waybread
Well-known member
As you probably know, these are quite different:
1. Natal charts go by the birth moment. Horary goes by the moment of the question.
2. A thorough natal chart reading says a lot about the native's personality and potential. A horary chart is cast for a specific question only.
Our boards keep the two quite separate. Yet there are times when it is useful to compare the querent's natal chart with the horary chart. The best examples I can think of are medical astrology and advice to the lovelorn.
A horary question might read, "Is it colon cancer?" or "Why am I 40 and still single?"
Chances are that the natal chart would have a lot of useful infill.
I first learned about the benefits of chart comparison from Karen Hamaker-Zondag's Handbook of Horary Astrology. She talked about how a given degree in a horary might be really significance in the person's natal chart as an aid to interpretation.
However, I think the value of the 2-chart comparison is even more obvious. A horary question-- as a moment in time-- basically maps onto the natal chart as transits.
In comparing the two charts, we can get a much clearer picture of why the question was asked-- what was going on in the person's life at that moment.
For example, a love & romance horary may show "he loves me," but the birth chart may show some stiff opposition from natal Saturn to the querent's significator.
I wonder if you like to compare natal and horary charts, and with what results..
1. Natal charts go by the birth moment. Horary goes by the moment of the question.
2. A thorough natal chart reading says a lot about the native's personality and potential. A horary chart is cast for a specific question only.
Our boards keep the two quite separate. Yet there are times when it is useful to compare the querent's natal chart with the horary chart. The best examples I can think of are medical astrology and advice to the lovelorn.
A horary question might read, "Is it colon cancer?" or "Why am I 40 and still single?"
Chances are that the natal chart would have a lot of useful infill.
I first learned about the benefits of chart comparison from Karen Hamaker-Zondag's Handbook of Horary Astrology. She talked about how a given degree in a horary might be really significance in the person's natal chart as an aid to interpretation.
However, I think the value of the 2-chart comparison is even more obvious. A horary question-- as a moment in time-- basically maps onto the natal chart as transits.
In comparing the two charts, we can get a much clearer picture of why the question was asked-- what was going on in the person's life at that moment.
For example, a love & romance horary may show "he loves me," but the birth chart may show some stiff opposition from natal Saturn to the querent's significator.
I wonder if you like to compare natal and horary charts, and with what results..