Thank u for the explanation Dr Farr
QUOTE=dr. farr;828338]No-we have to determine the relevant ascendant and then proceed with the Lot formula.
You ask about your financial state: YOU are obviously the querent (so you are the relevant ascendant, ie the 1st house of the chart is the relevant ascendant) and your financial state is the quesited. So you would use the 1st house as the "ascendant" in calculating the Lot of Wealth. But say you want to know about YOUR BROTHER'S financial state-obviously you are not your brother, so the RELEVANT ASCENDANT here is your bother, ie, the cusp of the 3rd house would be the "ascendant" in the Lot of Wealth calculated to find out about YOUR BROTHER'S finance.
Say you want to know about the finances for YOU AND YOUR WIFE TOGETHER AS A UNIT (question = what will the financial state of OUR marriage be over the next X period of time) In such a case the RELEVANT ASCENDANT would be you and your wife TOGETHER as a unit (like a partnership), so the cusp of the 7th house would be the relevant ascendant in calculating the Lot of Wealth for that question.
The RELEVANT ASCENDANT must always be affiliated with the defacto "querent" of the specific horary question. Questions using the word "I", will almost always have the 1st house of the chart as the relevant ascendant; questions using the word "we" or "our" will very often have the 7th house of the chart as the relevant ascendant; questions using the word "my" will sometimes have the 1st house of the chart as the relevant ascendant, but also quite often will have one of the other houses of the chart as the relevant ascendant (eg, my brother, my sister = 3rd house as relevant ascendant; my boss or my employer = 10th house as relevant ascendant; my son or my daughter will often have the 5th house as relevant ascendant; my friend will often have the 11th house as relevant ascendant; however, a question such as my health or my disease, will have the 1st house as the relevant ascendant, same with something like my romance or my marriage or my luck, would each have the 1st house as the relevant ascendant; etc etc)...One must think about what the REAL (RELEVANT) ASCENDANT ACTUALLY IS. in the question we are asking, when using Lots to determine the likely answer...[/QUOTE]