For the new ones who would like to jump into the discussion, here is the data:

Date: 12April, 2005
Place: brussels
Time: 1521 hrs. (GMT = -2, please apply DST)

Question: Would I and my girlfriend get back together?

Ash

Hello again

Please don't mind if I ask this: was it the very first time you thought at this question? I mean, if the event happened on March 26 and the horary question was asked only 7 days later, didn't you think over and over again about the whole situation ?...
In this case the horary question is not asked properly, as it was not quite the first time when you thought about it.
I suppose this would explain the late Ascendant. This would also explain some contradictory aspects of this horary chart.

I think the late ascendant was indicative of the fact that it was too late for the relationship, not that he should have asked the question earlier. Chances are the chart would have had a late ascendant even if it had been asked seven days ago. The right time to ask a horary question is not when it first enters your head but at a time when the need to know becomes the overriding concern. We constantly have questions going through our heads, often of great importance. But I think as astrologers who sometimes do our own horaries, it is when we commit to the horary itself that the chart needs to be drawn. I have held off for weeks before asking a question, not because the question wasn't important, but because I wasn't ready to commit to the answer. Ash mentioned that he studied for a few days before asking the question. It is important to really understand what it is we are asking and how we might go about interpreting the answer the chart give us. Deb's article 'Judge not upon every slight motion' explains it clearly with a good example of how, sometimes, it is better to wait until all other avenues have been exhausted.

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/horary_considerations.html

Another good article from Deb relating to this is 'Questioning our horaries' http://www.skyscript.co.uk/horary_questions.html

Cheers
Sue

Sue has made an excellent point and the reference of Deb's articles are a great source to further agree and strengthen the point. Perhaps my emotional stress was the reason for straight away jumping into horary and working so hard initially to find the answer and it is possible that the time of the question was also not correct.

Conclusion:
As a beginner, I need to learn much, much more about horary before I ask any further question.


Ash