Monthly Archives: November 2017

“Should I … ?” questions in horary astrology

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Anthony Louis

William Lilly often used horary charts to advise his clients about a best course of action. A good example of such a “Should I?” question appears in England’s Prophetical Merline. On 24 June 1644 (NS) at 10:30 AM, a woman asked Lilly … Continue reading →

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Lost and found: the missing keys

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Anthony Louis

People seem always to be misplacing their keys. Recently I had occasion to do a horary chart for missing car keys. My wife’s sister and her husband were visiting for the Thanksgiving holidays. On Saturday 25 Nov 2017 as they … Continue reading →

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Missing Argentine Submarine

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Anthony Louis

An Argentine submarine went missing on 15 November 2017. According to the LA Times: “The last communication between the San Juan and authorities onshore was at 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 15. The submarine surfaced that morning in the area of … Continue reading →

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An interesting horary: lost and found

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Anthony Louis

One of the horary guidelines for finding lost objects is that when the Sun and the Moon are both below the horizon, the missing item will likely not be found. Recently a querent asked for help in finding a missing … Continue reading →

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Will Roy Moore win the election? Ask the Golden Apples of Hesperides.

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Anthony Louis

Despite mounting allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior, Roy Moore has vowed to remain in the Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate seat in December of this year.  This week an astrologer friend sent me an email with the horary … Continue reading →

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Astrology and the Tell Tale Yearbook

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Anthony Louis

The Republican Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore has been much in the news lately. Several women have accused him of inappropriate sexual advances when they were teenage girls and he was a single man in his 30s. The most recent … Continue reading →

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Horary: Where am I? A tale of the Moon’s Nodes

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Anthony Louis

I had an interesting horary experience today. A colleague and I had agreed to meet in Skype at 10 AM to discuss some charts. She lives in Argentina and was surprised to find that I was not online when she … Continue reading →

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Bonatti: Will I occupy the besieged castle?

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Anthony Louis

In his Treatise 6: On Questions Bonatti discusses a horary chart whose outcome is not obvious on first glance (Dykes translation, p. 515).  Apparently Count Guido Novello was besieging the castle of his enemy, the Luccans, and he asked Bonatti … Continue reading →

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Sloppy Guido

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Anthony Louis

Recently I’ve been reading through Ben Dykes translation of Guido Bonatti’s Treatise 6: On Questions.  As I read these ancient texts, I like to put up the charts for the case examples on my computer.  In the previous post I wrote … Continue reading →

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Bonatti: Will I get my dead uncle’s goods?

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Anthony Louis

Guido Bonatti (? 1207 – ? 1296 CE) published his famous compendium of astrology around the year 1277 CE.  In Treatise 6 On Questions he gives the example of a horary chart for a question posed to him by one … Continue reading →

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