Horary 0003: Where Are @EnlistedHipster’s Earbuds?
Brief programming note: You will notice that this is horary #0003, though the previous entry in the horary log is #0001. I am numbering my charts in the order in which they were cast, but I am publishing my post mortems as the answers come in. Horaries that have not yet received an answer are not counted towards the batting average.
Overview
This chart is for a lost object.
Querent is my Twitter friend, @EnlistedHipster, who reported his earbuds missing in a state of “full scale panic.” After obtaining consent for divination, I cast the chart.
The querent was assigned L1, the Moon. Following John Frawley’s teachings, I assessed L2 (querent’s possession), the Sun, and L4 (“buried treasure”), Venus, for which planet is a better natural signifier of headphones. The Sun, as an emitter, seemed more salient than Venus, and my instinctual preference for L2 over L4 for lost objects that are not actually buried treasure confirmed the choice.
There was some doubt as to whether the headphones were at home, but fortunately, the chart was as radical as can be, and the object was found at home within 37 minutes.
Judgment
With the Moon rejoicing in the 3rd house, separating from its ruler Mercury (and with the ascendant in Mercury’s term and face of Cancer) to oppose the Sun on tomorrow’s Full Moon, the chart seemed immediately favorable to me, which I reported to the querent.
My first description was, “They’re in a place earbuds do not like to be,” and I am frankly not entirely sure what I meant by that. Just a little gnosis to start it off.
Noting the Sun in the 9th house, I first went with the idea of a stairwell, corridor, or adjoining room in the upper part of the building (2nd from the 10th, the 10th being the uppermost room), but then within the same tweet added, “If I wanted to be REALLY literal, a prayer or meditation room,” taking the traditional understanding of the 9th house as a place of God, prayer, study, and so on.
Specifying using the Sun’s zodiacal position in the middle of Pisces, I added, “Possible bathroom (water sign).”
The querent’s response revealed some doubt that the object was in the home at all, so I provided some additional 9th house significations in the event he would have to go schlepping around looking for them, noting that place’s relationship with travel, but concluding, “Could also be a religious or academic institution (in keeping with the meditation room thing).”
Within minutes, it became clear that I had offered far more possibilities than necessary.
Outcome
“No joke,” the querent replied minutes later, “they were in my meditation room/office at the bottom of the garden under a table. I walked in and went straight to where they were.”
He further clarified, “There's a huge water butt next to it too.”
Analysis
It doesn’t get any more open-and-shut than this. I am grateful to the Divine for the opportunity to practice this art in such a simple and satisfactory manner.
This one all played out on Twitter, to my delight. I have a thread from a couple months ago where I have offered no-promises lost-object horaries just to get some practice in, and while I have found a BUNCH of people’s objects (and gotten one completely wrong), this was my first lost-object chart that counts towards my record.
I now stand before you with an exact .500 batting average as an astrologer, and while you might find a coin flip a little bit faster, I do intend to improve that statistic rapidly.
