Horary Chart Calculator

What a horary chart is

Horary astrology answers a specific question with a chart cast for the moment the astrologer understood it. A natal chart describes a person; a horary chart describes one situation only: whether the item will be found, whether the contract gets signed, how the matter ends.

So place and time come from the question, not from a birth. The calculator casts the chart for the current minute in the city you choose and immediately shows the radicality checks that any reading starts from.

Questions horary answers well

Horary likes closed questions with a clear outcome: yes or no, found or lost, when exactly. It handles questions like how should I live or do I have a purpose badly, because there is no event whose timing could be measured.

A question is asked once. Repeating the same question an hour later produces a chart the classical tradition refuses to read, since the motive is no longer to find the answer but to get a different one.

• •Good: will the lost item turn up, will the deal close, when does the reply arrive
• •Poor: questions without an event, questions about other people's decisions unconnected to you
• •Formulate the question before casting, never fit it to the chart afterwards

Radicality: when the chart should not be read

The classics test whether a chart is fit to judge. An Ascendant in the first three degrees of a sign says the matter is not ripe yet, in the last three that it is effectively decided and the question comes too late. A void of course Moon hints that nothing will come of it.

Saturn in the first or seventh house traditionally warns about the astrologer and the reading itself. These rules do not forbid a judgement, they demand caution in the conclusions. The calculator checks them automatically and shows a warning before you start interpreting.

Significators and houses

The querent is signified by the ruler of the first house and by the Moon. The subject of the question takes the house that matches it: the second for money and possessions, the fourth for property and the father, the seventh for a partner or opponent, the tenth for career and authority.

Then you check whether the significators aspect each other and which one is moving toward which. An applying aspect means yes; separation without contact means no. Translation of light through a third planet points to an intermediary who makes the matter work anyway.

How timing is derived

Timing comes from the degrees remaining until the significators perfect their aspect. The unit follows the sign the planet occupies: cardinal signs give days, mutable ones weeks, fixed ones months, and the house of the matter refines the scale.

The technique gives a bearing, not a guarantee to the day. In practice, if the chart pointed at two weeks and nothing has happened in six, the answer was no, and a repeat horary adds nothing.