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its dignity by triplicity. 2 Mercury, Lord 7, is the querent’s wife and this planet is alsoretrograde and in its detriment and fall, so she too is not in a good way. With Mercury alsoabout to back onto the malefic South Node by antiscion this situation looks quite precariousindeed. The querent is also signified by the Moon who being close to malefic fixed starCaput Algol shows that emotionally he is losing his head in the situation.As I said earlier, ideally we’d want a connection between Lord Ascendant, Lord 10 or Lord 7and Lord 10 – but here there is neither. One apparent problem is that Lord 10 and Lord Ascendantare the same planet. But when the querent is self employed, as in this question, this can bequite common showing that in this sense; person and job are one and the same. We can lookfor other significators of the job usually the ruler of the next sign on the 10 th in this caseSaturn but before we jump to this let us see what we already have in front of us.There is an aspect, showing something is about to happen, and this aspect is Moon to sextileMercury in 1 degree. In context of the question the Moon, natural ruler of wives, to aspectMercury turned 3 Lord 10 could show wife getting some work (also note that Saturn willretrograde onto antiscion of Moon).To figure out the nature of the time units involved we consider only the applying planet andthe sign and the house he is in. A fixed sign indicates a slow time unit, mutable a mediumand cardinal a fast time unit. We add to this the house, with angular house equalling slow,succedent /medium and cadent / fast. This gives us the following combinations: Fixed andAngular gives us slow, Fixed and succedent / medium, fixed and cadent again gives usmedium. Mutable and angular gives us medium, mutable and succedent/ medium, mutableand cadent also gives us a medium unit. Cardinal and angular is medium unit, cardinal andsuccedent/ medium and cardinal and cadent gives us fast. As you can see this weights themedium unit heavily, but none the less this system works very well and is quite capable ofshowing fast if the event is fast and slow if it is slow. Try and you will see. The number ofdegrees to perfection of the aspect gives us the quantity of time units i.e. ten degree toperfection equals ten hours, days, weeks, months or years or whatever unit we’ve judged touse. For a further detailed exposition of this method I refer you to John Frawley’s masterfuland remarkably clear work ‘The Horary Textbook’.As with all things in Astrology it is vital that we apply this timing method within thecontext of the situation. We still need to weigh the testimonies carefully and most of all, we2 Lord 2 Venus is in Capricorn and so is dignified in it’s triplicity by day. This is a day chart eventhough the Sun is not quite above the horizon as it would have already been light outside. Always givethe day a few degrees leeway at sunrise and sunset as the Sun’s light is visible just before it rises and justafter it sets.3 Mercury is ruler of the ‘turned 10 th’ his wife’s 10 th house, and so is significator of her job. We find theturned 10 th house by counting from her 1 st house (the 7 th in the chart) and ‘turning the chart’ until wecome to her 10 th (the 4 th in the chart).58