SAVol7Dec09WesternCo.. - Saptarishis Astrology

His significator is the ruler of the fifth house, Jupiter. The schools are shown by the ninthand its ruler, the Moon. The first exam was on the 18th of May. By transit, the Moon, Lord9, was on the 5th cusp on that day. This is a positive testimony, but there was no mutualreception with Lord 5. At this school the boy passed satisfactorily, but with no scholarship.The appeal at the second school was due on August 10th. On that day, the boy's significator,Jupiter, transits the ninth cusp, where, it being in Cancer, it is exalted - so the boy is thereand is highly thought of. Would he get the scholarship? Yes. And so it proved.Similarly, if the question contains a given bound of time, this too will be reflected in thechart. It can be taken that the end of the relevant planet's present sign is the end of the giventime-frame. So if I ask, "Will I win the lottery this year?" and find my significatorconjuncting the ruler of the eleventh house (pennies from Heaven) immediately after itleaves its present sign, I would judge, "No; but I will early next".Robert Nunn has recently emerged from the grueling series of tests and tortures thatcomprise The Horary Apprenticeship as a fully fledged Horary Craftsman. While indulgingin that favourite astrological recreation of bumping off members of the royal family - anamusement which would have William Lilly's whole-hearted approval - he asked "Will theQueen Mother live to see her 100th birthday?"With a woman of this age we must be awarethat she is bound to die at some point; so weneed to look at the birthday. His reasoningwas: the Queen is given to the 10th house, sothe Queen Mother is given to the 10th fromthe 10th, the radical 7th, and so signified byVenus. The Moon is translating light fromVenus (Queen Mum) to the Sun (herbirthday). Will it get there in time - before theSun changes sign? Yes, it does; so the QueenMother gets to see her hundredth birthday -and so, of course, it proved.Finally, as a little light relief, there are thequestions that admit of only one possible timeunit. Yippee! Let us dance and rejoice!Margaret Cahill, an Apprentice on the point ofqualification as a Horary Craftsman, asked atwhat time a certain employee with a watch purchased from Salvador Dali might arrive atwork that day. As she judged - in a chart submitted before the event - the employee wassignified by Saturn, ruler of the sixth house; the querent herself by Mercury (Lord 1) and theMoon.131