Hmmpf!!
Well, neither of the last two elections coughed up with any prizes. One coupon did include 4 correct numbers out of 7 (but lacked one of the 3 supporting figures). The odds for getting 4 out of 7 right is 1:53, but that is not enough to release any returns in this particular lottery. It could be I will do best when something exciting pops up in the nativity again, like the transit Pluto trine MC and sexile Moon in the beginning of March. However, we are not putting away our studies yet and the chart I am putting forward this week is more like a repeat of last weeks; April 12, time 14.34 LST (12.34 GMT), Asker 59N50, 10E26 http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY10.GIF

I have chosen a late degree of Leo for the ascendant, which complies with my natal sun and is within a degree of my MC. This puts my natal Moon on the IC. The main reason for choosing this moment is the Leo ascendant combined with the hour of Jupiter, who also is lord of the day. The moment is radical since the lord of the hour and lord of the ascendant are in the same triplicity.

Pluto on the cusp of the 5th is trine the ascendant. The radical Midheaven opposes my natal ascendant. The Moon is in the same sign as in my nativity.

I'm not really expecting anything here, but it seems a convenient opportunity to re-try the comination of planetary hour and radical ascendant.

Nothing new in the terms of winning - but another great new election coming up!
Well, it seems impossible to get the better of the odds every time - but I think the experiments suggest that it 1) is possible to promote winning by astrology, however 2) it takes more than making a simple prayer to the ruler of the planetary hour (i.e. the usage of planetary hours).

The election performed on March 1. was special in terms of the extra stuff going on in terms of transits to my natal chart. Now the election I forward this week is beginning to look something like something special again. Let's put it like this - I 'know' it can be done. I have made a new entry for April 17. 2007, time 14.02 LST (12.02 GMT), Asker, Norway. http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY11.GIF

The election is made for the day of Mars and hour of Jupiter, which by coincidence is the planetary day and hour of my natal birth. The ascendant is in Leo, making the Sun the lord of the Ascendant. The Lord of the hour, Jupiter, is in the same triplicity as the lord of the ascendant, thus proving the chart radical. Jupiter is dignified in his own sign, the Sun by exaltation and triplicity.

The sign on the ascendant agrees with my natal Sun. For purposes of accomplishing that special winning ticket, the fixed star Alphard is exactly on the ascendant and indicates "the one that stands alone".

The chart is cast within half an hour of the New Moon, so that the Moon is still cazimi and in its highest fortitude. Cancer is intercepted in the 11th house, so that the Moon performs as a more forceful and fated beneficiary, in conjunction and cazimi of the lord of the ascendant. The Sun and Moon are elevated in the chart, in trine with the ascendant and apply to the trine of Pluto, who is retrograde and hastens to meet the luminaries from the cusp of the 5th house.

Mars at 8PI33, is ruler of the Arian New Moon and of the planetary day, and is dignified by triplicity and in exact sextile with the MC at 8TA33. Mars receives the beneficial square of Venus through signs of short of ascension, she being placed in the 10th house, he receiving her in the sign of her exaltation, thus promoting perfection and performance. The hard aspect between Venus and Mars, being a planetary pair of opposites, causes a condition termed by, among others, Al Birumi and Coley, as an opening of gates. This is a condition that is likely to promote changes in the weather or atmosphere.

It seems to be important to tie Mercury into the chart in some meaningful manner. Certainly there was a significant transit between Mercury and my natal Moon in the chart of March 1., so here I let Mercury be sesqi-quadrate (a minor hard aspect) the ascendant within half a degree of orb to tighten up the chart.

Now for the connections to my natal chart:
The lunation is trine my natal MC and sextile my natal Moon. The Moon needs 10' to reach the trine to my MC and 34' to sextile its natal position. That's tight!! The lunation is in the sign of my natal Jupiter, who is the lord of my 2nd and 5th houses.

Venus at 6GE19 is exact trine my natal Mars, who is the lord of my ascendant and located in my 11th house at 6LI20. Venus applies by sextile to her natal location at 6LE55.

Jupiter, who is lord of the hour, lord of 5th, disposes Mars, Uranus and the North Node on the 8th, and located at 19SA34, retrogrades to the trine of his position at 19AR28 in my natal chart. As said before, Jupiter is ruler of my 2nd and 5th houses. My natal Moon at 27AQ56 is conjunct the radical 5th at 28AQ13.

Considering the lunation in Aries and the Leo Ascendant I entered my coupon at a comissionar in a high place, located on the top of hill at a place called the Golden Slope. LETS see how that works out!

At this point of our studies I would very much like to wave my wand like Harry Potter, but from the point of making elections - this is about as good as it gets. I entered 10 single lines of my favourite numbers for the Viking Lotto draw of March 18., 10 single lines of a random coupon for the first coming Saturday - and I haven't got a clue of what numbers. And considering the fortitude of the lunation to my Midheavan, I entered a coupon containing 10 single lines containing my favourite numbers for a period of 5 weeks. Let's play!

In the midst of all this exciting astrology, which is nothing but a treasure-hunt (!!) I would like to pass on a thanks and toast to Olivia Barclay, who simply would have loved the content of the astrological forum and debate at Skyscript, probably discarded the most of us, loved us and not forgotting the children. Thank you for your inspiration, challenge and encouragement!

Andrew J. Bevan

No sigificant winning with the election of April 17. in the first round, but here I entered a 5 week coupon so there are 10 rows here that will be kicking around for some time. My natal chart doesn't show any significant major transits for a couple of weeks now and I can't see much exciting to hang an election on to. However, the New Moon of April 17. occured at 27AR05 and this is trine my natal MC at 27LE37 and sextile my natal Moon at 27AQ56 - so this could kick in and entering the odd lotto line could still prove interesting.

I've added a few comments to the winning election of March 1. under the topic "Simple wins". These mostly relate to the importance of the preceding syzygy and the dynamic aspects that the relevent lords made to the angles. This is what we be trying out this week. I have made a New election for April 24. 2007, time 20.03 LST (18.03 GMT), Asker, Norway. 59N50 10E26. http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY12.GIF

The chart is cast for the day of Mars and the hour of the Moon. The Moon has agreeable powers with the lady of the Libra ascendant, Venus, and applies to her by sextile. The Moon, who is lady of the hour, is 9LE46 and carefully made angular on the cusp of the Midheaven at 11LE07. I have played this onto my natal Sun which is 13LE21 and maybe the fact that the Moon needs 4 degrees to reach my Sun and the draw occurs in 4 days time, will promote my interests. I also thought of checking my prenatal syzygy, a Full Moon occuring at 12AQ15, but which is ruled by the Sun at 12LE15. This is close to the culiminating degree of the election.

The New Moon of April 17. 2007 occured at 27AR05, so I made this angular on the cusp of the 7th with 27LI07 on the ascendant!! The Sun has the greatest essential dignities in the place of the New Moon, by exaltation and triplicity, so I make sure he is in an angular house. The Sun is in mutual reception with the Moon, he being in the exact degree of her exaltation. Mars, who rules the preceding syzygy by sign, is lord of the 2nd house and is located at 14PI06 on the cusp of the 5th house, in the sign of his triplicity, and is joined to the Moon's North Node. The Sun also picks up dignities on the cusp of the 2nd house, which I think are important on taking along. The Asc/MC midpoint is 19VI05 and square Jupiter at 19SA14, who is in turn Lord of the 5th house.

The Moon moves to the body of Saturn in the 10th house, who is almuten of the ascendant by exaltation and triplicity. He is dispositor of the Part of Fortune (by sign, triplicity and term!!) and his malice is abated by the trine of Jupiter who is dignified in his own sign.

But most important in this chart is the placement of the Lady of the hour on the Midheaven, the placement of the preceding syzygy on the Descendant, the Lord thereof, the Sun in an angular house, or in another way, Mars located in the house ruling the matter of concern. Let's see how it works out!

Radical?!

On the whole I do charts for myself which I think reduces the need to check Radicality.

But I can't find more information on the steps to go thru when checking somebody else's chart.

Could someone point me in the right direction or go thru an example?!

Please.

H.

Some of my thoughts on this matter are available at http://www.astronor.com/hours.htm


GUIDELINES FOR CASTING JUDGEMENT IN HORARY ASTROLOGY BY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LORD OF THE HOUR AND THE RADICAL ASCENDANT

12. Nothing can be performed without the assistance of the lord of the hour. If there is no relation between the lord of the hour and the sign ascending or its lord, the chart shows something out of tune and not working properly. It is like striking a dumb note on the celestial instrument. The querent may not have had a serious intention of proposing the question. According to the ancient stricture, the astrologer is more liable to plunge himself into difficulties and should examine whether the querent has the correct reasons for asking the question. An irregularity is in existence and the rules are not being followed. There could be a disturbing circumstance and the matter leads to unhappiness or unacceptance.

Please feel welcome to send me your feedback. There's still room for discovery!

Thanks Andrew.

And Hello Oslo.

I'm just about to give your Website the once/ fifty times over.

Might I find the answers to ....

Beseiged is not clear to me. Is it just cornered in a sign or does it have to be surrounded?

And Speeds/ Motions. What's the cut off when a planet becomes swift?

Another election at work!
Nothing exceptional to report from last weeks election, but the entry of April 17. is valid for 5 weeks and will be kicking around for a few more weeks! http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY11.GIF

I have 10 random lines in for this weeks lotto from a time selected on Wednesday, 09.56 GMT which was 14 minutes ahead of the FULL MOON at 11SC38 which occurs on my natal Asc at 11SC29 (It seemed like an argument to toss in the odd coin). I'll print the chart if anything turns up.

However, this weeks chart is made on May 4., time 19.05 LST (17.05 GMT), Asker, Norway 59N50, 10E26. http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY13.GIF

The election is made for the day of Venus and the hour of Saturn with Libra on the ascendant at 24LI12. Venus at 25GE59 is lady of the day and lady of the ascendant and aspects the ascendant by a trine aspect. Saturn, who is the lord of the hour, is exalted in the ascendant (good for matters of competition!!) but also rules Libra by triplicity, which qualifies him as almuten of the cusp of the 1st. Thus, the chart is radical, and Saturn, lord of the hour, is elevated and dominates the upper hemisphere together with Venus.

In this particular chart Venus disposes both the Sun on the cusp of the 8th house and Fortuna, located in the 8th. Venus is put in a trine to the ascendant at 24LI12, which is conjunct the benefical fixed star Spica. The Midheaven is 6LE32, and played against Venus in my natal chart which is 6LE55!! (Venus is the disposer of Fortuna in my radix!)

The Moon is 9SA16 in the 2nd house and moves to trine my natal Sun at 13LE21. She is disposed by Jupiter, who is in his own sign and receives the Moon in her face. Jupiter moves to an exact trine with Saturn, who is elevated and lord of the hour!! I have made the Moon in an exact semi-square (minor hard aspect!) to the ascendant and Mars, who is lord of the 2nd (and ruler of my natal ascendant!!), is in the 5th in his own triplicity and in a sesquiquadrate to the Midheavan.

So let's give it a shot! I am sure the reader will agree that we have made a case containing the propper arguments!

Andrew I've read the article and I am a bit wiser about Radicality.

Here are two charts that I've done for others.

I can do the count clockwise thing but unless I'm Mercury in Pisces then I am not sure what order the planets go in.

http://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?cid= ... fix=1&ast=

Levice 3/May/07 19.19

http://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?cid= ... fix=1&ast=

Thursday

So we have Sun 12 hours from the Asc which means which planet?

Where's the list?

And this chart.

http://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?rs=0 ... 21&go.y=10

28/Apr/07 Genolhac 10.21

Saturday

4 hours from the Acs

Thanks

H

Here are some good links! The first one is a planetary hour clock that you can install on your computor. http://chronosxp.sourceforge.net/en/ & http://lunarium.co.uk/planetary.php
There is quite a bit to be found on the net on the planetary hours, and you might find it interesting to surf around a bit!

The lord of the day rules the 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd hour - which would put the Sun in the 2nd half of the 12th house (just above the horizon), the first half of the 9th house, the 2nd half of the 5th house or the first half of the 2nd house. If you use this as your reference it is easier for you to spot the lord of the hour in a moments glance!

Hmm... The election of May 4. for the draw on May 5. failed to deliver. There seems to be a problem recreating the sharpness of the election shown on March 1. In the March 1. chart the transit Moon was conjuncting my natal Sun and transit Mercury was within 2' of my natal Moon.

I don't want to make this too complicated by webbing myself into the details of my natal chart but it could also be I'm suffering the lack of some movement/direction within my natal chart that adds a suggestion of the extra money. Remember the number of wins in March. Well, my Year Point was moving through Scorpio from Feb.24 and 30 days ahead. Scorpio in my Solar Return contained Fortuna and Jupiter, who was almuten of the cusp of the 2nd in the Solar Return.

I still think one of the clues lies in the aspects made from the specific rulers to the angles. I.e. in the chart of March 1., Mars who ws ruler of the 5th was on the descedant, the Moon was in the 1st sequi-quadrate the MC and Jupiter, who was lord of the hour and in the 5th, was sesqui-quadrate the ascendant. My fascination lies with the sedqui-quadrate as a dymanic aspect, or expressed in another way, aspects of a wider angle than the square are more dynamic or 'fatal' in their effect because the one planet is in dialogue with a planet or point on the OTHER side of the chart- thus involving the participation of something beyond your self.

By the way I asked a horary regarding the key to winning the lotto. In this chart the asc. from the election chart of March 1., the 3rd degree of Leo, appeared on the Midheaven, which by co-incidence also was the midpoint of Jupiter/Uranus.

The experiments with the elections will persist. Winning the lotto is rather a long shot at any rate!!

New ideas!
I am going to make two different entries tomorrow May 9, the first one being for the Viking Lotto, which will be drawn later the same evening - http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY14.GIF - The second one if for Saturday 12.'s Lotto draw - http://www.astronor.com/ENTRY15.GIF

Now in the first instance I emphasis the possible role of Mercury. In the election chart of March 1. Mercury was in a tight conjunction (2' of arc) of my natal Moon. Mercury could be an important factor in numerical games, in particular. So in the first chart I put Mercury in an exact conjunction with my natal Fortuna at 26TA03!!

The chart is made for the day of Mercury, hour of Venus - with a Virgo ascendant - so the chart is radical on grounds of the ascendant being of the triplicity of Venus. Mercury is ruler of both day, ascendant and Midheaven - and dispositor of Fortuna in the election chart, which is 2GE27 and conjunct the Midheavan at 1GE27. I notice that this agrees with the natal Sun of my first born child, Selene, who has her Sun at 2GE08. Thus, this would direct the chart to matters of the 5th house and events that have been to my fortune.

The Asc. at 10VI54 is exactly conjunct my radix Pluto at 10VI55 - so this could help to trigger something extraordinary. The Moon is ruler of the 11th house and located in the 5th and she casts an exact semi-square to Mars in the 26th degree of Pisces, where he enjoys 3 lesser dignities. Mars applies to the MC of the successful election chart of March 1., which was 27PI24. Note the exact square between Saturn and his disposer, the Sun.

The second chart does something different. We have detected the possible importance of the Jupiter/Uranus midpoint in the chart of March 1., where the ascendant was made 2LE53. In this evenings chart we make the ascendant 2SC46 with the JU/UR being 2AQ59. But not only that - because Jupiter will be semi-square and Uranus sesqui-quadrate the ascendant.

The chart is made on the day of Mercury, hour of Jupiter with a Scorpio ascendant. Jupiter, is lord of hour and 5th and intercepted in the 2nd in a minor hard aspect to the ascendant. Mars, lord of the ascendant, is in the 5th and pertains to the question. Located at 25PI33, Mars is essentially dignified and conjunct the Asc/MC midpoint at 26VI48. (Actually, Mars is bi-quintile both asc. and MC.) Notice: In the chart of March 1. the MC was 27PI24 - now it is the Asc/MC midpoint at 26VI48 with Mars at 25PI33!!

The Moon in the chart is 13AQ09, which is almost exact opposition my natal Sun at 13LE21, compared with the winning election of March 1. where the Moon was 13LE09.

So that is it - I will place my bets tomorrow - roughly GBP ? 4,- both ways - and we will see whether anything comes in to effect.

Well, my lines are in and my commisioner bid me his farewell by saying that there was a higher likelihood of getting killed in the traffic. He might be right but particularly, I would say, if you know when to step out into the road at the right time...