
Explore the historical origins of planetary hours, from Hellenistic astrology onward, and how the Julian to Gregorian calendar transition preserved their sequence and link to the days of the week.
Discover how planetary days rise at sunrise and map to the week's rulers, from Sun and Moon to Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn.
Discover how planetary days divide into 24 variable hours, with day hours from sunrise to sunset and night hours from sunset to sunrise, shown by New York Christmas Day example.
Explore the Chaldean sequence of planetary hours—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and the moon—and how the first hour of each planetary day follows this cycle.
Explore star of the Magi diagram and its perimeter, revealing the Chaldean sequence of planets and planetary hours, and how it maps days of the week with planetary symbols.
Learn how to calculate planetary hours using location-specific online calculators and an offline, cross-platform smartphone app, including selecting country and city, setting date and coordinates, and saving custom locations.
Discover the new free planetary hours calculator with a Google Maps location selector. Calculate hours for the chosen date and see ruler strengths and weaknesses for talisman planning.
Explore how planetary hours guided medical astrology, herb lore, and planetary elections from the 17th century to modern practice, including herb gathering and talismanic uses.
Learn the seven traditional planetary symbolism for planetary hours using concise keywords, images, or emotions. Apply the Chaldean sequence and attribute lists to emphasize dominant energies in contexts like adornment.
Explore Saturn's symbolism and correspondences in traditional astrology, and learn to channel Saturn's energy for structure, discipline, and long-term projects. It notes health links, herbs, and Saturn hours.
Explore Jupiter's symbolism and correspondences. Learn how Jupiter governs abundance, optimism, wisdom, and generosity, and how to harness its energy with rituals, colors, metals, and herbs for luck.
Mars embodies energy and the control to channel it, highlighting its dual destructive and constructive power, from surgery and forging to conflicts and accidents.
Explore the symbolism of the sun as the central life energy and its prominence in planetary hours. Learn how personal rituals and talismans amplify solar energy and influence daily life.
Explore Venus’s threefold meanings—beauty, love and value—and how Venus hours shape fashion, relationships, and money. Discover how Venus favors courtship, arts, and social pursuits.
Explore Mercury as the sun's near symbol and the intellect's messenger, framing language, communication, and trade, with practical guidance on Mercury hours and related activities.
Explore the moon's symbolism as the female principle contrasting with the sun's consciousness and the moon's subconscious, and how moon hours guide travel, public life, home, and relationships.
Discover planetary years, the Chaldean order, and how Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and the seven classical planets influence yearly cycles from the vernal equinox to the moon year.
Explore the zodiac's twelve signs, the ecliptic, and how essential dignities, debility, detriment, and planetary hours shape planetary behavior across signs and the celestial map.
Discover Lily's system of dignities, including own house versus detriment, and how mutual reception by house shapes planetary strength and behavior.
Explore how exaltation strengthens planets beyond their home signs, with examples like Mars in Capricorn and Mercury in Virgo, and compare exaltation to own sign and mutual exaltation.
Learn planetary dignity, duplicity and triplicities; explore element-based signs and day–night rulership with Lilly's three-point dignity scoring.
Explore how Lilly’s terms determine planetary strength, comparing a planet in its term versus a guest term, and read degree borders to see if it sits in its tomb.
Delve into Lilly's dignities and faces, dividing each sign into three ten-degree faces, and learn how Mars, the Sun, and Venus yield plus one point.
Explore Lilly's peregrine status, where a planet has no essential dignity in a sign degree. Review examples like sun in cancer and an exercise on dignities and abilities.
Discover how accidental dignities and abilities, miscellaneous factors, affect planetary strength, including retrograde, combust, aspects, and fixed stars, with guidance for practical calculations in talisman creation.
learn how planetary hours strengthen when the sun moves through a planet’s signs, boosting that planet’s energy, and why the star sign is better called the sunshine sign.
Learn to identify the planetary hour of birth using a quick app method with time-zone corrections, and a precise software approach with sunrise-based adjustments.
Explore the three planetary rulers—hour, day, and year—and how the hour ruler acts as an inner guide toward personal destiny, with Moon as a guiding example.
Explore how the planetary rulers of the day and year shape health, life force, behavior, and social image through Mercury, Venus, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars.
Identify strong and weak rulers at birth and during planetary hours using a simplified dignity approach, essential and accidental dignities and abilities, and ephemeris tools or processes to guide practice.
Explore planetary hours, planetary symbolism, and rulers to see how time shapes mood and supports healing, with practical zodiac forecasts in an introductory astrology course.
Many people are familiar with the concept of the planetary hours, especially those who are dealing with the traditional practices, like herbalism, magick, alchemy, or astrology, and who know that it is important to do things at a particular moment in time. If the nature of what you are doing will correspond to the area of responsibility of the planetary ruler of the hour, your actions will become more successful, the results will be more rewarding, as the Nature itself will be assisting you.
If you think about it, you don't really need to be interested in some traditional practices to be able to benefit from the planetary hours — you can apply this knowledge to the actions and decisions of your daily life!
This course will teach you everything there is to know about what the planetary hours are and how to define them, what are the responsibilities of different planets, and what are their correspondences in the surrounding world. In addition, you'll learn about the planetary days, the higher level construct built from the hours, and the planetary years, a still higher level construct. They too can be meaningful in certain ways.
The important piece of knowledge that was mostly forgotten in the contemporary practices is that planetary hours can be more or less potent depending on the current condition of the ruling planet, and this course will restore the justice by thoroughly explaining what this means, and how to use this knowledge.
Finally, you will learn about the significance of the planetary hour (and the planetary day), when a person was born, and how to use this knowledge both in healing and for better psychological understanding.
Welcome to the course, I hope you will enjoy it and find it very useful!