Planetary Hours: A Guide to Working With the Energy of Each Day
Planetary hours are an ancient timing system that assigns different portions of the day and night to one of the seven traditional planets.
Each planet is associated with different types of energy, so planetary hours can be used as a simple way to intentionally time things like rituals, manifestation, creative work, business, communication, self-care, and everyday activities.
You don't have to plan your entire day around them.
Think of planetary hours as another tool you can use when the timing feels important.
For example, you might choose a Venus hour for love, beauty, creativity, or connection, a Mercury hour for communication or business, or a Jupiter hour when you're focusing on growth and abundance.
The charts below are designed to make it easy to see which planetary energy you may want to work with and which planet rules each day of the week.
A QUICK NOTE ABOUT TIMING
Planetary hours are not fixed 60-minute clock hours.
The daytime period from sunrise to sunset is divided into 12 planetary hours, and the nighttime period from sunset to the following sunrise is divided into another 12.
Because sunrise and sunset change throughout the year and vary by location, the exact planetary hour times will change too.
Use the example schedule above as a visual guide to understand how the system works, then use your local sunrise and sunset times when calculating planetary hours for your own day.