The 2027 Book of Hours
Every day's planet and moon, and what the old almanacs chose it forThe Old Astrologers' Craft
Open it each morning, read today's planet and Moon, and choose your day the way the old almanacs did, all through 2027.
- Know today's sky at a glance: its planet, the Moon's phase and sign, and when she changes sign, in US Eastern and UK time.
- Know why you chose the day: an old almanac line for every day, with its book and year.
- Find your hour from your own sunrise, in four steps.
- Watch your own almanac grow: a page every week for what you did and noticed.
Dated 2027 · 160 pages · 7 x 10 in paperback · black-and-white interior.
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Start every day of 2027 knowing what the old almanacs chose it for.
You're the one who wants to do it on the right day. You've read three different answers to "can I do a Moon working in the daytime?" and you want the one with a name and a year on it.
The old almanacs gave that answer every morning. In 1577 Thomas Hill wrote that the yearly almanacs "doe maruellouslie helpe the Gardners in the election of tymes". In 1767 Samuel Deane, a New England minister, kept his diary on the blank leaves of his: "May 4. I planted short beans, sowed cauliflowers and apple seeds, being increase of the moon."
Now you keep one too, dated 2027. Each morning you'll see the day's planet, the Moon's face and sign, and the old line for the day. Then you choose, and you write it down.
And quietly. On the kitchen shelf it is what it looks like: an almanac and a diary for the year.
You go looking for when to do it and you get...
One thread says wait for night, the next says wait for the full moon, and nobody says who made the rule.
Day lists that say Tuesday is for this and Friday for that, and never name a book or a year.
Planners full of sun-sign horoscopes that tell you who you are and never what today is for.
Moon apps that give you a phase and a percentage, then leave you there.
None of that is your fault. It's what happens when the old almanacs get left out.
Every day of 2027 printed: its planet, the Moon's phase and sign, and the time she changes sign, in US Eastern and UK time.
One line a day of what the old almanacs chose it for, in their words, with the book and the year.
A label on every line: Old, or Old pattern, adapted, with the reason when a rule was moved.
Your planetary hours from your own sunrise, and the grid for every hour of the week.
A page every week to write what you did and what you noticed.
YOU OPEN IT, YOU CHOOSE, AND YOU KNOW WHY.
Turn to this week, read today's line, and choose your day with a reason.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2027 · OLD · HUSBANDMANS PRACTICE, 1663
Every day of 2027 has its own line on the left-hand page. Here is Thursday, January 7:
- Jupiter's day. Every day is named for the planet that rules its first hour.
- A New Moon at 3:24 pm ET, 8:24 pm UK, with the Moon in Capricorn.
- St Distaff's Day in the old calendar, and Venus entering Sagittarius.
- The old line, labeled Old: set fruit trees and hedge plants.
"set all kinds of quick-sets and fruit trees in the new of the Moon"
When a rule was moved, the line tells you. Tuesday's "Finish work done with fire" comes from Leonard Digges in 1555, who gave it to the Moon meeting Mars. The book sets it on Mars's day and says so in one line.
Then you turn to the right-hand page: your one working this week, the day and why that day, its hour from p 10, and whether it came from an old line, an adapted one or your own. Then a line for each day: what you did, what you noticed. All 365 days of 2027 are built this way.
See the whole year at once, then live it a week at a time
The year at a glance first: the Moon's phases, eclipses and stations, the old feast days, the year on one page and your planetary hours. Then the twelve months, each with an opener spread and a spread for every week. Then the year's-end pages, where your notes become your own rules.
Every new, quarter and full Moon of 2027
Each one to the minute in ET and UK time, beside the year's five eclipses and the day the Sun enters each sign. Mercury turns retrograde three times in 2027: the page prints when, and asks you to fear none of it.
The old feast days and the year on one page
Candlemas, Lady Day, Lammas, Michaelmas and Hallowe'en, as Hone's Every-Day Book kept them in 1826. Then all twelve months of 2027 on one page, each new and full Moon marked.
Find the planet of every hour
Four steps from your own sunrise, worked examples for New York and London, and the grid of which planet rules each hour of the day and night, from Lilly's rule of 1647.
A month opener for every month
August: the harvest drawing, the Saxon name Barn-moneth, Tusser's saying of 1580, the 1663 rules for the month, its old days, its sky with the total eclipse of the Sun, and the Moon's face and sign for every day.
What the old books chose each Moon sign for
Twelve signs, two old lines each, from Digges, Hill, Verus Pater and the 1663 Husbandmans Practice. Where the almanacs disagree with each other, the page prints the disagreement.
See what suited you
At the year's end, count your workings by the day's planet and the Moon, then write your own rules in two lines, the way Tusser wrote his in 1580.
Keep it the way Deane kept his
Franklin's readers asked him when to cut hair and sow salad. Deane wrote his planting in his almanac in 1767. Then your page of days to carry into 2028, and a letter to yourself to open next December.
What you'll be doing with the book open
A few of the things the pages set up, with where to find them.
- Do a Moon working at noon, and know why it holds. The old rules count the Moon's age and name her sign, and both hold through the day. Deane picked his apples at noon on the day of the full Moon, 1790 (p 5).
- Find the planet of any hour, from your own sunrise. Four steps, the grid for every hour, and sunrise tables for New York, London, Houston and Sydney (pp 10 to 13).
- Gather herbs to dry at the full Moon of June. As the 1663 Husbandmans Practice told its readers, with your own garden plan for 2028 beside it (p 152).
- Cut your hair on Venus's day, as Browne recorded in 1646. "Nails on Mercury's day, beard on Jove's, hair on Venus's": the old line for Friday, with Wednesday's beside it (p 147).
- Mark the year's big sky days. Five eclipses, eleven stations and the Sun's entry into each sign, printed as sky, with nothing to fear (p 7).
- Keep the old feast days on their dates. Candlemas, Lady Day, Lammas, Michaelmas, Hallowe'en and more, as Hone kept them in 1826, on the day lines and month pages (p 8).
- Plan one working a week, with its day, its hour and its reason. On every right-hand page: what, which day and why, the hour from p 10, and whether it came from an old line, an adapted one or your own.
- Write your own rules, and carry them into 2028. Count what suited you by planet and Moon, write your rules in two lines like Tusser, and list the days to carry over (pp 148 to 155).
Read the old almanacs' own words, with the book and the year beside them
Every day line comes from a book printed between 1555 and 1796: Leonard Digges' almanac of 1555, Thomas Hill's gardening book of 1577, Tusser's Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie of 1580, the Husbandmans Practice of 1663 and more. The hours come from William Lilly, 1647.
- Every quotation checked word for word against the text of its source, old spelling kept, with a plain line above it saying what to do.
- Every line labeled Old, or Old pattern, adapted. When a rule was moved to a new day, the line says where it came from.
- Every date, time, phase, sign and sunrise computed from one data file and checked against NASA JPL Horizons and the US Naval Observatory. None was typed by hand.
- You can check them. The full list of sources, with their editions, is on p 156.
Where the old almanacs disagree with each other, the page prints the disagreement instead of choosing for you.
Made for the witch who wants the day, the reason and room to write
Skip it if you want
- Predictions for your year, your sign or your love life
- Horoscope columns for your sun sign
- Medical astrology or herbal remedies
- Spirits, seals or conjurations
- An undated planner you can start in any year
It's for you if you want
- To choose your days by the Moon and the planets, with a reason
- The old words, the book and the year on every line
- A planner dated 2027, every day already printed with its sky
- Planetary hours worked from your own sunrise
- Room every week to write what you did and noticed
Go deeper into each planet and sign with the companion book
This almanac gives you the day. Planets, Signs & Magical Timing is the other book in The Old Astrologers' Craft: the seven planets, the twelve signs and the hours, what the old books gave each, and how to choose the time for a working.
And when a month's old custom has a working of its own, the month page sends you to its chapter in The Practical Grimoire.
Turn to this week. Read today's line. Choose your day the old way.
Start on the week of December 27, 2026 (p 16), where you write what you want 2027 to hold and the one old rule you'll try first. From January 1, every day has its sky and its line.
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The questions people ask first
Straight answers, from the book itself.
1.Is this book dated?
Yes, it is dated 2027. Every day from January 1 to December 31, 2027 has its own line. The first weekly spread starts on December 27, 2026 and the last ends on January 1, 2028, so every week is whole; the sky is printed for 2027 only.
2.I'm new to astrology. Can I use it?
Yes. The how-to page (p 5) shows how to read a day line in four parts. The planetary hours come in four steps, with worked examples for New York and London (pp 10 to 11). You don't need to read a chart.
3.Can I do a Moon working in the daytime?
The book's answer is yes: the old rules count the Moon's age and name her sign, and both hold through the day. Samuel Deane gathered his apples "about noon, on the day of the full of the moon" (1790, quoted on p 5).
4.I'm not in New York or London. Do the times work for me?
The Moon's times are printed in US Eastern and UK time, daylight saving applied. Central is one hour earlier than ET, Mountain two, Pacific three. Each month page gives that month's Moon phases in Sydney time, and the sunrise tables cover four bands of latitude, with the cities near each. The day's planet is the same everywhere.
5.Does it predict anything?
No. It tells you what the old almanacs chose each day for, in their words, and leaves the choosing to you. No luck, love, money or events, and no sun-sign personality columns. Try a day, write down what you noticed, and judge for yourself.
6.Is it Wiccan, or religious?
No. It is an almanac built from old almanacs, gardening books and calendars, each quoted with its author and year. The old calendar's feast days, like Candlemas, Michaelmas and All Souls, are printed by their names as dates, the way Hone's Every-Day Book kept them in 1826.
7.Do I need to buy anything?
No. "Anything you have to buy" is on the book's own list of what you won't find in it. You choose the day; what you do on it is yours.
8.Is there medical astrology, or herbal remedies?
No. The old almanacs were also medical books, with bloodletting and the Man of Signs, and all of that is left out. The garden lines are about sowing, setting and gathering. If you have pets, check any plant against the ASPCA list, and eat only what you know.
9.Do I also need Planets, Signs & Magical Timing?
No. The almanac stands on its own, with its own hours pages and grid (pp 10 to 13). Planets, Signs & Magical Timing goes further into each planet and sign and how to choose the time for a working.
10.What do I do with it when 2027 ends?
Keep it. The year's-end pages turn your log into your own record: the working you were glad you did each month, what suited you by planet and Moon, your own rules, and the days to carry into 2028 (pp 148 to 155).
11.How big is the book?
160 pages, 7 x 10 in, paperback with a matte color cover and a black-and-white interior. The twelve month drawings were made for it after The Twelve Months, the engravings by Adriaen Collaert after Hans Bol (Antwerp, 1578 to 1582). Published by WitchWish.
12.How does shipping work, and what if I change my mind?
Your copy is printed for you and shipped to your door. You'll see the delivery estimate at checkout. Every order comes with our 30-day money-back guarantee.