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 Twist of Fate
The problem with twists of fate is that you do not realize that they are happening at the time and then sometimes not until many years later. The chart I want to use for my first horary column is the one that made me decide to study horary astrology. It was the first horary chart I ever did back on August 7, 1969. I certainly did not notice anything unusual on what turned out to be that fateful day. Here is the story.
I was living in St. Louis. A newscast announced that a doctor wanted volunteers with a rare blood type to take part in research at a local hospital. I volunteered. I went to the blood lab every two weeks. Blood was taken, centrifuged and transfused back into a vein. Then the process was repeated. That meant that I was tethered to a tube all afternoon. I grew bored because I was not even able to read because the needles disabled my right arm.
To break up the monotony I read the nurses horoscopes. The lab became a very popular place the days I was there. Doctors "happened" by with their birth data. I even did a chart for a doctor's St. Bernard! However, one nurse refused to divulge her birth data. One time she was tending to me and asked if my astrology charts could tell if she were pregnant. "Not unless you give me your birth data," I insisted. She refused so I thought that was the end of it.
But that day was different. I had been reading Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson's book on horary astrology, so it suddenly occurred to me to treat her question about pregnancy as a horary question. I calculated the chart and pored over the rules. I called the nurse and said, "You will think you are pregnant, the doctor will think you are pregnant, everybody will think you are pregnant, but you are not." She called back in a few days to tell me that my astrology was totally wrong. SHE WAS PREGNANT."
I decided horary astrology was not for me. The next time I went to the lab, she rushed up to me and said, "My tests got mixed up with another nurse's. I told everyone. But I am not pregnant." I thought, "This stuff is easy. I will rule the world." Experiences with astrology since then have disabused me of that notion.
Now for a look at chart #1 cast for August 7, 1969 at 1:49 PM CST in St. Louis, MO. I studied the rules and one said that retrograde planets always lie. Neptune retrograde is in the First House. I wanted to know what Neptune was lying about. It rules the Fifth House of children, so I concluded it was lying about her being pregnant. That was about all I took into consideration back then.
However, there are other indicators. The Via Combust Way (yes, it is really called that) is a section of the zodiac between 15 degrees Libra and 15 degrees Scorpio. The ascendant lies in that area at 7 degrees Scorpio. This often shows the person is upset. It indicates unpredictable events over which the person is powerless. The young woman did not want to be pregnant at that time.
Her significator Pluto (ruler of the ascendant) is in the same degree as the Moon's nodes and is actually conjunct the South node. Mrs. Jacobson says that any planet in the nodal degrees (ignore the sign) indicates a casualty, fatality or catastrophe however great or small. Pluto destroys any notion of pregnancy. The North node is in the Fifth House in 23 degrees Pisces, the degree of the fixed star, Markab, a degree of sorrow and tragedy. Whatever is in this chart, it cannot overcome these afflictions. Neptune in her First House confused the issue and it appeared that she was pregnant. But the retrograde planet lied.
Now, just for fun, lets see how far we can stretch this. Was it foretold in this chart that I would go on to practice professionally? The Seventh House is the astrologer. Using the Seventh House as my First House, that makes the Fourth House my Tenth House. Fourteen Aquarius is on the cusp. Aquarius rules astrology and my Sun sign is fifteen degrees Aquarius. Uranus, the ruler, is in one degree Libra. The first three degrees of any sign are the "too early for now" degrees. It was premature for me to practice professionally. It conjoins Jupiter that rules traveling, teaching and publishing. I have traveled extensively teaching astrology, my books have been published and I own my own publishing company.
Some astrologers claim that you cannot read a chart with Saturn in the Seventh House. They say it makes the astrologer make mistakes. You will notice that I have included TWO charts with this column. The first is the hand-calculated chart that I originally cast. There were no computers back then and I was a comparative novice. Saturn is in the Seventh House. I recalculated the chart on the computer to submit for this article. Only then did I realize that 1) it was daylight savings time in August 1969 and 2) NEPTUNE WAS NOT RETROGRADE THAT DAY. The second chart is calculated on the computer. Did the astrologer make a mistake or was this just a twist of fate? You figure it out.
Diana also writes a monthly column covering astrology and metaphysical subjects
for an on-line magazine at www.themetaarts.com.
© Diana Stone 2003 All Rights Reserved
Diana also writes a monthly column covering astrology and metaphysical subjects
for an on-line magazine at www.themetaarts.com.
© Diana Stone 2003 All Rights Reserved
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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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