In Jewish magical and astrological traditions, Guriel is recorded as an angelic name paired with the zodiacal sign of Leo. In chapter 16 of Jewish Magic and Superstition (1939, printed page 251), Joshua Trachtenberg cites a representative list of medieval astrological correspondences that pairs Cancer with Uriel and Leo with Guriel. Trachtenberg explicitly cautions that such celestial assignments were not permanent across traditions, noting that angelic names varied across seasonal shifts and competing astrological lists.
In A Dictionary of Angels, Gustav Davidson similarly summarizes Guriel as an angel associated with Leo, citing Trachtenberg and giving the name gloss “whelp of God”. The Leo pairing belongs to this medieval sample; other astrological lists vary.
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