Horary 0138: Where Is the Passport?
Overview
The querent had brought someone who was hard-up into their communal living situation, but circumstances required that this person leave soon after. The querent got the person packed up and extricated somewhat hurriedly, and in the process the person had misplaced their passport. Due to a sense of urgency in closing this matter, the querent sought my horary judgment on where the passport had gone.
The querent shared this photo of the passport’s last known location:
This desk is in the room where the person stayed after quarantining elsewhere on the property. The querent believed the person had intentionally placed the passport on this desk during their stay. The querent had helped pack the person’s belongings in this room and believed the passport had been misplaced during that hurried effort, but they could not recall clearly. The querent had searched much of the rest of the property to no avail.
The whole situation was a bit complicated, so assigning significators required some back and forth. The key determination made was that this person was best understood as a tenant of the querent and so would be assigned the ruler of the 6th house as significator. The judgment proceeded from there.
Judgment
I gave the querent Venus as ruler of the 6th, noting that Venus also rules the ascendant, but I found Venus’ recent departure from her domicile in Libra into Scorpio, the sign on the descendant, to be a radical description of the tenant’s departure from the querent’s residence. It also radically shows Venus’ new yearning for Mars, which as ruler of the 2nd house from the 6th signifies the passport, the tenant’s (6th house) possession (2nd house).
I noted Mars in the 7th house, in the double-bodied fire sign of Sagittarius, slowly emerging from under the beams of the Sun. With the Sun ruling the 4th house and thus signifying the querent’s home, I took this as partial testimony that the passport was still at the querent’s home and would soon become visible. The critical thing to delineate was the meaning of Mars’ position in the 7th house. Specifically, I wondered whether this meant the passport was in the domain of the querent’s partner or whether it had been stolen, as the 7th house is also the place of the thief. I looked to Mars’ recent contacts to make that determination.
Mars’ last contact was with the Moon, which — as Venus was needed for the tenant — must signify the querent. Mars’ next contact is also with the Moon, this time by conjunction, so I took this as the conclusive sign that the passport was not on the move and had not been taken or moved by anyone else. The querent had been involved in however it got where it was, and the querent would be the person to find it.
That left the plain meaning that Mars’ position in the 7th indicated the passport was in the domain of the querent’s partner. I described the qualities of Sagittarius as indicating somewhere warm, and I added the delineation of my teacher’s teacher — John Frawley — that fire signs indicate a lost object is “close to a wall.” I added the signification of double-bodied signs as often showing that a lost object is “between two things” or “stuck” somewhere.
I decided to leave the querent with that for the moment, telling them there was more detail I could pull out of the chart (particularly involving Jupiter, which rules Sagittarius and is also forming an imminent opposition with Venus), but given the complexity of the querent’s living situation and arrangements with this tenant, I was hesitant to provide specific interpretations beyond what I had given without feedback. I summarized my findings by saying the passport was still at home, in a partner-related domain, stuck inside of or between something, and that the querent was the last one to make contact and will be the next, and I invited them to write back with more information if necessary.
Outcome
Instead, the querent wrote back some hours later to report that they had found the passport, and that this was its actual location:
The querent stated they had conflated this junk-laden table with the one in the tenant’s room in their memory.
In fact, the passport was on a table in the expanding section of the RV where the tenant had quarantined before moving into the house. This quarantine was primarily a requirement for the querent’s partner, who had severe health complications from COVID-19. The passport was about one foot away from the space heater on the table. For the winter, the querent had popped the RV expansion back in to conserve heat in the space.
The querent had not searched the RV yet, primarily due to the conflated memory, but they stated that the “stuck between two things” delineation prompted them to look here, reminding them of the popped-in expansion section. Finding the passport “somewhere warm” (next to a space heater), “close to a wall” (in the side extension of the RV), in the “spouse’s domain” (a quarantine area required for the spouse’s health) duly impressed the querent, stating that my judgment should “absolutely get full marks.”
Analysis
*dusts shoulders off*
Hard to imagine a more airtight lost object horary than this one. I am glad to have it thoroughly documented, and I’m sure it will be a chart example I trot out far too often over the course of my astrology career.
