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Metatron is the only archangel who was once a man. He walked the earth under the name Enoch before being raised to the top of the celestial hierarchy, and that is where his reputation comes from: he understands our struggles because he lived them. Keeper of the celestial archives, he rules the first of the nine choirs. He is the first of the nine ruling archangels.
If you were born between 21 March and 30 April, Metatron is the archangel who watches over your guardian angel.
Metatron rules the choir of the Seraphim, the first and highest of the nine choirs of the Kabbalah, under the Sephirah Kether — the Crown, the one that touches the origin of everything. He is the only one of the nine rulers to have had a human life, and the only one whose name resists translation: there is no shortage of hypotheses, and none of them settles it.
Also called
Metatron · Prince of the Presence · Prince of the World
Etymology
Uncertain — “the one who attends the throne”, “the measurer”
Choir · Sephirah
the Seraphim · Kether
Period of rulership
21 March — 30 April
Angels ruled
the 8 guardian angels no. 1 to 8
Celestial body
Light and the Sun — Kether stands above the planets
Colour
Luminous white
Stones
Black tourmaline · Clear quartz
Sacred symbol
Metatron’s Cube
Metatron’s message
“You think the answers are elsewhere: in a book, with someone further along than you. What you call doubt is your intelligence refusing answers that come too easily.”
“I keep the record, and nothing you have been through is missing from it. What you think you lost along the way is written there as something gained. Keep going: I was human, I know what it costs.”
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His whole story rests on a verse that never names him: “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” (Genesis 5:24, King James Version). One line for a disappearance, and a whole tradition grew out of it. The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, commenting on that exact verse, makes Enoch the great scribe of heaven; 3 Enoch — the Book of Palaces, 5th–6th century — tells the transformation: his veins become rivers of flame, his flesh a burning torch, and he becomes Metatron.
Everything else follows from that human origin. He sits beside God, keeps the records of mortal deeds and passes no judgement on them: he witnesses. He is pictured as a pure white light, a blinding column of fire — the only ruler whose appearance is not that of a body.
That closeness to God worried people. The Talmud tells how Elisha ben Abuyah, seeing him seated while every other angel stands, concluded there were two powers in heaven — and lost his faith over it (tractate Hagigah, 14a). Rabbinic literature then took care to play Metatron down: you do not raise an angel that high without risk.
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Four domains, held together by one idea: nothing you live through is lost.
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The Book of Life
He records every act, every thought, every struggle. He does not judge: he witnesses. He is the archangel of memory, the one you turn to when you need what you went through to count for something.
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The spiritual search
An unmatched teacher, he masters both sides of the universe, the material and the spiritual. He is called on to find answers, to reach a deeper understanding, to perceive what stays hidden.
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Children and the highly sensitive
Tradition turns him particularly towards children and very sensitive people: he intercedes for them. He is the archangel to call on when you are looking after a child in difficulty.
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Turning dark thoughts around
Having been human, he knows a dark thought ends up producing a bad decision. He does not erase it: he helps you look at it differently, then get moving again.
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Metatron does not watch over you directly: he rules eight guardian angels who take over from one another five days at a time, from 21 March to 30 April. Yours is one of them if you were born inside that window — they are the first eight of the seventy-two.
Vehuiah
March 21 — 25
Jeliel
March 26 — 30
Sitael
31 March — 4 April
Elemiah
April 5 — 9
Mahasiah
April 10 — 14
Lelahel
April 15 — 20
Achaiah
April 21 — 25
Cahetel
April 26 — April 30
Not sure which one is yours? Your date of birth is all it takes.
An Angel Has Walked With You Since Birth
Since the day you were born, an angel has been watching over you.
It knows your yearnings, your wounds, your most private dreams. It bears a name, and that name reveals something about you — about who you truly are, deep down. Let it reveal itself to you.
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Clear your mind, find a quiet place and make sure your request is clear before you speak. Then state your intention and say why you need his help: with him it is precision that counts, not solemnity.
Our records give him three favoured incenses — benzoin, chamomile, cedar — and a black tourmaline or a clear quartz held in the left hand to support the connection. Do not forget to thank him at the end.
Prayer to Archangel Metatron 🕯️
“Dear Archangel Metatron,
With all my heart and with the deepest gratitude, I call on you today to ask for your help.
Please help me to…
Please breathe into me the strength to carry on despite the difficulties I meet.
Revive in me the glimmer of hope and the unfailing faith that will let me move forward despite the dark.
Give me courage and perseverance when I need them, and please help me to let go when the effort is useless and in vain.
From my soul to your soul, I love you and I thank you. Amen.”
Prayer taken from the previous version of this page; replace the ellipsis with your own request.
It is the symbol most attached to this archangel: thirteen circles joined by straight lines, a figure in which the five Platonic solids appear. It is credited with a very high vibrational rate, a protective function and help against negative energies; many people carry it for that reason.
One thing is worth saying: this cube is not a figure of medieval Kabbalah. The vocabulary of “sacred geometry” — Flower of Life, Metatron’s Cube — is recent and spread with the New Age movement. That takes nothing away from how it is used today, but it is better to know how old the thing in your hand really is.
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Frequently asked questions about Archangel Metatron
Metatron is the keeper of the celestial archives and the only archangel to have lived on earth, under the name Enoch. In the Kabbalah he rules the choir of the Seraphim — guardian angels no. 1 to 8 — under the Sephirah Kether, and his period of rulership runs from 21 March to 30 April.
Yes, according to Jewish mystical tradition. Genesis says only of Enoch that he “was not; for God took him” (5:24) — it names no angel at all. It is 3 Enoch, the Book of Palaces, that tells of his transformation into Metatron, and the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan that makes him the great scribe of heaven.
A figure of thirteen circles joined by straight lines, in which the five Platonic solids can be found. It is used as a support for protection and meditation. Worth knowing: it belongs to contemporary sacred geometry rather than to ancient Kabbalah — the name is modern, and so is the practice.
When you are after meaning rather than a solution, when a dark stretch is dragging on, or when you are looking after a child or a very sensitive person. He is also the archangel of spiritual seekers, the one called on before starting inner work.
If you were born between 21 March and 30 April, yes: your guardian angel belongs to the choir of the Seraphim, which Metatron governs. Otherwise another of the nine rulers watches over your angel — Raziel, Tsaphkiel, Zadkiel, Camael, Raphael, Michael, Haniel or Gabriel.
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Metatron rarely answers with a solution: he answers with an understanding, which takes longer and lasts longer.
The nine archangels
See the full hierarchy of the ruling archangels and find yours →
Mirror hours
When the same time keeps coming back, an angel is trying to speak →
Your guardian angel
Find the angel attached to your date of birth →
Metatron rules the Seraphim; the Archangels answer to Michael and the Angels to Gabriel. A feather found on your path or your angel number are other ways of hearing what they have to say.
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