SAVol7Dec09WesternCo.. - Saptarishis Astrology

MethodWe will assume that we have set our horary and judged that there will be an event. This willusually have been shown by an aspect between two planets; occasionally by a planet movingto a cusp, or even, rarely, vice versa. Planet to cusp aspects, however, are not to be relied uponto show an event unless the planet signifying the quesited is applying to the querent's cusp.The querent's planet applying to the cusp of the quesited, whatever Lilly may say to thecontrary, tends to show desire rather than fulfillment and is not reliable - except when theevent is more or less certain. That is, 'Will I get the job?' with Lord of the first applying tothe MC: desire; 'When will I get the job?' with Lord of MC applying to the 1st: certainty.The best behaved of charts show a timeable past event. These are not so common, but aredelightedly received whenever they arrive. Suppose the question is 'When will I marryagain?' and we know that our querent divorced three years ago. The chart shows hersignificator separating from Mars, the natural ruler of divorce. If it is y degrees separatedfrom Mars, we know that y = 3 years. So if it now applies to aspect the ruler of the seventhhouse, signifying the future husband, in 2y degrees, judgment is simple: you will remarry in2 x 3 = 6 years. It is as if the chart carries its own scale of calibration, as we might find thescale marked on a map. Conclusions we reach from this are highly accurate and highlyreliable.Few, however, are the charts that show such past events. Or, as in principle I suppose thatthey all should, few are they that show them with sufficient clarity to be of use. So we needto find something else - and this is when it starts to get complicated. For reasons whichcannot be fathomed, students invariably display the utmost resistance to absorbing whatfollows, more than on any other subject. We would suggest, then, that those who wish towork with these ideas print out this page and forcefully insert it into their head through theleft ear with the aid of a screwdriver.We will assume that our chart shows an applying aspect. If it does not, we have no event, sothere is no point in trying to time it. If we have an aspect there will be a number of degreesbetween where the planets are now and where they will be when the aspect perfects. Thisnumber is the number of time units between the time of question and the time of the event.Getting this is the easy bit! But even this is not so simple: usually we take the number ofdegrees that the applying planet must travel before perfecting the aspect. So we look at thedegree at which the aspect happens, following the astronomical truth that the planet appliedto is not going to stand and wait while the other catches it up. Sometimes, however, we takethe number of degrees from where our applying planet is now to where the planet applied tois now - as if the other planet were standing still and waiting. What we have here is in effectnot an aspect, but a transit.Example:Let us say that our event is shown by Mercury applying to aspect Mars, and Mercury is nowat 8 deg of its sign, Mars at 12 deg of its. From looking at the ephemeris we see that aspectperfects when they are both at 16 degrees of their signs. Mercury has had to travel 8 degreesto perfect the aspect, so our judgment will be that the event will happen in 8 somethings:125