The propitious God — patron of grace, forgiveness, and the second chance offered within a single lifetime.
Kabbalistic sources do not fully agree on the root, and this page names the disagreement rather than smoothing it over.
The most common gloss reads the name as a compound built on El (God) joined to a root of favor or aid — rendered variously as "the propitious God" or "God who hastens to help." This is the version repeated across most French and English grimoire traditions.
A second reading, older and less common, parses the name through yad (hand), giving "God's hand" — an image tied to the angel's role in reaching back into a person's past to reshape it, rather than simply excusing it.
The Latinized spelling used for this domain, Aladiah, appears alongside variants Aladia, Eladiah, and Aladya across different manuscript lineages — the spelling drifted with the scribe, the meaning did not.
Aladiah is drawn from the traditional Shem HaMephorash — the seventy-two threefold names extracted by medieval kabbalists from three consecutive verses of Exodus 14:19–21, each verse contributing one letter to each of the seventy-two triads. Aladiah occupies the tenth position in that sequence.
Aladiah is invoked specifically for release from guilt and for a fresh start — but tradition draws a careful boundary around how far that release extends.
Those who work with this name describe Aladiah's grace as restorative rather than merely forgiving: not an erasure of consequence, but help in setting down a fault that has become a locked door, and finding the will to try again. The traditional attributions connect Aladiah to good health, the mending of reputation, and standing well among one's peers — outcomes read less as luck and more as the natural result of no longer being weighed down by an old failure.
Karmic resolution is described as working within the current incarnation — the mending of what a person did, and can still address, in this life.
By contrast, the angel Haziel (the 21st name) is traditionally invoked for forgiveness in a broader, less bounded sense.
This distinction appears consistently enough across sources to be worth stating plainly, though — as with most Shem HaMephorash attributions — it rests on centuries of oral and grimoire transmission rather than a single canonical text.
| Governed Dates | May 6 – May 10 (15°–20° Taurus) |
| Planetary Energies | Uranus / Saturn |
| Element | Earth |
| Stone | Opal |
| Colors | Orange / Purple |
| Charism | Interpretation |
| Emotional Register | Tolerance, clarity of mind, restored morale |
Emotional-calendar "manifestation dates" circulated on some devotional sites (specific days scattered through the year) are a modern popularization without a clear grimoire source, and are omitted here for that reason.
Grimoire tradition pairs each of the seventy-two names with a verse of the Psalms as its invocation formula. Aladiah's is drawn from Psalm 33.
"Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee."Psalm 33:22
The verse is typically spoken slowly, three times, with the practitioner holding in mind a specific fault they wish to set down — not to demand its disappearance, but to ask for the clarity to move past it.
Aladiah's kamea seal, traced on the standard 72-fold Rose Cross wheel used across this angel's naming tradition, positioned at the tenth division.
Diagram for study and devotional reference. Not a substitute for a hand-traced seal drawn under proper instruction.