Great example Martin!

There's a 15 year old I know who struggles with maths and I remember attempting to help him. Woefully he's 15 and struggles with basic long division - in my opinion literacy and numerical skills are verging on extinct in the UK education system. However when I went to help him I realised there was some weird form of how they were taught it that was totally alien and foreign to me. So something simple that I'm normally perfectly comfortable with was totally lost to me in translation.
Sometimes I feel like that when I engage with sidereal astrologers who sometimes refer to concepts that are totally foreign to me but yet who nonetheless often get the same answer as me anyway, but luckily so far with these horary examples there's been nothing odd or unusual!

Paul wrote:Right, but I kind of believe that if someone asked me a horary right now, and I'm used to doing it in tropical and I genuinely wanted to help answer it, then I would be doing it in tropical. I'm not sure it would work for me in sidereal.

That said I think for sidereal astrologers it works fine, for whatever reason that is - namely that the astrologer is an important part of the 'equation'. So once someone else casts the chart and posts it here it shouldn't matter and I should be able to interpret like I would anyway.

Well there is only one way to test the reality of your belief but hey, you'll do whatever you do.

Konrad wrote:

Paul wrote:Right, but I kind of believe that if someone asked me a horary right now, and I'm used to doing it in tropical and I genuinely wanted to help answer it, then I would be doing it in tropical. I'm not sure it would work for me in sidereal.

That said I think for sidereal astrologers it works fine, for whatever reason that is - namely that the astrologer is an important part of the 'equation'. So once someone else casts the chart and posts it here it shouldn't matter and I should be able to interpret like I would anyway.

Well there is only one way to test the reality of your belief but hey, you'll do whatever you do.

Right, the problem is that I can probably count on my hands how many horaries I've ever cast for myself. Normally it's for other people and when it's for other people I don't think it's the time to just 'experiment'. That's why I've refrained from it and I'm not aware of any sidereal horary astrology forum. So seeing as we've perfectly competent sidereal astrologers here who also are fluent in horary it seems like it might be a great time to see some sidereal astrologers demonstrate that horary works (at least) equally well via the sidereal zodiac.

Yeah, I know that Paul but you said you believed that the mind of the astrologer affects the type of zodiac which would work for their charts. You use the Tropical. Therefore, by your reasoning, recasting those charts in the Sidereal should prove fruitless since your mind was "tuned" to the Tropical frequency.

Hi Martin,

do you normally use unequal hours when timing small units of time in horary?

Konrad wrote:Hi Martin,

do you normally use unequal hours when timing small units of time in horary?

I can't say that kind of timing has often been called for (offhand I can't recall another instance), but my feeling is that if we pay attention to the difference between day and night by considerations of sect (as I do), it makes sense to use diurnal or nocturnal hours rather than standardized units.

Yeah, I agree, though I admit it is not something that I have ever considered doing. I'll keep an eye out for it in future.

Thanks Konrad and Martin for sharing.

"Fred"