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| Horary astrology is useful for many things, particularly questions that have a "yes" or "no" answer. For example, "Will I get the job?" or "Is this the right house for me?" or "Will this relationship work?" It's useful for other things as well, such as lost objects, which are often the most interesting in that the chart usually indicates if the item will be found as well as where it might be. Thus, when our dog turned up missing I ran a chart to see what it had to say. Here's the entire story and the charts involved. |
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January 6 around 2:50 pm, my granddaughter got home from school
and put our dog, Valkyrie (yes, that's her real name), outside
on her tether. When my daughter got home around 5:30, she was
gone, but she assumed she was inside. It wasn't until 9:30 p.m.
that evening that we realized she was missing. While everyone
else donned their coats and boots to go look for her, I headed
for my computer to run a horary chart.Our pets are like our children, so
represented by the 5th house, which made Saturn her significator.
Placed in the 6th house suggested she'd be found northwest of our
home. The 6th house further implied she might be injured. The Moon
conjunct Chiron reflected our worry and also hinted at the
possibility she might be injured. Since she broke her tether, she
could have been dragging it along and gotten hung up somewhere,
since we live in a rural area with lots of trees. Uranus in the 8th sextiled by Saturn
suggested an opportunity to break free. It was very cold so we
suspect the tether snapped. The 8:29 degree orb translated to hours
and minutes and deducted from the horary time came to 2:51 p.m.
which suggested she broke free shortly after being put outside.
Another possibility is implied by the square between Mercury at
28:13 Sagittarius and Neptune at 27:24 Pisces, a separating aspect
that implies something that occurred in the past. That orb is 49
minutes, which could be an alternative time for when she got lost,
or around 3:39 p.m. Of course there's no way to know for sure. Nonetheless, Mercury as the natural ruler of
animals and movement sextile Neptune, which can represent confusion,
suggested that she was not only loose, but lost. With snow on the
ground, finding her way back home would be difficult with scents, a
dog's primary navigational tool, compromised. Mars retrograde in the 10th house showed her
status but being retrograde suggested she'd be found, especially
with the Part of Fortune on the Midheaven. The quincunx to Mars from
Mercury in the 3rd house of local regions/neighborhood implied
something had to change before she'd be found. With an orb of 1:30
degrees, that looked like a day and a half, or around 36 hours. The
trine from Mars to Neptune with an orb of 2:19 suggested a little
over two days to return home. When my family returned from looking for her
that first night they were deeply concerned. It was quite cold, down
in the teens, our only consolation that she's a husky with a thick
coat of fur. I told them what I saw in the horary, that she'd be
found northwest of here. They didn't think so, since what tracks
they found indicated a different direction. I told them not to
worry, that she'd come back at some point, but I don't think they
believed that, either. Meanwhile, on January 8, after she'd been missing for over a day, my daughter posted a Lost Dog notice on Facebook. It wasn't long before she started getting messages from people who'd seen her--northwest of our house. (Big surprise!) We live in a rural area so there's lots of space (like acres' worth) between houses, so that was probably a mile or so away. The Sun, ruler of the 11th house of groups, trining Uranus from the 4th house of home, also implied help from a group.
The time elapsed from when I ran the horary
until she turned up at around 5:25 p.m. on January 8, was 42:05
hours. At this point I was determined to find the
timing in the horary chart. The Mars-Neptune trine with an orb of
2:19, i.e. a little over two days, may have been pretty close to
exact, depending on what time she actually broke free. I looked more closely at Mercury, natural
significator of animals and also ruler of the 12th house of being
secluded or lost. On the horary chart Mercury was 28:13 Sagittarius,
which interestingly enough, is the sign of adventure and travel.
When Val came home, Mercury was 00:21 Capricorn, the sign of
stability and security. The difference between them was 0:44
degrees, which matched very closely with the 42:05 hours between the
horary and when she came home. Timing in horary is often the greatest
challenge. Having both charts provided the answer of when she'd
return, which is often not known when I run such charts for others.
While the Mars retrograde trine to Neptune came reasonably close,
Mercury's movement and the implications of the sign change were even
closer.
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My
daughter and son-in-law headed out to look in that direction, but in
the meantime Valkyrie got her bearings and wound up waiting for them
on the porch when they got back. She had a slight limp, collar and
tether were gone, but otherwise unhurt. The Vertex in the 7th
trining the 11th house cusp hints at the help from someone on
Facebook, who verified she'd been to the northwest.