Planetary Hours

A Manual of Celestial Timing

Planetary Hours — A Working Guide

Planetary hours are not a novelty clock trick. They are a discipline of timing: a ritual partition of day and night into twelve temporal hours, carried by a fixed planetary sequence. Here we treat it as what it is — a practical framework for electional choice and operative work, grounded in the sky.

Open Hours Open Election

Planetary Hours — Complete Foundation

What planetary hours are, why they are temporal (unequal), and how to read the hours table like a practitioner.

The Method: How the Hours Are Computed

A clear algorithm: sunrise/sunset, temporal hours, boundaries, then planetary rulers.

Temporal (Unequal) Hours Explained

Why the hours stretch and contract — and why practitioners insist on it.

Day Ruler vs Hour Ruler

Two rulerships, two different meanings — and a common source of bad elections.

How to Read the Hours Table

What each column means, what matters, and how practitioners actually use it.