Question by Name Unavailable: I have a question about the order of the days of the week concerning astrology and religious observances:?
Some esoteric orders follow the days of the week according to a septagram (heptagram) and attribute planetary dominion over them.
For example, we now follow: Sunday (sun), Monday (moon), Tuesday (mars), Wednesday (mercury), Thursday (jupiter), Friday (venus) and Saturday (saturn).
Aside from the Chaldean order of the days of the week; historically or presently has there ever been a different observance in accordance with astrological phenomena? Possibly starting the days of the week according to the worship of different planetary rulers? Anything in the subjects of religious observance, ancient calendars, alchemy, astrology and mysticism.
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Answer by Blunt,to the point &comic satire
I follow the daylight/nighttime observance. Also the hot season/cold season shifts. Seems to be enough.
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Our current days follow the names of the Su, mon, and norse or roman deities such as Tiw, Woden, Thor, Freya and Saturn. The planets were given certain attributes, according to how they appeared in the sky and their movements in ancient days and we still follow much of the astronomical/astrological beliefs and formats from Babylonian magi onwards.
In some books you can look up days and hours which were meant to be propitious for working with the particular sphere of life with which the planets are associated.
The week always CORRECTLY begins with Sunday, the solar energy or Gold of alchemy, and ends with Saturday or Lead.
And no, today in practical terms, we begin with Monday, which is the Moon – emotions and instincts. It shows the reign of lunar gods, not solar gods. I will not debate about this, but you can see from the way things are, Sunday is no longer the start of the week save in name. It has become the “rest day” when it should be Saturday. This reversal is not unlike the reversal of the day like in Genesis: “There was evening and there was morning, the first day….” The day was counted from night to day.