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Of the Planetary Days and Hours, and how to know
what Planet a Man is born under.
The planetary hours are those hours in which each planet reigns, and has the chief dominion, of which, the ancients gave the following account.
Saturn is lord on Saturday—Jupiter is lord on Thursday—Mars is lord on Tuesday—Sol is lord on Sunday—Mercury on Wednesday—Venus on Friday—and Luna on Monday.
On Saturday, the first hour after midnight, Saturn reigns, the second Jupiter, the third Mars, the fourth Sol, the fifth Venus, the sixth Mercury, and the seventh Luna; and then again Saturn the eighth, and so on to Mars the 24th; and then Sol beginneth the first hour after midnight on Sunday, Venus the 2nd, and so on; Luna the first on Monday, and Saturn the 2nd; Mars the first on Tuesday, Sol the 2nd, and so forward, planet by planet, according to their order, by which every planet reigns the first hour of his own day; and so likewise the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second; as for instance, Saturn reigns the first hour, the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second on Saturday, Sol the same hours on Sunday, Luna the same on Monday, Mars the same on Tuesday, Mercury the same on Wednesday, Jupiter the same on Thursday, and so Venus on Friday, which I have thus set.
But I shall now come to speak of the signification of the planetary hour of each planet, and what it portends to them that are born in them.
The hour of Saturn is strong, is good to do all things that require strength; such as
