Horary Astrology
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Horary astrology answers specific questions from a chart cast for the date, time and place the question was received.
A MEDICAL CASE
This is a very complicated case that requires close attention to horary rules. A woman client asked me three questions. This brings up the matter of answering multiple questions in one chart. Yes, it can be done. In my present horary practice, I encourage (arm twist) clients to ask only one question at a time particularly if they are closely related questions, like buying two separate properties, for example. I think it is a bad practice to give the impression to clients that they can rattle off every question they ever had about life in the universe and expect one chart to cover it. Open chart
Should I change doctors?
Should I have a complete or partial hysterectomy?
When should I have the surgery?
The first question was born of her concern about her long-time family physician. She was increasingly troubled as to his competence, recounting several complaints. She was advised to have a hysterectomy in June 1975. This question was asked in August of 1976. So lets turn to the first question about the advisability of changing physicians. Fasten your seatbelt, this situation takes a lot of twists.
The rising sign is Aquarius. I use both rulers, Saturn and Uranus. Ignore the intercepted sign for now. Each ruler has a story to tell. Saturn in the Sixth House is appropriate in health questions and Uranus in the Eighth is in the house ruling surgery and surgeons. The Seventh House rules medical doctors. The Sixth House rules chiropractors, naturopaths, dentists and other healers.
The Sun in Leo rules the present doctor. Remember, when we are answering this one question we are forgetting about any other questions. The Sun has left the conjunction to her ruler, Saturn. Neptune is retrograde in the Ninth House, which is three houses from the seventh, the doctor's Third House is his state of mind. He may lack full understanding and good judgment if Neptune is there and retrograde. Neptune also rules the client's First House, the intercepted Pisces, so she may be really confused and indecisive, also. (That is this client's middle name!) Neptune is separating from a sextile to the Sun, the Doctor's ruler. The Moon will oppose the Sun. It is not looking so good for this guy. There is nothing here to bring them together. The intercepted sign in the Seventh House shows one situation giving way to another, or one doctor replacing another. Mercury rules the intercepted sign and has dignity in Virgo. Maybe the next doctor will work out better.
Neptune turned direct the coming August 23, the same day the Sun entered Virgo and conjoined Venus. Maybe a woman doctor? When we want to know what house rules the next doctor, the rule is to skip a house to determine the next in a series of anything. That takes us to the Ninth House. I use both rulers, Mars and Pluto. Pay attention now, this gets tricky. I have already decided that Virgo as the intercepted sign indicates a new doctor. Sure enough, Mars ruling the next doctor comes to the Seventh House, the house that rules doctors and in the intercepted sign, Virgo. This is the sort of thing that lonely horary astrologers working away in isolation get inordinately charged up about.
What about Pluto? Well, it is in the next sign Libra, and is it stretching things too much to say that the chart is indicating a surgeon coming into the picture? I think we can jump to that conclusion because it disposits a planet in Scorpio in the Eighth House and the Moon is close to a trine to Pluto from the hospital Twelfth House. She's headed for surgery alright.
Is the surgery necessary? Well, she has something the matter with her. Saturn is in the Sixth House of illness and is squaring the Moon's nodes and in the same degree of the nodes. Planets in the same degree (no matter what sign, just the degree number) as the nodes indicate a catastrophe no matter how great or small. I'm worried now. A square in fixed signs does not bode well for the outcome. The Moon applies to an opposition to Saturn, just in case we have any doubts left. The Moon ends with a square to Jupiter. That is the other ruler of her intercepted sign of Pisces. Jupiter is headed for the Pleiades, a malefic fixed star with the dubious nickname "the weeping sister." There is plenty to cry about before this is over and done with.
What about this business about a partial or complete hysterectomy? (How am I supposed to answer that?) The Scorpio planet in the Eighth House rules the female organs of reproduction so the hysterectomy is indicated. Mars rules cutting and surgery. The Moon will make a quincunx aspect to Mars indicating after-surgery complications with fever and hemorrhaging. Are we going to have a fatality here? Well, the Arabic Part of Death is in the Eighth House of Death. However, the question was about whether there is to be "death" to part of an organ or all of an organ, not to her personally. I take it to mean that this indicates a complete hysterectomy. The reason she asked this question is because she had a friend who had a partial hysterectomy only to have two more surgeries because the first ones did not solve her problem. This does look bleak, but I judged that the Moon's trine to Pluto that rules surgery and death would save her from the grim reaper.
The last question asks when should she have the surgery. Considering how bad this chart looks, I felt that the timing of the surgery was critically important and preferred to do an election chart along with an examination of her natal chart cycles. But she did ask, so lets see what we can find. Venus rules the Eighth House of surgery and applies to a conjunction of Mars by twenty degrees. A planet(s) in a mutable sign and angular house measures weeks. Twenty weeks in this case indicates five months. (You can look in the ephemeris and check out the planetary transits on that date.) That seemed like quite a delay but she had already put it off a long time and the situation apparent was not critical. Venus in an early degree also indicates that it was too early at that time. All considered, I impressed on this client that it was absolutely critical that she undergo surgery on a favorable astrological date and time. Would that overcome the promised difficulties so prominent in this chart?
So what happened? The Moon separates from a quincunx to Venus, ruling the Eighth House. She had already seen a woman gynecologist. That doctor recommended a surgeon, another woman, the second planet in the Seventh House (Mercury in Virgo). One doctor leads to another; follow the sequence in the Seventh House. The second doctor leads her to the actual surgeon, Mars. Note the Mercury square Neptune retrograde, one of the client's rulers. That is very bad for making good decisions. Despite my vigorous insistence that she choose a fortuitous time, she let the surgeon talk her into a surgery date and disregarded any astrological considerations.
A friend of hers who knew about this entire situation, called worriedly to
say that the woman was to undergo surgery in a few days. I begged the friend
to stay with her every minute day and night no matter what until she knew
everything was okay. With the afflicted Neptune I voiced my concern about
the anesthetic, among other things.
Her friend did as I suggested. The woman did not come out from the anesthetic
as expected. She was in intensive care but the friend stuck close by. As night
wore on the woman was not coming around. The friend took charge when it was
apparent that there were no medical personnel around and discovered that my
client was bleeding profusely. This woman would have died if they had not
given her a large amount of blood. She almost died. The recovery took many
months and was very painful. She called me from home to say that her entire
abdomen was horribly bruised and it took a long time for the body to reabsorb
the bleeding from the hemorrhage.
There is more. This near-death experience of his wife set off something in
her husband. He is the Seventh House so lets see what we can find there in
this context. If we turn the chart for the husband, his Sixth House is ruled
by Saturn as well as his Seventh. We already know how afflicted Saturn is,
and, of course, the Moon in his Sixth House is just waiting to set it off.
Pluto in the Seventh House conjoins a malefic fixed star, Vindemiatrix, the
Star of Widowhood. Apparently his fears about losing her really hit a nerve.
He was catapulted into bi-polar disorder. I heard about his manic antics for
years. He blew large sums of money and her life began to resemble a soap opera.
Her life was never the same again.
If you made it this far, do you think this chart fulfilled what it promised?
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Diana Stone is a professional astrologer and practicing shaman who has served a private clientele since 1973. She maintains an international network via telephone consultations from her office in Vancouver, Washington. She specializes in natal astrology, relationship counseling, and Horary astrology.
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