factors that are involved.
Horary Astrology has its own canons, apart from those governing other branches of
Astrology, but the rules peculiar to it are reasonably simple and easily comprehended.
However, the more worldly knowledge the practitioner possesses the more deftly will he
interpret the Scheme, and the greater number of details he will be able to extract from it.
According to Zadkiel (Commander R. J. Morrison, R.N.), editor of William Lilly's
"Introduction to Astrology," a revised version of Lilly's "Christian Astrology Modestly
Treated in Three Books" first published in 1647: "If a proposition of any nature" be made to
any individual, about the result of which he is dubious, and therefore uncertain whether or not
to accede to it, let him but note the hour and minute when it was first made and erect a Figure
of the Heavens, as herein taught, and his doubts will be instantly resolved. He may thus learn
infallibly whether the affair will succeed or not; and, consequently, whether it is prudent to
accept the offer made. If he examine the Sign on the First House of the Figure, the planet
therein, or the planet ruling the Sign, will exactly describe the party making the offer, both in
person and character. Moreover, the descending Sign will describe his own person and
character."
Approaching it from a modern viewpoint it would appear that since the solidity of the solar
system is reasonably established in the Western mind, there can hardly remain any valid
objections to the ancient Doctrine of Signatures, which Albertus Magnus, Trithemius,
Agrippa, Paracelsus, Boehme and their followers proclaimed and extensively developed.
The twelfth part of the whole circle of 360° which the Ascendant precedes, is deemed to
portray the querent, his physique, disposition and circumstances. If the analogy is extended to
embrace the birth of a thought, a project or an event, the precise time thereof establishes the
angle of incidence in Nature, and makes it possible to chart its activity, the anticipated results,
and its ultimate disposition and object with relation to the person or thing that occasioned it.
Pursuing the analogy further, just as any heavenly body which has ascended to the horizon
will keep on rising until it attains to the meridian, so, too, will any person, thought or event
that has attained to maturity be similar in nature to the portion of the celestial sphere then
culminating.
Therefore Horary Astrology assumes that the Ascendant symbolizes the forces that are
emerging into being at a given time, and which will operate through the various divisions of