Mercury is also the patron of gamblers, and not just thieves (and as i see it, all business / money stuff is “gambling” to a degree. ie, the risk / investment of some, to produce more).
and i wrote about this a little in my book Saturn Rising, but i feel that the hour is more important than the day. also, that the hours are male (in that they come / go faster or more “aggressively”, nesting within a given day which “nurtures” the hours.
to that end, we can sexualise or “genderise” the hours / days such, that the hour is the projective masculine side, and the day is the feminine, receptive side of the push / pull nature of magic in general. this is just my theory, and i have yet to experiment fully on it, but just like when the big hand and the little hand on a clock is pointing at “3”, we don’t say that the time is “three in three”, but rather that it is a “quarter past three”. similarly, we shouldn’t say that the planetary time is “saturn in saturn”, for example… although i don’t have a solution for what it should be called. i’m just trying to draw attention to the fact that something may be a little off, somewhere.
at the end of the day (and please excuse the pun), i think the hour of jupiter would be better for its projective, male qualities, and the day of, say… mercury or even saturn as the female, receptive and nurturing aspect. the energies sent forth will have the qualities of the hour employed, and the energies which return and which fill that energetic vacuum will be more heavily influenced by the day. saturn restricts, and in this case, it returns an energy signature that’s “restricted” to only those energies sent forth - those being of jupiter.
and as an aside, anyone willing to experiment with my idea of the hours being male and the days being female, with the hour being projected and the day being returned, should contact me as i’m desperately trying to conduct research into this for my next book (which is in production). anyone who helps will be credited in the dedication, and if you seriously help with the research from start to finish, you’ll get a copy for half price:)
-Tj.