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Hour & Day

The ancient sunrise-to-sunrise clock. Each day is ruled by one planet; each hour within it by another, stepping through the Chaldean order. What you're doing now is happening in one specific hour's atmosphere.

Monday, June 22 · 6am/6pm sunrise/sunset approximation

Current planetary hour
Saturn
Night hour 4 of 12 · 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Today (Monday) is ruled by ☽ Moon

Today's full sequence

Twelve day hours (sunrise → sunset) and twelve night hours (sunset → next sunrise), each stepping through the Chaldean planetary order. Times shown assume a 6 am / 6 pm anchor — share your location for precise hours.

Day hours

1 Moon 6:00 AM–7:00 AM
2 Saturn 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
3 Jupiter 8:00 AM–9:00 AM
4 Mars 9:00 AM–10:00 AM
5 Sun 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
6 Venus 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
7 Mercury 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
8 Moon 1:00 PM–2:00 PM
9 Saturn 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
10 Jupiter 3:00 PM–4:00 PM
11 Mars 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
12 Sun 5:00 PM–6:00 PM

Night hours

1 Venus 6:00 PM–7:00 PM
2 Mercury 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
3 Moon 8:00 PM–9:00 PM
4 Saturn 9:00 PM–10:00 PM
5 Jupiter 10:00 PM–11:00 PM
6 Mars 11:00 PM–12:00 AM
7 Sun 12:00 AM–1:00 AM
8 Venus 1:00 AM–2:00 AM
9 Mercury 2:00 AM–3:00 AM
10 Moon 3:00 AM–4:00 AM
11 Saturn 4:00 AM–5:00 AM
12 Jupiter 5:00 AM–6:00 AM

How it works

A planetary day runs from sunrise to sunrise. The day's ruling planet is given by the weekday (Sunday / Sun, Monday / Moon, Tuesday / Mars, and so on). The twelve daylight hours and twelve night hours then step through the Chaldean order — Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon — starting with the day's ruler and cycling continuously.

Hours vary in length: a summer "day hour" is longer than a winter one, because daylight itself is longer. What stays constant is the sequence — the atmosphere of each hour, regardless of its clock-length.