Horary 0027: Will I Get the Job I Applied For?
Overview
The client asked whether they would get a job they applied for. No other context was given, but as a bread-and-butter horary type, I decided to judge the chart straightforwardly.
This chart was only my sixth for a client, and I felt I needed to establish faith that simply following the orderly rules of horary would work, rather than trying to hedge and add qualifiers.
Judgment
I gave the querent Venus, ruler of the ascendant. Venus is fundamentally strong, being in domicile in Taurus, but in the 7th house puts her in the domain of the other. The descendant, indicator of that other, is in Aries, signified by Mars, a planet whom Venus in Taurus opposes.
I described this as the querent being “a strong candidate, qualified and energetic, but with another candidate in control of the process.”
I gave the job the Moon, ruler of the midheaven. I noted its position just past the descendant as being “ahead” of the querent, and in the domicile of Mars, the other or opponent, which at this point felt safe to describe as another candidate for the job.
I noted that Mars — the other candidate — is about to enter Cancer, the domicile of the Moon, an imminent reciprocation of the job’s favor. More decisively, I saw that the Moon’s next aspect was the sextile with Mars, before reaching Venus.
It was clear I had to judge that the querent would not get the job, but I reassured the querent that it showed equally clearly that they were a qualified and self-possessed candidate.
Outcome
The querent wrote back a month later to let me know they did not get the job, which they described as “a bit of a long shot.”
Analysis
This is by-the-book horary astrology, so I don’t have anything exceptional to say about it, but it’s gratifying when it just plain works.
