More ancient astro elections

In Asteria we discussed the energetic patterns of the day and year in the chapter "Planetary days and hours" and alluded to the importance of working according to them based on the intent behind the operation. Continuing from the previous article on this topic (which I recommend you consult), here's some ancient elections concerning months and days, instead of zodiac signs. I find this to blend well with the information from our book.

The months are of the Babylonian calendar, naturally, but you can see their Julian approximation in the link I've tagged. While this information is still imprecise in regards to planning certain workings by considering the ancient recommendations, since you'd also have to approximate it with the Gregorian calendar (or the one you're using), it still gives you an idea of the times of year more auspicious for achieving certain goals using magical means.

The following is from the section "Translation of STT 300":

"1. [If] you perform potency spells [on] the first day of the month [Šabāṭu], from the first day to the 30th day, it will pay off.

2-3. [If in month Ayyāru], you perform (the spells) from the first day to the 15th day (for) having ‘forehead affliction’ or (for) alleviating impotence, (or) from [the first day] to the 30th day for getting rid of Lilû-demon and

seizure, it will pay off.

4-6. [If in month Nisannu on the 10th day] at the usual time you perform (the spells) for ‘changing someone’s mind’, on the 21st day (the spells) for

‘overturning a judgement’, on the 21st day (the spells) for ‘breaking a spell’; (the spells) ‘for illness not to approach a man’; (the spells) for curing the head; (the spells) for getting rid of mania; (the spells) for curing wounds; (the spells) for stopping menstrual bleeding; (or the spells) for ‘evil not to approach the house’, it will pay off.

7-8. If in the month Ayyāru on the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘loosening the grasp’, on the 21st day (the spells) for ‘breaking an oath’; (the spells) for ‘keeping an enemy away from someone’, (or) on the 13th day (the spells) to get rid of the Lilû and Lilith demons, it will pay off.

9-10. If in the month Simānu on the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘having a man love a woman’, on the 21st day (the spells) for ‘having a woman love a man’; on the 4th day (the spells) for ‘acquital through the river ordeal’; on the 30th day (the spells) for ‘hate magic’; or on the 30th day (the spells) for ‘having a man love a woman’, it will pay off.

11. If in the months of Ayyāru and Simānu, from the 1st day to the 30th day, you perform (the spells for) ‘entering the palace’ (egalkurrû), it will

pay off.

12-13. If in the month Du’uzu on the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘a man to love a man’, on the 21st day (the spells) for ‘having a woman come’, on the 12th day (the spells) for getting rid of the Lilû and Lilith demons, (or) on the 21st day at the usual time (you perform) the counter-spells for ‘making a man love a woman’, it will pay off.

14-15. If in the month of Abu on the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘cutting off the breath’ (spells), on the 10th day at the usual time (the spells) for bringing about a volte-face, on the 28th day (the spells) for stroke, bennu, seizure, ‘hand of the god’-disease, (or) ‘hand-of-the-ghost’-disease, it will pay off.

16-18. If in the month Ulūlu on the first day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘acquital through the river ordeal’, on the 21st day at the usual time (the spells) for ‘entering the palace’ (egalkurrû), on the 24th day (the spells) for ‘seizing a ghost in order to tie a figurine to a man’; (the spells) for not entrusting the figurine of a man to the dead, (the spells) for giving water to a ghost to remove harm, it will pay off.

19. If in the months of Du’uzu and Abu, you perform (the spells) for frightening a (female) rival and for removing a man from his office, it will pay off.

20-23. If in the month Tašrītu on the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘appeasing anger’ (spells); on the 11th day (the spells) for ‘making a woman come’; from the 16th day to the 20th day (the spells) for ‘cutting off of the breath’; (the spells) ‘for a woman to come’; on the 16th and 17th day (you perform the spells) for ‘inviting a god to a banquet, goddess ditto’; (the spells) for (needing) to cure paralysis; (the spells) for purifying a house; (the spells) for quarantining a man; (the spells) for (needing) to heal a sick rectum; (the spells) for (needing to) cure a calculus; (the spells) for (needing to) stop diarrhea; (the spells) for (needing to) get rid of fever; on the 7th day (you perform the spells) for quarantining a man, it will pay off; on the 21st day (you perform the spells) for ‘the king to mention his name with good intentions’, it will pay off.

24. If in the months of Ulūlu and Tašrītu, you perform the spells for removing a man from his position of trust or (spells) for a man being set against (another) man -- it will pay off.

25-27. If in the month of Arahsamnu the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for a prince to mention his name in the palace with good intentions, on the 21st day at the usual time (the spells) for ‘one who sees you to rejoice at seeing you’, on the 12th day (the spells) for quarantining the patient (and) for getting rid of the Lilû and Lilith demons, on the 18th day (the spells) for a mogul or prince not to believe slander, (or) on the 28th day (the spells) ‘not to experience insults’, it will pay off.

28-30. [If in the] month of Arahsamnu on the 28th day, you perform (the spells) for a man rising before (another) man; (the spells) for ‘appeasing anger’; (the spells) for ‘believing slander’; (the spells) for the dead to leave, or (the spells) for having intercourse with a sorcerer, witch or priestess; (the spells) for removing a mogul from the palace, ditto; (the spells) for divine anger; (the spells) for afflicting a man’s head; (the spells) for keeping a man away from a man who loves him and to keep a woman away from a woman who loves her, it will pay off.

31. If in the month Arahsamnu, you perform (the spells) for returning a man through his substitute (image), (the spells) for ‘overturning a judgement’; (the spells) for aphasia; (the spells) for breaking a spell; (the spells) for bringing about a volte-face, it will pay off.

32-33. If in the month Kislimu on the 10th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for seducing a woman, on the 21st day at the usual time (the spells) for ‘whoever looks at you to point his finger with good intentions’; (the spells) for ‘for pointing the finger with good intentions [for] your benefit’, (or) on the 12th day (the spells) for aphasia, it will pay off.

34. If the … day (of the month) you perform (the spells) for ‘making known and making him grasp his promise’, it will pay off. If you perform the taboo (spells), it will pay off.

35. If in the month of Kislimu, the … day being for (spells) to get rid of Lilû and Lilith demons (and spells for) aphasia -- if you perform them, it will pay off.

36-38. If in the month [Ṭebetu, on the 10th day] at the usual time you perform (the spells) for depositing gold and silver; on the 11th day (the spells) for annuling the ‘divine anger of the watchful god’; on the 11th day at the usual time (the spells against) a ‘man’s slave not running away’; (the spells for insuring that) the intentions of male or female slaves not change’; (the spells) for annuling the ‘divine anger of the watchful god’ or on the 12th day (the spells) for ‘cutting off the breath’ and to get rid of Lilû and Lilith demons, it will pay off. (If) in the month Ṭebetu, you perform the (spells) for ‘cutting off the breath’, it will pay off.

39. If in the month Šabāṭu on the 10th day at the usual time, ditto (you perform the spells) against a woman gazing [at] a man, on the 21st day at the usual time (the spells) for ‘hate magic’, ‘overturning a judgement’, ditto (it will pay off).

40-41. If in the month of Addaru on the 26th day at the usual time, ditto (you perform the spells) for ‘breaking a spell’; on the 28th day (the spells) for ‘keeping the foot of evil out of a man’s house’; on the 27th day at the usual time (the spells) to regularise a publican’s trade, apart from (spells) for counteracting the continuing over-consumption of the profit of his tavern, ditto (it will pay off).

42. If in the months of Ṭebetu and Šabāṭu on the 21st day, [ditto you perform (the spells)] for ‘a man’s slave not to run away’ (and) ‘that the intentions of slave and slavegirl not change’, it will pay off.

43. If in the months of Šabāṭu and Addaru on the 27th day at the usual time, you perform (the spells) for ‘breaking the spell’, it will pay off.

44. If in the months Šabāṭu and Addaru, you perform non-canonical incantanions (and rituals), it will pay off.

45. In all twelve months of the entire year, on the 27th, 28th, or 28th day, if you perform ‘sag.hul.ha.za’ (incantations/rituals), it will pay off.

46. Incantations elucidate the writings (lit. wedges) of the scribal school, let the knowledgeable reveal it to the knowlegeable but do not reveal it to the ignoramous."

You can see how various spells were recommended to be performed by considering the energy flows of certain times of the year. Although the author of states there's differences between ancient Babylonian tablets regarding elections for the same spells, it's safe to say those workings had been tested for considerable time in order to come up with the most favorable elections. It's possible different priests and sorcerers found different times suited for the same spells, but that's nothing out of the ordinary. The important thing is work had been done in this area in order to achieve improvement. 

Unfortunately, nowadays there's alleged experts who sell their heavily dependent on astro conditions merch having made and consecrated it even in inauspicious times. I think for them and their mumbojumbo the ancient Babylonians came up with #44 in the above list.