#Chair #Harvesting by #Astrology's rules of #Planetary Hours and Days

04-16-2019
Harvesting by Proper Planetary Hours and Days is a perhaps very contentious subject in Herbalism, but very normal in Magick.

First off, let me state while Janice is a Professional Astrologer, Did charts and Astrological reading by hand and ephemeris by hand for years and later on with the best computer software.
I am not one. I do keep a program running on my computer that updates me every hour on the Planetary times.

Before one addresses the pros and cons of such doing, a solid knowledge of what are such rules, where did they come from? Is there more than one set of rules and how to calculate or locate the proper times and its rulers. And then there is the questions and arguments about which Planet owns what Plant or herb and why.

While this is far too big a subject for this blog and I would just be cutting and pastings others works.  Happily, I can share with you a very good and thorough website on the subject.
Ref.1 Rulership of the Days and Hours in Traditional Astrology

The Chaldean order:

>>The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed in Hellenistic astrology, it has possible roots in older Babylonian astrology, and it is the origin of the names of the days of the week as used in English and numerous other languages.The classical planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, and they take rulership over the hours in this sequence.

The sequence is from slowest- to fastest-moving as the planets appear in the night sky, and so is from furthest to nearest in the planetary spheres model. This order has come to be known as the "Chaldean order".<sup><<
Ref.2 Planetary hours

While there many modern books you could buy on the Subject, I am quite sure they are all regurgitations of much older, out of copyright works.</sup>

Ref. 3 A free book with OCR that list which Plane rules what herbs. The scan is poor but with OCR it is very usable.

The Beauties of Occult Science Investigated: Or, The Celestial Intelligencer (1810)

Ref. 4 The Elements of Astrology (1906)

Ref. 5 A Manual of Astrology, Or The Book of the Stars (1828)

By Robert C. Smith, J. Palmer

Ref. 6 The Journal of American Folk-lore, Volumes 8-9 P175 'Micmac Magic and Medicine.'

Ref. 7 Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions (1887)

Ref. 8 British Journal of Astrology, Volume 1 P-180

Ref. 9 Blagrave's Astrological Practice of Physick, etc (1674)

Ref. 10 The Astrologers' Magazine and Philosophical Miscellany: Being an ..., Volume 1

Ref. 11 " An alphabetical Table of Herbs and Plants ; also what Planet governeth them." 
(P-492)

Ref. 12 Crow - Occult Properties of Herbs and Plants.pdf

Ref. 13 Where it all started in 1633: Culpeper's Complete Herbal

etc etc ect.

Ref. 14 The program I use for Planetary Hours:

As Lunar Planting and Harvesting: As this is a much more studied subject, and it is not a Planet, I will save that for a future Discussion, Chair, and Blog.

Questions:

1) Do you believe in Planetary ownerships of Hours, Days, and Plants?

2) If so which, system, book, program, etc do you use, the Chaldean order or?

3) If you do believe in it, how important is it in your Herbal works?

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May your Gods and the Planets be with you in your Scared Works.

The Druid King aka TDK