
                                PLANETARY HOURS

     That  the  planets  have  dominion  over  the days  of the  week which 
     represent  the  seven  creative  days  (Periods)  is  taught   by  the 
     Rosicrucians.

     Saturday is Saturn's day and corresponds to the Saturn Period.

     Sunday is the Sun's day and corresponds to the Sun Period.

     Monday is the Moon's day and corresponds to the Moon Period.

     Tuesday is the day of the Norse war-god, Tyr, and  corresponds to  the 
     Mars-half of the Earth Period.

     Wednesday is the day of the Norse Mercury,  Wotan, and  corresponds to 
     the Mercury-half of the Earth Period.

     Thursday is the day of Thor, the Norse Jupiter, and corresponds to the 
     Jupiter Period.

     Friday is the day of the Norse Venus,  Freia, and  corresponds to  the 
     Venus Period.

     In addition to the rulership over the days  of the  week, the  planets 
     have dominion in turn over the  hours of  the day  and the  underlying 
     system, order and connection  between the  rulership of  the days  and 
     hours becomes apparent when it is noted that:

     The planet  for which  any day  is named  rules the  first hour  after 
     sunrise on that day.

     Starting with the hour of sunrise on Sunday which is ruled by the Sun, 
     the next hour is allotted to Venus, the  third to  Mercury. Next  come 
     the hours  of the  Moon, Saturn,  Jupiter and  Mars.  Then  come other 
     hours ruled by the  Sun, by  Venus and  all the  other planets  in the 
     order given: Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon,  Saturn, Jupiter,  Mars.  This 
     succession is followed in unbroken sequence to the next Sunday morning 
     when Mars rules the last hour of the week in his proper order and  the 
     Sun opens the new week with his beneficent ray.

     Under this arrangement of succession started at sunrise on Sunday, the 
     Moon rules the first hour of  Monday, which  is the  twenty-fifth from 
     the hour of the Sun which ruled Sunday morning.

     Mars rules the first hour on  Tuesday which  is the  twenty-fifth hour 
     from the hour of the Moon which ruled Monday morning.

     And so on, through the other  days of  the week.   This shows  how the 
     method  of  naming  the  days  for  the Planetary  Spirits which  have 
     dominion over them, dovetails with the system of  planetary hours  and 
     both are rooted in a foundation of esoteric knowledge.

     When we speak of planetary 'HOURS'  it must  be understood  that these 
     hours are not sixty minutes in  length, but  vary in  a wide  measure, 
     with the time of the year and the place of  your residence.   Near the 
     equator the divergence is least and it increases the further  North we 
     go because a planetary hour is  one-twelfth part  of the  time between 
     Sunset on a particular day and Sunrise the next morning or it  is one- 
     twelfth part of a particular day  beginning at  Sunrise and  ending at 
     Sunset.

     At the equinoxes, when  the day  and night  are of  equal length,  the 
     planetary hours are also sixty minutes each, but  at midsummer  and in 
     latitude sixty where the Sun rises at 2:47 A.M. and sets at  9:16 P.M. 
     giving a day of eighteen and one half hours and a night  of only  five 
     and one half hours, the planetary  hours of  the day  are ninety-three 
     minutes long against twenty-seven minutes for  the night  hours.  This 
     is reversed in December, for then the Sun does not rise till 9:13 A.M.  
     in latitude sixty North and it sets at 2:43 P.M.  with the result that 
     the planetary hours of the day are twenty-eight  minutes long  and the 
     night hours are ninety-two minutes.

     Regarding the use of the planetary hours, anyone  who has  studied the 
     nature and influence of the various planets on the affairs of life may 
     readily form an opinion.   Experiment and  observation will  soon make 
     anyone proficient in the choice of the best times for doing the  thing 
     desired with the best chance of success. There are many  who drag  the 
     stars in the gutter by perverted  use of  their influence  for selfish 
     ends and endeavor to obtain an undue advantage  thereby, but  students 
     of our literature will not expect  to find  advice on  how to  proceed 
     with such a purpose. We have not studied  the matter  from that  angle 
     and would not teach others how, if we knew. But  on certain  occasions 
     the planetary hours may be justly and beneficently  used and  we shall 
     try to indicate how they may be of service.

     Suppose we want to help a friend to obtain employment and know a place 
     where he would fit in.  We remember that the Sun is a  significator of 
     those in authority and  therefore the  hours of  the Sun  are good  in 
     which to transact business with and ask favors of such people and  you 
     will have the best chance of success if you apply at those times.

     But it is also important to remember that the planet  which rules  the 
     first hour of a given day has PRIME RULERSHIP during  that entire  day 
     and that the other  planets are  only subsidiary  rulers with  the day 
     ruler.   They  are  weakened  or  strengthened  in  proportion  to the 
     agreement or disagreement of their natures with the nature of the day- 
     ruler.  Thus if you  select a  Sun-hour on  Saturday, which  is tinged 
     with the obstructive Saturnine influence, your chances of  success are 
     not nearly as good as if you select a Sun-hour on a Thursday, which is 
     tinged throughout with the benevolent ray of its day-ruler Jupiter.

     Or, if you have occasion as a matter of duty,  to reason  with someone 
     who has a very short temper who you know is apt to  resent it  and say 
     or do something that you will  both wish  to avoid,  use the  cold wet 
     blanket of the Saturn-hour on Saturn's day if possible to put down and 
     quench  the  martial spirit.   The danger  of a  rupture will  then be 
     minimized to a wonderful extent and you will probably both wonder with 
     pleasant retrospection how well it went off.

     Or, if it becomes necessary to stir someone who has fallen into habits 
     of idleness wherefrom others are made  to suffer,  if it  seems almost 
     necessary to build a fire under  him to  make him  move, compound  the 
     fire and energy of Mars as a day-ruler with his influence as  an hour- 
     ruler by talking to him on Tuesday. He will heed then if it is  at all 
     possible to get him started.

     By using the planetary  hours on  the lines  here laid  down, for  the 
     purpose of unselfish service, you may confer a great many blessings on 
     others and lay up much treasure for yourself  in heaven  where neither 
     moth  nor  rust will  corrupt and  it is  well worth  remembering that 
     however much material advantage you may gain by using such  knowledge, 
     that material gain, power, position, money and all  other things  that 
     pertain to this world are left behind when  death calls  and that  OUR 
     GOOD DEEDS ALONE STAND BY US in that hour. Therefore do not scoff, but 
     if you want to use these  stellar influences,  use them  so that  they 
     will bring you everlasting instead of only temporary gain.

                                          - Simplified Scientific Astrology


                                PLANETARY HOURS

     Measures for  the alleviation  of pain  and disease  cannot always  be 
     deferred to a propitious time, but where that is possible  the student 
     will  find  that  remedial  treatments  given  under  the   propitious 
     planetary  rays  are  much  more  efficient  and successful  than when 
     applied  haphazardly.   Therefore  the  following hints  may be  found 
     valuable.

     Surgeons who have watched and tabulated these matters  inform us  that 
     the operations performed while the Moon  is increasing  in light  (see 
     Page  521)  are  generally  more  successful,  less  liable  to  cause 
     complications and more quickly healed than  operations performed  when 
     the Moon is decreasing in light.

     When a surgical operation seems unavoidable, consult the ephemeris and 
     if the Moon is going through  the sign  which rules  that part  of the 
     body where the operation is to be performed defer it for a day or  two 
     until the Moon gets well into the next  sign. This  will minimize  the 
     danger of complications and  not infrequently  the symptoms  change so 
     that an operation is avoided.

     Always look to the benefics and the good  aspects in  a horoscope  for 
     directions concerning  how and  when to  treat. Suppose  the Sun,  the 
     giver  of  life, is  square to  Saturn, the  planet of  stagnation and 
     death. The tendency is  to rob  the person  of vitality  and if  he is 
     taken ill,  recuperation will  be very  slow. Then,  to give  the most 
     effective and energizing treatment apply the principle of the day  and 
     hour rulers as given in our SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY -   choose 
     the Sun's day (Sunday)  and the  hours ruled  by the  Sun on  any day. 
     Treatments on Mars' day (Tuesday) and the hours ruled by  Mars on  any 
     day will also build up wonderfully. Similarly with the other  planets, 
     their virtues and power is greatest during the days ruled by them.

     But the so-called malefics also have their virtues. Poultices intended 
     to draw suppuration from a wound or bring a boil  to a  head are  most 
     efficacious on the hot and inflammatory Mars' day (Tuesday) or  in the 
     hours of Mars on any day, but applications made to disperse a swelling 
     are most successful when applied on the day of Saturn,  the planet  of 
     suppression, or in his hours on any day.

     Treatments received on the day and in the hours of  the planets  which 
     are well aspected in the patient's horoscope are always more  powerful 
     and beneficial than they would be  if given  in the  hours and  on the 
     days ruled by planets afflicted when he was born.

                                                     - Message of the Stars


                             PLANETARY HOUR TABLES
                                 QUESTION #113

     IS IT RIGHT TO USE THE GUIDANCE OF THE PLANETARY  HOUR TABLES  FOR THE 
     PURPOSE  OF  PECUNIARY  GAIN  OR TO  GAIN THE  ADVANTAGE OVER  ANOTHER 
     PERSON?

     ANSWER:  It  is  certainly  very wrong  to use  any means  to get  the 
     advantage over another person, it doesn't matter what  the reason  is. 
     If, on the other hand, we want to help somebody -- let  us say  that a 
     person is sick and we want to pour out our vitality and  give him  all 
     that we can spare -- then we can do that  best in  the hours  of Mars, 
     the planet of dynamic energy.  If we want  to help  somebody obtain  a 
     position and we use the hour of the Sun to go and  ask for  a position 
     for him, the Sun signifying an employer, then we are more likely to be 
     successful than at another time. We are using it legitimately also, if 
     we have to go and face somebody that  may harm  us. If  we can  find a 
     good hour it is all right.

     The  editor  was in  Germany in  1908 and  over there  in peace  times 
     everybody had to register. Those who were strangers had to register at 
     the police station and go in person to  show their  papers and  give a 
     good account of themselves. The police secured a  good description  of 
     them, asked about their religion, whether married or  single, and  how 
     long they intended to stay. These and many  more questions  had to  be 
     answered, and if one  moved around  the corner  to another  place, the 
     process had to be repeated. These  officers were  very brusque  and it 
     was not very pleasant to face them. So we thought we would  go in  the 
     hour of the Sun when the Sun was well aspected  and everything  was as 
     harmonious as possible. We were treated  very politely  and everything 
     went beautifully. However, later we moved. That time we couldn't  find 
     an auspicious hour of the Sun so went  in another  hour. They  were so 
     brusque that we were relieved, pleased and thankful to get out of  the 
     station with a whole skin. So planetary hours do have some effect,  if 
     that experience counts.


                   - The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers II

