CANCER 2019 edition: My Musings on Horary Astrology - Kris Svendsen (SA) Jacinta Adern - An Esoteric Astrology Personality Profile - Leoni Hodgson (Qld) From the President …or the Vice President in her absence this month! Now we’re into June and the cold is settling in with a vengeance. Neptune is stationing on my Sun and hopefully bringing a heightened spiritual awareness rather than a deluded one! This month’s meeting was ran in tutorial mode by Joy Usher looking at the past and coming (Jan 2020) Saturn Pluto conjunctions, squares and oppositions in our own charts. Attendees were given the opportunity to share their experience that correlated the last three hits of this heavy and often gut wrenching planetary combo. The session turned out for some to be a cathartic purge, as is the nature of this aspect generally, whilst others relayed more positive changes. Apparently the Saturn Pluto square that previously that came in 1940s describes particularly the beginning of the Holocaust! The recordings of
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CANCER 2019 edition:
My Musings on Horary
Astrology
- Kris Svendsen (SA)
Jacinta Adern - An Esoteric
Astrology Personality Profile
- Leoni Hodgson (Qld)
From the President
…or the Vice President in her absence this month!
Now we’re into June and the cold is settling in with a vengeance. Neptune is stationing on my Sun and
hopefully bringing a heightened spiritual awareness rather than a deluded one!
This month’s meeting was ran in tutorial mode by Joy Usher looking at the past and coming (Jan 2020)
Saturn Pluto conjunctions, squares and oppositions in our own charts. Attendees were given the
opportunity to share their experience that correlated the last three hits of this heavy and often gut
wrenching planetary combo. The session turned out for some to be a cathartic purge, as is the nature of
this aspect generally, whilst others relayed more positive changes. Apparently the Saturn Pluto square that
previously that came in 1940s describes particularly the beginning of the Holocaust! The recordings of
Joy’s talk are now available via pre-payment to our treasurer Judy Best.
Vickie Powell wanted to share her news of the receipt of another substantial cheque of her winnings
employing her methods that she described at the March meeting.
Next month (July) we’ll look at the same natal chart through four perspectives from four astrologers:
Vivien Lowe, Jill Amery, Adrienne Barkla and myself.
Kris
FAASA 2019 Events
July 13, 2 pm. One Chart 4 Ways - Kris Svendsen,
Jill Amery, Adrienne Barkla & Vivienne Lowe
August 10, 2 pm. Horary Chartfest - Anne Fryer,
Kris Svendsen & Joel Valentine
September 14, 2 pm. The Australian Political
Scene- Mark Smith
October 2, 2 pm. Ascendant, Sun & Moon: Your
Life Path Signature - Adrienne Barkla
November 9, 10 am - 4 pm. WORKSHOP
Pre-Natal Eclipses - Christine Thomas
November 30, 2 pm. Christmas Party!
My Musings on Horary
Astrology
By Kris Svendsen
Some years ago, after some serious dabbling in a number of Astrological approaches - Modern,
Cosmobiology, Uranian and the Siderially based Vedic astrology, I came back to the Tropically based
Western Astrology via the Medieval and Hellenistic systems broadly referred to today as Traditional or
Classical.
I guess what underpinned all this was a desire to convince myself that Astrology actually “works.” That
whether spiritually based or part of the natural world, it had some objective application that revealed the
everyday world we are all left with at the bottom end of our soul’s journey. I found great treasures in all of
the above schools of thought. I kept what “worked” for me and jettisoned a great deal as well. I came to
believe that if the objective events in one’s life were only found by adding more and more to the chart, eg.
additional planets, asteroids, transneptunians etc., then anything and everything worked! If the chart did
not speak the essence of the planetary principles simply, then what were we doing – were we doing
Astrology?
So many books have been published in the late 20th century. There has been an explosion of techniques,
often unique to one author, that have appeared “whole cloth” and untried by others and with no apparent
history or foundation. I have been tempted to try these by way of novelty but that often proved a
distraction in providing a coherent and consistent practice helping clients gain insightful clarity on the
message that the natal chart could reveal. The KISS principle drove me on.
Then along came Horary Astrology about fifteen years ago.
Here we had a very rule driven delineation technique. Here we had a “black and white” type of Astrology.
A scary Astrology that was more deterministic and anti-free will, that could be tested via the fact that it
predicted outcomes generally in the near future. One could tell, via close attention to the clearly defined
rules, if one’s predictions were fulfilled (assuming feedback from the client or querent). Sure the proof was
only in the pudding dependent on the skills of the chef, but I liked the way that Horary was contained and
had borders and often gave incredibly detailed in-your-face descriptions of the means, motives and
opportunities of the querent or the quesited and didn’t pull punches in its message. This was not Astrology
for the faint hearted and appealed to my utilitarian Aries ascendant.
Sure, there are other predictive techniques: Secondary Progressions, Solar Arc directions, Solar Returns,
Firdaria, Dasas and Bhuktis, that are extensions of what is “promised” in the natal chart. But they are
based on what is essentially an open ended book of your life. They are based on a single natal chart that
is static and does not reflect the fact that in some ways we change over time. Paul Westran’s research into
(Secondary) Progressed Synastry has revealed the importance of progressions to progressions, not just
progressions to natal positions. We could also consider transits to progressed positions. Do we really do
justice to the volume of information inherent in a birth chart delineation for a client in, say, a two hour
consultation? I get mild anxiety when someone says “Can you do my chart?” and they have no idea of
what is possible from the “book” of their life.
Horary was the bread and butter of pre 17th century astrologers. It is quick and straight to the point. It is
not dependent on an accurate birth time and only requires some degree of sincere emotional investment
to work best and provide an answer when one is, to all intents and purposes, asking the divine to reveal
the path ahead. Equally, it can describe the past objectively and / or ascertain the querent’s or others’
motives. It stands alone from the natal chart although often shows amazing congruencies with it. It is to
Astrology what surgery is to medicine! No wonder Lee Lehman describes it as the “martial art” of
Astrology.
I’m hooked, I’m addicted, yet at the same time frustrated by the fact that Horary relies on a question that
comes from a “real” person based on a sincere wish to know in real time. Thus one may not get a lot of
practice waiting for an informed public to avail themselves of this predictive tool among other tools in our
armoury. Perhaps this is due to a misunderstanding of what we Astrologers actually can do over the Sun
sign based popular perception?
Yes it is divination and it is all about describing dispassionately what’s going on. Your Astrology may not
include prediction and thus Horary may not appeal. It may appear too low brow, too mundane, but I ask
to you to consider, for the sake of your clients, that establishing an objective description of facts on this
earthly plane forms a better basis for effective counselling ensuring a client’s well-being, if that is your
objective in your Astrology practice.
Kris Svendsen
Kris (FAASA Vice President, consulting astrologer and tarot reader) has been practising and studying Astrology for over 40
years. In his early teens he was introduced to Cosmobiology as the first astrology he encountered and moved progressively
through Uranian, Modern western to end up with eclectic interests that straddle Traditional western astrology. His greatest
interest is Horary, and it is this that is his main bread and butter, along with conducting workshops, teaching and readings.
He has also studied Vedic astrology for years due to its commonality with traditional western’s predictive focus. Kris likes to
focus on predictive astrology and leave the psychological aspects to other tools in his armoury, used in tandem as a
qualified Myers-Briggs assessor and supplemented by a strong knowledge of the Enneagram.
Jacinta Adern - An Esoteric
Astrology Personality
Profile
By Leoni Hodgson (Qld)
Esoteric Astrology maps the spiritual purpose of the soul in the current incarnation. In this paper, I have
presented this esoteric analysis of Ardern’s chart, as a guide for astrologers who would like to practice
Esoteric Astrology. Generally, an esoteric personality profile is founded primarily on an analysis of the
Moon, Sun and Ascendant signs. It includes the esoteric ruling planets for the signs. Esoteric Astrology
divides the signs into 3 levels, for the three levels of conscious – Spirit, Soul and Body. The following chart
for Ardern has been rectified by New Zealand astrologer, Graham Bell.
1.) Jacinda Ardern’s SUN SIGN – the Sun is in Leo, 9H.
Neptune is the esoteric ruler of Leo.
Defined: The Sun Sign indicates the PRESENT, our personality-life expression and integration. It also
represents our responsiveness or lack of responsiveness to the Soul. The life success we can potentially
achieve in the world in material terms is generally indicated by the Sun. Our task via the Sun, is to
cultivate the positive qualities of the Sun Sign and to balance the negatives.
Ardern’s Personality is coloured by rays of the regal sign Leo. It is easy for her to assume a mantle of
power and to magnetise support and accolades for what she does. These are gifts Leo gives to its people.
Ardern has developed leadership skills in past lives and quite likely has been a leader in religion (Sun in
9H). These previous-life skills and high-idealism she has brought through with her into this incarnation
(Neptune on the ascendant in Sagittarius). Life success has come to her through the demonstration of
these talents. She has a natural ability to lead people, who will follow her because of her Leo charisma
and the inspiring messages she gives out.
Ardern was raised in the Mormon Faith, which she left. As she approached adulthood, there were aspects
of Mormonism that as an intelligent woman she could not reconcile with her changing views of the world
and of life (Venus in Gemini opposite Neptune) – gay-rights was a stumbling block. She identified as an
agnostic and re-directed her focus into politics (Neptune square Saturn). Ideologically (Neptune), Ardern