Bad times make good charts

Time for a change of subject.

I’ll show you some horaries that were so technically nice, and some of them so descriptive, I though of writing a book on them. But… I don’t think it’s a good idea to have them in that format, for reasons that will be obvious.

The context of all of the charts is as follows. I’ll give a bit more for any of them whenever necessary.

I’ve been having some family issues. One of my brothers-in-law has problems with drugs, which led to problems with his family and work, and I made the — admittedly bad — decision to let him crash here, as long as he was sober.

He kept his promise except when he didn’t.

I must be honest: I am not a selfless Zen master, or a Christian Martyr. He didn’t steal anything from me, and caused very little trouble, except for a few episodes, and he never even thought of threatening any one here — he mostly cried, invented things about himself and others, and blamed his ex for pretty much everything.

This is not fun, and, yes, it’s maybe too personal for the internet. But I wanted to share the charts that arose from this situation — all of them asked by me, and all of them with known outcome (except for, maybe, one of them in the end).

Let’s start.

First horary: When will he come back?

This is the first time we had problems. He was sober and nice… until I had to go to an event out of town. I arrived the day before the chart, and he was not in good shape. I was really tired, went to sleep, and couldn’t hear a thing, but my wife told me he hadn’t blinked an eye. In the morning, after she told me what was happening, I confronted him, and he left, without telling us where he’d go.

In the evening, I wanted to know when - I had no doubt whether — he would come back.

This will be the same in almost all horaries:

I am the ruler of the first house, and, if available, the Moon. My wife is the ruler of the seventh house; my brother-in-law is her brother, turned third: the ruler of the ninth house.

Here, I’m Saturn and the Moon, my wife’s the Sun, he’s Venus.

There’s no aspect between me, or her, and him. But we don’t need it, I was sure he would be here sooner or later. So, an aspect to a cusp (either the first, “here”, or the fourth, “my house”) would do.

Venus will aspect the fourth cusp around one degree and 15 minutes. One unit and ¼… that could mean hours, but Venus is in a fixed sign. Then, days. One day and six hours.

He came at the middle of the following night — I’m not sure if it was near one in the morning, though.

Then, he became a bit erratic. By Friday, he disappeared. Saturday morning, he came back, telling a wild story, and asking to stay for a while longer.

Among other things, he told us he went to his ex’s, had a discussion, someone called the cops, he got into a fight with them and escaped, being chased by them through the roofs of the neighbourhood. He stated that it wasn’t the drugs, but the effort and not having slept through the night that made him tired.

By now, I don’t think you would be surprised, but: the story was mostly true (some details are a bit shady, and of course he was on drugs).

I said I wouldn’t call the cops, but I wouldn’t lie or protect him, and let him stay at least until he found another place. But… I wanted to know.

Same as before, only now I’m not the Moon, he is. The cops should be the tenth house, authority, but it’s also the Moon — so, they get the Sun, which kind of fits.

There is an immediate aspect between the Sun and the first house, but it doesn’t work here — there must be an aspect between the significators, this is not a matter of when.

The Moon and the Sun are not going to make an aspect. The Moon will make a trine to Venus, and in other contexts it could mean my wife (the seventh-house ruler) doing something. But that was not the case here. They just never showed up. Is there anything on the records there, or the cops just got ashamed of being fooled? Guess we’ll never know.

He promised to go to re-hab, and, of course, he didn’t. He disappeared for a while. One Thursday evening, while I was doing an online event when he appeared in a very bad state. I lost my temper and shouted at him to go away (thanks mute button). He went.

The thing is, I had a class to teach, and I had postponed it due to the event. So, I needed to know whether he’d be here Friday, so I could re-schedule it.

Not much to say here. Immediate aspect between me and him. No classes for me that day.

One technical point: the aspect did not tell me the time. I wasn’t asking when, the chart didn’t need to tell me that. He did arrive around the time I would have been teaching the class, to be sure.

Then, after the worst episode, I insisted he had to go to re-hab. He agreed, and left…

But I wanted to be sure.

Well… re-hab would be either radical or turned sixth house. Venus is conjunct the ruler of the turned sixth, by Antiscion, and will aspect it, but in the future. He is not there. It is also conjunct the forth house (or turned eighth) by antiscion, which, frankly, I couldn’t get what it could mean, and if it meant anything). But it was also conjunct the seventh, the turned eleventh: friends.

We don’t know where else he was (apart from his ex’s, annoying her again), but he did the Amy Whinehouse bit, and crashed at a friend’s house.

On the same day, later, I wanted to know when he would come back.

This is a nice one. There is no aspect between my planets and his, but there is one between his planet and my wife’s. Two, actually; a square and a conjunction by antiscion, one showing the first contact (by phone), the other signifying he actually getting here - both times, involving my wife (the phone exchange was with her, and she saw him coming.

A couple of days later, he was finally convinced that he needed professional help, and got himself admitted into a nearby state clinic.

He lasted a week there, give or take a day; showed up here, totally sober, but with little more than the clothes he was wearing; willing to get work, but with no money and no way of going anywhere, and asked for help. I let him stay for a while, again, and he was doing fine for some days.

However, the past wanted to catch up with him. Apparently, he hadn’t paid what he had consumed the last time, and his preferred salesmen were after him (they had been looking for him in every relative’s house they could find).

Now, this is small-town drug dealers; they are not gentlemen, but the situation is more like an annoying door-to-door seller knocking at inconvenient time than a drug lord exacting his vengeance with guns and violence, but… I needed to know what would happen. I have kids. Apart from these brief emotional episodes, in which he would act weird, cry, say repetitive paranoid nonsense about his ex, and at most break his own things (one time, his own watch; another time, his credit cards), my children hadn’t been in any trouble. I couldn’t risk these people even near them.

Will they come here? When?

Everything in the chart is as before, except that the seventh house now is not my wife any more, but the businessmen. So, they’re the Moon.

There is an immediate aspect between the Moon and the fourth house, here. But that doesn’t count — I need planet-to-planet aspect.

There is no one between me and them, or between them and him — which was not reassuring, because they could pop up here while he was at work and while I was at the market, for example.

We have one aspect, though — with Mars, ruler of the fourth house. It could show them coming here — it could even (because there was no other aspect) show them coming here while none of us were here, which would be bad news. But what puzzled me is that Mars was right at the tenth cusp, as if it was pointing towards something.

It is his turned third house ruler, and it’s on the cusp of his second house.

Turns out, they were searching him because… he had destroyed his phone. He got a new one, went back online, they were able to talk to him, and apparently he solved things up.

But, of course, I couldn’t count on that (I didn’t know it when I judged the chart, anyway), so I made sure I was at home, awake and ready, around one and three hours later, and two days later around the right time. I might be wrong on both the judgment and the time unit, and they might arrive here in a bit less than two weeks’ time, but I doubt it.

Anyway, I’ll tell you.

This is it, for now. I had to let him go after that, and told him that it was for real and for good (I had never done it before).

I’ll open subscriptions for the course later this week. Stay tuned.

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