What? You mean Planetary Hours? Right?
No..
No..
If you are preparing for a spell or ritual, you have a lot of factors that you can incorporate to reason why a certain time gives more chance of success than other times.
Not all of these factors are used all the time, and depending on your view you might never use planetary hours at all.
Years ago it was a hassle to calculate the hours for a day (I was very pleased with myself when I made a little formula in Excel to do it for me) but nowadays there are lots of websites that give these hours immediately.
One thing that annoys me is when I am planning something and look up what the hour of a planet on a certain day is only to find out I will not be able to do anything at that time (“computer says no”). So I can then ignore the planetary hours. But now that I looked it up it's in the back of my mind.. Man..
So there's that. But I also think the way these correspondences are assigned isn't balanced:
- the years are assigned to the planets (this Spring equinox starts the year of Mars)
- the seasons are assigned to the elements
- the months are assigned to the zodiac signs
- the days are assigned to the planets
- the quarters of the day (morning, afternoon, evening and night) are assigned to the elements
- the hours are assigned to the planets..
Using only these 6 units of time (and ignoring decades, weeks, minutes etc.) it could make more sense to assign the hours of the day to the Zodiac signs. This would give a far more balanced result and it is easily determined when the “best” time for any day is.
There are 24 hours in every day. Four parts of six hours. These are made into 12 two-hour-long “hours”, starting with Aries every day. No matter if it's April or October. To make it even simpler I won't bother with sunrise and sunset but start the day (every day) at 6 AM.
This gives the following table:
| 1 | 6 – 8 AM | Aries | Mars | Fire, Energy, Rising, New opportunities |
| 2 | 8 – 10 | Taurus | Venus | Earth, Start of (work)day, Securing and maintaining, Stable |
| 3 | 10 – 12 | Gemini | Mercury | Air, Communication, Busy and active mind |
| 4 | 12 – 2 | Cancer | Luna | Water, Lunch, Protective |
| 5 | 2 – 4 | Leo | Sol | Fire, Confident, Calm, Leadership |
| 6 | 4 – 6 | Virgo | Mercury | Earth, Problem solving, Practical |
| 7 | 6 – 8 PM | Libra | Venus | Air, Connecting, Dinner, Joy, Harmony |
| 8 | 8 – 10 | Scorpio | Mars | Water, Passion, Striking |
| 9 | 10 – 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter | Fire, Uniting opposites, Movement |
| 10 | 12 – 2 | Capricorn | Saturn | Earth, Midnight, Hard working to rise |
| 11 | 2 – 4 | Aquarius | Saturn | Air, Open to new ideas, Processing |
| 12 | 4 – 6 | Pisces | Jupiter | Water, Sensitive, Dreams |
Let's say you want to do candlemagick to influence someone.
Based on this table, you could then FOR EXAMPLE:
- write a spell in the first hour (between 6-8 AM)
Because you are starting this project
- connect it to your target in the third hour (10-12 AM)
Because the mind is open to communication
- empower the spell in the fifth (2-4 PM)
Because you feel the confidence and calm of midday
- prepare your candle in the 8th or 9th (8-12 PM)
Because you are working to strike and move your target
- perform your spell in the 11th or 12th (2-6 AM)
Because they are open to new ideas and influences
Makes sense?
