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The Mercury Hour Daemon

A small daemon that announces the planetary hours and prompts the operation that belongs to each.

What it is

To put planetary timing into the day without checking a table by hand.

Build a local daemon that knows the planetary day and hour, reads a small operations file, and sends one prompt at the start of each hour. Use the Planetary Hour Daemon and the Servitor Ledger.

How to do it

Write the operations file: one line per planet.
Write the hour calculation (or use a fixed approximation and say so).
Start the daemon as a cron job or a launch agent.
Send a notification at the start of each hour.
Log the hour, the operation and whether it was done.
Review the week and remove unused operations.

What you need

A location
An operations file (planet → operation)
A daemon script
A notification channel
A weekly review

A worked example

A Wednesday Mercury-hour prompt: 'write the one message you have been avoiding.' The log records the prompt and the action.

How you know it worked

After one week, count the prompts that led to an action. If fewer than three, the prompts are too many or too vague.

Variations

Run it for one planet only.
Use the daemon to close workings at the hour of the planet that opened them.
Make the prompt a shared message for a group.

Code sketch

This is a sketch, not a runnable program. It names the shape of the automation; the definitions are yours.

const chaldean = ['saturn','jupiter','mars','sun','venus','mercury','moon'];
const planetFor = (dayIndex, hourIndex) => chaldean[(dayIndex * 3 + hourIndex) % 7];

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