Planetary hours and the days of the week
In the tradition each weekday and each hour of the day corresponds to a planet: Monday — the Moon, Tuesday — Mars, Wednesday — Mercury, Thursday — Jupiter, Friday — Venus, Saturday — Saturn, Sunday — the Sun. It’s an old system for choosing the timing of affairs, and it can be worked through with Viki in a couple of evenings.
The days of the week
The most vivid part: in many languages the day names literally contain the planets. Monday is the Moon’s day, Tuesday Mars’s, Sunday the Sun’s. Not a coincidence — a remnant of the very system.
- Monday, the Moon — home, family, recovery.
- Tuesday, Mars — action, argument, competition.
- Wednesday, Mercury — negotiations, letters, documents, study.
- Thursday, Jupiter — expansion, law, money, patrons.
- Friday, Venus — relationships, beauty, pleasure.
- Saturday, Saturn — order, boundaries, completion and routine.
- Sunday, the Sun — yourself, health, standing up to be seen.
Planetary hours
The finer system: the day splits into unequal «hours» from sunrise to sunset and back, each ruled by its planet in a fixed sequence. These were once used to pick the moment for starting an affair.
How to work through it
- Ask the general logic: «explain the planetary days of the week as if to a beginner».
- Test on yourself: for a week, note which days come easy and which drag.
- Ask about your chart: a planet strong in your natal chart usually gives «its» easy day.
- Only then go into the hours — without the days they won’t come together.
Honestly, about applicability
It’s a beautiful, coherent system, but don’t subordinate your schedule to it. The practical use is rather elsewhere: it trains you to think about what quality an affair requires, not about when «the stars allow».
Ask — Viki explains as if to a beginner.