Governance over printing, publishing, records, and broadcast media — everything born from the impulse to preserve a thought and pass it on. Writers and artists are named among his particular charges.
Approaching the name
Practice as recorded in the tradition — offered here as historical and devotional record, not as instruction to be followed uncritically.
Yoh · Yoh · Zah
Chanted slowly, three times, as a steadying breath rather than a request- WindowThe governing period of 1:00–1:20 pm is traditionally held as most receptive, though invocation is not restricted to it.
- CandleBlue or pale gold, matching Yeyazel's recorded colors.
- TextPsalm 88:14 is the verse most commonly associated with this name within the Shem HaMephorash tradition.
- IntentFramed as a request for comfort and a way forward — not for the removal of the difficulty itself, but for the clarity to meet it.
Where this fits
Camael
Archangel of Geburah, under whose authority Yeyazel and the other Powers of that sphere are traditionally placed.
Raum
Some later syncretic pairings of the Shem HaMephorash with the Goetia associate Yeyazel with the demon Raum. This linkage belongs to a specific 19th–20th century correspondence tradition rather than the older Kabbalistic sources — included here for completeness, not as settled doctrine.
A note on sources. The Shem HaMephorash tradition has circulated for centuries across Hebrew, Latin, and French sources, and spellings, degree ranges, and minor attributions vary between them — Yeyazel appears as Yeiazel, Ieiazel, and (in at least one Golden Dawn glossary) is placed instead in a quinance of Aquarius rather than Libra, likely reflecting a different attribution system than the Shem HaMephorash proper. This page follows the reading corroborated across the majority of angelological references: 40th Name, Powers, Geburah, Libra 15°–20°. No claim is made to a single authoritative version.