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Horary Pro

Horary answers a specific question from the chart of the moment it is asked. It is a traditional interpretive technique, not a guarantee of the outcome, so the verdict on the judgement sheet is always cautious.

How to ask

Open the menu and choose "Horary: ask now" (Pro mode). A new tab opens with a chart for this minute. The place comes from your browser's geolocation; if that's blocked, from your residence or the city of the current chart. Houses default to Regiomontanus, as in Lilly; you can pick another system under "Calculation".

You can adjust the time and place in the form (the chart data line at the top). "Recalculate for now" moves the chart to the current moment.

In the "Horary: judgement sheet" section, type your question and choose the house of the quesited. Each house comes with a short note on what it covers: the 7th is a partner, a contract or a rival; the 10th is work and the boss; the 2nd is money and lost items, and so on.

Your question stays private

The question text exists only on your screen. It never goes into the page address, links, saved charts or tabs. It appears in the PDF only if you tick "print the question in the PDF". The only thing a link carries is the number of the quesited's house.

What's on the judgement sheet

  • Considerations before judgement: the Ascendant in its first or last three degrees, a void-of-course Moon, the Moon in the via combusta (15° Libra to 15° Scorpio), Saturn in the 1st or 7th house.
  • Significators: the querent is the ruler of the 1st house plus the Moon; the quesited is the ruler of the chosen house. Each gets its essential score and its accidental score: house, direct or retrograde, speed, oriental or occidental, relation to the Sun (cazimi, combust, under the beams), partile aspects to the benefics, malefics and nodes.
  • Receptions: which dignities of one significator the other stands in, and whether the reception is mutual.
  • Perfection: whether the significators meet in an exact aspect, when, and how many degrees are left. Below it: translation and collection of light, if any, and the Moon's next aspects before it leaves its sign.
  • Timing: an approximate estimate from the degrees left to the exact aspect.
  • For and against, and the verdict: "Likely yes", "Likely no" or "Unclear".

The horary wheel shows only the Sun…Saturn, the node and the Part of Fortune.

How it's calculated

The method is William Lilly's, Christian Astrology (1647), Book II, refined by John Frawley (The Horary Textbook) and Guido Bonatti (the 146 Considerations). The texts in the app are our own: the method retold in our words.

  • An aspect perfects only if it becomes exact before either significator changes sign. The moment is found from the Swiss Ephemeris to the second; orbs are not used.
  • Refranation: the significators are applying, but the aspect does not perfect because one of them stations first. If they are separating, that is simply no perfection.
  • Prohibition and frustration: a third planet (the Sun…Saturn, excluding the Moon) forms an exact aspect with one of the significators first. If it is faster than the planet it meets, that is prohibition; if it is slower and the significator goes off to it, that is frustration. For Lilly (pp. 433, 220) interference without reception destroys the matter, but if the interfering planet receives a significator by domicile or exaltation, the matter comes about, with difficulty.
  • Reception counts toward a yes only by domicile or exaltation (Lilly, p. 438); term, face and triplicity are shown on the sheet but are not counted as an argument.
  • The Moon supports a yes only if her next aspect is to the quesited's ruler. If she meets other planets first, that is only listed among her aspects.
  • Translation of light: a planet faster than both significators whose last exact aspect (within 30 days) was with one of them and whose next one, before it leaves its sign, is with the other.
  • Collection of light: a planet slower than both, with which both significators complete an aspect before changing sign. The sheet notes whether it receives both.
  • Void-of-course Moon (after Frawley): the Moon completes no exact Ptolemaic aspect to the Sun…Saturn before leaving its sign. Lilly judged by orbs and sometimes calls the Moon void of course where she is applying here (for example, the second ship, p. 165).
  • Considerations before judgement cast doubt on a yes ("Unclear"), but a no stays a no: for Lilly, Saturn in the 1st is one more argument against (p. 438).
  • Accidental dignities follow Lilly's table: 1st and 10th house +5; 4th, 7th, 11th +4; 2nd and 5th +3; 9th +2; 3rd +1; 12th −5; 6th and 8th −2; direct +4, retrograde −5; faster or slower than mean daily motion ±2; oriental or occidental ±2; cazimi +5, free of the beams +5, combust (within 8°30′) −5, under the beams (within 17°) −4; partile aspects to Jupiter and Venus up to +5, to Mars and Saturn down to −5, to the nodes ±4. Besiegement and fixed stars are not counted.
  • Timing is approximate: the degrees to the exact aspect give the number of time units, and the unit depends on the sign and house of the applying (faster) planet. A cardinal sign and a cadent house give a short unit; a fixed sign and an angular house a long one; any other combination a middle one. The time frame of the question decides what the units are: "days, weeks, months" is only an example. This is Lilly's rule as set out by Frawley; the real time from the ephemeris is shown alongside.
  • Not modelled: Lilly's orbs and antiscia, fixed stars, translation by planets that merely have dignities in the houses of the question (like the Moon and Mars in Lilly's p. 220).