The Reasons!

1. By calculating these planetary influences you step closer to a successful working, especially if other things can't, don't, or won't fall into line for you
2. It adds extra kick to minor magicks.
3. It can give success if you're sick but still must perform anyway.

What ARE Planetary Hours?

Working with planetary hours can be very helpful to your workings... If you cannot wait until the right moon phase or time, then you can just hop onto the next appropriate day and planetary hour to get things rolling!

The seemingly universal accepted way to calculate planetary hours is to divide a 24 hour day in to two 12 hour units:

• Sunrise to Sunset
• Sunset to Sunrise

The Sun and the six planets (which can be observed by the naked eye) are used as the correspondences - each to an hour of the day. This leaves plenty of room to work since you get a couple of chances to work with those influences in either the day or the evening. The going theory is that these influences are helpful to magickal workings when timed correctly.

Since ancient times, these six planets and the Sun have been held to rule over the days of the week. The relationships are mapped out below:

• Saturday -- Saturn
• Sunday -- Sol
• Monday -- Luna
• Tuesday -- Mars
• Wednesday -- Mercury
• Thursday -- Jupiter
• Friday -- Venus.

The whole point is that the planetary forces are not only attributed to the days, but to the hours as well, in this scheme: the hour after sunrise is ruled by the planet of the day. For example, sunrise on Saturday begins the rulership of Saturn for one hour. The following hour is ruled by the next "fastest" planet, Jupiter, and after that, Mars, and so on. Seven hours after sunrise is the rulership of Luna, after which, it's Saturn's turn again. Following this logic, you can see that 22 hours after sunrise comes Saturn again, then 23 -- Jupiter, and 24 -- Mars. Which means that the first hour of the following day is ruled by the Sun, and that day is Sunday.

Sunrise Planetary Chart

Sunset Planetary Chart

This pattern continues around the week until it recycles on itself and starts again. This is in fact the reason that the days of the week are ordered as they are, though almost everyone has forgotten this.

The influences are calculated by using the rising and setting sun times. This is just about all the information you need to get started as you can see in the form above. The mathematics can be a bit challenging to some people, but we have taken the work out of it for you with our little Perl script.