Horary
Independent question chart · Lilly-style tropical Regiomontanus
Cast a question chart
Record when and where the question was received and understood under your chosen practice. The natal timestamp is never used automatically.
How to use Horary worksheet
Organize a question judgement with a separate tropical Regiomontanus chart, classical significators, selected dignity conditions and a seven-day event sequence. The worksheet exposes some evidence for interpretation; it does not deliver a complete traditional verdict.
Inputs: Exact question, recorded local date and time, IANA time zone and question coordinates. Resolve a repeated clock time if needed. Record the practice used to choose the moment in the notes; the natal timestamp is not used automatically.
- Enter the question and its recorded moment, then choose the question location.
- Cast the chart and select the house for the matter. Record why that house represents the quesited.
- Select each significator and the Moon. Inspect the five dignity holders, exact term/face strips and day/night triplicity. Use the endpoint selector only to compare the declared arithmetic conventions.
- Read the accidental-condition cards: house category, motion and solar proximity. Check same-sign and Sun/Moon exceptions and open the source-difference notes before interpreting.
- Read reception directionally, then compare the applying/separating aspect with the actual event sequence.
- Review exact contacts, ingresses and stations. Translation and collection of light require manual judgement.
- Save supporting and contrary testimony in the notes and download the worksheet. Preserve an inconclusive result when the chosen method supplies insufficient testimony.
Invented positions: Mercury at 10° Virgo and Jupiter at 12° Taurus are 118° apart. With Mercury moving direct at 1.2° per day and Jupiter at 0.2° per day, their separation increases toward the 120° trine. The current motion is applying with a 2° gap. Their full orbs of 7° and 9° give an 8° pair allowance. This does not convert the gap into two days or guarantee a completed contact.
This preset uses tropical Regiomontanus independently of the natal lens; it is not a Prashna mode. The five essential dignities follow Lilly’s printed table, with detriment and fall shown separately. Peregrine requires all five checks and known day/night. Hosting checks all five positional links; the accidental ledger adds selected house/motion/solar conditions, but a full score, reception and perfection still require additional judgment. Endpoint comparison does not reconstruct historical minute rounding. The seven-day event search is finite, and the Moon’s sign-exit count is one defined test, not a universal void-of-course judgement. The quesited is not always house seven, and dignity or application alone does not supply an answer.
Sources and conventions
- Lilly's considerations, reproduced by Deborah Houlding ↗
- House assignment tutorial with Lilly material ↗
- Solar Fire's first-party description ↗
- Lilly on collection of light, quoted from Christian Astrology p.126 ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), original text, pp. 101–112 ↗
- P. V. R. Narasimha Rao: Vedic Astrology, An Integrated Approach, chapter 29 ↗
- William Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), original printed p104 ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.48 · house categories ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.113 · solar conditions ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.114 · combustion and cazimi ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.300 · differing aphorism thresholds ↗
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.110 · application and separation ↗