Capítulo 2. Elementos del diseño
2.6 Los blancos
Each symbol represents the ruler for each hour, and the energy of that hour affects everyone in your longitude.
The SUN’s hour is good for signing the deal.
VENUS’s hours are good for shopping.
MERCURY’s hour encourages people to exchange information
freely.
The MOON’s hour is good for short trips and short visits.
SATURN’s hour will help you finish old jobs.
JUPITER’s plan for the future—everyone feels generous MARS’s hour will help you start a new project.
Let’s look at Monday, for example. Sunrise, a Blue Moon Monday, the last thing you want to do is get out of bed and go to work. Then the Saturn hour comes, and you start thinking about bills. Next, the Jupiter hour gives you ideas of how to collect money. Mars’s energy sends you to work, and you start a new week. If you spend winter in the North, when the Mars hour comes, half the morning is shot.
SUN: The Sun’s hour is great if you want something to have permanent, lasting qualities, for
example, a marriage. It’s a good time to deal with people in authority, make public announcements or to ask for favors and promotions. The Sun is honorable, and people will hold you to your word. The Sun’s hour makes you feel proud; therefore, avoid vanity. Be considerate of others.
VENUS: The Venus hour is an ideal time for social events, obtaining cooperation, and making
new friends. People are relaxed and at ease; it’s time for feasting. It’s a good hour to patch things up or make peace, and is good for your love life and love affairs. It’s a good time for shopping and doing creative art projects. Travel during this hour is usually done for a reason. Venus hours can mean self-indulgence, laziness, or foolish spending.
MERCURY: This hour is great if you want people to talk. It’s a good time for contracts,
agreements, and correspondence. It’s also a good time for interviews, and ideas flow freely. During a Mercury hour, you can make quick business decisions concerning buying or selling. It’s a good time to read books, study, or begin a journey. Watch out for tricky deals because you “can’t trust what you are hearing;” listen for insincerity. “Talk is cheap.” Get the details in writing.
MOON: The public in general is more than normally sensitive, and you will get further if you
appeal to the emotions. “Direct ideas to emotions rather than logic.” Work on sympathy and
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sensitivity during a Moon hour. It is better to praise someone and say, “that was a good try” with a constructive suggestion. The Moon hour beginnings “will change.” It is not advisable to make permanent arrangements.
SATURN: It is a great time to listen and let the other fellow talk since Saturn is the symbol of
self-preservation. During the Saturn hour, “selfishness prevails,” and others will try to defend themselves. Saturn is greed. Slow down in a Saturn hour and don’t start anything new. Set aside a Saturn hour and use it for finishing old jobs. The Saturn hour question is, “Is this the right time for it?” “Will I have enough time to do it?”
JUPITER: A very good hour to plan for the future. People have a generous attitude so don’t
underestimate any call or letter you get during a Jupiter hour. It is a good time for all sports and a good time to start a distant journey. A Jupiter hour makes for faith and trust, and “on the whole, people are going to be more generous than normal.” Watch out for “over-optimism” and avoid judging without getting all the facts. “Over-expansion” and others may waste your vitality.
MARS: It’s a marvelous time to start anything NEW especially if it’s self-initiated. You have a
tendency to be self-confident with egotistical energy. Be tactful and avoid impulsive action, being hasty or forcing issues, and be sure others know you are listening to them.
I use these hours to buy or sell anything from ‘scratch-offs’ to stocks or cars, or even to mail important letters. The reason is that my life is very busy, and the fewer hassles I encounter, the better it is. And usually, if I make the effort to check the hour, I don’t have to retrace my steps.
You can also use this timing technique to avoid doing things you don’t want to do. Let’s say you are thinking about a question and you are being pressured to give an answer. A Moon or Saturn hour will help you delay giving that answer.
Let’s say you have finally chosen the car you want to buy. Mercury is direct, the Moon is making favorable aspects to Saturn, and you need to choose a good time of day to close the deal. You notice that the Mars hour is followed by the Sun hour. The Mars hour is a good time to start a new project and a good time to sign a deal follows it.
To use the planetary hours, first determine your ruling planet. We use the rulerships of ancient astrology to determine which planet rules the sign of your Ascendant. For example, if you have Aries or Scorpio rising, your ruling planet is Mars. That hour will then be your best hour each day. It’s the time when you’ll really feel that you have your decision-making act together. If you also have a planet in its ruling sign, say Jupiter in Pisces, then the Jupiter hour will also be good for you.
For choosing proper times at future dates, a small investment for a Farmer’s Almanac is worthwhile. Since daylight hours do not change too rapidly from one day to the next, each chart you draw up can be used for at least three days. Also, there are the same number of minutes of daylight on June 7thand July 7th. This is actually the origin of the concept of antiscia. You may
also save your mathematical calculations and use them from year to year as long as you don’t move to a different longitude and latitude. And yes, there are computer programs available to do the calculation. Some are even free.
The next thing to do is to set up a schedule to experiment with your planetary hours. One method is just to write down the time that something pleasant happens to you. Another method is to set yourself up for pleasant events. For example, buy one of those scratch-off lottery tickets during your ruling planet’s hour.
Oh, a handy way to remember the order of the planetary hours is to know that they are in order of their speed. Saturday starts with Saturn, the slowest, followed by Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and they end with the quickest, the Moon.
To set up a Planetary Hour Chart, look in your daily newspaper for the hours of sunrise and sunset. From this information you can easily determine the length of daylight hours. Divide these hours by 12. The remaining hours are “night hours.” Also divide these by 12. It is a bit tricky but it’s easier if you convert the hours to minutes first.
Daylight Hours (Example: December 31, 1991), Boston, Massachusetts. Always use... 12:00 Noon
Deduct Sunrise Hour (example) – 07:13 A.M. Hours/Minutes until Noon 04:47
Add Time of Sunset + 04:19 P.M.
Total Daylight Hours/Minutes 08:66 or 9 hours, 6 minutes
Divide 12 into 9 hours, 6 minutes = 45 ½ minutes for each “hour”
Night Time Hours
Full Day ... 24:00 hours Deduct Daylight Hours/Minutes – 09:06 Total Night Time Hours/Minutes 14:54
Divide 12 into 14 hours, 54 minutes = 1 hour 14 ½ minutes for each “hour”
Apply times shown in example to December 31st chart.
Allow five minutes either way in charts where altitude could be a factor. The 1st and 8th hours
have more emphasis, as does the ruler of the day. Your planet is the one that rules your sun sign and your rising sign. The hour your planet rules is the hour you take the initiative, and this is when a gambler should begin the game. Use Mercury for Aquarius rising, Jupiter for Pisces rising, and Mars for Scorpio rising.
EXERCISES
1. Fill in the times of sunrise and sunset in your area for today, and then fill in the chart in
Appendix C.
2. Try doing various things during the different planetary hours. For example, try cleaning something during a Mars hour. Try calling a friend during a Moon hour, or try shopping during a Jupiter hour.
3. Write down any results, especially if they’re funny, and share them with the class.
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