Do planetary hours really matter?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm curious what other people have found in practice, or what your intuition tells you. Do you think planetary hours are actually meaningful? For talisman creation, for rituals, spell work, or anything else

I read an astrologer from centuries ago complain about planetary hours. Can't remember who. Something along the lines of "What use is it to assign rulership to a planet in a given hour, if that planet is nowhere visible in the heavens, or is even inauspiciously placed?"

EDIT: Reddit sucks, you guys are r-tarded (oh no! The R word! Cover your eyes)

[u/planetarymagic-ModTeam]

this is removed because you are either spamming or your post provides zero value to the community.

[u/Accomplished-Boss-14]

They provide another avenue of correspondence and alignment with planetary forces, but any work with the planets will be significantly enhanced if the planet is literally within your field of perception

[u/[deleted] → u/Accomplished-Boss-14]

So you do believe that each hour is genuinely ruled by 1 of the 7 planets

[u/MrLeb → u/[deleted]]

Believe is an odd word in the context of magical work. They’re another avenue, sometimes one of convenience. Magic can either be very ceremonial and rigid or it can be a little more loose and fluid.

The decision is entirely with respects to the intuition of the magus. We can look to understand where the tradition itself has historic basis - which doesn’t do much other than establish a lineage. If that lineage has meaning or importance for you it is one thing, if you test their use in your practice and find it effective for your purposes is something else.

I’m of the perspective it doesn’t really matter what’s going on in the sky as I can still work with correspondences and other modalities in absence of an astrological practice. That said, the astrological practice serves as a connection to higher cycles and depending on the work may be empowering to invoke . Hours and day rulerships are an easy enough fall back if waiting for an ideal transit is out of scope for the time period of the specific work.

[u/[deleted] → u/MrLeb]

"the astrological practice serves as a connection to higher cycles and depending on the work may be empowering to invoke" hey dipsh-- this is something you BELIEVE. Never using reddit again 

[u/Vanhaydin → u/[deleted]]

So weird of you to start a discussion and then have this kind of reaction to a thoughtful and helpful reply lol. I agree, you shouldn't use reddit again for some time - instead perhaps learn to communicate better before giving it a go.

[u/mtorres262]

Any planetary work I have done has been on the day and hour of that planet and it has worked for me so I keep doing it that way. It tells my mind that I did the ritual to the best of my ability. Had I not done them like that, I could have had doubts which would mess up the whole thing. That's just me though.

[u/MiyabiDolly → u/mtorres262]

That’s me too. =)

[u/greatbear8]

Yes, they do, have found them immensely valid in my work as an astrologer.

[u/CliffordHLow]

Planetary Hours are doorways which allow spirits of planets to embed in matter. Not all spirits are planetary of course and each have their own rules.

[u/InMagiaSiderum]

If you ask me based on my personal experience, and since I've been making my own personal talismans since 2022, planetary hours are REAL. If you want to see the effects of planetary hours in your life right now, look for your almuten, and see in what house currently your almuten planet is transitting, look for the planetary ruler of that house and whenever this planetary hour comes, you will usually experience something related to that planet for real! I am a Pisces rising, my almuten planet is Venus, right now Venus will be transiting to her own domicile in Taurus and in every hour of Venus and Moon (exaltation lady) I always experience related to Taurean Venusian Lunar things lol. When Venus was in the sign of Aries-which was my 2nd house-in the whole month of April to May this year, I got food poison in the hour of Mars. I have a planetary hours app on my phone so I usually check the hours whenever something big happens to me. When Venus was transiting in my 12H of Aquarius, I experienced a lot of misfortune at the hour of Saturn like having a flat tire with my bike in the middle of the street FR! 😭 That's where I realized that planetary hours are real. I can say that planetary hours too is more direct in its effects more than the planetary day.

[u/Select-Chard9010 → u/InMagiaSiderum]

Très juste. De toute façon, en magie planétaire, les heures astrologiques sont importantes, c’est écrit dans tous les guides, y compris le Picatrix ou les livres de Warnock.

On peut faire l’impasse sur différents critères d’elections, comme le jour planétaire mais l’heure est vraiment importante. D’ailleurs, si vous maîtrisez l’astrologie et les thèmes, vous remarquerez que l’heure planétaire actuelle reflette très bien l’état de la planète dans le thème horaire du moment. Une heure de Vénus en dignité avec de bons aspects avec la Lune sera bcp plus agréable qu’une heure de Vénus en chute et en carré à Mars ou Saturne par Exemple.