The Planetary Hours are an ancient astrological system for selecting favorable times to act (and avoiding unfavorable times), by assigning planetary rulers to the twenty-four hours of the day. This book has easy-to-follow instructions for finding your birthday and birth hour rulers, and clearly explains how these determine your personality and your luck. A chapter on electional astrology explains how to use the Planetary Hours to find lucky times to act (to ask for money; to ask someone on a date or to marry; to go on a journey; to begin a new business). The chapter on How to Cast Spells gives the low-down on how to make magical spells (and prayers) really work, using simple astrological techniques. The use of the Firdaria, an ancient astrological prediction system which indicates positive and negative periods during a lifetime, is illustrated with a detailed analysis of events in the life of Theodore Roosevelt. Complete Tables of Planetary Hours at the end of the book allow you to find favorable times to initiate activities for any day of the year, and for anywhere on earth from the Equator to 58 North and South latitudes. Ideal for any level of astrologer. "How refreshing to have a whole book on the subject and one that goes very deep! How refreshing to have someone who knows his subject inside out, explain it. ... Bob Makransky has written the definitive book on Planetary Hours. It's the best book on the subject out there. It will be read and studied by future generations of astrologers. Its not just something that you read and discard. You want it in your bookshelf to refer to again and again." - Joseph Polansky, Diamond Fire magazine "Bob Makransky's new book ably taps the rising vogue for traditionalastrology, though eschewing the fatalism often assigned to so-called 'magical'ancient approaches. He describes Planetary Hours (PH) as the "astrology ofluck" and a method of finding empowering life moments for the proper exerciseof freewill - to be yourself and not an enslaved cog of convention, Makranskyexplains in this admirably lucid guide book. Having talked us through the system he thenexamines PH's application in natal charts, electional astrology and magicalspells before tackling the Firdaria system - which 'divides a person's lifeinto periods...of time ruled in turn by each of the planets in Chaldean order'. As an introduction, this book is highlyaccessible." - AA Journal