This section is dedicated to a particular type or types of Astrology and discipline. Here we aim to show how it is used, working examples and more in depth studies into the particular type of Astrology.
Uranus Aries Ingress - May 27-28 2010
Change won't come easy with this first Uranus into Aries Ingress as the dynamic T-square frustrates and aggravates change. Do however get your lightning bolts ready ................ Agent 12 Julija reports
Natal Astrology
Agent 77 - Marg Murphy
Birth Charts - exploring natal astrology.
Fixed Stars - Astrology
Agent 144 - Peter Burns
Agent 144 introduces Fixed Stars and their ancient meanings including the four Royal Stars,Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares and Formalhaut. Includes examples from Princess Diana's astrology chart, Austalia and Communist China. A great study resource for all interested in Fixed Stars a very concise and informative overview. As our Tropical zodiac moves out of alignment with the Fixed constellations a greater understaning of fixed stars and their meanings. Presented in PDF format.
Horary Astrology
Eve Dembowski
Horary Astrology asking a question astrologically.
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NATAL ASTROLOGY - THE NATAL CHART
For millenia people have looked to the heavens and watched the movements of the sun, moon, planets and stars across the sky. Correspondences with the natural world were noticed and recorded, like the full moon bringing high tides or planting and harvesting when the sun is in certain signs of the zodiac (seasons of the year). Later astrologers began to note the correspondences between all of what is above and human behaviour, personality and experiences. And so natal astrology was born and continues to this day.
The natal chart, the birth chart and the horoscope are all the same thing : a snapshot of the sky, or more specifically a snapshot of the ecliptic, at a moment in time from a place on earth. Your time of birth, date of birth and place of birth are the three pieces of information needed to calculate your birth chart. The birth chart is a map of your psyche or the blue-print of your soul, it is a reflection of your unique personality.
Interpreting a natal chart is a complex synthesis of the many parts that make up the chart. First the chart is weighed up to reveal the temperament. This is done through an analysis of the elements fire, earth, air and water, corresponding with the personality types choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic. Then we can look at the “cross of matter” to see how the personality interacts with the world. The ascendant or rising sign shows us the face we present to the world and how we approach new experiences. Its opposite point, the descendant, reveals what we bring to relationships and what we need from relationship. The mid-heaven or MC shows how we reach out to the world especially through our work and its opposite point, the IC, tells a story of our roots and our family of origin.
The planets and luminaries can only be interpreted through their sign and house positions. Each of the luminaries and planets have a correlation with a facet of our personality. So the Moon is intimately connected with our instinctive behaviour and our emotional being and it tells a story about mother and family too. Venus is indicative of what we value and appreciate. It describes our aesthetic sense and also our relationship style. The sign the planet is in tells us how well that planet or energy is functioning in our life. The Moon for example is very happy in the signs of Cancer and Taurus, Venus is not so happy in Virgo, Scorpio or Aries. The house the planet is in represents the sphere of life in which that planetary energy plays out.
Then there are the aspects between the planets. This means the geometric relationships they form with each other within the circle of the chart. Aspects are angles but from an interpreting viewpoint they link two different energies and then affect the way those energies function. There can be conflict or harmony here depending on the planets involved and the type of aspect that connects them.. easy or difficult. Someone with a Venus Saturn contact will be very different to someone with a Venus Jupiter contact. The Venus Saturn person may feel lonely and unloved but when in a relationship they will be loyal to the end. The Venus Jupiter person may have an abundance of friends, feel lucky and well- loved, they could also be too self-indulgent.
Integrating all of these factors is the art of astrology. Your birth chart reveals your innate potential. It can highlight your strengths and weaknesses, your challenges and where you sail through life. It is a rich and wonderful tool that can be explored in great depth and used for guidance in all areas of life. Many people use the natal chart to guide them in their choice of career or to understand how they can enhance their relationships with family and friends. It has a multitude of uses and is a fascinating study.
A natal chart reading will unravel the complexities of your personality and life experiences. Once you have had a natal chart reading you can then explore the intriguing world of predictive astrology. Remember the natal chart is a frozen moment in time. As the planets continue their cycles they interact with the energies of the natal chart bringing new experiences and changes, releasing potential and providing us with new challenges to integrate. Its all very exciting and it works!
If you don’t know your time of birth all is not lost, you can still have a natal chart reading focussing on the planets in the signs and the aspects between them. Many hospitals will give you your time of birth, (if records still exist) if you make a special request to the hospital’s medical records archivist.
Agent 77 - Marg Murphy
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Horary Astrology
Horary Examples
Will Harry die? - A question asked to see how the last Harry Potter Book would end.
Will the miners get out alive? - In 2006 two miners were trapped in a mine in Tasmania.
Is Sally alright? - Concern for a friendHorary astrology is the astrology of the moment. Horary means “of the hour”. It is a very ancient branch of astrological knowledge that has been at various times denigrated by prominent astrologers of the day and is still rejected by many as being illogical and unworthy of being considered along side the art of natal astrology.
Horary astrology answers a question. A question is asked and a chart drawn up for the time and place the astrologer understands the question. This goes against the natural basis of most all other astrological branches where the chart is constructed for the time of a beginning or birth point. A horary chart is drawn up not for when the question is first conceived, but for when the Astrologer understands it.
In modern times, natal astrology, the astrology of the birth moment has taken president over other forms of our great art. But in earlier times horary astrology was the most common form of astrology in use. The reason for this was that most people didn’t know the time and sometimes day of their birth. To do natal astrology justice astrologers need to take in a lot of factors, but with horary you are dealing with a finite number of facts.
The focus in horary astrology is on a specific question. This question needs to be clear and the answer important to the querent, the person asking the question. The astrologer’s role in this quest for an answer is to insure that they fully understand what is being asked, including all relevant background to the question.
There are many situations in which a horary reading would be far more revealing then a natal one. Almost any question can be asked as long as there is a genuine need to know the answer. The clearer the question the clearer the answer will be revealed by the chart. Ambiguous questions will get ambiguous answers.
Short term questions about almost anything can be asked; relationships, business, money, health, lost objects, weather. Question about long term issue such as: “Will I have children?” or “Will I be rich?”, are probably best left to natal investigation. Advisory questions or “should” questions are a bit tricky.
Some horary charts take on a life of their own and continue to describe the situation long after the issue has been resolved. Horary charts can provide far more information then you would think possible. But the best examples are those that are simple and to the point.
Horary astrology reveals and illustrates the most mysterious aspects of astrology. There is no denying the power and mystery of astrology when a horary chart works; the answer is clearly visible, the story behind the question symbolically illustrated in detail and the magic of astrology is validated. This is astrology at its most divinatory, it’s most immediate and powerful.
Eve Dembowski
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Who says that astrology has to be serious? If astrology is real, if it truly reflects life and the world we live in, then surely it would reflect our humour, fiction and the make believe stories we tell.
Unless you have been in a coma for the last six or so years, you would be aware of the Harry Potter phenomenon. If you live with any children or young adults you would surely have the date July 21 2007 marked in your calendar, as this is the day that the last installment of the Harry Potter series will be out.
In my household it has cause great excitement as have all the previous Harry Potter launches. There is much discussion about what this last installment will contain and the previous six Harry Potter books are being reread in search for clues as to what will happen. I do not believe we are unusual in our madness. Global warming, wars, elections make way for the really important stuff: Harry Potter and his fight against the Dark Lord.
There has been a lot of speculation about the final showdown between young Harry Potter and the dark Lord Voldemort. That Harry will defeat him seems almost a given, after all, good always triumph over evil, but will he survive the encounter? Should he survive? What would he do with himself afterwards? Fade into the sunset? Worse of all, get a job at the ministry of magic?
Rereading the first six books was not an option for me so I decided to ask a horary question to put my mind at rest and my predictions out there for all to ponder. We only have till July 21, 2007 to wait for confirmation as to the accuracy my judgment of this horary.
They say that horary questions can only be asked if we seriously need to know the answer. Frivolous questions are not allowed, but this I would argue, is far from a frivolous question. I’m sure that there are millions of Harry Potter fans spending sleepless night wondering and worrying about Harry’s fate.
The question was asked on Feb 5, 2007 in Melbourne Australia at 3:17 pm, giving us a 29 Taurus 50 ASC. The planetary hour is Moon making it compatible with the Taurus rising chart. The late degree of the ASC could be a problem; it indicates that it is too late to ask. Harry Potter’s fate it has already been set in stone (or at least on paper) by JK Rowlings. There’s nothing we can do to change the outcome, from that perspective it is too late, but this doesn’t prohibit us finding the answer to our question in this chart.
As he is a stranger to me the querent, Harry is 7th house. Scorpio on the cusp makes his significator Mars, exalted in Capricorn, a very apt description of our young hero especially as he is placed in the 8th house of death showing us that death is on his mind. He is disposited by Saturn in detriment and retrograde in his turned 9th. His growing sense of the responsibility he has been fated to carry would weigh heavily on him.
As well Saturn is co-ruler of his turned 2nd house of his resource and could represent those who support Harry including; fellow students and member of the DA (Dumbledore’s Army) and the Order of the Phoenix, who have all been devastated by the loss of their exalted leader, Albus Dumbledore at the end of book six. That Capricorn is intercepted may show us that there will be some unexpected allies who will appear.
The last aspect Mars (Harry) made was a trine to the Moon at 14 degree 30 just after his sextile with Uranus at 13 degrees. He did encounter an explosive battle just before the funeral of his mentor Dumbledore and the bittersweet break up with Ginny in order to spare her the danger of being associated with him. Harry is becoming far more serious about his responsibilities (Mars in Capricorn).
Death would be signified by either the radical or turned 8th house, so Jupiter or Mercury. There is no applying aspect from either to Mars (Harry). There is however an antiscia conjunction between mars & Jupiter. The turned Part of Death is at 0 Gemini and the turned Part of Danger & Violence is at 11 Gemini, so both are ruled by Mercury and again no aspect with Mars is forming. Mercury is in Pisces in detriment much weaker then Harry Potter Mars in Capricorn. The antiscia between Harry and the radical lord of death, Jupiter is not enough to indicate his death, though it may show us that he will come close to it and may even appear dead.
So Harry will survive, but what about Lord Voldemort?
Lord Voldemort is signified by the house of open enemies, the turned 7th house. He is Venus in Pisces exalted on the MC. Venus is applying to square Jupiter (Lord of 8th ruler) just after she encounters by conjunction explosive & erratic Uranus. She will then conjunct the North Node before the sextile with Mars (Harry) perfects at 22 Pisces. Jupiter in Sag (death) is stronger then Venus in Pisces (Lord Voldemort), which is also being received by Jupiter. Death receives the Dark Lord.
The Parts of Death and Danger & Violence, tell us the same story. At 0 and 11 degrees of Sagittarius respectively, they are also ruled by Jupiter (ruler of death) which will square Venus in 5 degree 21 minutes. Could this be the 5 month and 11 days before his public demise, very close to the July 21 2007 date for the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”?
Wanting to be thorough I looked for any relevant fixed stars. On Harry’s side I found that Mars was with Ascella (13 Cap 41) which according to Vivian Robson is “of the nature of Jupiter and Mercury and gives good fortune and happiness”. Conjunct the 7th house cusp I found Bungula (29 Scorpio 38) which has “the influence of Jupiter and Venus and gives beneficence, friends, refinement and place of honour.” Not bad for our hero!
Looking at Lord Voldemort I found Skat (8 Pisces 55) with his significator Venus which “is of the nature of Saturn & Jupiter and with Venus gives psychic, occult interests, friends among opposite sex, favorable for gain.” The real gem came when I looked at the fixed star on his ASC; Alcyone (29 Taurus 59), this star is one of the Pleiades and “causes love, eminence, blindness and accidents to the face”. The influence of the Pleiades are “distinctly evil and when rising are said to cause blindness, injuries to the eyes & face, disgrace, wounds, stabs, exile, imprisonment, sickness, violent lust and military preferment.”
My judgment is clear; Harry will struggle and may have a few setbacks (Mars in the 8th disposited by Saturn in detriment and retrograde), he may even appear to die, but will survive in the end with the help of friends known and unknown. As for Lord Voldemort, he will seem to triumph at first (Venus on the MC) but in the end he will be either blinded or disfigured before meeting his violent death possibly at the hands of one of Harry’s supporters.
I judge that support for Harry will come at the eleventh hour from an unlikely or unexpected quarter and that there may be some ambiguity in the demise of the Evil Dark Lord. Being a powerful wizard well versed in the dark arts he may cheat or make a deal with death (Venus squares Jupiter with reception), but be slain in his final encounter with Harry (Venus sextiles Mars).
As a postscript, it is likely to that Harry & Ginny will get back together after the final battle. After all Mars makes its sextile aspect with Venus at 22 Pisces, after Venus encounters Uranus & Jupiter. After Lord Voldemort is finally vanquished, Venus can go back to being Ginny to Harry’s Mars.
Now for anyone out there still skeptical about the validity of this chart let me tell you a little story about the Pleiades. They were the seven daughters of Atlas & Pleione. Six are visible: Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno and Sterope but their seventh missing or lost sister is said to be Merope who married a mortal and hid her face in shame at being the only one not married to a god. Any keen Harry Potter fan would recognize that Merope is the name of Lord Voldemort’s mother, who like her mythical counterpart shamed her family by marrying a mere muggle (a non-magical person); Tom Riddle.
Herein lays the true mystery of astrology.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“The Fixed stars and Constellations in Astrology” by Vivian Robson
“The Horary Textbook” by John Frawley
“The Moment of astrology” Geoffrey Cornelius
“Christian Astrology: books one, two and three” William Lilly
A Horary Look at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine Disaster
Horary astrology can reveal and illustrate the most mysterious and paradoxically the most practical and verifiable aspects of astrology. All horary astrologers have examples of charts that “speak” so eloquently the truth that they want to share them with anyone capable of understanding. There is no denying astrology when a horary chart works; the answer is clearly visible, the story behind the question symbolically illustrated in detail and the magic of astrology validated.
Some say that a horary question can only be asked by someone who has a vested interest or relation to the thing being asked about, but as long as there is a genuine desire or need for the answer a horary can be asked. Here is an example of a chart that illustrates its validity regardless of the lack of direct relationship between the querent and the thing being asked about. Ultimately this chart is an outstanding example of the power and beauty of astrology.
Everyone in Australia would be aware that on Tuesday April 25th, 2006 a seismic event triggered an underground rock fall at the Beaconsfield gold mine in northern Tasmania. Three men were trapped below ground: Larry Knight, Brant Webb and Todd Russell. Two days later (April 27 at 7:22 am) the body of Larry Knight was found. Miraculously the other two men were found to be alive on April 30th at 5:45 pm when rescuers heard them singing. The news of their survival created euphoria in the small mining community of Beaconsfield and an international news media frenzy.
The next day this horary question was asked by someone unrelated and unknown to anyone associated with this event: “Will these men get out alive?” The querent was motivated to ask the question because the initial reaction to Brant and Todd’s discovery was overshadowing the fact that they were still trapped deep underground in a very dangerous situation. At that point in time the media was reporting that the men would be out within 48 hours. The querent felt strongly that their rescue was far from being a certainty.
In horary the most important thing is to identify the significators of the question. The most common way of identifying a significator is to use the ruler of the house in concern. The other way is to use the planet which is the natural ruler of the matter.
In this question we need to find significators for the trapped men, the rescuers and death. The rescuers are workers to whom we can give the 6th house and therefore they are signified by Jupiter in Scorpio retrograde. Death would be the radical 8th house, Mercury in Aries, as well as the turned 8th house once we have identified the trapped miners.
Because the querent has no connection with the question or its outcome we need not be concerned with her. The question is what signifies the trapped men?
We could use the 7th house, being the house of “strangers and others”, giving us Venus in Pisces conjunct North Node, albeit in the turned 12th house. The exalted nature of Venus with the benefic North Node doesn’t seem to describe two men trapped underground with a lot of loose rock over their heads. We could use the 1st house, in which case we get Mars in Cancer, receiving both the rescuers (Jupiter) and death (Mercury). At first this seemed a good choice, but when we consider the natural ruler of miners, Saturn, we find a much better candidate for significator.Saturn (the miners) is in detriment in the 10th house, at 4 degrees 58 minutes of Leo. He also rules the 4th house of the chart which is mines and his dispositor the Sun rules gold, this seemed appropriate; they were trapped in a gold mine!
Though underground they are very exposed through the media. Interestingly Saturn was nearly 5 degrees into Leo and the men were found almost 5 days after they became trapped. Also the Sun receives the miners into his rule and is separated from a square with Saturn by 6 degrees, at the time of the question the men had been trapped for 6 days. Both of these facts give us a clue as to the timing in this chart.
Now the question is about the men’s survival or lack of, therefore their possible death. Looking at the ruler of the radical 8th house of death we find Mercury at 22 degrees of Aries. There is no aspect between the men and significator of death. Expect for Saturn receiving Mercury into his fall (which could indicate the men’s understandable fear of dying), there is no reception between the two. Nor do we find any antiscia connection. This bodes well; they will come out alive, but when? Can this chart tell us?
Digging further (no pun intended) we look to the rescuers which are signified by the ruler of the 6th house of workers, Jupiter in Scorpio retrograde. Jupiter is moving back into the via combusta (15 degree of Libra to 15 degrees of Scorpio), seen as a malefic part of the zodiac and is in opposition to the Sun (gold mine) in Taurus (earth) both indicating their dire situation. The rescuers certainly were facing opposition to a lot of earth down in the mine. The retrograde condition of Jupiter tells us something about the slow progress the rescuers were having in getting to the trapped men. Jupiter will perfect a square with Saturn at around 9 degrees Scorpio/Leo, possibly indicating 5 days (degrees) time frame.
Looking to the Moon for the timing of events we find that she separated from a sextile with Mercury (significator of death) 3 degrees ago. This fits in roughly with the timing of the finding of Larry Knight’s body. The Moon will next square Venus in Pisces before ingressing into Cancer. Her move into her domicile is another promising sign for a positive ending to the situation.
In mundane astrology the Moon represents the people. If we take the Moon to indicate the people, her position in Gemini indicates being in two minds; exhilaration at Brant and Todd’s survival, worry at their continuing state of danger and grief at the death of their colleague Larry. The Moon’s antiscia degree is 4 Cancer 23, squaring the Nodes, a clear picture of the people’s future, hanging on the balance of fate. This is interesting but doesn’t give us any timing for the men’s rescue.
Going back to the question, we see that it is about their death or rather their escape from it. Looking at Mercury (death) we see that he is Saturn’s FALL, therefore is being received by Saturn in a negative way. Once he moves into Taurus, the situation will be changed and (death) will have no connection with Saturn.
The miners were under the threat of death (receiving Mercury into their fall) until the moment they walked out of the mine, and they would have been aware of all the possible dangers. There could have been another earth tremor that would have killed them or their rescuers …So once the miners (Saturn) no longer receive death (Mercury), they are no longer under its threat or power, they are free. Mercury will ingress out of Aries and into Taurus in seven and half degrees or 7 and half days; could this be our time timing?
On May 9 at 5:58 am Todd and Brant walked out of Beaconsfield mine. This was exactly 7 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes after the question was asked. Mercury was 7 degrees and 21 minutes from its ingress out of Aries. Not quite exact, but pretty close. In fact Brant & Todd were freed from the mine at 4:47 and 4:54 respectively making it 7 days, 11 hours and 31/38 minutes, making it even closer. When Mercury moves out of Saturn’s fall, death (Mercury) ceases to be a threat to the men. And so it was!
Is Sally Alright?
Having spent the day with a friend of mine I became concerned for her well being. She seemed very nervous and stressed, to the point where I was compelled to ask a horary. At the time of asking I was not aware of her medical history.
On June 22, 2006 at 5:51 PM in Melbourne Australia (AEST -10:00) I asked the question: “Is Sally Alright?”. Seeing as Sally is my friend I gave her the 11th house therefore Venus signifies her, appropriately as she is a young, blond Venus like woman. Because this is a medical horary I would also use the Moon as representing her body.
Looking at Venus we see that she is in Taurus, at first this looks pretty good as this is the sign of her rulership. But on closer inspection we see that Venus in an oriental position to the sun and is therefore sanguine; hot and moist, but she is in the melancholic; cold & dry sign of Taurus. This is a positive indication that she is seriously out of sorts. Moon is exalted in Taurus and disposited by Venus. Both are strongly essentially dignified which is a good sign that she will survive this ailment.
To understand what afflicts Venus (Sally) we need to find which planet is causing her problems. She rules herself, with Moon holding the exaltation and triplicity over her. Moon represents the body and it’s last aspect was a square to Mars (in Leo). Venus has been chasing an applying sextile to Mercury, but this will not perfect. Venus and Mars represent the disease, both are in fixed signs indicating that this is a chronic long term condition.
Venus in her own sign, her “first house” is an indication that what afflicts her is located in her head. (Venus at 27 Taurus = disease of thick melancholy and thin phlegm. Causing pain to the head.) Venus is chasing Mercury in Cancer, and though she will never perfect, being within orb indicates that the eyes maybe afflicted. This would be a secondary reaction rather then a primary cause of the illness. Mars also indicates the head and in Leo indicates a lot of heat, fever. (Mars 11 Leo = Causes headaches and too much blood.)
All this is supported by the ruler of the turned sixth house (6th from the 11th = 4th with Pisces on the cusp) Jupiter as the indicator of her illness being in her 1st house, the head again. Jupiter is retrograde, this is a recurring problem and is fixed so long term as opposed to acute. Jupiter is being received and squares Mars adding support to Mars’s involvement with the situation. He is also in partile square to Saturn in detriment. Both of these planets are in her 10th house indicating the involvement of the work sector in this problem.
There is no perfecting aspect between Venus and either the radical or turned Lord of the eighth (death). She (Venus) is essentially stronger then the Lord of her disease Jupiter more indication that she will not die of this condition.
I judged Sally to be suffering from a problem of too much heat or blood to her head, a recurring disease that possibly affected her eyes as well. She is stronger then the disease and therefore will survive the ailment. The disease is caused by her (Venus) with an involvement of Mercury, so too much stressful thinking. With the connection to Saturn/Mars in the 10th the stress may have been brought on by work.
Venus is at 27 Taurus 59, she will move into Gemini (a hot moist sign, like herself) in just over 2 degree. Being in a fixed sign I judged that she would recover from her illness in just over 2 months when she (Venus) would move into a more congenial sign.
The outcome:
Sally suffered from bleeding in the brain. This was a recurring condition from which she first suffered 5 years previously, and is a weakness in the actual brain itself. The flair up of the problem first makes itself known by affecting her eyes and with fuzzy headaches. This current bout was brought on by too much stress at work. She lost her job in a very underhanded manner. The only treatment is rest and avoiding stress. She began to recover after about 2 months in late Aug 2006.
It was later discovered that her stress level was also affected by a hormonal imbalance. I wondered whether this could be related to Venus thing.
Astro-links 1
www.zyntara.com- For those interested in visual astrology a reminder to look up at the night sky to gain further insight into the actual movement of the stars and planets and the story they tell. The flat astrology of computer screens and print outs that we have become so used to deters us from the many stories that are created by watching the planets their movements and occultations. The very informative newsletter takes you back to learn to read the sky like the ancients did.
www.atnf.csiro.au - a well resourced website about Australian Aboriginal starlore. Australian Indegineous Astronomy - a great guide .
