Celestial Above: Planet Hours

Know which planet rules this hour, when today's best hours are, and what the sky above you sounds like. Celestial Above is a planetary hours calculator, birth chart and sky guide in one. It counts the planetary hours of the day and night from your own sunrise and sunset, rates each hour, and shows you the best time today for what you want to do. Every planet's position is calculated on your phone for your exact location. PLANETARY HOURS TODAY • The ruler of the current planetary hour and planetary day, updated live • Every planetary hour of the next 24 hours, rated Excellent, Good, Mixed or Poor • The best time today to talk and write, ask for money or help, reconcile, train, finish work, be seen, or rest • Reminders 10 minutes before a good hour, and the next good hour on your home-screen widget • Traditional unequal hours from your sunrise and sunset, or modern equal hours YOUR BIRTH CHART • Search your birthplace by city or US ZIP code; the time zone and daylight saving at your birth are worked out for you • A full natal chart wheel with signs, houses, Ascendant, Midheaven and aspects • See what is touching your chart today: transits to your Sun, Moon and planets • Your next solar return, lunar return and planetary returns • Hear your birth chart: the sky at the moment you were born, played as sound HEAR THE PLANETS • Live sonification of the seven classical planets: sign sets the pitch, the horizon sets the volume, retrograde planets bend downward • Real recordings from NASA spacecraft: wind on Mars from Perseverance, Juno passing Ganymede, Saturn's radio emissions from Cassini, Venus from Parker Solar Probe, and Voyager 1 in interstellar space • Build your own planetary soundscape with tones, drones and binaural layers THE SKY ABOVE YOU • Which planets are above your horizon now, where to look, and when they rise and set • Moon phase, void-of-course Moon, and retrograde planets • Planet pages with traditional correspondences and sourced profiles • Compass guidance toward any planet TRADITIONAL ASTROLOGY, DONE PROPERLY • Hour strength rated by William Lilly's essential dignities (Christian Astrology, 1647): domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term, face, detriment and fall • A 30-day electional finder for the strongest hours for your intention • Lilly's complete table of dignities GUIDED PRACTICE • Short guided sessions for each planetary hour in the tradition you choose: Western planetary magic, Theurgy, Navagraha, Thelemic, Wiccan, modern practice and more • A private journal of each session PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads and no tracking. Your location, birth details and journal stay on your phone. Free to use. Optional one-time unlocks: the Scholar's Atlas ($2.99) and the Daily Guide ($0.99). No subscription. Astronomical positions are calculated with Astronomy Engine. Astrology is presented as a tradition of interpretation; Celestial Above does not predict events or give medical, financial or psychological advice. NASA recordings are used courtesy of NASA, which does not endorse this app.