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Planetary hours today
Times are shown in the city’s own time zone.
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Aldaraia is a voice-first magical record. Talk through your working and it files the entry with the hour, Moon and void already filled in, then checks in on results.
Hours
| Hour | Ruler | Starts | Ends |
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Void-of-course Moon, next 30 days
| Void from | Until | Last aspect | Moon enters |
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How these are worked out
The planetary day begins at local sunrise. Daylight is split into twelve equal hours and night into twelve more, so hours run longer than sixty minutes in summer days and winter nights. The first hour of each day belongs to the day’s ruler (the Sun on Sunday, the Moon on Monday, Mars on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday, Jupiter on Thursday, Venus on Friday, Saturn on Saturday). The rest follow the Chaldean order: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon.
The Moon is void of course from its last exact Ptolemaic aspect (conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition) until it enters the next sign. The modern rule counts aspects to the Sun and all planets out to Pluto; the traditional rule stops at Saturn.
Positions come from astronomy-engine (MIT licence), accurate to about an arcminute; times are rounded to the nearest minute. Sunrise and sunset are at sea level with standard refraction. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.