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The quarterly ingresses: reading a season
The Aries ingress opens the year for a place. The three that follow — Cancer, Libra, Capricorn — subdivide it, each governing its own quarter and each read against the annual chart rather than on its own. What a quarterly chart adds The annual chart shows the conditions. The…
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Electing a launch date: what an election can and cannot buy
Choosing a moment for a product launch is a textbook electional problem, and it illustrates the two constraints that decide whether an election is worth doing at all. First constraint: the election cannot outrun the venture An election works within the limits of the enterprise…
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When a radical chart seems wrong, the reading is wrong
Here is a situation every horary practitioner meets. The chart is radical: the Ascendant is in a judgeable degree, the lord of the hour agrees with it, the Moon is not void. The significators are clear. And the judgement, delivered with some confidence, turns out to be flatly…
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Horary for a missing animal: what the sixth house actually shows
Questions about animals arrive more often than any other kind in a small practice, and they are good questions to learn on: the querent is genuinely anxious, the timeframe is short, and the answer is checkable within days. Which house Small animals — anything one might keep —…
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Time lords: how a Hellenistic astrologer divides a life
Hellenistic astrology is about events. It asks what will happen to the native rather than what the native is like — the Greek term, apotelesmatika , means something close to "outcomes". This changes the order in which a chart is read, and the change is more radical than it first…
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The Aries ingress: how the astrological year is judged
The astrological year begins at the Sun's entry into Aries, and the chart of that moment is the foundation of mundane judgement for the twelve months that follow. Two features of it are constantly misunderstood. It is cast for a place The ingress happens at one instant for the…