accidental ascendant 1 by vegas1 Hi All, While working on a horary recently, I just remember reading about Evangeline Adams using the accidental ascendant and the natal chart for horary work. What I could gather was very short and basic, calculating the ascendant for the location and time of the question, and put that as the ascendant on the natal chart. I don't know if the rest follows the traditional horary rules or not. Just wondering if anyone here uses this method, and if so, would care to share what you think, or how you use it. Quote Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:08 pm
2 by Tom For reasons I cannot explain, I find Evangeline Adams one of the most fascinating of famous astrologers. There are two excellent books about her career and techniques both by Karen Christino and both highly recommended: Forseeing the Future (a biography), One Reed Pulbications 2002 What Evangeline Adams Knew, (techniques), Stella Mira Books 2004 The bulk of Adams' own work is devoted to natal astrology and a little mundane. Adams was a fine electional astrologer, too. Although in one of her books (Bowl of Heaven I think), she makes reference to "my beloved horary." It is also known that in her personal library she owned an original copy of Christian Astrology. Yet, horary astrology is not mentioned in Christino's later book (this is from memory. It may have been mentioned, but I don't recall it being discussed in depth), and as far as I know the above reference to horary is the only one Adams made publically. From what I can gather, the "accidental ascendant" worked this way: Adams saw clients for a half hour at a time. For a first timer or a person who did not know his or her birth time, Adams would use a chart for the time of the appointment (what we would call a consultation chart today) and place the natal planets, taken from an ephemeris, around the consultation chart. The accidental ascendant was the ascendant for the time of the consultation. This way she could quickly estimate the chart for the time of day after calculating one for the first appointment and work with that. Her knowledge and ability to cast charts is undoubted, and her abiity to work this way is perfectly believable. This method reminds me of Lilly's "life reading" using only a horary chart or consultation chart if you prefer, for a full natal reading. Only Adams adds the known positions of the natal planets at the day of birth. I don't know what she did about the natal Moon. Adams was a nuts and bolts astrologer in the mold of Broughton and even Lilly. She had no students other than the secretaries she hired at the height of her practice. There is no Evangeline Adams' "school" of astrology. She read hands, dabbled in Theosophy and let it drop from time to time that she was privy to some mystical occult "secrets," but she was also an indefatigable self promoter. That last is not meant to be perjorative. Adams was an outstanding astrologer by anyone's standards. She had her quirks, but we all do. As Christino points out, Englishman Luke Broughton brought astrology to the US. His ornery student W.H. Chaney trained many fine astrologers in the US, but it was Evangeline Adams who popularized it with her prolific work and even a weekly radio show. She is well worth knowing. Tom Quote Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:47 am
3 by vegas1 Thank you Tom, I will try to find those materials and read up. Quote Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:47 am