HPS Lydia
High Priestess
I personally think using the planetary squares to empower chakras is a waste of the square. Use the squares for material or spiritual reasons such as improving the areas of your life ruled by that planet, and then use words of power to strengthen and empower your chakra. You can even do this at the same time: for the hour of the planet, work on the chakra and then do the square for other purposes. Another thing that needs to be addressed. The planetary day does not begin at 12:00 AM. How can it? 12:00 am is a completely arbitrary hour, having nothing to do with spiritual energies. The day begins with the sunrise. The Sun brings the new day, in a wave going across the planet. Not according to the middle of the night in “time zones”. When the sunrise happens in your exact location, that is when the new day begins for you. So, for all who do the planetary square for one day at say 8am, and then the next at 5am, keep in mind that is the previous day (unless sunrise is before 5am). So you did too many reps for that day, and none for the next day. Alternately, if you forgot the square and it just turned “midnight”, don’t quit the square. You didn’t mess it up just because the clock turned from PM to AM. Also, a lot of SS use, or think of using, the Venus square for money. Venus rules lesser money, lesser than the Sun. So you are doing a 49 day working just to get a bit of money. If you want money, use a rune or a Sanskrit mantra. The only exception to this is if Venus is a ruler or co-ruler of your 2nd house in your natal chart, so it can be used to permanently improve this house (2nd house rules finances). Lastly, the squares are easy to mess up. You have 37 reps for one day, you do them, and it’s the next day with 36 reps. So close in number, that you may accidentally do the previous day’s number. Make sure to double and even triple check the number and mark it so that you don’t go past. Make sure to use something that is sturdy that won’t fall apart. Using the fingers is fine for smaller reps, but even so, once you get into a trance you can easily keep going with the reps. Practice a lot with smaller squares before attempting to tackle the Moon or Mercury squares. There is no worse feeling than putting in a month or more of time and effort, only to mess it up near the end. Jupiter is out of detriment so this square can be done, it is short enough to do multiple times for practice, and we can all use Jupiter’s energy anyway. And consider using something else for the effects that you want. If you want a better memory, instead of using the Mercury square which you might mess up, use the Mannaz rune with a set amount of reps every day. Same for money, love, healing, and so on. Look to the runes first. Use the planetary squares mainly for improving the areas of your life ruled by that planet.