Following on from my previous post, the same client told me that they had found a new craniosacral practitioner and sent me the date and time of their first session with them. This is an event chart rather than a horary, so the rules of interpretation are more akin to a natal chart – since it is a beginning, or ‘birth’. In this case the chart will show the nature of how the relationship and sessions will unfold between the client and the new practitioner.
What is immediately striking is the sheer dominance of the Water element, something severely lacking in the previous horary. The Moon is on the exact degree of the Ascendant, in Scorpio, and forming a Grand Water Trine with Mercury and the Sun in Cancer, and Saturn and Fortuna in Pisces. A grand trine is a rare configuration which encompasses planets in all signs of a particular element (in this case water).
Following on from my previous post, the same client told me that they had found a new craniosacral practitioner and sent me the date and time of their first session with them. This is an event chart rather than a horary, so the rules of interpretation are more akin to a natal chart – since it is a beginning, or ‘birth’. In this case the chart will show the nature of how the relationship and sessions will unfold between the client and the new practitioner.
What is immediately striking is the sheer dominance of the Water element, something severely lacking in the previous horary. The Moon is on the exact degree of the Ascendant, in Scorpio, and forming a Grand Water Trine with Mercury and the Sun in Cancer, and Saturn and Fortuna in Pisces. A grand trine is a rare configuration which encompasses planets in all signs of a particular element (in this case water).
In any chart, a planet close to the Ascendant denotes the energy right at the surface – what is most present and what will be expressed continually (in a birth chart, such a planet often dominates even over a person’s Sun nature). The energy comes straight out, and the closer to the Ascendant the more prominent it will be.
While traditional dignities would consider the Moon in Scorpio to be difficult or ‘bad’, one must be flexible with symbolic interpretation, and given the nature of the situation Moon in Scorpio here seems very fitting and actually really positive for the client – since their deeply buried (Scorpio) emotions (Moon) are now right at the surface, and will flow out smoothly and easily thanks to the assistance of the other watery planets.
Think about if this was a birth chart – Sun and Mercury in Cancer, Moon and Ascendant in Scorpio – you would know this is a person who feels deeply and likely cries a lot. While this isn’t necessary the case for the client generally in their life, it will be what is common during these sessions.
(If the Moon is Scorpio was square Saturn or Mars, for example, then it may not be such an easy or helpful relationship). Scorpio, with its connections to the depths of the psyche, denotes profound healing in its higher expressions (it’s not all dungeons, goths and black magic).
In the previous horary representing the relationship with the original practitioner, we had the Moon in Gemini in 8th squaring Saturn – showing the inability to communicate deep emotions since it was not safe – and here, in stark contrast we have the Moon in a very close trine to Mercury (in 8th and ruling 8th) in watery Cancer. So here there is an easily ability to communicate the previously buried, private and inaccessible (8th) feelings.
And finally you have the client (Mars, as ruler of 1st) and the practitioner (Venus, as ruler of 7th) standing together in 10th in Leo. In matters of health and healing, the 10th house is generally considered the medicine, and so here we have a potent symbol of the two people together in harmony and good relationship with each other.
There is an important technical point to mention here, in relation to the nature of the chart and the technique of interpretation. In horary, where a specific question is asked, the chart is dynamic and applying aspects (those about to become exact) and separating aspects (those that were exact in the recent past) must be treated very differently. In the previous post I wrote how Venus, denoting the querent, turns retrograde before perfecting the conjunction with Mars, the practitioner, and hence how it described the two people about to move away from each other.
This is relevant only to horary. For an event chart, as for a person’s birth chart, the symbolism is interpreted in a different, and more simple manner. The two planets are conjunct, thus they are in close relationship and moving in affinity with one another.
And finally you have the practitioner (Venus) in a close trine to Chiron in 6th – suggesting the potential for (at least some) healing of the physical symptoms the client is also suffering with. This stands out to me particularly because most planets are in the same degree of their relevant signs (19). Aspects within one degree of exact carry particular potency.
