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This is so easy it needs little explanation: its use is to find what planet rules any hour of the day and every day in the week. As for example-I desire to know what planet rules on Weduesday, at 8 o'clock at night: under Wednesday I look for 20, which answers to 8 o'clock at night; for the natural day, consisting of 21 hours begins at midnight, so that from 12 at noon you begin to reckon 13, 14, 15, 16, &c. you find that the 20th hour from midnight answers to 8 o'clock at night, over against which, on the left hand, you find Sol, which shows that to be the hour of the sun. And if you would know what planet rules at 7 in the morning of that day, you will find it against 7, which shows you that Venus rules that hour ; and so of any hour in the day