Remy traces to the Latin Remigius, likely built on remigare, to row, though popular use has long linked the name loosely to remedium, remedy, giving it an added association with healing. Between the two threads runs a sense of steady, effortful care -- work done to move something forward or to mend it.
Saturn passing out of one sign into another, causes strange apparitions in the heavens, which the Arabians term Assub; or certain other signs of a Fiery nature. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)