This hour
The Moon’s hour
5:25 pm to 6:33 pm
Good for home and the people who settle you. Next comes Saturn’s hour at 6:33 pm, for slow work and plans.
Day · from sunrise
- Jupiter7:05 am
- Mars7:57 am
- Sun8:48 am
- Venus9:40 am
- Mercury10:32 am
- Moon11:23 am
- Saturn12:15 pm
- Jupiter1:06 pm
- Mars1:58 pm
- Sun2:50 pm
- Venus3:41 pm
- Mercury4:33 pm
Night · from sunset
- Moon5:25 pm
- Saturn6:33 pm
- Jupiter7:41 pm
- Mars8:50 pm
- Sun9:58 pm
- Venus11:07 pm
- Mercury12:15 am
- Moon1:24 am
- Saturn2:32 am
- Jupiter3:41 am
- Mars4:49 am
- Sun5:58 am
The moon
Waning crescent
The old books give this mansion to digging for treasure, and ending what must end.
The day of Jupiter
The tide
Samhain to Yule
Samhain’s season runs until Saturday, November 7, when the Sun reaches the middle of Scorpio: the sky’s own Samhain. It is said the dead come nearest now, and many keep these nights for remembering.
A custom for tonight
A candle in the window
An old Irish custom for Samhain night: a candle to show the dead the way home.
The card of the season
Death · XIII
Something has run its course. Clear it away so the new can come in.
Scorpio’s card, for the Sun’s month in the Scorpion.
Read the card
Sablerune for iPhone
The rest of today
Your own chart, the planet of every hour, and the rites for tonight.
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The hours, the moon and the festivals are worked out on each visit for Columbus by the same engine as Sablerune for iPhone, from the astronomy-engine library. The planetary hours run from your sunrise and sunset in the Chaldean order. The day’s colour, herb, stone and metal follow Agrippa’s scales of the seven planets, with the Heptameron’s perfume of each day; the mansions of the moon and their uses follow Agrippa, Three Books II.33. The tides run from festival to festival, with the cross-quarter days kept both by the calendar and by the sky.