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By the way, the hours of the day are also associated with particular planets. For any given day, the first "hour" (see below) is governed by the day's planet (e.g. Sun for Sunday, Moon for Monday, etc.). Each subsequent hour is governed by the next planet in the following sequence:
Sun
Venus
Mercury
Moon
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
So, on Tuesday (Mars' day), the first (and eighth and fifteenth) hour is governed by Mars, the second by the Sun, the third by Venus, and so on.
The day (however long it is) is divided up into 12 hours, beginning at sunrise and ending at sunset; the night is similarly divided into twelve hours, from sunset to dawn. This necessitates adjusting the length of the individual hours to fit, according to the season of the year. Today's hours (it's late summer here, a little more than a month to autumn, sunrise is at 6:28 am, sunset at 7:56 pm) are
(Hours of the Day)
6:28 AM Mars
7:35 AM Sun
8:42 AM Venus
9:50 AM Mercury
10:57 AM Moon
12:04 PM Saturn
1:12 PM Jupiter
2:19 PM Mars
3:26 PM Sun
4:34 PM Venus
5:41 PM Mercury
6:48 PM Moon
(Hours of the Night)
7:56 PM Saturn
8:48 PM Jupiter
9:41 PM Mars
10:34 PM Sun
11:27 PM Venus
12:19 AM Mercury
1:12 AM Moon
2:05 AM Saturn
2:58 AM Jupiter
3:50 AM Mars
4:43 AM Sun
5:36 AM Venus |
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