Hey Harold,
The ascendant and the 2nd house cusp are in Scorpio and so ruled by Mars. Charcoal is produced by fire and Partridge gives charcoal burning places to Mars, so let us give the pencils to Mars and you to the Moon.
Hey! That's pretty good. It did not occur to me that my charcoal pencils (burnt) are the product of a Mars. I used the Moon as my significator too, and I used Saturn as my co-significator, though neither played a large role in my finding my lost goods.
The Moon is in Pisces, rules by Jupiter and the Moon is comfortable in Jupiter ruled signs. Mars, on the other hand, is in Cancer, disposed by the Moon, where it has mixed dignity. One way to think of mixed dignity is that it is in the wrong place for the right reasons. Perhaps you were using them somewhere and then you left them there...?
Yeah! That's right. I was using them and left them there, more or less. (You'll see what I mean by "more or less" in a moment.)
Mars is in the 9th, a cadent house, and so they are not around your house or close to you. Cancer signifies beaches, river or lake sides, marshy places, bars, and restaurants.
I can see that, but that's not how I interpreted this situation.
The Moon applied to Mars in 4 degrees so I would guess you had your hands on them in four days after asking the question.
I looked for them for about an hour or so, convinced that my brother had taken them. And then I had that moment, out of desperation, to cast a horary chart. I rarely ever do so for a lost item because (1) I rarely lose things, and (2) when I do, it's either my car keys or my wallet, and all I have to do is look through the clothes I had been wearing over the last couple days. 99.9 percent of the time, I find them there.
Anyway, my interpretation of the chart was quite simple, and after casting the chart, I found my lost items in under a minute.
Using Mars as the significator of my lost items (as you did), I noticed that it was in the sign of Cancer. Immediately I thought that the items had not been taken by my brother but were in my home, hence "Cancer" and its affiliation with home life and the fourth house by natural sign. But I also thought "water" as you did, so I began my search in the bathrooms. But this really did not make any sense to me because there was no reason for their being in a bathroom. And after a really fast search, that became obvious. But Mars was in the Southwest area of the chart, so I took my compass out, just to make sure, and walked in a southwest direction, which led me to my bedroom, which is the most southwest one can go in my home. Then, noticing that Mars was in Cancer, and Cancer is intercepted in the 9th house, I knew that it must be in between something. I then looked around my desk, and between the wall and the back of my desk were was my charcoal/graphite drawing utensils. They had fallen behind the desk, thus were in between the wall and my desk. It made me realize I should using this technique more often.
That was quite straightforward and leads toward my believe that the reading of charts, in general, is very much intuitive. And judging by your posts and your mentioning of "Guardian angels" or "Daemons" (if I remember correctly), leads me to assume that you believe the same.
Anyway, thanks for the post. I was really excited about this one.
