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Zadkiel is the archangel who holds back the arm. Tradition credits him with the hardest gesture there is: stopping a hand already raised. His name means “Justice of God”, yet his Sephirah is Hesed, mercy — and that is exactly where he stands, between the two. He is one of the nine ruling archangels.
If you were born between 23 July and 2 September, Zadkiel is the archangel who watches over your guardian angel.
Zadkiel rules the choir of the Dominions, the fourth of the nine choirs of the Kabbalah, under the Sephirah Hesed — kindness, grace, generosity that overflows. He is also met under the name Hesediel, formed on that Sephirah: two names for one archangel, which our own encyclopaedia long treated as two separate figures.
Also called
Hesediel · Tsadkiel · Sachiel · Zedekiel · Tzadkiel
Meaning
“Justice of God”
Choir · Sephirah
the Dominions · Hesed
Period of rulership
23 July — 2 September
Angels ruled
the 8 guardian angels no. 25 to 32
Colour
Violet — the violet flame
Stones
Purple fluorite · Angelite
Sacred symbol
The violet flame, power of transformation
Zadkiel’s message
“You keep that resentment like a piece of evidence. You tell yourself that letting it go would prove the other person right. It would not: it would only give them your silence back, and give you your place back. Forgiving is not absolving, it is refusing to pay twice.”
“And that wall you built to protect yourself? It still stands. That is precisely the problem: it is still protecting you from something that no longer exists.”
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Zadkiel’s founding story comes down to one gesture. Tradition says it was he who held back Abraham’s arm as he was about to sacrifice his son. Genesis does not name that angel — it is rabbinic and Kabbalistic tradition that gives him this face. The gesture says everything about his role: he does not prevent justice, he prevents it from going too far.
His Sephirah is Hesed, the fourth on the Tree of Life, the one of kindness that gives without counting — while his name speaks of justice. That tension is his own ground: mercy only means something where the sentence was deserved. The Dominions he governs regulate the work of the lower choirs: they hold the order, not the rule.
Hesediel is his other name. Astrocenter’s encyclopaedia long gave him two separate pages, one on justice, the other on the reward of effort. It is the same figure: Hesediel is what Zadkiel does when you have struggled in vain — he gives back, but rarely in the expected form. Often time rather than money, a friend rather than a promotion.
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Four domains, all pulling in the same direction: undoing what has set hard.
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Forgiveness
His first function, and the most demanding. It is not about excusing but about putting down: Zadkiel is the one you pray to when you want to stop carrying a grudge whose usefulness you can no longer remember.
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Memory and study
A more unexpected domain, but a constant one in tradition. He is invoked before an exam, an interview, a talk — whenever memory and mind need to be at their sharpest.
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Mental barriers
The protections you built end up locking you in. Zadkiel helps you spot the ones that have outlived their use, and open onto new ideas, new people, new paths.
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Fair reward
This is Hesediel’s part. When effort does not pay, he does not make money rain: he teaches you to let go of the superfluous and to recognise what has been given back in another form.
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Zadkiel does not watch over you directly: he rules eight guardian angels who take over from one another five days at a time, from 23 July to 2 September. Yours is one of them if you were born inside that window.
Nithaiah
July 23 — July 27
Haaiah
July 28 — August 1
Yeratel
August 2 — August 6
Seheiah
August 7 — 12
Reiyel
August 13 — 17
Omael
August 18 — 22
Lecabel
August 23 — August 27
Vasariah
29 August — 2 September
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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Find a quiet place on your own and try to picture him: tradition represents him as a violet flame, the kind that transforms without destroying. Let that colour settle around you, then state your request clearly.
A purple fluorite or an angelite held in the hand supports this energy well. And if your request is about forgiveness, name the person: a grudge is badly stated in general terms.
Prayer to Archangel Zadkiel 🕯️
“Archangel Zadkiel, I pray you to help me heal my heart.
If I sink into resentment, I ask you to help me make that feeling disappear completely.
If there is something I am missing, I pray you to help me see clearly what it is.
If I lack compassion, fill my heart with mercy.
If I am worried or anxious, fill my heart with confidence and calm.
I now place myself fully in your hands and in God’s, and I know that, through your divine powers, you will see to every detail with wisdom, in grace and harmony.
Thank you.”
Prayer taken from the previous version of this page, after Archangels and Ascended Masters by Doreen Virtue.
Every archangel has his colour; Zadkiel’s is a violet flame, and the image is more precise than it looks. A flame does not move things away: it transforms them. What burns does not vanish, it changes state.
That is what tradition ascribes to him: the transforming power of joy. You picture that flame around yourself, or around the situation that is stuck — not to erase it, but so that it stops weighing the same.
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Frequently asked questions about Archangel Zadkiel
Zadkiel is the archangel of forgiveness and mercy. His name means “Justice of God” and tradition credits him with holding back Abraham’s arm. In the Kabbalah he rules the choir of the Dominions — guardian angels no. 25 to 32 — under the Sephirah Hesed, and his period of rulership runs from 23 July to 2 September.
Yes. Hesediel is formed on Hesed, the name of his Sephirah; you will also find Tsadkiel, Sachiel, Zedekiel or Tzadkiel. Our encyclopaedia long devoted two separate pages to them, which kept the confusion alive: there is only one ruler for the Dominions.
Because every archangel has a colour, and Zadkiel’s is violet. The flame says what his action does: it does not remove what it touches, it transforms it. That is the image tradition ties to forgiveness — what happened remains, but stops weighing.
When a resentment is wearing you down, when you have to forgive — or forgive yourself. But also before an exam, an interview or a talk: tradition gives him memory and clarity of mind. And when your efforts seem to bring nothing back.
If you were born between 23 July and 2 September, yes: your guardian angel belongs to the choir of the Dominions, which Zadkiel governs. Otherwise another of the nine rulers watches over your angel — Metatron, Raziel, Tsaphkiel, Camael, Raphael, Haniel, Michael or Gabriel.
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Forgiveness is rarely asked for only once: Zadkiel’s signs usually come in small touches.
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 →
Zadkiel rules the Dominions; the choir of the Archangels answers to Michael, and the Virtues to Raphael. A feather found on your path or your angel number are other ways of hearing what they have to say.
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