Planetary hours and elections
The twenty-four planetary hours for any day and place, the phase of the Moon, and the next good windows for the work you have in mind.
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What the planetary hours are
The old astrologers divided each day into twelve hours of daylight, from sunrise to sunset, and twelve of night, from sunset to the next sunrise. The hours are equal only at the equinoxes: in summer the day hours are long and the night hours short, and in winter the reverse. Each hour is ruled by one of the seven classical planets, taken in the Chaldean order, from the slowest to the swiftest: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, and round again.
The first hour after sunrise belongs to the planet that rules the day: the Sun on Sunday, the Moon on Monday, Mars on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday, Jupiter on Thursday, Venus on Friday, and Saturn on Saturday. That is where the days of the week get their names. The planetary day runs from sunrise to sunrise, so the small hours before dawn still belong to the day before.
Elections
An election is a moment chosen for beginning a working. The simplest and oldest rule is to begin a work in the day and hour of the planet that rules it: Venus work on a Friday in an hour of Venus, money work on a Thursday in an hour of Jupiter. Most traditions add the Moon: drawing and increase while she waxes, banishing and binding while she wanes. The tool above lists the strongest windows first, where the day and the hour agree, then the other hours of the same planet.
Every operation in the Psychotron grimoires carries its own election, and the station can start a working by itself when its hour arrives.