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156 SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY to the first time which is than the time indicated by your watch. Move up one step. The figure found there indicates that the planetary ruler commenced to rule at that time and will continue in power till the time at which you first stopped.

The Hour-rulers are found at the intersection of the line containing the time at which they commenced to rule and the column of the proper day of the weeks,

To illustrate, if we want to find which planet rules in latitude 40 on Thursday at 2 P. M. during December, we run our index finger down the middle column of latitudes in the table for December, and stop at 2:18 P. M., which is the first figure that is later than we desire. We then move up a step to 1:32 P. M., and thence to the right stopping at the column of Thursday. There we find Mars, and know that that planet rules from 1:32 to 2:18 P. M. on Thursdays, during December and January, in latitudes 35 to 45.

Regarding the use of the planetary hours, anyone who has studied the nature and influence of the various planets on the affairs of life may readily form an opinion. Experiment and observation will soon make anyone proficient in the choice of the best times for doing the thing desired with the best chance of success. There are many who drag the stars into the gutter by perverted use of their