A Guide to Horary & More

for Contemporary Astrologers

OLIVIA BARCLAY ane

MOMENTof timehas its qualities, whetherit is the moment of a

humanbirth or the momentofthe crystallization of a problem, as
in horary. The analysis and interpretation of that moment is our
art, and showsthe interrelationship and oneness of the universe,
for astrology is the comparison ofheavenly positions with events
onearth, From our analysis, if we are good horary astrologers, we should be
able to predict the possible outcomeof situation.
Notmany people believe we can predict, to the general public this is
an amusing idea, a sort of parlor game. Indeed, many contemporary ‘as-
tro-psychologists’ in their hearts do not believe it either, because they
haveneverlearnt how to doit themselves. In thesearticlesI will discuss
the techniques and methods written down and explained to us by our
predecessors, who,althoughthey lived at a time ofdifferent technology,
had the patience to observe and discover many facts of astrology that
have been almost lost today. There are, of course, some contemporary
‘astrologers’ who presume they knowbetter than astrologers of previous
generations, and there are those who, without realizing it, base their
knowledge on nowriter before the twentieth century, relying on a system
that has no root or foundation, onethat has, to a large extent, been ‘in-
vented’ by some would-be astro-psychologist to attract notice or finan-
cially rewardingclients.
Americans have beenfortunate in that they have had the books ofIvy
Goldstein Jacobson, who kepthorary astrology alive during the twentieth
century, but admirable thoughshe is, her astrology by her own admission
is ‘simplified’. More than three hundred years ago William Lilly pro-
duced his great masterpiece, the first astrology book in the English lan-
guage, Christian Astrology, in 1647. Lilly translated directly from the
Latin,incorporating the information from overthree hundred great astro-
logical works of the past. By Mrs. Jacobson’s time much ofthat infor-
mation had been watered down. It is notthatit is wrong,butit has lost
muchof the wealth of detail and added dimensions that early writers
supply. Astrology must be nearly as old as humanity; we have history
from Chaldea, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Arabs and Jews, and thenits
arrival back in Europe with Bonatus in the 13" century. There is a
wealth of research to be done.
Herein England where I live we had a great floweringof astrology at
the time of William Lilly — that was during ourcivil war in the mid 1g
century — but then came the Age of Reason and the Royal Society,
which, with all good intentions in the world, decided nothing could be
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like religion, faith, hope, great art and astrology cannot. Thesethings are
observable butnotscientifically provable. So astrology fell into decline.
Then, in 1914-1917, the police prosecuted a leading astrologer, Alan
Leo, for fortune telling. He hadtold a client (a policeman in disguise)
that he could expect a death in the family, and although he protested that
he only gave ‘tendencies’ in his interpretation this excuse was not ac-
cepted. Leo had a heart attack and died, but not before he had adapted
and bentthe truths ofastrology to fit in both with British law and with
psychology, a subject more acceptable to the attitudes of his time. This
entailed emphasizing Signs out of all recognition and manyother false
ideas that continue to be taughtto this day as astrology.
We were therefore fortunate that in the 1980’s the booksof earlier
writers were rediscovered: Lilly’s original Christian Astrology (of which
only some 25 copies had survived), and the writings of Gadbury, Rame-
sey, Coley, Partridge, and others. Then Robert Hand andhis colleagues
in Project Hindsight and ARHATbegan a series oftranslations from
Greek, Latin and Arabic. The richness of our subject began to dawn, and
manyastrologers have started to rethink and research more deeply. But
to fully appreciate those early works a simple explanation of the tech-
niques and methodsused will help. Hencethisseries ofarticles.

|: YOU ARE horary astrologer there is, in the first place, the mo-
mentof the question to consider. Recognition of such a momentis
very important. It is a momentof deep and sincere thought on a sub-
ject, and the question should be written down, with the time, when you
are quite sure of the wording. If someoneelse whois not an astrologer
brings such a question to you,the time to take is when you,the astrolo-
ger, understand the question. The participation ofthe astrologeris rele-
vant.
The questioner, whoeverheor sheis, is shown by the Ascendant and
the planet ruling the sign thereon, and partly by the ). If the astrologer
asks the question he is shown by the Ascendantand its ruler, just the
sameas anyoneelse.
If the question is something that should not be asked the chart will tell
you so, Lilly discusses Considerations Before Judgment as a warning to
the astrologer that he should “well consider whether the figure is radical
and capable of judgment.” I believe that those who follow Mrs. Jacob-
son tendto ignore this and judgeall charts, but I follow an older way and
will discard unsuitable charts, It may be true thatall charts can be read,
butit is undoubtedly true that there are many it would be wiserto reject,
for one reason or another. We can postponethe discussion of the Con-
siderations because they presuppose knowledge oftriplicities that are not
used by someastrologers. Ptolemy’s Table of Dignities, whichlists the
triplicities, will be explainedlater.

I N HORARYthe questioner (or Querent) is represented by the As-

cendantand its ruler, and partly by the ). The matter being asked
about, which is known as the Quesited, is represented by the house

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that rules the matter. It is therefore very important to understand the

categories of things ruled by each House.
Thereis also the action, which is generally indicated by the ). It acts
like the minute hand ofa clock, pointingto theresult.
The most important thing in horary is to know the House you are
dealing with. William Lilly wasvery specific on this point:'
Hethat shall learnthe nature of the Planets and Signs without exact
judgment ofthe Houses, is like an improvident man,thatfurnisheth him-
selfwith a variety ofhousehold stuff, having no place wherein to bestow
them.
Everything in this life belongs to one of these departments, one of the
houses. Partnership belongs to the 7", whether in business or marriage;
dreams belong to the 9"; ambitions and hopes to the 11"; and so on.
After you have decided the department you are dealing with — and
this requiresa clear andprecise question in thefirst place — then consider
the ruler ofthe Sign on the cusp ofthat house. If the question concerns
the profession, look at the 10" cusp. If * is there, look at 4 — weigh up
its position,its strength and weakness, its connections.

THE FIRST HOUSErules the querent, the first person, the physical
body. If you ask a horary question for yourself the ascending Sign will
often be your own natal Ascendant, or your © or ) sign, especially with
thefirst chart you try. It is ‘myself’, ourselves, the vehicle in which we
travel — if you were asking abouta ship you were to travel on, you would
look at this cusp.
It will describe the shape ofthe physical body. It symbolizes the head
and face in particular, and *, o* orthe 8 here, badly placed, will show a
blemish on the face or on the part of the body that is symbolized by the
Sign on the cusp. If few degrees ascendit will be higher, if many de-
grees ascendit will be lower.
In Mundane Astrology, at the time of the Spring Equinox or when
there is a major conjunction ofthe planets, it represents the people or the
generalstate of the country where the chart is drawn.
Becauseit has a connection with the color white, a planet here makes
onepaler. It will tell you,if you should ask andif a significator is here,
that the color of clothes or animalsis a pale color. It alsotells you that a
lostarticle is at home with its owner, in the house of whoever enquires.
Becauseofits particular connection with the head, % here, which can
symbolize the tongue, may denote a good speaker, someone whois good
with words and who has a good memory and imagination.
It is the east angle and a masculine house.

THE SECOND HOUSEwill be examined if you have a question about

a personal possession, which is movable. If you have lost something,
note the Sign on the cusp of the 2™| consider its ruler and identify the
houseit is in — for example, if the 2™ruler is in the 12", the missing ob-
ject will be in the bedroom. This house rules all money, wealth, profit

! Christian Astrology, Regulus edition, page 50.

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and gain, income and loss, your bank account and all things that are
yours.
Atan eclipse or major conjunction this house is used in Mundane As-
trology to indicate a nation’s wealth, resources and armaments.
Ofthe body,it represents the neck and the back part ofit towards the
shoulders. Ofcolors,it signifies green.
\y here increases money,butthe © or o” showit being dispersed.

THE THIRD HOUSEsignifies brothers and sisters, relations, neigh-

bors, also short journeys, messengers, rumors, newspapers, reporters,
writing, letters, communications,postoffices, telephonecalls, and cars.
It rules the shoulders, arms, handsandfingers.
Its colors are red and yellow and a light reddish brown.
The ) in this house means much movingabout, and o is less unfortu-
nate here than elsewhere.

THE FOURTH HOUSE is concerned with our beginning,our base, our

ancestry, inheritance and father; with real estate, towns, castles and
buildings; with the soil, fields, gardens and orchards; with the quality and
nature of the groundone buys, whetherit is woody, stony or barren.It is
also the end of anything, and rules treasures hidden in the ground. A
significator here may denote drowning, as with a chart I recently drew to
know wherea satellite would fall.
It is a feminine house and the North angle. Its color is red, and of the
bodyit rules the breasts and lungs.
Whenlooking for a missing article, the significator here can indicate
that it is in a room in the center of the house, or where the mostelderly
personin the family likes to be. The 4"houserelates to misplacedarti-
cles ratherthan lost ones, which are a 2"house matter.
The4"house used to be called the Angle of the earth.
In nativities the father is represented not only by this House, but also
bya planetin the 4", or by the © in a daytime chart and by in a night-
time one.

THE FIFTH HOUSErepresents pregnancy and one’s children. It also

represents enjoyment and entertainment, games, gambling, speculation
and the Stock Market, theater and banquets.
The old books also say it represents ale-houses and taverns, so I sup-
pose that must mean pubsandbars.
Its colors are black and white and a honey color. Its body parts, the
stomach, liver, heart, sides and back.
Mr.Lilly wrote: “It is a house ofpleasure, delight and merriment.”
It is the Houseof the Muses.
But note well that it does not rule love affairs as some bookssay.
They belong to the 7” house.
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THE SIXTH HOUSErules such mattersillness, healing, service, and a

preoccupation with work. It also concems trade and merchandise, espe-
cially grain.
It rules such people as employees, office workers, factory workers,
farm workers, lodgers, tenants, accountants and secretaries. It concerns
employment, work, toil, and its preoccupation with detail makesit in-
clude computers and calculators.
In a Mundane chart it indicates the Civil Service. Its connection with
health and sickness includes the kindof illness andits cause, its cura-
bility, and its duration. Healers and dentists belong to this house, and
both o and 9 here showsa good doctor.
It rules small animals up to the size of, and including, sheep and
goats.
In the body,it rules partsof the belly and intestines. Its color is black.
It is a feminine house andconsidered unfortunate.
Until recently we were not allowed to use astrology to diagnose ill-
ness in England. The AFA have published a very interesting book of
extracts from two books by Culpepper, his Astrological Judgment of
Disease and his The Decumbiture ofthe Sick.

THE SEVENTH HOUSEconcernsall forms of partnership, whether

these are marriage, business, or love. It gives judgmentonall kinds of
love questions, and will describe the person asked about. Just as the 1*
house is ‘the self’ so the 7"is ‘the other’. It is the house of open enemies,
whether in divorce, lawsuits, contracts or war. It is also the house of
thieves.
In chart of the Spring Ingress,it shows if war or peace may be ex-
pected.
Theparts of the bodyruled are the haunches and buttocks.
Its color is black. I have come to the conclusion thatpale colors be-
longto theleft side of a chart and darktothe right, and that when the old
books say black they mean very dark. The 7"house howeveris allocated
dark black.
o’ or % here shows an unfortunate marriage. The ) in the 7 "shows
changeof partnership or ownership.
It rules fugitives, runaways and banishment. It is the angle ofthe
Westand is masculine.

THE EIGHTH HOUSEwascalled the house of death, but now it is

generally used as the house of other people’s money. This house will
never show the death of the Querent. In certain casesit will refer to the
death ofpeople,but one needs a greatdeal of additional evidence. It will
show, for instance, the sinking of a ship.
The 8" house rules the deceased’s estate, wills, legacies, dowry, and
describes the sort of death. It rules undertakers.
It shows the resources of‘the other’, as the partner’s moneyand in a
Jawsuitthose assisting your opponent. It rules tax collectors.
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In the bodyit rules the sex organs, piles, stone, and the bladder. It
rules surgery and cutting. It is a feminine house and associated with
black (or a dark color).
Culpepper had some vivid remarks to make about this house.

THE NINTH HOUSE,the Houseof God,rules distant travel whether in

mind or body: overseas travel and foreign countries, voyages, foreign
trade, explorers, marching, and world assemblies.
It rules deep thought, religion, the clergy, Bishops and the Church,
learning, further education, ceremonies and publishing.
It also rules dreams andvisions since they come from God.
In the bodyit rules the hips and thighs. Its colors are green and white.
\} in this house indicatesa religious person.

THE TENTH HOUSEsignifies royalty, kings, queens, princes, dukes,

and those whoare held in esteem in the world; judges, magistrates, any-
one in command,presidents, commanders, captains and prime ministers.
It also rules the profession or trade — the position ofthe ruler ofthis
house,plus the ©, will show one’s profession.
It rules suchabstract values as honor, authority, dignity ofoffice, and
victory.
In its capacity as the seventh from the 4"houseoffathers,it signifies
mothers.
It rules the knees and calves, and the colors red and white. It is the
South angle, the MCandit is feminine.
The © or } in this house is considered fortunate, but % or the @3 here
will deny honorin the eyes of the world and not much luck in one’s trade
or profession.

THE ELEVENTH HOUSEwascalled the House of the Good Daemon

by the ancients. It rules friends, hope, trust, confidence, ambition and
praise.
It also rules the resources of the 10" house, therefore the resources of
the kingdom andthe resourcesofthe profession or business.
It rules societies and their members.
If someone asks about something they hope for, though they do not
disclose whatit is, this house may judge it.
Its colors are yellow and orange. It rules the ankles andlegs. It is a
masculine house.

THE TWELFTH HOUSEshowssecret enemies, hidden matters, fam-

ily scandals, sorrow and undoing,witches and informers, and afflictions.
It rules large institutions like hospitals and prisons, andtherefore jail-
ers.
It rules solitude, mysticism, monks, nuns, and sleep. If you havelost
something here,it is in the bedroom,a placeofretirement.
It rules large animals: horses, elephants, and whales.
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house. “Saturn does much joy in this house,” says William Lilly, “for
Saturn is the author of mischief.”

Lee Lehman has compiled list of rulerships, derived from the writ-
ings of Al Biruni, Culpeper, Gadbury, Lilly, Partridge, Ptolemy, Rame-
sey and Saunders, which is published in her The Rulership Book.’I rec-
ommendits use. Other books on the subject, written during the twentieth
century will mislead you — beware.
Fora straightforward explanation of horary techniques, my own book
is called Horary Astrology Rediscoveredandis obtainable through book-
shops’. Try it. I can answer questionsthat are directed to me through
our editor, Ken Gillman.

To be continued

Let's Consider
Elaine Krengel writes:
Regarding Karen Christino's horary in the February Considerations.
It's such a good chart, the answer can't be left dangling in the wind.
The magnetis South, Southeast (7 on the 4th cusp,8 on the 8th cusp). )
in the 8th house is disposited by $ in the 3rd. Third signifies letters,
things to do with writing generally associated with desks, It's deep in a
desk drawer because 29° is on the 4" cusp. It's apt to be one of higher
drawers because both and) arein air signs.
Why? The 4th, because that's where Lilly tells us to look when things
are missing, mislaid, hidden at home (Christian Astrology p. 203-204).
The 8th because ) is there. The 8th cusp because both 2 and o* (querent
and her magnet) are in close aspectto it, and so is 4 whorules the 4th.
Easy in retrospect, but aren't they all? Thanks to Karen for providing
us a good puzzle.
--St. Croix River, Wisconsin

The Moon & Childbirth

In our review of Dr Margaret Millard’s excellent new book’, we
failed to mention that it can be obtained from Samuel Weiser at PO Box
612, York Beach, Maine 03910.

? Published by Whitford Press, Schiffer Publishing.

* Also published by Whitford Press.
* Reviewed in Volume XIV No.4, page 71.

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for Contemporary Astrologers
Part 2

OLIVIA BARCLAY ane

URING the 20" Century, with its plethora of newspaper O-

sign columns, there has been an emphasis on signs rather than
planets. The general public knowtheir date of birth and revel
in reading a few generalities that may discuss their type, while
the writers of the columns revel in the large salaries paid to them for
churningout such generalities.
Somepeople, anxious to hear themselves discussed in greater detail,
seek out astropsychologists, who will, while examining their client’s
birth chart, talk about them for a considerable length of time in a vague
and general way. But can the astropsychologists tell their clients any-
thing the client did not know already? Can they predict any single thing
clearly and unambiguously?
Astrologers of the 17" Century and prior to that time could do so.
They were armed with the information that generations of astrologers
had acquired over centuries. If you now studied such information you
would discover that the techniques and methods used today have been
distorted and changed almost beyond recognition, depriving astrology of
its true meaning. In the old astrology, both natal and horary, the planets
rule. The planetsrule the signs andthe signsare only like adjectives that
describe or temper the planets that are positioned in them.
Certain planets are at home,orjoy, in certain houses, called by Manil-
ius their Temples, and they give their qualities to that house. For in-
stance, 2 gives its qualities of pleasure to the 5" house. No, @ is not asso-
ciated with the 2™ house because 8, one ofthe signsit rules, is the gu
sign — that is a modern misunderstanding.
Just as it is important to understand the matters ruled by each house,
as I explained in the last issue of Considerations, so it is important to
understand the matters ruled by each planet, and the signs that are ruled
by them. We must understand too how to assess the strength ofplanets,
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The Sun
The © is well placed is equivalent to a Benefic or helpful
planet. It is more temperate than o. Yet a planet in the same
sign, and within 8'%° of the © is called Combustandlosesits strength.
The © is the natural significator (or symbol) of gold, the heart, of
men in general, gentlemen, royalty, and magistrates. It is the person in
charge, the king of the castle, workers in gold or minters of money. In a
daytime chart it is the father. It symbolizes someone who will keep a
promise,is trustworthy, judges well, who behaves humanely and royally
(havingfavorites, and walking or driving in the middle of the road). He
speaks deliberately with few words and loves luxury (does not wantto be
entertained in the kitchen). No sordid thought can enterhis great heart!
Ofcourse, if the © is not well placed it will symbolize a less admira-
ble person, one who is purblind in judgment, arrogant, domineering,tire-
some, extravagant, a snob, someone who hangsonto another’s generosity
(thinking the world owes him living).
Illnesses of the © are those connected with the heart or mouth or
eyes.
Colors are gold, yellow, scarlet and purple.
Plants are those that smell pleasantly, grow majestically, and love the
sun, usually being red or yellow. These planets were once believed to
strengthen the heart and comfort a person, to clear the eyes andresist
poison.
The placesare grandbuildings suchas theaters and palaces.
The © rulesnotonly gold but also rubies.

The alsorulesthe sign Leo.

Q is eastern, animal, fiery, barren, masculine, commanding and
creative. (This may seem an incongruouslist to a natal astrologer,
butif you are looking for a home,eastern may be the word yourequire.)
It rules the back, heart, ribs and sides of the body, and all diseases,
pains and weaknessesof them,also ofthe eyes.
The places {2 rules are wild and rocky, barren and inaccessible, as
well as forests and woods. Ofbuildings,it rules those that are eminent:
castles, palaces and theaters. Within a house, it rules the area in the vi-
cinity of the fireplace.
The old descriptions of appearance must surely be modified with the
present mixtures of race, however, a large head and eyes (goggle eyes),
upturning curly hair (it springs upwards from the scalp), and uneven
teeth are common.
Countries: Italy and France. Cities: RomeandBristol.

The Moon
As in chess, the ), which can represent queens, is usually most
important. If the ) makesno aspect,it is called void ofcourse, and

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no action can occur. The ) is also important when deciding timing, and
its speed mustbe taken into account.
The ) is feminine, nocturnal, a soft tender creature, a searcherafter
novelties, with a natural propensity to move house, changeful in all
things, timid, easily frightened, peace-loving, wanting to be irresponsi-
ble, someone who knowssomethingof all trades.
If badly placed it signifies someone who dislikes work, who over
drinks, and is idle, not really caring about the conditions in which he
lives.
Yet the ) can symbolize any woman, or queen, travelers, fugitives,
those wholive from the sea and from breweries, and from working with
water andliquids.
In mundaneastrology, it symbolizes the general public.
The ) makes the face paler, circular and moonlike. In watery signs
there are freckles.
It is connected in illnesses with the stomach, women’s complaints,
rheum in the eyes, rheumatism, the bladder, coughs and measles and rot-
ten coughs.
The colors are pale, but especially silver (the color and the metal),
motherofpearl, pearls, and anything thatreflects.
Ofplanets it rules those without much flavor, as unripe fruits. Its
plants havethick, soft and juicy, round leaves. Also mushrooms.
Animals thatlive in waterlike frogs andall shell fish, as well as owls.
Places ruled by the ) are wet, like rivers, fishponds, boggy places and
baths. It rules stones like crystal.

The) also rules the sign Cancer.

© is anorthern, feminine, movable,fruitful, watery, mute sign.
It rules the stomach andbreasts andall illnesses and diseases
connected with them. Also dropsy.
Theplaces it rules are watery, the seaside, estuaries, rivers, springs,
wells, navigable waters, marshes and ditches with rushes. In housesit
rules damp basements, washhouses andcisterns.
The people usually have moon-shaped faces, small eyes, and are
heavier in their upper body than in their lower (> in this sign, however,
greatly changes the appearance and it becomes muchbonier, the face is
narrower and the nose, instead of turning up, has a high bridge.) They
can be recognized bytheir interest in food and in cooking.
Countries include China.

Mercury
¥ is either masculine or feminine, being strongly influenced by any
connecting planet, either by its dispositor or by aspect. It changes
sex or attitude accordingly. Of course, § represents any sort of communi-
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talking. It is the natural significator of arms, hands and shoulders. # is

also the significator of subtlety, tricks, cunning andperjury.
It symbolizes someone whois clever, intellectual, good at discussion,
logical, eloquent, a researcher, witty, interested to learn, enjoying travel,
interested in divination and, if a tradesman, very inventive and clever.
The people are tall and thin, with high foreheads, long armsandfin-
gers.
% with > is heavy; with 4 temperate; with o rash, and with @ jesting.
% symbolizes mathematicians (statisticians and computers), trades-
men,office workers, secretaries, writers, poets, advocates, printers, ac-
countants, solicitors, tailors and dressmakers.
Theillnesses it rules are connected with the head, diseases of the
brain, stammering, imperfections of the tongue, delusions, defective
memory, hoarseness, dry cough,all snuffling in the head or nose, too
much spittle, and dumbness.
Colors: gray and mixed colors.
Its plants are multi-colored and grow in sandy, barren places. They
are said to help the tongue, brain and memory. They include someof the
grasses. Quicksilver is associated with 9, as are stones that are multicol-
ored.
Theplaces are shops, markets, fairs, schools, bowling alleys and ten-
nis courts.
In mundaneastrology, ? can representthe press.

§ also rules the sign Gemini.

II is a western, human, airy, nervous, intellectual, double-bodied,
masculine sign.
It rules the arms, shoulders and veins, and any infirmities connected
with them, also the nerves, breathing and delusions.
Theplaces ruled by II are high andairy, hills and mountains. These
include upstairs rooms and those rooms where weplay, write and read.
Also, highup places, in chests and boxes.
It describes a body thatis tall and straight. In centuries past the eyes
would be piercing and hazel (but now, of course, we are a mixture of
races) and of good sight, excellent understanding, and astute in worldly
matters. I notice they will gesticulate frantically in order to communicate
even more and that they seem to like emerald green.

iy Theothersign rules is Virgo.

Tl is southern, earthy, feminine and barren.
It rules the intestines and anyillness connected with them.
Places include those connected with grain or groceries. Outdoors:
cornfields and haystacks. Roomswhere workis carried outlike offices or
studies, where books are, cupboards. Storerooms of merchandise, things
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The bodyis notastall as II. I find T's look downward andoften find
lost articles on the ground, especially metal. People who limpor nearly
limp, or who walk with their feet pointed inward, often belong to this
sign. They are often studious andinterested in history.
They seem to like small patterns on a brown background.
Country: Switzerland.

Venus
? is called a Benefic.
@ is fortunate and rules matters connected with affection, love and
lovers, and good deeds. It is feminine, the planct of enjoyment and
amusement.
It symbolizes a quiet person, someone whois notlikely to quarrel,
pleasant, affable, who enjoys food and wine and love-making, always
having love affairs, musical, sociable, and enjoying baths but not very
interested in hard work.
Whenbadly placed it makes one extravagant, riotous, and bedding
where he should not, without credit or repute. This person will spend
time drinking with loose companions,be careless andlazy.
It makes a body good looking with full lips, the womenarepretty:
“the eye full of amorousenticement.” The true sign of 2 is a dimpled
face. 2 brings roundness,not height.
It symbolizes jewelers, painters, drapers, musicians, songs (though
now ¥ seemsalso connected with music), wives, mothers, young women,
upholsterers, perfumers, decorators and everything connected with fe-
male adornment and beauty culture.
In illnessesit signifies those connected with the back, the belly and
sex.It signifies hernias.
Its colors are light, such as sky blue, and its smells are delectable.
Vegetation includes sweet apples and white roses (but surely notall
roses?), peaches and apricots, lilies and lily-of-the valley.
Places are gardens, fountains, bedrooms, beds, wardrobes, cushions,
dancing schools, and places connected with beauty andart.
Copperis ruled by 9,as is lapis lazuli, coral, alabaster, cornelian and
blue sapphire.

2 also rules the sign Taurus..

0 O is a southern sign, earthy, feminine, animal, fixed, domesticated,
obstinate, a strong sign that is slow to moveanda lover ofbeauty.
It rules the throat andall illnesses and diseases connected with it. Its
tulership of the throat producesfine singing voices.
Theplaces it rules are low houses, farm buildings for animals, pasture
and agricultural land, lightly wooded areas, and the countryside in gen-
eral. In housesit rules rooms with low ceilings andcellars.
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are Junoesque) — I find they like slow music and the colorgrass green.
Countriesbelongto the sign includeIreland and Cyprus.

Theothersign @ rules is Libra.

=—°— ~ is a western, moveable, tropical, airy, masculine, humane
sign. Thoughtrather than emotion predominates, and wordsflow.
It rules the kidneys, loins and haunchesand all illnesses and diseases
of them, as well as corruption of the blood. Firmicusincludes the verte-
brae.
Theplacesit rules are high and windy, outhouses, places where wood
is cur, hillsides and mountains. In houses the upstairs rooms, attics, one
roomwithin another, book shelves and high places.
People are straight bodied, and their faces are good-looking and well
proportioned. They have soft voices, enjoy pleasant surroundings and
their sort of music is melody. They seem to like sky blue, but always
harmonious colors.
Countries include Japan, cities include Lisbon.

Mars
¢@ is masculine, fiery, the lesser Infortune, the starter of
quarrels, strife and anger, an initiator ofaction.
o& well positioned denotes someone who is courageous, warlike, bold,
confident, immovable, unreasonable, contentious, challenging, who en-
joys war, peril and everything to do with it. Obeys nobody, submits to
nobody.
If o is badly placed it signifies someone wholoves slaughter, quar-
rels, murder, thievery, and is a promoterofriots, fights ands commotion.
A traitor, perjurer, obscene,rash, inhumane, fearing nothing, this person
is unthankful, treacherous, furious andviolent, and boastful.
The physical body is strong, with big bones, and rather lean. The
Martian Anglo-Saxon has a reddish face and often red to sandy hair,
sharp eyes, and is an active, fearless man. If o” is in the eastern half of
the chart the bodyis hairy. A strong o showsa scaron the face.
¢ rulessoldiers ofall sorts - generals, captains, sergeants, gunners —
also it rules butchers, surgeons and everyone who uses knivesorfire-
arms, or who works with metal, like watchmakers and barbers, cutlers
and carpenters. It rules all who rule by oppression, all who mock and
scorn.
Of illnesses it signifies high fevers, migraine, shingles, diseases and
illnesses of the head, and all wounds and cuts. If o” is in a fire sign it of-
ten shows burns. All disfigurementof the head, all hurts from iron, and
all illnesses that result from too much anger.
It rules red and yellow andorange, andtastes that arebitter. Its plants
have sharp pointed leaves and taste hot; they grow in dry places: nettles
and thistles and radish; prickly thorn trees.

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o tules places suchas furnaces, slaughterhouses, brick kilns, forges,

and chimneys.
Ironis signified by o’, and antimony and redlead.

¢' also rules the sign Aries..

7T is an eastern, masculine, moveable, cardinal, tropical, fiery,
angry, animal, intemperate, violent sign.
It rules the head andface andall pimples and disfigurement thereon,
as well as ringworm,headaches, baldness, and mentaltroubles.
Theplaces of T are those where animals such as sheep are kept, hid-
ing places (suitable for thieves), isolated places, newly ploughed land,
and in houses the roofs, ceilings andplastering.
It describes a lean body with large bones,longish face and chin. I dis-
tinguish T by their love of competitive sport, which includes every sort
ofball game, and their love ofbright blood red. If you wantto find them,
look at the front of the queue. Their red cars, too, are usually in the fast
lane.I find they start energetically but neverfinish.
Countries include England and Germany.

of also rules the sign Scorpio..

Tl is northern, feminine, fixed, watery, fertile, subtle, mute,, se-
cretive, deeply emotional, passionate andjealous.
It rules the sex organs and all illnesses connected with them. The
places it rules are where insects and beetles proliferate, especially any
poisonous ones. It is the natural rulerofreptiles. It rules ruins, bogs,
stinking places and lakes, gardens, orchards, moors, muddyplaces, and
in houses the kitchen or roomswith water in them, anywhere damp.
Tl people are frequently slightly bow-legged. Their eyes are close un-
der the brows. The energy of o” is here brought undercontrol, they do not
start quickly like T, but they sustain their energy and finish their work
with thoroughness. Although they do notrespond to reason, only to emo-
tion, their expressions remain deadpan and controlled, so you would
never know. They make wonderful detectives, forgetting nothing. The
blood red enjoyed by T, because of Tl\’s delayed reaction has turned a
deeper color, to maroon, and mixes with the colors of the deep sea, dark
green, for TIl’s have great depth. We all know what passionate lovers
they are. Their conversation may stray to the subjects of death and sex.
Countries include Morocco. There was an earthquake in Turkey the
day K enteredthe sign.
Cities include Liverpool. The Liverpool beat soundofthe Beatles co-
incided with the transit of ¥ in Tl. Note the homonym in my paragraph
above regardingplacesruled bythis sign.

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Jupiter
) { \ is the Greater Benefic. It is masculine, temperate, fair dealing,
protective, happy, content, lucky,jolly and large.
People ruled by 4 are magnanimous,faithful, grateful, and aspiring in
thought. They have integrity, they deal fairly with all; whatever God or
gods they have, the 4 person will love them. They are charitable to
needy causes, and dislike anything sordid. They are large in body,
thought and deed.
If 4 is badly placed these people can be wasteful, hypocritical, want-
ing everyone to makea fuss of them; they can bestiffly conventional.
The bodyis upright andtall; the teeth wide, the front ones uneven; the
face is oval (like Elvis Presley’s); the men often have a black beard.
They have strongthighs, hence a love of walking. Their feet are the most
unattractive part of the body.
Peopled ruled by } are judges, senators, councilors, ecclesiastics,
clergymen, lawyers and woolen drapers, foreigners and all middle-aged
men.

Illnesses concern theliver, lungs, palpitations, pains in the back, and

illnesses caused by goodliving.
\ signifies sweet scents, large gentle animals, always horses, and
whales. Also figs, lime trees, mulberry, acanthus and manyotherplants.
Places are courts of justice, altars, important public places, and for-
eign places. Tin is ruled by \, as is amethyst, topaz, emeralds and mar-
ble.
There is another side of 4 that symbolizes horse racing, jockeys,
gambling, luck and the winnerin any matter. There seems be someaffin-
ity with advertising (it is an enlarging) for 4 in the 10"will put your
namein the newspaper.
Colors seem to be royal blue and colors that contain indigo, such as
purple and navy blue.

\, also rules the sign Sagittarius.

» is an eastern, fiery, masculine, part animal(thelast part), dou-
ble bodied, freedom loving, optimistic sign. It is the sign and joy
of 4.
It rules the thighs and backside, and any disease andillness concern-
ing them, as well asfall from horses or hurts in sport.
Theplacesit rules are open and high,hills and fields where one can
see into the distance, the open sea, and the high mountains. Also places
where large animalslive. In houses: upstairs and nearfireplaces.
Thepeopleincline to tallness and have large front teeth. They enjoy
outdoorlife, especially walking with long strides. They also drive fast.
All #s love Nature, whether they conserveit, or with strong o, huntit.
Nature is where they feel at home. They wear tweeds with large patterns,
and checks,also fisherman’s navy jerseys.

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Countries include Spain. Cities include Toledo.

The » flippancyis often misleading.

Theother sign 4 rules is Pisces.

H } is a northern, watery, feminine, fruitful, mute, dreamy, bicorpo-
teal, indecisive, self-effacing sign. It can representa lack of action.
It rules the feet and all infirmities associated with them, yet limping
seems more often to manifest in the opposite sign, I. It also rules what
old books call ‘moist diseases’.
The ground it rulesis full of water, places wherethere are waterfowl,
springs, wells and pumps, or rivers especially when they are full of fish.
It rules places of meditation and buildings such as churches,hospitals
and prisons. In houses, it rules floors and floor coverings, where shoes
are kept, and places near standing water.
} people havefine hair, which women can wearlong like mermaids.
They do not havestrong straight backbones. They havedifficulty finding
comfortable shoes; they enjoy the sea and usually like eating fish. Many
haveshortlegs.
Countries include Portugal.

Saturn
% is the Greater Infortune or Malefic.
is cold, melancholy, pessimistic, limiting andsolitary.
It represents a man who is severe, austere, reserved and who speaks
little. He is patient, someone whowill acquire the goodsofthis world by
slow andsteady stages.
If % is badly placed it represents someone envious, covetous, mis-
trustful and timid, a condemner of women. Heis never content.
It signifies a body of mediumheight, pale complexion and blackeyes.
It signifies those who work with the earth, farm laborers, miners, plumb-
ers (who work with lead), old men, and fathers in a nighttime chart. Also
monks,solitary religious and beggars.
Ofthe bodyit rules the back teeth, deafness,illnesses caused by cold
or melancholy, rheum, fears and fantasies. If in 2 or Tl it causes rup-
tures. As the natural significator of lead it can cause lead poisoning.
Places ruled by the planet are deserts, pinewoods, places near yew
trees, obscure valleys, churchyards, wells, caves, holes, ruins, graves,
andin houses, dirty or dark places, and also doors and thresholds because
% rules boundaries andlimits.
Tastes are bitter and sharp.
Besides lead *% rules all hard black stones, also ordinary stones that
are gray.Its color is black.

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% also rules the sign Capricorn..

@ is a southern, moveable, earthy, feminine, melancholy, animal,
cardinal, ambitious, depressed, hard workingsign.
It governs the knees and all diseases connected with them, and skin
and bones.
Theplaces it rules are farm sheds where animalsare kept, especially
goats, or where farm implements or woodis stored, sheep pens, barren
fields, dung heapsin fields, and bushy, thorny land. Also mountain paths
and, in houses, places nearthe floor and threshold.
The people are hard working andefficient. The men are often bearded
and the women’s hair is often thin. They have narrow chins. Their
housesoften contain a goatskin rug. Theylike goats. They also like lad-
ders.
Countries include India and the Orkneys.

% also rules the sign Aquarius..

WWM, xx is western,airy, fixed, masculine, rationale and humane. The
Id books say it is ‘the principle house of Saturn, the house
wherein he rejoiceth’ (they often use the wordhouseinstead ofsign).
AQ governs legs and ankles andall illnesses of them, and also defects
of bloodcirculation.
The placesit rules are hilly and uneven, newly dug, quarries, places
where minerals have been discovered, vineyards, and places neara little
spring or conduit. In houses,it rules roofs and upstairs rooms, also places
off the floor that are near windows.
The peoplelike waves ofanysort, be they sound wavesor sea waves.
Theyare interested in photography. They seem to use the color yellow.
Countries belongingto this sign include Russia.

KY eB
The three outer planets usually only add information to whatis indi-
cated by the sevenclassical bodies. A chart can often be judged without
them. Mrs. Watters tells us how they can add some‘special conditions
beyondthe personal world of the querent.’

Uranus
{Cas every astrologer knows,rules unexpected matters like earth-
quakes andrevolutions, also electricity, aircraft and airfields. I al-
ways connecttelephonecalls and divorcetoit.
It represents eccentric or unusual people, probably the circulation of
the blood, and (in my opinion) Prussian blue.

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Neptune
¥ represents whateverdissolves. It is vague and nebulous. It rules
drugs, alcohol and poison, also weakening illnesses, sleep and
fraud. Its people are visionaries in whatever art form they express them-
selves, also occupations of the ocean. I always think poppies belong to
¥, especially the mauve ones.Its colors are the colors of seaweed, misty
colors, the color when the sea becomesalmostpurple.

Pluto
P P to me equates with the word ‘Ejection’, also ‘Bringing to Light’.
I hear that in the USA it is connected with plutocracy, a lot of
money.It is sometimes connected with Death, but in a way death is an
ejection fromthis world into the next, where surely there will be a Brin-
ing to Light of what is hidden. But I do not always find B signifies
death. Thatis a recent oversimplification of its meaning.

In this next installment we must consider someterms and technicali-

ties that belongto the old astrology, and which weusein horary, as well
as the wayto evaluate the planets. ©

To be continued

Let’s Consider
John Kaluswrites:
Thank you for printing Isaac Starkman’s prediction as to whom the next
President will be, It serves as a foil (because it is so aptly done) to the system I
came up with, which indicates that Al Gore will be the next President.
I regard the technic Mr. Starkman used as the usual “astrological sophistry”
that astrologers have wasted time onfor centuries.
Ina MS Lamfinishing Stellar Electro-Dynamic Influence on Human Behay-
ior (about 450 pages including 65 computer color charts), and hope to find a
publisher for soon, I have a muchbetter and superiortechnic.
—Cleveland, Ohio

Shelagh Kendal informs us that her book Cycles of the Century, (reviewed in
Considerations XV: 1, pp 86-87), which people have had difficulty getting, is
now being stocked by Samuel Weiser (PO Box 612, York Beach, ME 03910-
0612)

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 Evaluating a Planet’s Strength
in Nativities & Horary

OLIVIA BARCLAY au

/ HERE ARE two waysto evaluate the strength or dignity of a

planet. One wayis byits position in the chart. This is its Ac-
cidental Dignity. For example, angular planets are strong, and
there are other strong placementsthatI will discuss later.
The other way is by its Essential Dignity, which depends onthe de-
gree of the Zodiac occupied by the planet. For instance, a planet is
strong in the degrees ofthe sign it Rules. It is also strong in the sign of
its Exaltation, and fairly strongin its Triplicity and Term,noris it desti-
tute whenit is in the degrees ofits Face, but it is weak whereit has its
Fall and where it is Detrimented. Ptolemy left us details of where the
planets are strong or dignified, and where they are weak. Lilly repro-
ducedthis in table form in Christian Astrology, page 104 (see Table 1 on
the next page).
The Table shows the degrees of the Zodiac in which a planetis in its
ownsign, exaltation,triplicity, term or face, and whereit is debilitated or
in its fall.
Starting from the left-handside, the first column showsthe signs, T
to.
The second column showsthe planet that rules the sign. Along with
T you see o*, because o rules T. By tradition the luminaries rule one
sign each, the © rules 2, the ) rules &, but the other planets rule two
signs each. % rules [I and Tl; 2 rules & and +; co’ rules T and Tl; 4 rules
* and H; and % rules @ and #. The outer planets do notrule signs. A
planet feels most at home whenin its ownsign. It signifies prosperity
and successin the area oflife indicated by the houseit is in.
A planetnotin its own sign will have a natural tendency that can be
described in termsofthe ruler ofthat sign: § in T is a martial ¥ and can
be quite argumentative. Depending onthe strength ofthe sign ruler, this
disposition will be good orbad.
The third column shows which planetis exalted in the sign. Thus, you
see along with T the glyph of the © with beside it 19°. This showsthat
the © is exalted in the wholeof T, but especially in 19° T. Beneath that
you see the ) is exalted in & but especially in 3° S. An exalted planetis
like an honored guest in a plush hotel, strong and in good condition but
without heavy responsibilities; it needs to make only little effort to ful-
fill its wants.
The fourth columnis headed Triplicity. This refers to the fourtriplic-
ities: fire, earth, air and water. Beneath the wordTriplicity are the words

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Sign Ruler Exalted Triplicity Terms Faces Detri Fall
Day Night ofPlanets ofPlanets ment
sl g |O192] © \ yo |e 14] ¥ 21] % 26) 4% 30/% 10/0 20]/2 30] 2 4
3 g |Dd 3 g d 2g] F 15] 4% 22) 26/% 30/8 10/) 20/4 30] &
I ¥ |Q 3° 4 8 ¥p|4 14) 2 21] 25/% 30]/4% 10; 20) 30] ¥
8 Dd 4 15° oS Jo |ot & % 13] § 20] 2 27) % 30/8 10)% 20) 30] % o
Q ° QO ¥ | | 8 13] 8 19] ¥ 25|h% 30} 10)4 20] 30] 4
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T oP se] 2 » ¥ 7 2 13|/% 18} 24} 30/0 10/2 20/4 30] ¥ g

ES 2 *% 91° 4 y 4 o@ 2 11] 4 19] % 24] 30/) 10] 20/2 30] & O°
TI v o og |e ow} 14/2 21] ¥ 27/4 30]/% 10/0 20]% 30] & >
x ¥ |G 3°} © yw ¥ 8° 2 14] % 19] 25|/% 30]% 10}) 20]/2 30] &
6 % | 28°] & D> 2 | ¥ 12) 4 19} co 25} 30]%4% 10} 20/0 30] Dd 4
me + % 3 | o ¥ 12] 2 20] % 25]/% 30/2 10/8 20]/) 30] O
x y [2 aw) ¢ gf | se h 14] ¥ 20}e% 26/5 30/4 10/4 20]o% 30] & g

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Day and Night, whichsplit the column. Beneath Day we see the ©, un-
der Night we see 4. If the © is above the horizon, showingthatit is day-
time, the © is in its owntriplicity in fire signs. If the © is below the ho-
rizon, indicating that it is night, then \ is in its owntriplicity in fire
signs.
The © rules thefire triplicity by day; 4 rules thefire triplicity by
night. Similarly, you see @ rules the earth triplicity by day and the ) rules
the earth triplicity by night. > rules theair triplicity by day and $ does so
by night. Ptolemy tells us that o rules the watertriplicity by day and by
night, but Paulus Alexandrussaid @ ruled it by day and o" by night.
A planetin its owntriplicity is comfortable;it indicates an area oflife
in whichthe native will be fortunate.
Then we reach the five columns headed ‘Terms of Planets’. Terms
are certain degrees in each sign that planets rule in a minor way. On the
top row we see } 6°, 2 14, $ 21, o 26, 4 30. This meansthat from the
beginning of the sign T to 6° T \ rules the term. From 6°01’ T to
14°00’ T @ rulesby term,etc.
The terms often affect appearance. For instance, Lilly describes a
lady as having light brown hair because the ©, ruler of her Ascendant,
wasin the terms of o (the Ascendantrelates to the body’s appearance).
The terms of 2 add height. Planets in the terms of ? or 4 show the body
rounded, those in the terms of o” and % are bony. A planet in its own
term has somewhereofits own to sleep in.
Next in the Table are three columns headed ‘Facesof Planets’. These
show the degrees within the sign where the planets are in their own face.
You seealongthe top line ‘o* 10’, meaningthatthe first 10° of T belong,
by face, to o. The ‘© 20’ so that from 10°00’ T to 19°59’ T belong to
the ©, then ‘2 30’ meaning that from 20°00’ T to the end of T belong to
Q. This is a weak dignity, butit is better than nothing. A planetin its
ownface has some dignity, but not much.It is poor, butnotlike a tramp.
The arrangementofthe planets in the three columns headed ‘Faces’ is
of great interest. Read downwardstheytell us the order of the days of
the week: o* Tuesday, ¥ Wednesday, 4 Thursday, 2 Friday, 4 Saturday,
© Sunday, ) Monday. But reading them across we find the Chaldean
order of the planets, the order of the Planetary Hours showing (if you
insinuate the Earth in the place here taken by the ©) the order of the
speedsofthe planets: oo © 2% ) 4 4 o © 2 ¥ D whichcontinuesad in-
finitum throughoutall time. The Chaldeanorderis cited as} 4 7 OP ¥
), with » the slowest of these seven planets.
You can do a small sum to find the value ofa planet (see Table 2).
If a planetis in its ownsignit is strengthened and awarded 5 points.
If it is in the sign ofits exaltation it is awarded 4 points.
If it is in its owntriplicity it is awarded 3 points.
If it is in its own faceit is awarded points.
If it is in its own faceit is awarded | point.

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If it is not in any ofthese it is called Peregrine andloses 5 points. A

peregrine planet is weak.
Also weakareplanets in their detriment or fall. This is shownin the
last two columnsof Table |. @ is in its detriment in T, being in the sign
opposite its own sign =. *% is in its fall in T, being in the sign opposite
+, its exaltation.
A planetin the sign ofits detriment is opposing the sign it rules.It is
in exile.It is forced to express tendencies opposite to its nature. The ) in
® mayfear embarrassment.
planetin the signof its fall is uncomfortable.It is opposing its own
exaltation. It is like being among people who don’tparticularly like you.
? in T? can intellectualize her emotions.
planetin detrimentloses 5 points, oneinits fall loses 4.

Table 2:
Essential Dignities & Debilities

Essential Essential
dignity + debility -
Ownsign +5_| Peregrine 5,
Exalted +4 Indetriment -5
Owntriplicity +3 In fall 4
Ownterm +2
Ownface +1

A planetin its essential dignity by sign, exaltation,triplicity, term or

even faceis like a landlord, and any otherplanetin those degreesis like a
tenant. Wesay the landlord planetreceives it. If there is an aspect be-
tween tenantand landlordthis will be greatly strengthened because ofthe
reception. Forinstance, ¥ in 3° T 4 0 is received by o”.
Andthis receiving can be mutual. For example,if 2 was in 3° 62 and
the © in 12° II then the O is in the sign of $ and is in the sign of the ©.
The sextile aspect between them would be very strong because of this
mutualreception.
Planets in mutual reception reflect their properties onto the degree
wherethey are received. In our example,although 3 has no dignity at 3°
Q, yetit reflects to 12° II whereit is in its ownsign; likewise the © re-
flects to its sign Q— andifit is daytime the alsoreflects to its day trip-
licity as the © rules the fire triplicity by day. Thus both planets are
strengthened by mutualreception.
If you are interpreting a chart and the significators are in mutualre-
ception, you know there is a way out of the dilemma you are asked
about.
Also, if it is relevant to the question, the two planets in mutual recep-
tion by sign will know each other well and may be fond of each other.
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Planets in mutual reception by exaltation show a respect for each other.

Planets in each other’s face show only a nodding acquaintance.
So you see that one planet can have many dispositors: a dispositor by
sign, by exaltation,by triplicity, by term and byface.
As for the Accidental Dignities that I mentionedearlier, here is Table
3 to assess them. I will discuss later the technical terms mentioned in
this Table.

Table 3:
Accidental Dignities & Debilities

ACCIDENTAL ACCIDENTAL
DIGNITY DEBILITY
At MC orAse +5 In 12" house -5
In7®, 4% or 11" +4 [In8"oré"house -2
In 2™ or 5™ house +3 Retrograde -5
In 9® house +2__| Slow in motion -2
In 3house +1_| 4, 4, occidental -2
Direct (n/a © or )) +4_| &.Sif oriental -2
Swift in daily motion +2_ D if waning -2
4, \, o if oriental +2 Combust -5
9, B if occidental +2_| USB 4
) if occidental or waxing +2 Partiles boro -5.
Cazimi +5__| Partileo © -4
Not combust or USB +5__| Beseiged by &4 -5
Partile o 4 or 2 +5_| Partile & 4 oro 4
Partile o Q +4 Partileo 4 orc" -3
Partile 4 4 or 2 +4_| ¢ Algol (26°08 B) -5
Partile « 4 or 2 43
& Regulus (29°47 Q) +6
@ Spica (23° 48° 2) +5

[ THIS article we have discussed Ptolemy’s Essential Dignities as

shown by William Lilly in Christian Astrology. There are other ver-
sions ofthe essential Dignities that vary from this one, the Egyptian
Terms for example. I use Lilly’s version because Lilly was an intensely
practical astrologer who judged thousandsofcharts yearly, using these
Tables. We have his examplesto study.
Remember, whenyou see a statementby a current ‘astrologer’ saying
rules #», or ¥ rules }, or B rules Tl, that that ‘astrologer’ is contradict-
ing the accumulated knowledge ofcenturies, that the astrologer thinks
she knowsbetter than all the 300 great authorities listed by Lilly as his
sources, knowsbetter than Ptolemy, than Bonatus, than every predictive
astrologer before this century, that she denies the validity of the Tables
of Essential Dignities, never having used them. That she is misleading

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beginners, probably simply to show she knows of the existence of the

outer planets. There is a pattern and logic in the ancient arrangement,
apparently unknown to manycurrent ‘astrologers’.

h
a

Ht m= RRonsysr kw
ZN
fire masculine feminine water
+% 10100

yXGAaHO
arab ao

earth feminine masculine air

air masculine feminine earth
water feminine masculinefire
fire masculine feminine water
earth feminine masculine air

Remember too, that while Ptolemy’s Dignities show us that » is ex-

alted in the seventh sign, this does not mean it is exalted in the 7"house.
Houses and signs are not the same. Whereas houses remain in a fixed
position,signs rotate through them.
In Christian Astrology, page 123, Lilly writes “% in the 7"either cor-
tupts the judgment ofthe Astrologer or is a sign the matter propounded
will come from one misfortune to another.”It is unfortunate in questions
and in nativities; see the well-known, unfortunate nativity of Mary,
Queen of Scots.
This misleading andtiresomeerroris not only perpetuated in our own
times, but someastrologers in the past were also misled by it. One reads
from an historian! that Henrik Rantzau, living in the 16" century, consid-
ered % strongin the 7" house, and says so in his Epic of Creation, which
wearetold Lilly does not mentionas oneofhis sources — no wonder.
It is the same with other houses, they do not equate to signs. o” rules
T butit does notrule the 1" house. ¥ is the planet associated with the 1"
house. o’ is associated with the 6" house, the ) is associated with the 3
house, the © with the 9", 2 with the 5", ¥ with the 11", and » with the
12". Astrologers shouldfind out aboutthis or interpretationsuffers.
To be continued

" See Considerations XV: 1, page 148

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 A Guideto Horary & More
for Contemporary Astrologers
Part 4

OLIVIA BARCLAY aup

NATALastrologer, when asked a question bya client, need not

waffle on about tendencies, potentials and transformations, but
can give a clear and honest reply to worrying problems, if only
he would take time to follow the methods described in these
articles.
A good astrologer draws up a chart for the moment the question is
fully understood.
The querent, or questioner, is then identified on the chart as the As-
cendantandtheplanetruling the sign on its cusp, and partly by the ).
The quesited, the person or matter asked about, is identified on the
chart by the house ruling it. For instance, a partner is shownby the sev-
enth house and the planet ruling the sign on its cusp; a pet is shown by
the sixth house; your lost article by the second house. It can sometimes
take thought to identify the category into which the substance of your
questionfalls (see myfirst installment in Considerations XV:2).
The symbols of the querent and quesited are called the main significa-
tors.

EXT,oneconsiders whether the chart is “fit to be judged.”

If fewer than 3° ofa sign ascends it is unreliable; usually it is
too early to give an answer. Also, if more than 27° ofa sign as-
cendsit is unreliable, unless the querent’s agetallies with that
number.
If the ) is in the later degrees of a sign, especially in I, Ml and 4,
whereit is weak, orif it is in the Via Combusta (15° = to 15° Ml), the
chart is unreliable.
If the ) is Void of Course—thatis, if it makes no aspectto a planet or
to ® from its present position to the end of the sign—the chart can be
judged but no action can be taken, because the ) showsaction, anditis
pointing nowhere. However, if the main significators are strong and well
placed you can judge the outcomebythem instead.
If the Void of Course ) is in 8, & or } it can sometimes perform by
carrying its aspect into the nextsign.
If the astrologer asks the question, he is shownbythe first house like
anyoneelse, but if somebody else asks him the question,the astrologeris
represented by the seventh house. Therefore, if that cusp is attacked by
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or &, orif % is in that house, this corrupts the judgmentof the astrologer
so that the chart interpretation is usually wrong. The exception to this is
whenthe question concerns a seventh house matter, such as partnership,
war,robbery,etc., then such configurationstell us about the quesited.
If the planet symbolizing the querent is combust—thatis, within 814°
of the ©, andin the same sign—discardthe chart.
If 4 is in the Ascendant, the matter seldom comesto good, especially
if it is retrograde.
If the querent’s significator is in its Detriment or Fall, he does not
really care about the answer to his question, and so you do not have a
chart that clearly expresses what is asked about. However, by the pre-
ponderanceof planets in houses, you cantell whatis truly on his mind.'
Thereare also three stipulations concerning the planetary hour. (More
onplanetary hourslater). In the very best and mostfortunate charts there
is an agreement between the planetary hour and the chart. Many charts
are judged where these conditions are not met, but if the reply is to
please the querent, they are usually present.
1. Consider the sign ascending and noteits triplicity (see my third
installment in Considerations XV: 4), if the planet ruling the
houralsorulesthattriplicity, it is in agreement with the chart.
2. Consider the sign ascending, if the planet ruling the hour rules
that sign it is in agreementwith the chart.
3. Consider the planet ruling the ascendingsign and the planetrul-
ing the hour,if they are of the same naturethere is agreement.

Table 1: The Natures of the Signs & Planets

Nature Sign Planets

Hot & dry TQX O¢
Cold & dry ome g 4
Hot & moist Tax 4
Cold & moist SMX DY
By considering the cautions andstrictures described here you will
knowif it is wise to judge a chart. Aboveall, the chart must describe the
situation asked about, with the planets, like characters in a play, repre-
senting the people orarticles that are involved.
Rememberthat the same question cannotbe askedtwice. If the quer-
ent does that a stricture usually appears, often a late degree rises. It is no
good asking the same question clothed in different words—forinstance,
saying “Will I succeed in this venture?” when she means “Can | get him
to be interested in me?”

"For example, see thearticle in this issue by Carlota Machado Mendes.

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AVINGdecided the chart is fit to be judged, we want to know

if it will produce anaffirmative or negative reply. To knowif,
something will happen,inspect the aspects. If you ask, perhaps,
if the querent and quesited will meet, look for an approaching
aspect betweentheir planetary significators.
Anaspectis always made by a faster planet towards a slower. As the
) is fastest it is often the ) that makesthe first aspect. The ) is like a
verb, showing action,it points to what will happen. Every aspect the )
has already made while in its current sign shows what has happened in
the past.
In Horary we use only the major Ptolemaic aspects: # 4 * O and ¢.
This is not to say the minor aspects are not there, but they will nottell
you the outcomeofa horary question. They areirrelevant.
Asthe faster planet approaches a slower one, we say they are in as-
pect. Theyindicate an action. But as soon as the aspect has passed, we
say they are separating from aspect.
Whentwoplanets go towards an aspectit is like two people going to
meet each other. Whenthe aspectis exact (partile), they are meeting, but
as soon as the planets separate by only 6 minutes ofarc, the meeting is
over. However, the effect may linger until they are beyond orb, but the
action haspassed.
It is important to rememberthe comparative speeds of the planets. A
slower planet cannot movetowardsa faster one,unlessit is retrograde.

AVING mentioned orbs, I must

explainthat through the long his-
tory of astrology orbs have be-
longed to the planets, not to as-
pects. The very definition of an orbis that it
is a sphere or globe, andit is obvious thatit
fits, like an aura or halo, around a planet. If
a planet is not an inanimate rock, and those
of us who are becoming awareofour envi-
ronment speak of Earth asa living planet, is
it not reasonable to assume it has an aura?
Wasit the advent of the Age ofReason that ORB is the diameter ofthe
deprived planets oftheir orbs, giving them sphere about the planet.
to aspects? Tofit an orb over an aspectis MOIESY Ss theredtus
like fitting a round peg into a square hole. A moiety is half an orb.
Planets are in aspect whenthe distance between them,or their aspect,
is within their combined moieties.
A planetat the very heart of the ©, within 17’ ofits center, is Cazimi,
it is strengthened, but a planet within 84° of the © andin the samesign
is called combust, the © having burnt out the strength of that planet.
Even a planet within 17° is weakened: it is said to be “Under the Sun-

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beams.” A planet so hidden by the © can show a matter that is hidden,

or that the questioneris not in possession ofthe full facts.

Table 3:
Traditional Planetary Orbs

Planet Orb Limit_| MoietyLimit

tr AioiwdO 17° or 15° 84° — 714°
12% or 12° 64° — 6°
laa 3%
8° or 7° 4° — 3°
TA° or 7° 3%°— 3A"
9° or 12° 4? — 6°
9° or 10° 4Ao — 5°

The most obvious indication of a positive answer in a chart is when

the two main significators apply to a conjunction without interference
from another planet.It is also shown by an applying sextileor trine.
Even a square can, with difficulty, provide a positive answer if the
planets are dignified and well placed, but without that it shows a negative
outcome.
As for the opposition, Lilly calls it “an aspect of perfect hatred.” It
could provide an affirmative answerif the two main significators are in
mutual reception and the ), moving between the two,translates the light
from one to the other. But even then the result is often regretted later.
Anaffirmation is given by a “Translation of Light”—that is, when a
fast planet separates from one slowersignificator and applies to another
slower significator, thereby conveying the light or virtue from the first
planetto the second.
Anaffirmation is also given by “Collection”—that is, when the fast
planets that are significators are not in aspect, but both aspect a larger,
slower planet, who collects their light or virtue, accomplishing their re-
quirements for them. It is usually a helpful configuration, but a malefic
planet collecting their light by opposition would probably destroy all
hopes.
Thereis also affirmation by house position—for instance, if the quer-
ent asks whether she will obtain a certain professional job, and the sym-
bol of the tenth house (the ruler of the sign on the cusp of the tenth
house) is in her first house, or her symbol(the ruler of the sign on the
cusp of the Ascendant) is in the tenth house, giving an affirmation by
emplacement.
Emplacement is more relevant in questions concerning lost or missing
articles, or employment questions, whereas aspects are more relevant in
enquiries aboutactions or meeting people.
To be continued

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part of the house, towards the east.’ U is a south-by-east sign; in fact all
the significators are in the eastern quadrantofthe chart.
Myworkroom has a corner window.Half the window faces south and
the other half faces east. Althoughall the indications pointed towards this
room, another search brought nosuccess. I had another lookat the chart.
Theclosest planet to the 10" cusp is 2, and I suddenly rememberedthat
amongotherthings @ signifies beds.* I pulled out the divan, which stands
against the wall, and there was my musicpadonthe floor.
I think there must be somelittle astrological demon running around
my house, hiding my things to give me horary practice. This is the third
time I have had to do a chart for lost music.

©
A Guide to Horary & More
for Contemporary Astrologers
Part 5

OLIVIA BARCLAY aur

HE LASTinstallment summarized the use of planetary as-

pects and how they can indicate actions, past, present and
future. Yet what is promised is not always accomplished. It
may appear, at present, that a planet will reachits goal, but
look out for another, faster one that might overtake it and
reach the goalfirst. That is prohibition. It prohibits the success of the
overtaken planet. 2, the lady, may hopeto reach o’, the young man,but
whensheis within a few degrees of him, ?, whois faster, pushes past her
and reaches him first.
Or9, the lady, may hope to reach o”, the young man,but just as she
approaches, he joins up with 4, a slower planet, who was aheadof him,
andsheis frustrated because she wantedto be with him alone.
Or 9, the lady, may hopeto reach o”, but just as she approaches him,
he slides into the next sign beyond her reach, or just as she approaches
him sheherself goes retrograde, retreating from him. This is refranation.
It is not always easy for a contemporary natal astrologer to understand
the constant and varying motion of planets speeds, because in recent
years such a concept hasbeenlost, and with that the ability to predict or
make anyprecise statements.

Tbid, p. 203.
® Ibid, p. 75.

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Retrograde planets are notentirely bad, in fact if you wish to find a

lost article, and the symbol ofits significatoris 8, the article will be re-
trieved. If a forward moving planet bumps into a retrograde planet, the
meeting will occur more suddenly, ending the matter speedily. Tf ret-
rograde planetis chasing another retrograde planet delayis inevitable.
What about the moment when a planet changes direction? There is a
pause while it remains stationary. There are two kinds of station: one
when the planet turns fromdirect to retrograde, and one when it turns
from retrograde to direct again. Theinterpretation is this: at the first sta-
tion it slows things down, butat the second station Lilly, commenting on
the 74'” Consideration of Bonatus, tells us there is a renewing ofstrength.

am amy) E MUSTalwaysconsider the antiscia degrees (singular an-

tiscion) of our main significators. These are called Solstice
4 Points in America. One imaginesa line between 0° @ and 0°
G BS % andreflects the chart that is on one side of this line onto
Sw") the other side. Thus a planetthatis at 1° @ reflects onto 29°
IL, or a planet at 27° reflects to one at 3° 6. The effect is like a con-
junction.
When we read that planets behold each other,this refers to planets in
aspectorin contactby antiscia.
The point opposite an antiscion degreeis called its contra-antiscion.
If the antiscia fall in middle of Fixed signs (the antiscion degree of
15° B is 15° Q), with the contra-antiscia opposite them, the resulting
Fixed Cross is extremely difficult.
The use ofthis technique is described by Firmicus Maternus, writing
in the 4" Century.
In Synastry the antiscion points seem especially important, even
though the rest of the chart may showlittle evidence of contact. The ?
antiscion will provide a strong link between charts.
Another configuration to watch for is besiegement. When a main
significatoris situated between two malefics, * and o’, he is powerless.

HAS become ignored in recent times. Traditionally, 3)

was always of the greatest importance because it repre-
sents our fortune or substance. It is one of the hylegical
places, used when astrologers calculate the length of a
life. The goddess Fortuna was in every Roman temple.
The good aspectof the ) to @ alone will give an affirmative answer to
the horary question.
Wecalculate the ® by adding together the number of degrees of ce-
lestial longitude of the Ascendant and the ), and then subtracting the
numberof degrees of the ©. So that if the Ascendantis at 3° @ (that is

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the equivalent of 33°) and the ) is at 4° Ml (or 214°), add these to make
247°. If the position of the © is then at 20° QQ (or 140°), this is subtracted
from 247°, leaving 109°, the equivalent of 17° &, which is then the posi-
tion of the @.
Ptolemyand Lilly calculate the ® in this way for both day and night
charts, but someother authorities reverse this for night charts, adding the
Ascendantandthe ©,then subtracting the ).

@=ASC + )-O (all charts, according to Ptolemy & Lilly; diurnal

only, accordingto others)
@®= ASC + ©-) (nocturnal only, according to some)

Where ® is in your chart, there is your substance,literally or meta-

phorically. It is written as ®; not as ®, whichis the glyph of the earth.
Ptolemy explains how to interpret the ®,thatit informs us about our
material acquisitions for one thing, and should also be judgedbyits dis-
positor, that is, the planet ruling the sign it is in. If the dispositor is
strong the querentwill be rich, especially if aspected by the luminaries.
Ptolemystates that if 4 is the ® dispositor, riches come from build-
ings, agriculture or shipping. If 4 is the dispositor, from inheritance,
trusteeship orpriesthood.If it is o', through military command. Ifit is 2,
riches come throughgifts from women. Andif§ is the ruler ofthe sign
containing the ®, the wealth will come through eloquenceorfrom trade.
There are other ways the ® informsus, but for that read Ptolemy’s
Tetrabiblos, because a full explanation is beyond the scopeofthis article.
The Arabsused not only the @ but also manyotherParts or Lots, as
Al Biruni explains. Lilly does not mention much about them in his
Christian Astrology because in his day Arabs were consideredinfidels.
He does however makeuse of the Part of Children.

N HORARYit is simplest if the querent asks his own ques-

tions, but if he asks on behalf of someoneelse, the chart is
9 turned, This meansthat although the 1" house a/ways repre-
sents the questioner, if he should ask about his partner, we
can judge the chart from the point of view of the 7house.
The 8'" then becomesthe partner’s possessions, the 9" her short journeys,
etc. Lilly shows us a chart concerning the death of the Archbishop of
Canterbury on page 419 of Christian Astrology. As the Archbishop is a
man of the Church, he is represented by the 9" house. This is much
harder to interpret because there is the radical chart with its house mean-
ings, and the turned chart with its house meanings. If the querent is not
involvedin the action asked about, the emphasis is usually on the turned
positions.

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can be considered.
The Fixed Stars give greatest gifis and elevate even from
poverty to an extreme height of Fortune. The seven planets
do notso.'
The Fixed Stars were named accordingto their effects and mostof the
names are of Arabic origin. When planetis conjunct a Fixed Star of
the same nature the qualities of that planet will be greatly emphasized;
but if the Fixed Star is of a contrary natureit will hinderthe planet
The effects of the Fixed Stars are long lasting and slow, useful in
judging mundane events and to consider when laying foundation stones
for buildings or towns.
Wedonot use every known Fixed Star because there are too many.
Lilly used only aboutforty, allowing an orb of 1° if the star is powerful,
but more usually 4°.
Ptolemy writes of the ancient arrangement of the constellations,
where each one had significancein itself. For instance, Argo affected
shipping, Cygnus and Aquila affected birds, as did Tf and %, which are
both winged signs. & and the Dolphin affected the sea, and Perseus in-
fluenced humanity. Unfortunately, Algolis in Perseus.
The constellations described by Ptolemy did not encompassall the
stars. There were some outside any constellation and they were called
‘scattered’, Modern astronomers haverectified the shapes of the old con-
stellations to make them neater, and tidied up the old arrangements to
includeall stars. This has been disastrous for interpretation since stars of
differing properties are now contained in the same modern constellation.
Moreover, these meddling astronomers have changed the names, not
only ofthe stars butof the constellations. This meansit is extremely dif-
ficult to identify someofthe stars namedin antiquity.
It should be remembered that the precession of the equinoxes has
moved the positions of the Fixed Stars in relation to the earth, so that
they appear to moveat approximately 50 seconds oflongitude each year.
Apart from their movementagainst the Zodiac, they do have a very slight
movement of their own. Stars vary in brightness and, as the brightest
stars are those that have the strongest effect on earthly life, perhaps their
influence varies from century to century.
The finest source of information ontraditional astrology is Christian
Astrology by William Lilly, published in 1647.
As this copy of Considerations was about to go to the
printers, we received the sad newsthat Olivia has died
(7 pm,1 April 2001: 51N14, 1E24)

' Christian Astrology, p. 621.

? 9" Consideration of Bonatus.

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Part 6

OLIVIA BARCLAY aup

LANETARY HOURS
From antiquity there has been a condition upon which the va-
lidity of a chart depends, and which I have not so far men-
tioned, and that is upon planetary hours. Is it stretching the
boundsofcredibility too far to suggest that not only a moment,
but an hourhasits quality?
Before our present generation the consideration of planetary hours
had always been anintegral part of astrology. They were used in other
ways besides determining the validity of a chart. If, for instance, the
ruler of the houris angular, a person or object looked for is within the
house ofthe querent, just as if the ruler of the 2" house is angular. In
questions of theft the ruler of the hour can symbolize the thief. Ancient
aphorismstell us aboutplanetary hours. Lilly's first aphorism reads,
See the Questionbe radical, orfit to bejudged, which is whenthe
Lordofthe ascendant and hourbe ofonenatureor triplicity
Zadkiel, who omitted planetary hoursentirely throughout his book /ntro-
duction to Astrology, which purported to be the work of Lilly, changes
this to
See the questionis radicalandfit to bejudged.
This is a typical example of the way Zadkicl treats the workof Lilly.
Perhaps he was afraid that mention ofplanetary hours would associate
astrology with superstitions that used to be held. In the 17” century
medicines were given at appropriate hours, and herbs were collected ac-
cording to the proper hours.
The use ofplanetary hours is Western. I do not believe the Hindu sys-
tem ofastrology use them.
Everyone associates the day of the week with the planets: Sunday
with the ©, Monday withthe ), Tuesday with o* (French Mardi, North-
ern Europe Tui), Wednesday with $ (French Mercredi, Northern Europe
Woden), Thursday with Thor or 4, Friday with 2 (French Vendredi,
Northern Europe Frigg or Freya), and of course Saturday with ».
A day wasconsidered to start at daybreak, at sunrise. The time be-
tween daybreak and sunset was divided into twelve equal periods, called
hours. The period betweensunset andthe following sunrise was similarly
divided into another twelve equal periods. The day hours would notbe of
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day had long hours and a summernight short hours. A winter day had
short hours and a winter night long hours.
Each day begins with the hour of the planet after which it is named.
For example, the first hour on Sunday is the hour of the ©. Each hour
belongs to a never-ending sequence. Even between one day and the next
the sequenceis not broken. The sequenceis: ©, 9, ¥%, , 4,4, ot, which
is then followed by the © and the sequenceof the sevenplanetary hours
continues.
Asthere are 24 hours in our day, it can be divided into three complete
sets of seven, plus another 3 hours. So, for a Sunday, which commences
at sunrise with the © hour, three complete sets of ©, 9, 2, ), %, 4, o* will
elapse and then only the next three, namely O, Q and §, will occur before
the start of the next day. When the day following Sunday beginsit will
be the turn ofthe planet that comes next in the sequence, namely the ).
Andthis is correct for the day following Sunday is Monday. And so on
through the week, and so on throughout the months, years and centuries.
Even at the times of calendar
Sion Fates’ changes, when the Julian calendar
ofPlanets became the Gregorian and there
was an apparent gap of ten days,
T |& 10) 20}2 30] this sequence continued undis-
turbed, it has never been known to
O |e to )> 20 /% 30 falter. And because the sequence
Tt |¥ 10! 20/© 30] of the planetary hours have re-
mained fixed, so Monday has
& | 10/2 20!) 30] always followed Sunday, Tuesday
has always followed Monday, and
Q | 10;% 20] 30 so on. I believe the permanence of
t lo le 20]% 30 the planetary hour system is very
important.
~ |) 10/5 20/2 30 Now consider Ptolemy’s Table
of Dignities that I discussed
T |o& 10/© 20|% 30 previously. Consider the Faces of
the planets. The relevant part of
x |% 10/D 20/2 30] Ptolemy's Table is shown here.It
is the same sequence. Lookat the
% |¥ 10|o 20/0 30 Faces of T (the decades ruled in
«= |9 101% 20/>) 30; m by o&, © and Q), then &
continues (% ) %), and in I the
H | 10]4 20|/% 30 sequence ends with 4 and begins
anew with o” and the ©. It then
continues through the remaining
signs. Consider now the antiquity of this arrangement. The Faces come
to us from Eqypt.

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Valid Hour Rulersfor the different Rising Signs
Triplicity Triplicity Therefore, hour Ruler
Sign Nature of Rulers whenthis sign rises
rising of sign ruler sign for the chart
to be radical

v
s
<
Hot & dry 9

ArH OAFX HOA tO

Ax*3

Cold & moist »

Cold & dry 5
Cold & moist g
O89

Hot & dry co © o+ night

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Cold & dry » % + + day or ) night

3

Cold & moist >

XSh
Hot & dry Oo
Hot & moist
Cold & dry

1 4O0 4x
ZEA
Cold & dry
Hot & moist

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We aretold that a horary chart is not valid unless the planetary hour
harmonizes with the Ascendantor with the ruler of the sign on the As-
cendant, but I am coming to the conclusion that this means a chart may
not be a happy one without the above proviso. This mattered a great deal
in the days when anastrologer could be thrownovera cliff if his solution
was not what an emperor wantedto hear, as in the time of Thrassyllus.
Certainly the best charts do have this harmonization. It can be expressed
in the following ways.
1. The ruler of the hour should be of the sametriplicity as the As-
cendant. To discoverthis, look at Ptolemy’s Table of Dignities.'
Forinstance, if is ruler of the hour and the day chart Ascen-
dant is II, this harmonizes because * rules the Air triplicity in
the daytime — a connection manyastrologers may overlook! Or,
if the planet of the hour is co’ and the Ascendant a water sign,
they are in accord because c¥ rules the Watertriplicity.
2. The ruler of the hour should be the sameasthe ruler of the as-
cending sign, as with “ rising and \ theruler of the hour.
3. A chart is said to be valid if the hour and the Ascendantare of
the samenature. This needs a table. In traditional astrology the
signs and planets are described as follows:

Sign Attributes Planet Attributes

‘T_| Hot and dry © Hot and dry
3 Cold and dry 2 Cold and moist
Il__| Hot and moist § Coldand dry
© Cold and moist D__| Cold and moist
| Hot and dry | Cold anddry
TW Cold and dry y Hot and moist
= Hot and moist ¢ Hotand dry
T_| Cold and moist
| Hot and dry Planets arelisted in
© Coldand dry the planetary hour
xx Hotand moist sequence
H__| Cold and moist

The table at the end of this article summarizes all of this, showing
when a chart can beconsideredto be radical for the above reasons.
It is the Ascendant of the original chart that counts, not of the turned
chart!
There are two exceptions to these rules. They are:
a. The hour ruler makes a beneficial aspect to the Ascendant orto
oneofthe rulers of the Ascendant

"See Considerations XV: 4, p. 43.

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b. The hourruler is angular

For example, if © ascends in a nighttime chart one would consider
that \ is ruler ofthe triplicity, and if the ) is the rulerof the houranditis
is trine to 4, that would be considered valid, according to conclusions
reached by studying Lilly’s example charts. For these exceptions to be
used, however, the chart must describe the circumstances of the question
or the physical appearanceofthe parties concerned.
If you decide to use planetary hours, it is a good idea to make a table
for reference. This table must suit the vicinity in which you live, because
periodsof time between sunrise and sunset vary according to locality.
There is no doubt that charts with the ascending sign and its ruler
blended with the planetary hour are more apt, although this is something
only a good horary astrologer will recognize. Our natal colleagues re-
main cynical, even as the public is cynical about nativities. But since we
know that the quality of one hourdiffers from that of another, werealize
that past generations understood the integration of life with the move-
ments of the seven planets in particular, and the rest of the Universe in
general. We must hold fast to these truths before some ludicrous ‘as-
trologer,’ intent on including the newly discovered planets wherever pos-
sible, invents Uranusday, Neptuneday and Plutoday, and puts thirty hours
ina day!

Who ?
Ruth Baker, a regular contributor on horary matters in Considerations, is a pro-
fessional violinist. She lives on the Essex coast in England

Olivia Barclay, the author of Horary Astrology Rediscovered, was the principle
of the Qualifying Horary Diploma course. She died in April, 2001.

Robert P. Blaschkeis the authorof Astrology: A Languageof Life, Volume | —

Progressions and Volume 1] — Sabian Symbol Orbs. Volume HI — A Handbook
forthe Practicing Astrologeris scheduled for publication in March 2002. Heis a
faculty memberof the ONLINE College of Astrology, lives in Oregon and can
be contacted at ewastro@rain.com.
Karen Christino is a consulting astrologer, writer and lecturer. Her book,
Foreseeing the Future: Evangeline AdamsandAstrologyin America,is
available from One Reed Publications (www.OncReed.com). Karen can be
reached at Christino@starmail.org.
KenGillman is the editor of Considerations.
Rene Goodale,a highly experience astrologerofthe Ebertin school of cosmobi-
ology,is a past presidentof the Astrological Association of Atlanta, Georgia.
Nicole Girard is an experienced astrologer wholives in Normandy, France. She
has recently devoted much of hertime to saving seabirds damaged by tankeroil.
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 The Needfor Traditional Astrology
The 1996 Carter Memorial Lecture

Olivia Barclay a.H.P

Olivia Barclay is an astrologer of early 1980sbit by bit. The republi-

some repute, I’d say. Many people,
whentheyfirst meet herthink ‘what a
nice lady’ but Olivia has been the
cause ofa minorearthquake in many
parts ofthe English-speaking world,
in addition to GermanyandItaly and
other countries, over the past fifteen
years, mainly because she insisted
that the small numberofpeople, asit
wasin those days, who studied
Horary were using texts which were
doctored andbastardized during the
19th century. It was Olivia's photo-
copied editionsof William Lilly's
1647 masterpiece Christian Astrol-
ogy, which lay behind Regulus’ 1985
publication of this work, the first as-
trological textbook to be writtenin
English. That represented, ifyou
like, the coming of age of astrology in
England andit wasthefirst time
those people who didn't read or
speak Latin could study astrology. It
was Olivia who introduced us to that
work, restoring a direct line ofastro-
logical interpretation extending back
to the classical world. Thatline had
been broken when astrology went out
offashion in the late 17th century
andhad to berediscovered in the
cation of Christian Astrology came at
atime when, I think, the consensus
wasthat the future of astrology lay in
its marriage with depth-psychology.
Olivia suddenly drew people back
into the realizationthat there was a
very precise technical way of working
with astrology to make precise judg-
ments concerning external events.
Out of Olivia's work has come a
plethora ofmagazines, the Horary
Messenger, the Horary Practitioner,
the Traditional Astrologer, as well as
schoolsoftraditional and classical
astrology both in the UK andthe US,
led ofcourse by her own school. It is
interesting to see people who have
beenstudying astrologyfor 20 or 30
wears enrolling in Olivia's school. It
is perhapstoo earlyto assess her
long-term importance, but she has
single-handedly transformedthe way
we think about astrology in the
1990s. Her impact so faris really
quite monumental.
—Introduction prior to the lecture
by Nicholas Campion,
President of the U.K’s
Astrological Association

// HERE WERE SOME FINE and great trees blown downin the
storm of 1987 and we mourned for them, That is how feel
about Westernastrology, It is like an old oak or redwoodtree,
incredibly old, but brought down in the storms ofthe last three
centuries. Its roots arestill there. buried in antiquity, but we have cut it
off from its roots. “Its roots don’t matter,” we have said, “we will graft
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bits of it onto modern saplings, like one called psychology, or one called
science,orbetterstill let’s cut it up for firewood.”
However,the main tree could still be rescued if we would only take the
trouble to study it. We could still recapture the truths oftraditional as-
trology, despite current confusion
By ‘traditional astrology’ I meanthat great canon of knowledge that
has accumulated over the past thousands of years. It consists of Mun-
dane, Horary,Nativities and Electional astrology.
Ourreason for studying the works of the past is to learn the methods
ofprevious astrologers andtry to improve ourtechniques today. It is not
simply because the ways are old, or because we intend to follow on par-
rot-fashion, it is because ofthe astrologythey can teach us.
Astrology is the study ofthe action ofthe spirit through the medium of
heavenly bodies, on all manifest material matter ofthis earth, or, as Car-
dan, the famous 16th-centuryItalian astrologer, so aptly putit in my fa-
vorite aphorism, Heaven is the Instrument of the Most High God whereby
he acts upon and GovernsInferior Things.
Whether you believe in the Most High God or whether youcall Him a
Universal Life Force or Energy, you must surely realize that you should
be studying those laws which showthe pattern ofexistence of everything
there is. You should not be studying something recently thought up on the
spur of the moment by someone calling himself an astrologer or psy-
chologist. It is for us to find out those universal laws, to strive to decipher
their code, and penetrate their meaning and purpose; not to invent hypo-
thetical methods ofinterpretation for the sakeof publicity or prestige.
There have been many unfounded inventions during this century which
haveled to distortions of the truth. We have been losing muchthat is of
value. People havefelt free to invent and add whatever they wish, even
whenthey have no idea of what was already known in the old astrology
The changes have caused confusion and contradiction.
Somepeople have invented ideas to make astrology more acceptable,
others to make it simpler, and some just for the sake of talking about
something new. The trouble is that when someone invents a method,
someone else comes along and invents a contradictory one, and everyone
is thrown into confusion because fewhave studied the foundations of our
art sufficiently to knowwhich, ofall the variations put before them, is the
correct one.

As Robert Hand said in the Foreword to my own book, Horary As-

trology Rediscovered, so muchhasbeeninvented that everything at any-
time can meananything, so then nothing means anything. 1 agreed with
Robert Hand,the plethora of inventions has defeated its own object. He
suggests that we need whathe calls rigor in our use of symbols, which I
 Considerations XII:3

interpret to mean that we should have an exact knowledge oftheir mean-

ing. That should beourfirst step.
Haveyou ever considered that 1,500 years ago Palchus, for one, could,
with his astrology, respond to a question with a clear answer. William
Lilly and his contemporaries could do that in the 17th century and they
explained to us how todoit, but no, we must add and invent and maneu-
ver until our words sound obscure and meaningless. We speak in cuphe-
misms, forgetting to search for the nub ofthe matter.
As you may know,I teach a course in Horary. Horary is a very prac-
tical art. Onevirtue ofit is that when you are asked a question you need
to produce an answerthat can be seento be true. You cannot waffle. It is
a fine test of astrology. If your answeris correct you are on the right
track, you are using the right methods. You know you candrive your car
because youconsistently reach the desired destination safely. There is a
great difference between driving a car and only talking about onelike a
car salesman. You need to knowfrom practical experience what the ac-
celerator is for, and should resist those who instruct youfalsely. There
are at present many more bookstalking about astrology than practical,
proficient working astrologers. It is easier to talk
Tamreminded of Lilly’s wordsinhis introduction to the Anima Astro-
logiae by Bonatus. He says the book is “for those honest students that
practice art to discover truth and not to vapour withit.”
Nodoubt there are manymotives that drive us to study astrology. My
own motive was to find clear evidence that the movement of heavenly
bodies affected life on earth, or that a synchronicity exists between them
showing thatlife is one—”As above,so it is below”, etc. My motivation
wasnotprediction, and yet prediction supplies such evidence. Astrology
has always been concerned with prediction, although we seldom hear a
serious prediction nowexcept fromthe weathermen. The ancient ability to
predict grew from observations, I believe, as the yearly heliacal rising of
Sirius coinciding with the rising of the Nile. In early days, astronomy and
astrology were one, astronomy the study of physical reality and astrology
the interpretation of its meaning. Observation of nature seems to have
been much keenerin earlier cultures and consequently they had an aware-
ness of beauty which was considered, in Greeceat least, an expression of
the innerspirit.

WOULDLIKEto mention somegreat astrologers of the past who

have muchto teach us. It is absurd that their work has beenso ig-
nored, just because theylived in a different culture from ours which
wasnot immersed in materialism and which held different standards. Pre-
sumably most of you subscribe to Project Hindsight, an organization
headed by Robert Hand, which has committed itself to the colossal task of
w
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translating into English all the authoritative works of past astrologers.

One ofthe most notable, in my opinion, is the book by Paulus Alexan-
drinus written in 378 AD and nowtranslated into English for the first
time. It wassignificant to see that Paulus differed from Ptolemy by allo-
cating the rulership of the watertriplicity by day to Venus. But howcan
the average astrologer of today, unfamiliar with the tables of Essential
Dignitics of the planets, appreciate these differences, or assess the value
of Paulus’ workat all? To do so you must first understand the traditional
methods he is discussing. And that is where there is a great gap in the
knowledge of the majority of present-dayastrologers.
Apart fromthe linguistic efforts of Project Hindsight, it is important
that Graeme Tobynhas started a “Latin for Astrologers” study group in
London. Here is a group of expericnced working astrologers who are
translating directly from Latin. I am going to ask Graemeto translate
some lines from Junctinius for you throughout mytalk so that you can
hear how beautiful and concise the old astrology was. Hereis the chart of
Mary, QueenofScots, with Graeme’s translation:
SFranciscl Junctint Comment
Marla Regina Scotia Nativitas
283.47

1542
Die 7 Decemb,
lo; 1m 15
2.36 post meridiem

Pol. 59 grad

Mary, Queen ofScotland, the daughter of James V. King ofthe Scots.

began her reign in 1542 aged seven days. Her father dead, she married
Francois, the DauphinofFrance, who later was proclaimed the King of
France. Butafter the death of her husband King Francois, she now wid-
owedleft the palace and withdrewto the city of Rheims. Shevisited
Lotharingia, then leaving Calais on a favorable wind she came to land
in Scotland, was received with honorby her people and was throwninto
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many troubles byherarrival in the kingdom. Since, therefore, the tu-

mult in the kingdomof Scotland was increasing more eachday, the
Queen seeing the sedition by the people against her, departed and hur-
ried on her journey to France. But on the journey she was captured by
the Queen of England who imprisoned herin a castle which is com-
monly called Ponfre [Pontefract].
It should be abundantly clear to whoever might thus searchfor the
former happiness andpresent calamityof this Queen, that fate obtains
its own share in humanaffairs. For this Queen has in hernativity > in
square to do’, whichare in commutated and violent signs and have do-
minion in the VIIth and XIIth houses. The ) is found with the antiscion
of the © in %, which gives a propensity for journeys, But it is the plan-
ets @ in = in the XIth and % in Tl in the VIUth which portend impris-
onments and very manydangers and misfortunesand the death of a
husband, which happenedto her.

TIS TRUEthat we do have a few early books already in English that

we can study. For instance, you can buy The Astronomica by Manil-
ius, wholived about the time of Christ. It is a beautiful epic poem de-
scribing the beliefs of that cra, including the fact that the Earth is a
sphere.It contains the carliest description 1 know of the houses, showing
that by this date they had emerged from a moreprimitive astrology where
luminaries and angles had been emphasized. The houses were called by
name not by numbers, as you will also find in the Terrabiblos by
Ptolemy’ written less than a centurylater, Manilius tells us that the
houses were called temples, and the planets, who were the gods, had their
abodesin certain temples. Mercury hashis abodein the Ist house, because
of his association with the head, the tongue and the memory. Mercury
gavehis name, Sti/bon (the Glistener), to the first house. % in the Xth of
success makes a successful orator. % is associated withthe brain.
Thearthere is now a new, irresponsible invention thatit is 2 whois as-
sociated with the brain. We will no doubt see cach planet in turn given
tulership of the brain. Wherewill it end?
Each house, you see, takes on the characteristics of the planet which
abides in it. Thus the Vth, always called the house of luck, has the char-
acteristics of 2, pleasure, since 2 has her abodein the Vth. Manilius ex-
plains that through the temples the entire procession of the Zodiac re-
volves, and that the planets too traverse them, modifying their properties.?
So you sce thatfor at least the last 2,000 years the distinction between
housesand signs has been understood in western astrology. (Hindu astrol-
ogy is a different discipline.) When we are studying western astrology,

' Robbinstranslation in Locb Classical Library, page 273.

* Astronomicon by Manilius, Locb, page 159.
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therefore, we should realize that the houses and signs do not equate to
each other. I quote William Lilly, who wrote

..-he that shall learnthe nature of the planets and signs without exact
judgmentof the houses,is like an improvident man that furnisheth him-
self with household stuffe, having no place wherein to bestow them.

Every action, every event, every personorthinginthis life belongs to

one of the houses. This rulership is not a matter of opinion, but of facts
tried and tested by generation after generation—and thatapplies to all as-
trology.
It was therefore unfortunate when someonethis century decided to in-
vent a newidea for teaching astrology to beginners: “the first house,” they
said, “equals the first sign of Aries and therefore Mars, the second house
equals Taurus and therefore Venus; etc.” —it has beencalled ‘the alpha-
bet ofastrology.” Thisillustrates my point about random inventions, and
it has led to confusion ever since. Such statements as “if Libra is the sev-
enth sign and Saturn is exalted in Libra, then Saturnis exalted in the sev-
enth house”, which I assure youit is not. Nor could it be true that 4 rules
the XIth house or 4 the XIlth, because the XIth is the most fortunate of
houses, having takenits characteristics from \4, the greater benefic.
(However, there is an cxception to this rule. Whenreferring to the
anatomy ofthe body, then there is an analog between signs and houses,
butin that respect only.)
While Manilius called the Ist house Stilbon, by Ptolemy’s time it was
called the Horoscopus. When you read ofthe horoscope in old books they
are referring to the ascendant, not to the whole chart. The Ist house de-
scribes the body; it is the House of Life. In Horary it represents the
querent.
TheIInd houserefers to the resourcesofthe Ist. Firmicus called it Lu-
crum (money) in the 4th century. We don’t know whose abodeit was, but
Manilius calledit the Portal of Pluto.
The IlIrd house is the abode ofthe ), for the } fluctuates in movement
and shape and so rulestransitory things like short journeys and what we
call communications. It has been called the House of Brothers. In the
time of Ptolemy it was called Dea, goddess, because it was opposite the
IXth, Deus.
The IXth house has always beenrelated to religion and God, and is
therefore the abode of the ©, The word Sun was once synonymous with
the word God, Vettius Valens, in describing the configuration 4 4 ©
called this Jupiter trine God. The church belongs to the [Xth and, in our
secular society, so do philosophy and deep thought and further education
and their counterpart on the physical planes,distant travel. It covers vi-
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sion and dreams, since they come from God. I have always thought it
significant that Gauquelin found prominent athletes had o in this house
because o” is strengthened by the ©, being of the same nature, hot and
dry. Gauquelin’s conclusion thereby upholds the traditional understand-
ing ofthe natureof the planets
I am not suggesting that astrology should stagnate and cease to de-
velop, There is a need for discovery and creative thought, but I am saying
that the basis of astrology should first be understood, before random rules
are thought up andaccepted.
Forinstance, a former student of mine, Lee Lehman, has taken those o*
positions found by Gauquelin and discovered by statistics that they are
mainly in the terms of & and », whichis relevant, since that provides the
additional energy and endurance required by the athletes. This helps con-
firm the positions of the termsofthe planets and has helped establish that
a sign is from 0-29° andnot 1-30°.
The IVth house is the base of the chart. Ptolemycalled it the Lower
Midheaven. It rules solid objects one cannot carry about, like buildings
and land and mines. It is the source, the beginning and the end; it rules
fathers and the old, andit is the abode of ».
Margaret Hone,in the 50’s, had a bright idea. She knew & wasthe
fourth sign, ruled by the ), so she invented a rule that the IVth house
didn’t really rule fathers at all, but mothers. Astrologers were again
thrown into confusion and some even associated with mothers. Firmi-
custells us the IVth house rules parents. However, if you refer to the
motheralone, take the opposite to the IVth, that is the Xth.
Thusinall astrology the signficator of the father is the [Vth house and
its ruler, or the © by day and » bynight or planets in the [Vth house.
The mother is shown bythe Xth house andits ruler, or by 2 by day
and the ) by night, or by planets in the Xth house
The Xth houseis the house of glory and authority. It shows one’s suc-
cess and standing in the world.
The XIth, as I’ve said, is the most fortunate of all, the Good Daemon,
ruled by , the benefic—not enoughattention is paid to } in our society;
it is the greatest giver of good, under God.
The XIIth is unfortunate and the joy of 4. From the XIIth comes
treachery, ambush, stabs in the back andself-undoing; but also pleasanter
thingslike solitude and large animals.
T have not yet mentioned the other unfortunate houses. The VIth was
called /aboris (work) by Manilius and Bad Fortune by Ptolemy. Work
was apparently considered undesirable then. It also describes illness and
it rules small animals

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The VIIIth shows the resources of the VIIth, and the ruler ofthe sign
on its cusp is the Lord of Death.

RADITIONALLY THE PLANETSareofgreater importance than

the signs. The signs have been emphasized recently because there
is money to be made from Sun-sign columns. Everyone knows
their Sun sign, Commercial astrology does no harmandhasrelaxed the
tension between the public and the astrologers. Weare fortunate to have
been relegated to the rank ofentertainers and nobody, we hope,is going to
be burntatthe stake.
But it was a different matter even at the beginning of this century
when, between 1914 and 1917, Alan Leo was prosecuted for fortunetell-
ing. In vain did he protest that his delineations merely showed
“tendencies.” He had warmed his client (a policeman using a false name)
that he could expect a death in the family circle, and the court would not
accept that such a statement was a ‘tendency.’ Leo was fined. This
dreadful state of affairs (and youcanread all about it in Patrick Curry’s A
Confusion ofProphets) \ead Leo to modify astrology so that it did not up-
set public opinion or the laws of England. He watered it down to merge
with theosophy and/or psychology. It was reminiscent of the old astrol-
ogy, since it used the same symbols, but it was changed,it wasn’t the real
thing. It was this for mess of pottage which Leo sold the inheritance of
astrology. Although the Witchcraft Act was not rescinded until 1988, as-
trologers were left unmolested, being officially classified in England as
entertainers
The psychological angle has proved very popular during this century
and indeed if one wants to be a psychologist or anything else, there is no
better way than incorporating astrology.
However, for those of us who are interested in pure astrology, which
deals with every facet of creation (not just human character), being clas-
sified as entertainers is a two-edged sword, It has the disadvantage that
whenserious researchyields results, these are dismissed, as with the Gau-
quelin results. And I remember a story about liquid metals in test tubes
that reacted whencertain planets ascended in the sky. This was done in
front of TV cameras but could not be shownto the public because the evi-
dence wastoo conclusive and would have contradicted our status as enter-
tainers. And so we have great barrier of prejudice to overcome. It is our
acceptedlot to work hard and not to be taken seriously. To amuse people
andtalk abouttheir Sun-sign type. It could be worse.

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In serious astrology we must rememberthat the signs are only like ad-
jectives, describing the planets. They are associated with four things only:
countries, diseases and descriptions of physical appearance,andplaces.*
It is the planets in all astrology that rule. It is to the planets that the
orbs belong, not to the aspects. A planct is a sphere, and an orb is a
sphere, It is commonsensethatthe circular orb shines around a planet like
anaura. An aspect, on the other hand,is not circular.
Planets can be assessed for strength in a chart, either for their essential
strength, looking to see if they are in their ownsign, exaltation, triplicity,
term or face, which are set degrees in the Zodiac, or for accidental
strengths which vary in each chart. For example, the planet can be angular
or swift in motion, or in some way well placed.
Wedonot havethe original work of Ptolemy with his original Tables
of Essential Dignities of the plancts, but I use the version given byLilly in
Christian Astrology becauseLilly put it to practical use, and also because
it is close to Al Biruni’s version fromthe | 1th century.

Premtere ASTROLOGY,in fact all astrology, was banned

from Europe in the 5th century. It was rescued and preserved by
the Arabs. Ptolemy’s work wastranslated into Arabic, European
and Arabic astrology merged. Those centuries produced famous Arab and
Jewish astrologers, Al Kini and Abu Masha were Arabic, Abraham Ibn
Ezra was Jewish. If you have beento the old synagogue in Cairo you may
have heard of him. The synagogue was named after him whenhepaid off
their debts. It was notuntil the 13th century that astrology crept back into
Europe, via Spain andItaly. Ptolemy was translated back into Latin from
Arabic. His work was taughtin all universities for three centuries. He had
been a great man, had written on music, geography, optics and astronomy;
he had calculated the distance of the Moon fromthe Earth. He had enor-
mous impactonastrological thought.
It was really Bonatus who brought back an enthusiasm for astrology
into Europe. Bonatus,like Lilly after him, set about to instruct students in
our art. His books are addressed to readers who do not yet know much
astrology. Project Hindsight havejust translated some ofhis work, and of
course I have greatly enjoyed reading his section on Horary. For one
thing, Bonatus is at great pains to explain the importance of reception,
how the efficacy of some aspects dependsbothonreception and the nature
of the planets involved.
The Project Hindsight translators of Bonatus were under the extraor-
dinary impression that Lilly did not use reception, only mutual reception,
but I found 129 references to reception in the Horary section of Christian

> William Lilly, Christian Astrology. Regulus edition, page 100.

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Astrology, aside from mention of mutual or mixed reception, and if any-

one would like to contest meonthis I refer them to page 185 of Christian
Astrology alone, where the whole page is full of explanations about re-
ception with aspects. Perhaps what led Project Hindsight to their mis-
taken conclusionis the fact that Bonatus, in the 13th century, andLilly, in
the 17th century, spoke often of dispositors as well as receiving planets.
Buta receiving planetis a dispositor. It is the samething. Planets in =
are received by @ in her ownsign, and by * in his exaltation, which is the
same as saying that ° deposits by sign and » deposits by exaltation. One
can only be forced to the sad andreluctant conclusion that the translators
at Project Hindsight havenotreadLilly.
It is clear that Lilly was conversant with and inspired by the work of
Bonatus, as he was by the work of Ptolemy. Incidentally, if you study
Ptolemy you will note again the importance ofdispositors. When he de-
scribes planets to us, he describes them asdispositors of eclipses.
Thereis one remark in Bonatus that struck a note which was foreign to
Lilly. “A planet in its fall or detriment,” he said, “cannot receive an-
other.” At first you think: “Of course it can’t; if it isn’t in an essential
dignity, how could it disposit another?” But then, what about the ) in 6?
The isin its detriment in @ butit rules the nighttriplicity of earth signs,
can it not then receivein its triplicity? Or o, in its fall in G? Yet &* rules
the watertriplicity. I do not knowthe answer to that and will leave you to
workit out.
Without recourse to the Tables of Dignitics of the planets you cannot
knowthe strength of a planetor its dispositor, nor the almuten ofa par-
ticular degree or of the whole chart. The chart becomespretty featureless
zl. 6

ELIzaseTuHo
Queen of Englands
born 1 5 33+
3018 6.

Septq. 2b. 26m

Pom
Sub Lat 534. 32,
a Vac. ad ¥h.

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Figure 3: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I

Noon (calculated for 0:11:27 p.m.), January 15, 1559 ns.
Westminster, London: 51N29.9, 0W07.7

HE CHARTOF Queen Elizabeth I of England is shownat Fig. 2

Perhaps the earlicst English astrologer we think of is John Dee,
personal astrologer to Her Majesty. He was an important and
wealthy man of her court and he wasalso the foreign agent for Elizabeth,
calling himself 007. He is famous, amongstother things, for his Electional
chart for the Queen’s coronation in 1559. In those days the prosperity of
her reign would have been acknowledged to depend on the beneficity of
the momentelected. I have also shown it in my book becauseit teaches us
useful lessons. It demonstrates the need to refer to a nativity when doing
an Electionalchart.
The luminaries of the Coronation chart (see fig. 3) are trine the bene-
fics, 4 and 9, in the nativity of the Queen—) 20° T a 4 20° ¥%, and ©
4° = A 2 3° =. The chart shownhere, by Gadbury, gives a x Ascendant
but Junctinius, a contemporary of Elizabeth, gives Ascendant. But
whichever Ascendant is correct (and I expect it is Junctinius because
Eliza-beth’s grandfather had 16° % on the Ascendant), the correspondence
betweenthe luminaries and benefics remains.
In such a chart too, Fixed Stars should be used because, as Bonatus
tells us, “the Fixed Stars confer great gifts and elevate from poverty to an
extreme height of fortune, the planets do not.” The Fixed Stars will give

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lasting effects and should be used in all foundations or cases where the
situation will last long. Here the is trine both ® and Regulus, the royal
star, conferring glory, honor and fame. Aspects to ® should always be
considered; the } aspecting ® is not void. (People who producethoselit-
tle tables to shown whenthe ) will be void of course overlookthis.)
As I mentioned, another contemporary of Elizabeth, was Junctinius,
and now I would like to ask Graeme Tobyn to translate from Latin an-
other passage from this great astrologer:

The most serene Queenhas inher nativity five planets intheir essential
dignities, namely } and @ in their domiciles, the ) in her exaltation and
joy, 9 in his triplicity, and o in his decan. On accountof which, she
obtained her father’s kingdomand inheritance. Yea, the Great Con-
junction in the year 1484 which was muchspokenof, exactly in 21 de-
grees of Tl has shownherthe greatness of her powerand authority, and
the marks of honor and has adorned her life with evident dignity, made
her famous andgraced her with a crown. Likewise 9 and 3 in her own
sign shows a charming manner of speech, eloquence and good will
among all nations, while the ) in 6 has undoubtedly signified an un-
commonskill in various languages and a knowledgeof very many sci-
ences.

HE CLIMAXfor western astrology wasreally in the 17th century

whenLilly wrote his masterpiece Christian Astrology, completed
in 1647 and over 870 pages long. This is the definitive book on
traditional astrology. It is concerned with Nativitics as well as Horary.
but the methods and techniques he shows us, once understood, are relevant
to all astrology. Lilly had access to a library of over 300 books and from
these he translated from Latin into English.
Project Hindsight announce that they too will nowtranslate all these
books and we look forward to reading them. However, I would like to
point out the differences between the efforts of Project Hindsight and
those of William Lilly.
Lilly was a man of enormous experience. Derek Parkertells us in his
biography ofLilly, Familiar to All, that there are casebooks, containing
file uponfile of astrological charts, over 4,000 between June 1654 and
September 1656. Lilly was a prodigious worker. It was he who advised
Parliament during the civil wars, and he became very famous. He was
proficient in Latin and in astrology. Of course he did not translate 300
books word for word, but because he was immersed in his subject he was
able to discriminate and select just the creamof the information that was
enoughto teach students to become proficient. Not only did he draw on
the greatest brains of the past but he was ableto give us the added benefit

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of his own conclusions. He was able to explain that a certain authority advo-
cated one method and another had adifferent idea, but he himself had found
another yet more succinct solution, It is this ability that the translators of Proj-
ect Hindsight may find they lack. Nor are the conclusions drawnby Lilly in
any way comparableto theill-formed inventions oftoday, Lilly illustrates his
reasoning with clear charts so that we canall study the techniques and methods
he has explained. We can try it out for ourselves and if we do wefind it works.
Tf anyone should deny that, you will knowthat they have not tried it out cor-
rectly, and are inexperienced astrologers. Lilly really knew what he was
talking about.
As Lilly wrote, he was shut away indoors, unable to go out because of the
plague. Having buried one servantof it he was expecting death daily. I have
often thought that such circumstances account for the sincerity and truthfulness
of his book. So many details are explained painstakingly for the purpose ofin-
structing students clearly, in an organized way. His colossal achievement—
think of handwriting 870 pages!—differs entirely from the impending task of
Project Hindsight. They will, | am sure, translate those 300 books conscien-
tiously, sentence by sentence, and we will be thankful to them for make the
booksavailable to us. But when they have completed their task and translated
so much information theywill still lack the practical experience enabling them
to compare,sclect and synthesize these methods into a structured teaching vol-
ume suchas we find in Christian Astrology.
There were other distinguished astrologers; Galileo (we have a chart for the
time he discovered Neptune but thought it was a moon of Jupiter) and Mercator
the geographer, Newton, Kepler, Regiomontanus and Flamstecd, to mention a
few.
Flamsteed was the Astronomer Royal who elected the next chart (shownat
fig. 4) for the foundation of the Greenwich Observatory in 1675. I am showing
it to you now becauselet us hope it maybe relevant to the success of the mil-
lenniumarrangements which will take place at Greenwich. The chart demon-
strates that Flamsteed was brilliant astrologer, first by his use of the Fixed
Stars.
Spica, a very benefic star, conferring honors and fame,is positioned on the
MCand Regulus, the Royal Star, is conjunct the © (that is for August 1675).
AsI said, we use Fixed Stars for foundations because they give permanence.
And secondly, Flamsteed proves his brilliance by his use of the antiscia
position of 4. \ rules the Ascendant and as such represents our nation. At first
sight its position in the XIIth house looks unfortunate; but no, its antiscia or
solstice point falls exactly on the IInd cusp of wealth, and has brought wealth
and prosperity to our nation ever since.

FTER LILLY, astrology in England declined. It became unpalatable

to the growing scientific attitudes of the 18th century. This is fully
explained in Patrick Curry’s book, The Prophesy and the Power, in
whichhe tells us of the formation of the Royal Socicty, a group of
well-meaning, reasonable men who would have accepted astrologers or anyone
else who could provescientifically what they were doing. Theybelieved that

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Figure 4: Foundation of Greenwich Observatory

3:13:13 p.m. LT, August 20th, 1675 n.s.
Greenwich, London: 51N29, OW00

onceastrology had beenturned into a science that wasreliably proven, it would

naturally regain people’s admiration. Sadly, there arestill some of us hoping to
dojust that, but some things cannot be proved: art, love, music; the effect of
these things can be observed butnotscientifically proved. If there are facts that
can be proved, and Gauqucelin did that, then prejudice dismisses them.
And so with each successive generation the astrological knowledge of the
17th century was watered down, distorted and misunderstood.
During this talk J have mentioned several authors whom I hope working
astrologers will resolve to read. Namelythe authors of the 17th century. Lilly,
first-and foremost, and his contemporaries: Gadbury, who veered towards Na-
tivities, Ramesay, who specialized in Elections; Culpeper, the famousastrolo-
ger-herbalist; Henry Coley, and George Wharton, the astrologer to Charles I. If
you will study those 17th-century books you will find that they are a stepping
stone to the understanding ofearlier authors, even to antiquity. But there is no
short-cut; today’s expectation of quick results will not help you to do good as-
trology. This is the most wonderful knowledge and takes years to acquire. It is
worth it.
If you are interested in Elections, you will be amazed at Schoener, beside
whom modern writers on Elections, such as Robson, pale into insignificance.
Schoener should be read in conjunction with Lilly as the two complement each
other, Besides Schoener there are Ramesay and Bonincontrius to study.

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The above chart showsthetraditional, PTOLEMY

house rulerships, those mentioned in Lilly
Olivia's lecture and others. MANILIUS
FIRMICUS (outermost)

Natal astrologers might read the Natal section of Christian Astrology but
you will need the earlier part of the book to follow the methods used. John
Frawley tells me the work of Montulmois important:it is translated by Project
Hindsight. If you are interested in Horary, my bookis easy to follow, and so is
Barbara Watters’ Horary Astrology and the Judgment of Events, but no good
work can be done without Lilly. There is nowatranslation of Bonatus’ Horary
by Project Hindsight. For gencral use, I recommend Lee Lehman’s Book of
Rulerships; and of course none of us can omit The Combination of Stellar In-
Sluences. (Did you knowFirmicus mentions midpoints in the 4th century?)
So nowis the time to take the bull by the horns and re-investigate the old
astrology in all its beauty. Once you have hold ofit you cannever Ietit go.

This transcript was previously published in The Astrological Journal,

Volume 39, number |. January/February 1997
It is reproduced by permissionofthe Astrological Association of Great Britain.

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 WhereIs Ann Lock?"
OLIVIA BARCLAY aw.

YOUNG WOMANwas missing and there was much news-

paperandtelevision coverage aboutit, She had been married
only a month before, and she was employed by the British
Broadcasting Corporation.
For those who may not have followed this case, British television
showeda film about the events of Ann Lock’s last day. She received a
telephonecall asking her to put in some extra work at the BBC and she
went up to Londonespecially (I think it was at the weekend). It was a
day on which she didn’t have the car, so she had to cycle to the station.
Theresheleft her bicycle in the bicycle shed. She put in her day’s work,
said good-byeto her colleagues in a normal way, and was never seen
again. When shehadnot returned homeby a late train, her husband went
to thestation to find her. Her bicycle was no longer in the shed. She did
not arrive on anytrain. He informed the policc, and an extensive search
took place.
T do notlike to dwell on such matters, but a journalist asked me to do
a chart in caseit could be helpful.
To be valid a chart must describe the situation, and usually say
something ofthe querent. Here the Ascendant is my own,and the is in
II with % symbolizing my journalistic friend. The square of the ) to the
© shows mydislike and reluctance to be involved in a newspaper or
publicity matter. This clear description in the chart shows that the As-
cendantshould be used to signify the querent(s), despite Lilly’s instruc-
tion that when a question is asked about whether an absent one is dead or
alive in a general way, and whenthat personhasnorelation to the quer-
ent, the Ascendant, its lord, and the ) represent the absent person.” If, in
this case, the Ascendant, the querent had notso clearly described us, but
had shown the absent one more obviously, | would have usedit for the
quesited. If you can see the picture in a chart you will know which way
to judgeit.
Becauseofthe nature of the question I accepted », ruler of the sev-
enth, retrograde andvoid, not as an indication that the astrologer’s judg-
ment would be poor, because the judgment concerns the seventh house,
the other: Ann Lock. As we were asking about the probable victimof a

' This interpretation of the ‘Where is Ann Lock” horaryis from Olivia Barclay’s
book Horary Astrology Rediscovered. West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1990.
Pages 212-216. Reproduced with permission of the publisher and author.
? William Lilly. Christian Astrology. London: Regulus Publishing Co. Ltd., re-
printed 1985. Page 151

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Where is Ann Lock?

9:45 a.m. GMT,Friday, May 30" 1986. 5IN13, 1E25
Regiomontanus

murder we could not expect her significator to be other than poorly

placed. The seventh cusp in the turned chart is the Ascendant of Ann
Lock and * is her symbol. As rulcr of #. 4 represents a polite and pleas-
ant person, for # is the joy of ».
The retrograde position of 4 shows she will be found. % poorly
placed and retrograde suggests damageto her. » at 6° % is 2° from the
opposition of the © at 8° II, nowtheruler of her seventh house and sym-
bol of her husband. The ) at 7° X translates the light from * to the © in
2°; her body was shownto him in two months.
% in % tells us she will be found on higher ground than the surround-
ings, and the ® in 8 indicates farmland.with bushes and trees notfar off.
The Part of Death ascends, and undoubtedly the evidence of the chart
inclines to show death.
Thevillain, o*, lurks in ambush onher twelfth cusp.
o& in @ describes him as thin, dark, with a small head and dark hair.
is in 22° @ and, as Dennis Elwell will tell you, that is a degree area
prevalent in the charts of murderers, (Dennis has quite a collection of
murderer’s nativities showing this, and I rememberin the sixties John
Addcypointed it out in connection with the TowPath murders.) It is the
antiscian degree of Antares, connected with violent death. Apparently
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realizing their fellow human beingsare people and tend to regard themas
things.
WhenLilly was asked if a brother was dead, he considered both the
cighthof the turned chart and the cighth of the radical chart.’It is, there-
fore, a more complicated matter to judge a turned chart than an unturned
one.
In the radical chart 4, Lord of Death, is in the cighth, and the ) is on
its cusp (any planet within 5° of a cuspis read as being in the following
house). In the turned chart % is Lord of Death, on Ann Lock’s fifth cusp
of generation ° K which is on the unturned fifth cusp, both square to M,
Lord of Death in the unturned chart. This I think describes her rape and
death.
o departs with haste fromthis dreadful configuration. Being in a
higher degree thanall the other planets he no doubt thinks he has es-
caped. However, the ) catches up with o” and I think the criminal will be
caught.
Inthe ephemeris, the ) perfects its conjunction with the man two days
after the date the chart was drawn, and I wondered if anything would be
discovered then. However, it was not. It is more usual to decide timing
from symbolic direction, butit is sometimes done from an ephemeris.
¢ departs from contact with 4, whichis the second houseruler of the
turned chart. He had been at her possessions. The bicycle and her bag
werelater discovered abandoned. (Did he go backto the station where he
had scenherleave her bicycle in the morning andtakeit along the foot-
pathlater, to mislead?)
Fromthe foregoing I realized it was not the husband who could be
guilty as some people had suggested.
Ann probably fainted from shock, I deduced. because her symbol, ,
is mid ¥/P, which shows dark foreboding and decline of powers. }’s
involvement in this configuration is merciful. For such information alone
I half hoped the newspaper would publish what I said, as I thought it
might comfort her husband. (It was not published.) o”,the villain, in @ in
the sixth house suggests a manual worker. Its connection with the ninth
of long journeys mademethink of long distances covered byrailways. In
the context of the crime I put forward my theory that the murderer was
probablya railway worker.
With the ) at 15° from o I wonderedif the criminal would be caught
fifteen monthsafter the query.
Thepolice did indeed catch a criminal railway worker later on and he
was convicted of two similar rapes and murders in carly 1987. His hair
was dark, but reddish (0"!), They were unable to prove he murdered Ann
Lock, although the police thought he had done so. He was extremely
short, as ’s often are. o* wasin its own terms

3 Ibid., page 197.

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HE OLD ASTROLOGY
Why couldthe astrologerof the 17" century predict in a way seldom
seen today? Or could they? How many students of our present gen-
eration believe those predictions? I don’t think many astrologers now
even believe in that old astrology. I have even heard it said that our
consciousness hasshifted so that what was possible thenisn’t possible now.
WhenI say predict I mean clear unambiguous answers to questions such as
“Whowill win the battle?” or “Whereis the lost linenofthe slavegirl?”
I contendthat they could, and did, predict in that way because they had the
information, the residue of centuries of decp thought and study. It was a subject
that had engrossed the minds of great mensince days long before Pythagoras —
to penetrate the meaningof ourlife on carth, to understand ourrelationship with
the rest of the universe, to calculate time from the luminaries, and observe the
connection between events oncarth and the movement of heavenly bodies.
Then came the Age of Reason. Nothing was truc unless it could be proved.
Old books in Latin were ignored. The Ageof ScienceIed us materially forward,
and our maxim changed to ‘Nothingis true unless it is financially profitable.”
Howeverthe old wisdom is still there if you would care to study and re-
searchit. As far as the astrological information is concerned the best place to
start digging is the Qualifying Horary Diploma course. I say this because I have
spent thirty or forty years digging. and I have found the greatest help from the
870-page volume Christian Astrology, published in 1647, by WilliamLilly,
which is a compilation ofthe information from over 300ancient authors. It is of
particular help because Lilly shows us his charts and explains how to follow
them. The language isn’t easy because he wrote over 300 years ago, so I wrote
my own book Horary Astrology Rediscovered very simplyto help students un-
derstand Lilly, and devised a structured courseto studythe old astrology. Read-
ing includes Manilius and Ptolemyand other centuries-old books. Gradually as
we see what they were talking about, we Icarnto apply their information to cur-
rent problemsand find a new dimensionto our understanding.
The Coursestarted in 1984 and is world wide now. Hideaki Kokubu teaches
it in Tokyo and John Frawleydoes so in London,and there are others who teach
itincluding myself. Some of myformer students have adapted it and teachtheir
ownversions. However,I have beentold that one difference betweenthe origi-
nal QHP course and others is that we ensure every student understands each
lesson by insisting that corrections be done before carrying on. Most people take
about two years to complete the course but some clever ones have achieved it in
six months. :
So do contact meat the address below. You can begin at any time, and it
doesn’t matter where you live on the planet. | shall look forward to hearing from
you.
Olivia Barclay, Q.H.P..
Qualifying Horary Diploma Course
MongchamLodge Cottage
Great Mongeham.
Nr. Deal, Kent. CT 14 OHD
England.

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 Which House Rules Cars?

OLIVIA BARCLAY aur

/ O STUDYastrology without reference to the great authorities

of the past would lead to a confused state of affairs where as-
trologers were incapable of clear judgment or prediction. Now
that we have rediscovered the astrology of the 17” century
however, we may find the meanings of some words or phrases have
changed.
For instance, on page 52 ofhis Christian Astrology, WilliamLilly
tells us aboutthe 2" house. This, he assures us shows the wealth or pov-
erty of the querent, all movable goods, moneylent, profit or gain, loss or
damage. Here the trouble may be with the word ‘movable’, which I take
to mean portable, or carry-able, whereas those things that one cannot
carry like houses, tenements, lands, towns, cities, and castles, belong to
the 4", (There are of course many other things,like colors or parts of the
body rules by the 2" and 4" houses, but mostly they rule tangible ob-
jects.)
Some ofthe other houses also include tangible things; the 5" house
for instance, includes taverns. "Why?" you may ask. The reasonis that 2
has her joy in the 5", and gives her qualities to it of pleasure and
entertainment.
The 3" house rules anothertangible article: letters. "Why?" you may
again ask. Because the ) has herjoy in the 3“ and extends her qualities
of movement and fluctuation to that house, andif the ) is actually in the
3" “she causes muchtravel, trotting and trudging” writes Lilly. In brief,
the 3" rules short journeys and communications.
I include cars in the 3“. You can’t carry them about, yet they belong
in Lilly’s category of “trotting and trudging and traveling about.
WhenI was writing my book Horary Astrology Rediscovered, Clive
Kavan, (publisher of the Regulus edition of Christian Astrology) asked
me a horary, “I have fallen in love with a 1937 Bentley. Will I be able to
buy it?”!
I spent twoorthree days on this chart because I wanted to test which
house cars belong to, and whether I could define the car’s color. In a
valid chart the object is always described in a recognizable way. Had the
2"house described the car I would lookat Tl and its ruler in H, on the
8"cusp. Had the car been described by the 3™ 1 would look instead at
andits ruler 2.

' This horary is analyzed in detail on pages 217-220 of Horary Astrology

Rediscovered (West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1990)

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Thavefallen in love with a 1937 Bentley.

Will I be able to buy it?
4:42 P.M. GMT, February 15, 1987
SIN13, 1E25

Perhaps you would like to participate in this puzzle to decide on the

color of the car without lookingat the endof thearticle.

House Color
I White or gray
I Green
ml Red oryellow or saffron
IV Red
Vv Black and white or honey
VI Black
VII Dark black *
VII Black and green?
Ix Green and white
x Red and white
XI Saffron yellow
XII Green

? Doesthat infer the 6" wasonly dark gray?

3 | wonder if that meansbottle green, explaining the prejudice that dark greenis
unlucky.

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Theplanets also rule color:

Planet Color
Dull leaden and ashy colors
W10OQe +
Blue, purple and ashyyellow orgreen,
Red oryellow,
Gold andscarlet, some say purple
Milky sky color‘ or white
Mixedcolors (Lilly says “like the neck of a
stock dove”) and quicksilver.
Silver white, and a pale yellowish color
Zw

(cream?) and the color of mother ofpearl.

Thesigns too have connections with colors:

Sign Color
White and red
HZRaAxSb SOO AG

White and lemon *

White and red
Greenor russet
Red or green
Black and blue
Black and dark red °
Brown”
Yellow or green sanguine (that is a golden green)
Black or russet
Sky blue
Glistening white

Nowlet us considerthe chart. Is the car described by in the 8" plus

the }? Orisit to be described by @ in the 5th? Ponderon this. Ponder for
several hoursif possible. What is your conclusion?
Clive hadsaid he was in love with this car, so I went for @ in the 5th.
Myfirst thought had been that the car was black, because is in the ad-
jectival sign , emphasized by the black and white connection to the 5"
house. But then I thought on, and because of Clive’s pleasure and joy for
the car, I decided 4 was overruled and @ in the 5" ruling honey color

* The term “milky sky color” makes methink Lilly means turquoise, a color so
popular at weddingsthat before I knew aboutastrologyI usedtocall it “get-
married-in-blue”
> Taureans also like a grass green.
°Thavenotedthis in serious Librans but theflippant kind seemto like pastel
colors
7 [have noted deep red and deep greenlike the sea.

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should prevail. I phoned to ask Clive the color. Yes, it was honey col-
ored.
This confirmsthe rulership by the 3"ofcars.
Unfortunately Clive did not have enough money to buyit afier all,
and had to make do with a cheaper car.
I mentionall this becauseI hearthat a horary course, set up in opposi-
tion to mine, contradicts me and
teaches that cars belong to the
2" house, probably through
misunderstanding the old word
‘movable.’

Three Horaries

KAREN CHRISTINO

e y/ hould I Take the Astronomy Course?

I had started an astronomy course in college, but became so
_ angry at the teacher's obnoxious comments about astrology
A that I droppedit. After many years, I still felt I needed to have
a better grasp of astronomy, and requested a course
catalog from the local planetarium. There was an ap-
propriate course available, but I ‘still had mixed
emotions, so did a horary.
T rises, and I do have T rising natally, so this AN
obviously represents me. of is in % in the 9" house, we
strongly suggesting that I take the initiative to further my education. ¥
is on the 9", and ¥ in 7 placed therein, and the travel time to the class
was over an hourand involved taking twotrains. The © and \f are ex-
actly parallel: this was a new anddifferent subject for me, and one that
related to my astrology work.
Theteacheris represented by both § andits ruler 4. is in Tl] and the
teacher did seem to know the topic. But } is retrograde, in detriment,
and squaresits ruler, 3, whichis also in detriment in “ (though the plan-
ets' mutual reception lightens some ofthese difficulties). The teacher
was extremely prejudiced about astrology, and had nearly a stand-up
comedy routine about her objections to it. One could also characterize
her as something of a "mad wag." But as } also rules my studies and is
stationary retrograde, it also signifies my intention to go back and expand
my knowledgeby incorporating astronomical basics.

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