Horary 0045: Will He Come Back to Me?
Overview
The querent (a woman) had been in a passionate romantic relationship with a man for one month, at which point he stopped communicating with her, giving no clear reason other than that he was “still processing” what had happened between them. This development weighed on the querent for two months, at which point she decided to request a horary judgment on whether he would ever come back.
Judgment
With Cancer on the ascendant, giving the querent the Moon as her primary significator, I observed the harmonious fire trine the Moon is applying to a conjoining Sun and Jupiter as an obvious positive omen. Still, with Mars right on the ascendant, the Moon in a bad house (the 6th, of the nature of Mars), and Venus about to lose dignity, it seemed there would be some difficulty along the way to a “yes.”
As the descendant ruler, Saturn is the love interest’s primary significator. The Moon and Saturn have recently separated a square, which I took as a radical description of the disconnect that had separated these people. Both the Moon in Sagittarius and Saturn in Pisces are ruled by Jupiter, though, so the significators share affinity for the Greater Benefic, and Jupiter’s involvement in the harmony of the lights is hard to ignore as a shared yearning.
As for the Sun, he can represent the primordial masculine in a relationship question according to my tradition. Here he is exalted in Aries, a powerful and attractive figure.
The primordial feminine is signified by Venus. This is where the situation becomes more complicated. Venus here is well dignified in Taurus, but she is about to change signs, going into Mercury’s sign of Gemini. Though this is a loss of dignity for Venus, Mercury remains in Taurus, so these two planets will enter a condition of reciprocal support. On the one hand, this looks like an activation of Venus, going from her natural state of repose in Taurus into a more Mercurial condition of communication and change. On the other, Venus is on the cusp of the 12th house of isolation. Perhaps this is only showing the querent’s desire (Venus) for communication (Mercury), and she is getting none in return from this man at the moment.
This turns our attention to the painful indications in this chart: the Moon’s position in the 6th house of injury and Mars’ position right on the ascendant. Mars is fallen in Cancer, small and hurt, but also favors the Moon from there. Moreover, he is the ruler of the Sun/Jupiter conjunction in Aries, meaning he has control over the event in this chart that seems to signify the outcome, and arguably as exaltation lord of the descendant, Mars has power over both of the love interest’s significators. He has also recently separated an aspect from Saturn, the love interest’s main significator. I couldn’t shake the feeling that Mars here does not signify a harm to the querent but rather some difficulty in this relationship, and that the chart shows it to be both important and surmountable.
What I told the querent was that clearly something painful was very literally “coming up” for her here, but I advised letting it come up and pushing through it. “The underlying harmony is there,” I wrote, letting the harmony of the lights indicate that these two would ultimately get back together despite a painful process.
Outcome
Eight months after this chart was cast, the querent wrote briefly to tell me that the two of them had gotten back together.
Analysis
What a remarkable chart that, frankly, I had forgotten about over all that time. I’m coming up on 100 horary questions since this one was cast. I am yet to come up with a compelling way to account for my accuracy in horaries that go unresolved for a long time because it doesn’t seem fair to rule on something that could still go either way. I just write back to my querents to nudge them to tell me what’s happening and hope they eventually do. In this case, though it took a long time, there was a happy ending for all involved.
This chart is a stunning demonstration of the principle of harmony of the lights as an overriding yes. This hasn’t always been the clearest principle in my charts, but in this case, with the benefic of the sect so loudly involved, it was convincing enough to me, and it panned out. The involvement of the malefic contrary to sect did give me pause, but looking at the situation holistically, I judged that to be an intervening difficulty on the way to harmony, and that’s exactly how it turned out.
