Week 4 - 8th April '98
"Will there be any post tomorrow?"
7th January '98. 14.27.50GMT. 51N34. 00W08.
Background
This question is one of several that I have used as a means of testing the rules of horary. I began this particular test concerning 3rd house matters about 3 years ago. I needed to get quick results in order to check if the rules such as collection and translation of light, frustration, prohibition and refranation really worked or not. When I first began to re-think these rules I had no hard evidence that they produced results as the older astrologers claimed. Also, it seemed to me that nobody writing on the subject had really defined or made clear how to recognise one rule from another.
I approached this test certain within myself that I was sincere in asking these questions. I was also certain that I was not asking the same question twice since each day would produce a new set of circumstances and the question was only valid for the following day. The answer would be known then and a new question could be asked for the next day. In this way I was not asking exactly the same question or to put it another way, I was not asking second questions.
Questions of this kind did not enter my head every day, there were times when days would pass before I thought of one. If at any time I suspected that I had asked about the same day twice I made a note that this may be a second question. All of these questions were recorded in an appointments diary kept especially for horary questions.
Significators
Mercury ruling the Gemini ascendant and the Moon for me as the querent. The Sun as ruler of Leo on the cusp of the 3rd house of letters and post.
Judgement
There is a late degree on the ascendant, 27.05 Gemini. Experience has taught me that the considerations before judgment, and this late degree is one of them, do not in any way interfere with the astrologer's ability to judge the chart or render the chart unreadable. The late degree does not mean that it is "too late to say" as some would have us believe.
The first thing to look for is to see if any aspects, especially applying ones, exist between Mercury and the Sun, or the Moon and the Sun.
Mercury does not aspect the Sun and the Sun does not aspect Mercury. There are no translations of light involving both planets and because neither planet applies to a slower planet than themselves, there are no collections of light. The Sun only separates by square from Saturn and Mercury separates by sextile from Jupiter. The Sun does not apply by conjunction or aspect to the ascendant degree within the moiety of its orbs.
The next step is to examine the Moon's aspects. In fact, the Moon applies by trine to the Sun. Since there are no rules such as frustration or prohibition to interfere with this trine the answer to the question must be a positive one.
Prediction
The Moon in applying trine to the ruler of the 3rd house, the Sun, shows that there will be post on the following day.
Result
I received a set of Tara computer discs.