Fruitful Signs. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. The Water Signs. In Horary Questions the
Ascendant, Moon, or Lord of the Ascendant, if strongly placed in any one of these Signs,
become symbols of children. Some deem this equally applicable to the Natal Figure, and that
the 5th or its Lord in a fruitful Sign is a symbol of children. v. Signs.
Frustration. A term used in Horary Astrology when one planet is applying to an aspect of
another, which aspect would tend to signify some event; but before such aspect culminates, a
third planet, by its swifter motion, interposes to anticipate the culmination of the forming
aspect by completing one of its own. It is said to produce an Abscission of Light that will
frustrate the promised effect of the slower-moving aspect, constituting a prohibition (q.v.)
against its operation. The indication is that the matter thus subjected to the prohibition will be
retarded or utterly prevented, through influences connected with the House of which the
frustrating planet is Ruler, or in which it was posited at birth. In his "Arcana of Astrology"
Simmonite gives this illustration of its application to an Horary Figure: "If Venus, Lady of
the Ascendant, were hastening to the trine of Mars, Lord of the Seventh, in a question of
marriage, it might denote that the match would take place; but if Mercury were to form an
opposition to Mars before Venus reached her trine of that planet, it would be a frustration and
would show that the hopes of the querent would be cut off, and if he were Lord of the
Twelfth, it might denote that it would be done by a private enemy; if Lord of the 3rd, by
means of relations, and so on."