Raphael: Angel of Mercury

Discovery Science

About this app

Raphael: Angel of Mercury is a quiet, illuminated-manuscript companion for the hours of Mercury, the planet the old tables give to Raphael, the angel whose name means "God heals".

HOURS — a caduceus "staff of the day": twenty-four unequal planetary hours for your place as beads on a winged staff, Mercury's hours marked in green, with a live countdown to the next. Optional chimes when a Mercury hour opens (or a few minutes before), with hush hours at night.

SKY — Mercury's dance beside the Sun: how far east or west of the Sun it stands, whether it is a morning or evening star today, its bearing and height from where you are, whether it is retrograde, and the date of its next greatest elongation — the best time to actually see it.

TABLE — Agrippa's 8×8 Table of Mercury, every line summing to 260, with Raphael, Tiriel and Taphthartharath traced across it as vector sigils and the arithmetic shown.

WORDS — original prayers for the road, for healing, for someone you love and for a good meeting, beside King James scripture including Tobit 12:15.

LORE — Tobias and the fish, Raphael in Enoch and the Talmud, the Heptameron's Wednesday, and an honest note on where the old sources disagree.

ROAD — a journal for healings, journeys, study and reconciliations, recording how you felt before and after; little apothecary jars show what lifts you most.

WIDGETS — a Caduceus medallion and a Quicksilver Vial that fills toward Mercury's hour, each with its own clarity from clear glass to solid vellum.

Fully offline. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Location is optional and approximate; a city list works just as well.

What’s new

First release.