Isis on Daimons

[sdi]

Heavenly justice, even while exiling [souls] from the abodes of the Blessed, treats them as their nature befits. When, then, O my son Horos, the ministering angels and genii appointed are warlike, the soul in their charge takes that character, forgetting its own, or rather laying it aside until some future change of condition. If the guardian angels are of a gentle order, then the soul follows its path in peace; if they are friends of judgment, the soul loves to judge; if they are musicians, then the soul sings; if they love truth, the soul is that of a philosopher. Thus the souls necessarily follow the teaching of their guardians; falling into human bodies they forego their proper estate, and while exiled from it they approximate to those intelligences by whom they have been embodied.

(Kore Kosmou ["The Daughter of the Cosmos," that is, "On the Soul"] II, as quoted by Stobaeus, Anthology I xlix §45, as translated by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland.)

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The Hermetists seem to agree with the Neoplatonists that the personal daimon falls under the rulership of some of the planets or other. This makes sense, since the daimon can speak to the imagination, which means it must have an imagination-body, which exists at the level of the planets and must fall most greatly under the sway of some of them or other.