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Chaldean order
The seven traditional planets in order of apparent speed: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon.
This ordering underlies the faces (decans), the planetary hours and the names of the days of the week.
Sources
- Skyscript: classical and traditional astrological texts (opens in a new tab) historical
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.23, “Of Faces, Chariots, and the Like” (Robbins translation, 1940) (opens in a new tab) historical
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