Your Star Sign Ruling Planet

This system of planetary rulerships begat the sevenfold schedule we call WEEK.
A week is perpetually the same and unchangeable in the way that the name of one day follows another.

But you must appreciate that in ancient times, every aspect of life had a correspondence with one of the 7 planets (Sun & Moon being called that, for convenience).

Not so long ago most people knew that gold was the noble metal related to the Sun, silver to the Moon, lead to Saturn, iron to Mars, copper to Venus, tin to Jupiter and mercury to Mercury.

The septenary schedule was universally adopted and gave rise to countless calendars and almanacs, each with a practical contribution for everyday self-guidance. What remains of these agendas mostly proves incongruous in a modern world, where a need for rational explanation must dictate every act, now—probably so we may sue one another with precision, when we are not at war, for goodness sake.

Trouble is, relying on readymade certainties to an excess will squeeze every bit of living experience into a congruous system—which simply decreases the enthusiastic value of novelty. In fact, modern individuality requires more creativity, to facilitate optional self-adaptation in an environment of quickly changing realities. Because there is no way we are going to have less changes in coming years.

The Old Septenary often proves of practical interest still today—but not if you are going to use it as an infallible system for the Quinella, but because it remains valid as a scheme of general correspondences between life and symbols. Anything that can approximate a comprehensive synthesis of inter-relations is unlikely to have been devised by Head Hunters on a lunch break.

Forthcoming, Your Ruling Planet tells you how to integrate these meanings into your day.