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Horary Astrology Case Studies
by Diana Stone
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by Diana Stone |
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This is the first of a continuing series on horary astrology.
Horary astrology answers specific questions from a chart cast for the date, time and place the question was received.
A Twist of Fate
The problem with twists of fate is that you sometimes do not realize that they are happening at the time or maybe not until many years later. The chart I want to use for my first horary column in this series is the one that catapulted me into the intriguing study and eventual practice of horary astrology. It was the first horary chart I ever cast and that was back on August 7, 1969. I certainly did not notice anything unusual at the time on what turned out to be that fateful day. Here is the story.
I was living in St. Louis. A newscast announced that a doctor wanted volunteers with a rare blood type to take part in research at a local hospital. I volunteered. I went to the blood lab every two weeks. Blood was taken, centrifuged and transfused back into a vein. Then the process was repeated. This meant that I was tethered to a needle and tube in my arm all afternoon. I grew bored because I was not even able to read because my one arm was held hostage and I couldn't move it.
To break up the monotony I read the nurses' horoscopes. The lab became a very popular place the days I was there. Doctors "happened" by with their birth data. I even did a chart for a doctor's St. Bernard! However, one nurse refused to divulge her birth data. One time she was tending to me and asked if my astrology charts could tell if she were pregnant. "Not unless you give me your birth data," I insisted. She refused so I thought that was the end of it.
Suddenly I was hit with an inspiration. I had been reading Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson's book on horary astrology, so it suddenly occurred to me to treat her question about pregnancy as a horary question. I calculated the chart and pored over the rules. I telephoned the nurse a few days later and rendered this judgment, "You will think you are pregnant, the doctor will think you are pregnant, everybody will think you are pregnant, but you are not." She called back in a few days to tell me that my astrology was totally wrong. SHE WAS PREGNANT.
I decided horary astrology was not for me. The next time I went to the lab, she rushed up to me and said, "My rabbit got mixed up with another nurse's tests. I told everyone I was pregnant. But I am not pregnant." I thought, "This stuff is easy. I will rule the world."
(Experiences with astrology since then have disabused me of that notion.) Because of that little blood lab drama I plunged into an obsessive study of horary astrology.
I was reading from a chart cast for August 7, 1969 at 1:49 PM CST in St. Louis, MO. I studied the rules and one claimed that retrograde planets always lie. Neptune retrograde is in the First House. I wanted to know what Neptune was lying about. It rules the Fifth House of children, so I concluded it was lying about her being pregnant. That was about all I took into consideration back then.
However, there are other indicators. The Via Combust Way (yes, it is really called that) is a section.of the zodiac between 15 degrees Libra and 15 degrees Scorpio. The ascendant lies in that area at seven degrees Scorpio. This often shows the person is upset. It indicates unpredictable events over which the person is powerless. The young woman did not want to be pregnant at that time.
Her significator Pluto (ruler of the ascendant) is in the same degree as the Moon's nodes and is actually conjunct the South node. Any planet in the nodal degrees (ignore the sign) indicates a casualty, fatality or catastrophe however great or small. Pluto destroys any notion of pregnancy. The North node is in the Fifth House in 23 degrees Pisces, the degree of the fixed star, Markab, a degree of sorrow and tragedy. Whatever is in this chart, it cannot overcome these afflictions. Neptune in her First House confused the issue and it appeared that she was pregnant. But the retrograde planet lied.
Now, just for fun, lets see how far we can stretch this. Was it foretold that because of this chart I would go on to practice professionally? The Seventh House rules the astrologer. Using the Seventh House as my First House, that makes the Fourth House my Tenth House. Fourteen degrees Aquarius is on the cusp. Aquarius rules astrology and my Sun sign is fifteen degrees Aquarius. Uranus, the ruler, is in one degree Libra. The first three degrees of any sign are the "too early for now" degrees. It was premature for me to practice professionally, but it is promised. Uranus conjoins Jupiter that rules traveling, teaching and publishing about astrology. I have traveled extensively teaching astrology, my books and articles have been published and I own my own publishing company.
Traditional rules claim that you cannot read a chart with Saturn in the Seventh House. They say it makes the astrologer make mistakes. The chart shown here is the one that I ran on the computer to submit for my column. The one I read then was a hand-calculated chart that I originally cast. There were no computers back then and I was a comparative novice. Saturn was in the Seventh House.
By now the Virgos out there in reader land have realized that something is terribly wrong here. Read on.
I recalculated the chart on the computer to submit for this article. Only then did I realize that 1) it was daylight savings time in August 1969,2) NEPTUNE WAS NOT RETROGRADE THAT DAY, 3) Saturn is not in the Seventh House and 4) the ascendant is not in the Via Combust Way. Did the astrologer really make a mistake or was this engineered by a deliberate twist of fate? You figure it out.
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Diana Stone,
Astrologer
& Huna Shaman
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Diana Stone began astrological studies in the 1960s under the tutelage of Charles Luntz, author of Vocational Guidance by Astrology.
In 1973, she established a private practice in Portland, OR. She serves a clientele that includes an extensive network of telephone clients.
Her book on the U.S. horoscope was published in 1976. In the early 90s she contributed to three anthologies published by Llewellyn Publishers and edited by Noel Tyl.
Diana has lectured extensively and is a popular keynote speaker. She delivered the keynote address at the United Astrology Conference in Orlando in July 2002.
She has been a student for over 30 years of Huna shamanism, the system practiced by ancient Polynesian kahuna. Huna Research, Inc. certified her as a teacher of the ancient lore.
Diana serves an extensive international clientele as a shaman specializing in soul retrieval. She and her brother formed a publishing company, Crystal Triangle Publishing, and the book they co-authored, The Lightbody Activation Manual, will be released in February 2003. Diana now resides in Vancouver, WA.
Diana Stone
12005 NW 14th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98685
dianas@spiritone.com
www.DianaStone.com
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