_Dante’s |Jerusalem|Purgatory| Positions of Sun,_| _Journey. | Time. | Time. | Moon and Planets | References._ | | | _in Zodiac._ | ----------+---------+---------+-------------------+----------------- | Night | |Moon full in Libra,|_Inf._ xx. 127. | | | about 7th degree | |Day I. | |Sun in Aries, |_Inf._ i. 38-40. Forest |Good | | about 7th degree | |Friday | | | |(1300) | | | ----------+---------+---------+-------------------+----------------- | Night | | | Inferno |Day II. | | | |Saturday | | | ----------+---------+---------+-------------------+----------------- |Night |Day III. | | | |Saturday | | Earth’s | Day | in | | Interior |(Sunday) |Purgatory| | | Easter | Night | | | Day | | | | |Day IV. | Venus in Pisces |_Purg._ i. 19-21. | |(Sund.) | at dawn | | |Easter | | | | Day | | | | in | | | |Purgatory| | | | | | | | Night |Moon in the middle |_Purg._ ix. 1-6. | | | of Scorpio | ----------+---------+---------+-------------------+----------------- | |Day V. | | | |(Mond.) | | | | Night |Moon at end of | | | | Scorpio or | Purgatory | | | beginning of |_Purg._ | | | Sagittarius | xviii. 79-81. | |Day VI. | | | |(Tues.) | | | | Night | | ----------+---------+---------+-------------------+----------------- Earthly | |Day VII. |Sun in the middle |_Par._ i. 37-44; Paradise,| |(Wed.) | of Aries | x. 7-33; planetary| | |Saturn in Leo | xxvii. 86,87. & stellar| | | | spheres | | | | ----------+---------+---------+-------------------+----------------- Primum | |Day VIII.| |_Par._ xxi.