Start with the considerations.
1) Saturn in the 1st usually destroys the matter when Saturn isn’t a primary significator of the question. Let’s, to use waybread’s expression, unpack that. Saturn is exalted in Libra, retrograde and in the ASC. And Saturn rules both the 4th and the 5th, and don’t we already know that the querent was worried about losing her house, and what her children were learning from the situation? Saturn in the 1st destroys the question, yes, but the reason in this instance that it does so is because Saturn is retrograde and exalted in the 1st, and the clearest example in the chart that the significations of the 1st, 4th, and 5th will retrograde back to the querent. In horary terms we call this emplacement.
2) Moon is VoC, which is another consideration, but in this case Moon is void of course for only about two and a little more than a half degrees, at which time the Moon changes signs and moves into moiety of orb with retrograde Mercury. And that aspect is a trine, with Moon colliding (being forced or compelled to do something) with a retrograde planet signifying communication. More on that in a moment.
Immediately looking at this chart, it’s an easy “no.” We have two considerations before judgment, and some will/have automatically called this chart a no answer for those alone. That’s cool, but another reason for posting this chart and this question is…at the time this question was asked by the querent, as far as she was concerned it really wasn’t a matter of if but when, and how. She was seriously all done and looking for the door, and there was nothing standing in her way except for Mars, and a bit of longing for what used to be.
You know how we’ve all seen relationship horary threads/questions, and even some other types of questions, where the querent refuses to accept what the chart is telling them? So they keep asking more questions, and if they are still not satisfied (read that as still not getting the answer that allows their wants/needs in the moment to be granted) they will continue to cast chart after chart, rewording the question or going around the original question hoping that eventually they will get the chart that will “show” them what they want to hear? (Yeah, would y’all stop doing that?) Of course they won’t, and this is the reason why it is sooo important for the astrologer to actually read the chart and be able to explain to the querent why, and what happens next. Because when people have their heart set on something they are not inclined to listen to someone unless that someone can give them a compelling reason to do so.
That said, let’s read the chart, even if we already can say with quite a bit of certainty that we might be looking at a no. (And I’m pretty sure that I’m going to need to divide the delineation into several posts, because it deserves it, and because if you are reading and responding to charts like this after five minutes of looking you really need to go back and revisit your bedside manner.) The biggest reason for no isn’t the considerations before judgment, the biggest reason is what is called rejection, and no one posting to the thread so far is looking at how Mars is in Venus’ fall, and retrograde at that. Heck, we can judge the chart with that aspect alone and don’t even need the rest of the considerations for it. So why are we not looking at the most important part??? Venus in Taurus is strongly dignified, as pointed out, but Venus is seeking a harmonious union (trine) to get what she wants (divorce) with Mars. Mars is in her fall (from exaltation) and she is in his detriment. We call that Mars rejecting what Venus wants. Even without that…well, it would be different if Mars were direct, but his retrograde status means that he cannot accept what Venus is pushing to him (power, nature, and management because Venus is so highly dignified.) There are two times when a planet will return what is being pushed…when that planet is combust, or when that planet is retrograde. Mars in the fall of Venus speaks to the story, as in Mars will reject whatever Venus wants for being in the house that would rather hunt her wishes down and kill them, but Mars retrograde (or any planet retrograde) will always return what is being pushed by the applying planet. The cool thing in this chart is that Venus is dignified enough to be able to deal with the returning…
Let’s read the chart, shall we? Moon is always going to be the co-significator of the querent (notice, NOT co-ruler) and will show the querent’s state of mind. Moon is the sect light but below the horizon, so out of sect in that regard, in feminine sign and quadrant. On a scale, she’s mostly in sect and probably looking to do something that is according to her nature but perhaps inappropriate to the situation. Moon is also in a welled/pitted degree, and lo/behold, we can understand a planet that finds itself in a situation /ditch/hole of its own making and needs help getting out of it. Cypo said Venus had blood on her hands, and I’m all like seriously? What blood, but the reality is, while a bit more benevolent than that, Venus didn’t get here without her own cooperation. She dug her own pit, and now she is looking for a way out of it. So we can stop with the bloody metaphors and understand that life happens to everyone, and watch what we say to people. -.-
Moon is in her own fall from grace, in a ditch she likely dug for herself, and here we have the start of a theme.
Notice too that the Moon is in a fixed sign, of her fall, that is mute and ruled by Mars, and we can see that Moon has no voice that is being listened to. She regards her ruler by sign, but the sextile (intimate) aspect is long separated, with Mars retrograding away from Moon as Moon moves on.
The quesited is co-signified by Sun, and Sun is in Pisces, the 6th house, below the horizon, in feminine sign, and quadrant. Sun is doing something he wouldn’t normally do, something out of character, or something completely inappropriate. Let’s just pick, for the sake of brevity, the last one. Sun is straddling the cusp of the 5th/6th, so whatever he is doing is going to have implications of both houses.
At this point, it would probably be a good idea to explain what Mars/Sun was doing. Mars’ avocation/5th house creative activity wasn’t an affair, it was starting a not-profit, 501(c)3 organization that involved a zoo with small animals (Mars in 12th sign but 11th house) and that was eating every moment of every day of his life…but it sorta gives a different twist on how we look at the houses…
Too be continued…
Looks like you are saying "no".
, but I do agree to a point. This was the dilemma I faced. The flip side of that coin, especially with daughters, was that for a long time the message they were seeing was that my feelings/wants/needs somehow had to be sublimated, ignored, what have you in order to preserve the family unit. I did not want them to grow up believing that they had to be unhappy for the rest of their lives. Not to mention, I didn't want to be unhappy for the rest of my life, lol.
