Where are my sister's glasses? Why Horary Astrology?


A few days ago, my sister didn’t find her glasses. I am currently trying myself at Horary astrology, so I cast a chart: Gemini Rising, so Mercury represents her, second house of possessions in Cancer: the Moon means the glasses.


Where are they? In Sagittarius, and in the sixth house of daily routines.


Sagittarius, the explorer, moving beyond. The Moon in this chart (using Placidus) was also ruling over the third house of small journeys.


My sister has a camper van, a typically Sagittarius thing, and the day before, she had used it to go shopping. The glasses were in it.


It’s great when it’s that simple!



Do you believe in Horary? The philosophical implication makes me feel dizzy. It’s as above so below all the way down.


The moment I heard about my sister’s lost glasses, and even more precisely, the moment I cast the chart with the question about them on my mind had a certain quality, shown by the chart of the moment. The answer and the question are the two sides of one thing. The chart showed that the glasses might well be in her camper van.



Synchronicity is a modern term coined by Jung, but that’s what it is.


I’m re-reading John Frawley at the moment. He has a witty, often tongue-in-cheek style, and he is quite straightforward about his view of modern astrology: for him, it’s rubbish.


However, he gives me an argument in favour of it: William Lilly, he tells us, didn’t have a Swiss watch, let alone access to astrodienst on the internet, but he had clients queuing to ask him questions. He may not have cast his horary charts with the most exact information about the position of the planets at all times. However, John Frawley tells us, such is the world in which we live that not only the moment the astrologer cast a chart for a client will have the quality of the question and its answer, but also the astrologer chosen by the client, including his possible approximations about planetary placements, won’t be random and will lead to the perfect answer.



John Frawley doesn’t use the word “synchronicity”, but again, that’s just what it is. If he is right, even the approximations are part of the Divine Design! (And why not modern astrology then?)



However, this kind of take could quickly lead us to conclude that we could say anything at any time and that it would just be the right thing in all cases. There must be some additional clauses to the Divine Design, allowing a certain elasticity to our interpretations, but leaving room for mistakes and delusions, otherwise we might as well say whatever passes through our mind and it would be the pure divine truth at any time!


As I am wondering how to conclude this post, it comes to my mind that the most difficult but maybe also most useful aspect of horary astrology is to know what to ask.


What should I do?

(PS this last question is not a real question, but if you really want to answer it, please visit my website and order a reading or something..) 

Jean-Marc

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