Horary 0080: Where the Fuck Is My Wallet?
Overview
The querent had lost his wallet and needed to recover it urgently.
The querent, it so happens, was my colleague, horary astrologer and podcaster SP Hall, who had already cast a chart and felt the prospects of recovery were not good but wanted a second opinion. I’m including him in the judgment here (with his permission) because the preexisting chart figured into what became a collaborative process that, once my chart catalyzed the mixture, led to a successful recovery.
Before I judged my own chart, I mentioned to some other astrologer colleagues that I was searching for a wallet. On their own initiative, Daniel Norman of Ever Happening Astrology also cast a chart for this, and their interpretation supported the same conclusion.
I find it sufficiently unusual and impressive — especially on a day with such a desperately void-of-course Moon — that three astrologers would cast three different charts that all supported a recovery of the object in the same place that I want to include them all. But I will examine my chart first, as I believe it was the one that got us there.
Judgment
I assigned the wallet Jupiter, ruler of the 2nd house, which was strongly angular in the 7th house in Taurus. The querent is signified by Mars, the ascendant ruler, who is in a good place of visibility in the 10th house, and I noted his imminent ingress into Virgo — going from a sign-based square to a trine with Jupiter in Taurus, a more harmonious aspect — as a testimony that recovering the wallet was possible.
Though the Moon is deep in the void, I took her imminent change of sign as an indication that something is about to change. In a question about a lost object, it is no wonder to me when the Moon is roaming in the void.
(I also made this mistake with a much worse void-of-course Moon in a lost package horary that I judged was gone-zo, but it showed up just fine. In both cases, the Moon’s next aspect is with the Sun, which I now take to be an overriding sign of reappearing.)
Moreover, the Moon is about to change domiciles from the object’s (Jupiter-ruled Pisces) to the querent’s (Mars-ruled Aries), which I took as another sign of recovery.
The angularity of Jupiter seemed like the strongest sign, though, and the indication that the object’s location had something to do with the querent’s partner (7th house). Venus, Jupiter’s ruler by domicile, is slowing to station retrograde, which I combined with the fixed earth sign of Taurus to suggest the wallet was stuck somewhere low to the ground or floor. I was also drawn to Jupiter’s mutual reception with Mercury by term as a sub-location within the partner’s domain. That felt “tricky” to me. I said that it “slid weird and wound up under something.”
It was at this point that SP showed me his chart:
SP felt that this chart boded quite poorly for the outcome, with the wallet signified by Venus in the 12th house of imprisonment and about to station retrograde, with no aspect to the ascendant, its ruler, her own ruler, or the Moon. I still see some hopeful signs in this chart, though, especially in combination with mine.
The first thing that jumped out was how much Mercury was involved — ruling the ascendant and midheaven, making a nice sextile to the ascendant, in a good house, recently in contact with the Moon, their ruler. This solidified my interest in Mercury from the minor dignities in my own chart. I now knew something tricky had happened.
While Mercury (the querent in SP’s chart) cannot see Venus (the wallet in SP’s chart), the Moon is angular and is about to change signs into a place where she can. I also noted the 7th house connection; due to SP’s use of whole-sign houses, the Moon is in the 7th house — the partner’s domain — and about to become visible to Venus (the wallet) in the 8th house — 2nd from the 7th, the partner’s stuff, or a place secondary to the partner’s domain, such as a closet. I reiterated, “Under the partner’s stuff.”
Outcome
Three hours later, SP texted me that his partner had found the wallet underneath some fabric he had cut in a closet with her clothes hanging over it.
Analysis
In some ways this horary is straightforward, although I appreciated the additional example of harmony of the lights overriding a void-of-course Moon in a lost object chart, as well as the importance of sign-based aspects. But the way the two charts — cast far enough apart in place and time to have considerably different house significations — supported the same result was quite remarkable to me. I included that in my update to the group of colleagues I had told about the wallet earlier, and that’s when Daniel sent me their chart:
Daniel had noticed their chart gave the spouse (7th house) and the wallet (2nd house) the same significator (Mars), with the Moon imminently entering Mars’ domicile, where the descendant of this chart is. For this reason, Daniel also ruled that SP’s partner would find the wallet.
The main takeaway I have from this case is that there’s no need to worry about people asking horary questions on “bad astrology days.” A Moon this void, a Venus this slow — it’s not an auspicious chart by some conventional measures. And yet three different charts on the same day with three different ascendants were capable of finding a wallet in a hurry on such a day.
Thanks to my comrades in stars, SP Hall of Luminaries In and Out of Sect and Daniel Norman of Ever Happening Astrology, for this collaborative contribution to our sacred art.
