Guardian Angel by Birthday

The tradition of the seventy-two guardian angels assigns one angel to every five-day period of the year. Enter your birth date below to find the angel who governs your days, and the virtue the tradition places in that angel's care.

Updated August 23, 2026: the 72 angels of the Shem HaMephorash, assigned in five-day periods from March 21.

The Seventy-Two Angels

The seventy-two angels come from the Shem HaMephorash, the "divided name" of the Kabbalistic tradition. Three verses of the Book of Exodus are written out, and their letters are rearranged into seventy-two three-letter names, each name an angel. The list is one of the oldest and most stable angelic catalogues in the Western esoteric tradition: it appears in the medieval grimoires, in the Kabbalistic commentaries, and in the folk practice of every country the tradition touched. Each angel carries a name and a virtue, and the virtues read like a complete map of human need: courage, healing, justice, protection, learning, comfort, prosperity, peace.

The guardian angel by birthday is the popular application of the list: the year is divided into seventy-two periods of about five days, each governed by one angel, starting from March 21. The angel of your birth period is the angel assigned to you. The system is simple enough to use without any other chart: just the date, which is why it became one of the most widespread forms of angelic practice in the modern era.

How the Assignment Works

The year runs from March 21 to the following March 20, divided into seventy-two periods. The first angel, Vehuiah, governs March 21-25; the second, Jeliel, March 26-30; and so on through the year, each angel taking five days. The final periods absorb the extra days at the end of the cycle, so the calendar closes exactly. The calculator maps your birth date onto this calendar and returns your angel and its virtue.

Because the periods repeat every year, the assignment is stable: your angel is tied to your birthday, not to the year you were born. Two people born on the same date in different years share the same guardian angel in this system, which is what makes it a birthday reading rather than a chart reading. The virtues of the seventy-two angels are listed in full in the table below, so the whole system can be browsed.

How to Work With Yours

The traditional practice is direct. Learn the name of your angel and the virtue it carries. When the virtue is needed, speak the name and ask for that specific help in a short, plain sentence. The tradition holds that the angel of your period is the one most inclined to hear you, and that the virtue is the channel: asking a healing angel for healing, a protection angel for protection, a prosperity angel for prosperity. The practice is not magic in the sense of forcing an outcome; it is a discipline of attention, naming the help you need and the help that the tradition says is assigned to you.

The seventy-two virtues also work as a year-long practice: call on the angel of the current five-day period for its virtue each week, and the whole catalogue cycles through your attention once a year. That version of the practice turns the guardian angel system into a calendar of virtues, which is exactly how the tradition used the list before the birthday application became popular.

The 72 Angels at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I find my guardian angel by birthday?

The tradition assigns one of 72 angels to each period of about five days, running from March 21 through the following March. Enter your birth date in the calculator and it returns the angel who governs your period, with the virtue the tradition associates with that angel.

Where does the list of 72 angels come from?

The 72 angels come from the Shem HaMephorash, the divided name of the Kabbalistic tradition, which derives 72 angelic names from three verses of Exodus. The guardian angel by birthday is a later popular application of the same list, assigning one angel to each five-day period of the year.

Does the angel change every five days?

In this system, yes: each of the 72 angels governs a period of about five days, and the period of your birth is the angel assigned to you. The same angel returns to your period every year, which is why the reading is tied to your birthday rather than to a calendar year.

What if I was born on February 29?

Leap day falls within the period of Mumiah (the 72nd angel), which runs through the early days of March. The calculator handles the extra day by extending that final period, so a February 29 birth is assigned to the same angel as the surrounding days.

How do I work with my guardian angel?

The traditional practice is simple: learn the angel's name and virtue, and call on the name when the virtue is needed, with a short spoken request. The virtue listed with your angel is the gift it is said to carry, and the practice is to ask for that specific help rather than vague protection.

Sources

The names of the seventy-two angels follow the Shem HaMephorash as transmitted in the Kabbalistic and grimoire tradition. The five-day period assignment beginning March 21 follows the standard popular guardian angel calendar. The virtues are the traditional associations of each name as they appear in the angelological literature.