Horary Astrology: When You Need To Know the Truth

Our dishwasher was broken, or at least severely compromised, so we called out a repairman. He said he would show up anywhere between 11am-1pm, but I had errands to run, and needed to know just when he would arrive. So I cast a horary chart.

The goal would be to find an aspect between my planets and the repairman's, to see when he'd show up. He is shown by Saturn, ruler of the 6th house of employees. Saturn is applying to the Ascendant in 3 degrees, and since the Ascendant symbolizes me, this means he'd show up in 3 hours. But it's not that simple.

I noticed Saturn is very weak; it is in its detriment in Leo. The repairman was not in good shape, so no matter how promising the aspect, he was not going to be able to show up. Not good. In desperation, I hunted around the chart for another indicator.

Then I saw that the Sun (ruler of the first house of self, so representing me) was applying to conjoin Mercury, the natural ruler of servants. Even better, Mercury represents a wet servant, as it was in Cancer, a cardinal water sign (indicating fast-moving water), accurately representing a dishwasher repairman.

This Sun-Mercury aspect would perfect in about 1 degree. So he'd come in 1 hour, at 11 am! And he did.

But note that Mercury is retrograde, meaning it looks to be moving backwards in the sky. It turns out that a part was broken that had to be ordered, and the repairman will be coming back later to install it and finish the repair.

The amazing thing is that horary can achieve this level of accuracy with virtually any question. If you are intrigued, and want to check out a horary reading, visit my Astrology Reading page. If you need more info, read on.

"Whatever is born or done in this moment of time has the quality of this moment of time."

The idea with horary is that this moment has different qualities from that moment. You chose a particular minute, hour, day, and location to ask your question, and the resulting horoscope must reflect the answer to it.

That is the short answer regarding the horary moment. But our 21st century minds resist this explanation, however appealing the concept may be intellectually. Look at it this way (in the words of Geoffrey Cornelius, from his book The Moment of Astrology): "The planets and their positions mirror the occult quality of the totality of the macrocosm-microcosm 'at that moment.'" So the planets do not cause anything, they move in sympathy with the terrestrial events.

But I don't want to get too far afield in astrological philosophy and cosmology (there is a lens in the works for this as well).