aspect with a different body before the faster moving body catches up.
Again, this scenario shows hope until the person represented by the
slower-moving significator goes off in a different direction.Prohibition: The significators are moving to perfection, but a swifter
body intervenes and completes aspects with both bodies first.
Besiegement: If a significator is between two malefics, it is besieged. It
is not at all clear how large an orb should be allowed for this. The con-
cept for besieged is: between a rock and a hard place. A besieged planet
is not free to act as it is hemmed in on all sides.
If the outcome of the question is negative, the horary astrologer is finished at
this point. If the outcome is positive, then there is one more job: attempting to deter-
mine the timing of the events leading to the result, or determining the spatial rela-
tionship to the object in question in the case of a lost object.Timing comes from looking for a degree separation between any of the following:
The significators of the two parties in a simple perfection
The Moon and one of the significators
A significator and a nearby house cusp
The number of degrees until the Moon changes sign, especially if the Moon is
in the late degrees of a sign.
There are actually two scales of time: symbolic and ephemeris. Symbolic time
(a difference of degrees between the two significators applied to produce time units
through the following table) is used most of the time, unless some significant
ephemeris event itself may impact the outcome. If, for example, a significant planet is
about to go retrograde or direct, it is common to refer to the actual station date as the
critical timing date. The units of time to go with these numbers are given in the fol-
lowing table.UNITS OFTIMEBASED ON THEQUALITIES OF THESIGNIFICATORS
Angular Succedent CadentCardinal = days Cardinal = weeks Cardinal = months
Mutable = weeks Mutable = months Mutable = years
Fixed = months Fixed = years Fixed = unknown
Of course, much of the time one gets mixed indicators: for example, one signi-
ficator will be cardinal cadent, while the other is fixed succedent. In these cases, an
adjustment of the units of time may be in order. The units of time also vary according
to the nature of the question itself.
Direction is not always so obvious, in part because of the frequency of having
mixed indicators. The general idea is to take the major significators in the chart and
examine their location by sign and by house. If the bulk of the planets are either in
one house or one sign, then one can translate this into compass location using the car-
dinal points of the chart: the ascendant as east, etc.Horary Astrology
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