stackyFACTSYou can never truly escape astrology because it is permanently hardcoded into your Google Calendar.
You can never truly escape astrology because it is permanently hardcoded into your Google Calendar. The seven-day week stems from the Hellenistic belief that the seven classical planets ruled the first hour of each day. Sunday is obviously the Sun, Monday the Moon, Saturday is Saturn. The rest got filtered through Germanic gods (Thursday is Thor/Jupiter), but the core truth remains: the work week is just a mandatory planetary reverence schedule.
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