Whether you call him "Master" or "Apprentice," we will
always think of him as "Mister" Frawley.
Arguably the world's Horary
astrology specialist, Mr. Frawley has travelled far and wide attempting to teach
dullards such as myself.
The following is a loose grouping of his most
potent ideas. Don't read it unless you want to become a better astrologer!
Seriously. You might regret what you may stumble upon as a result...
Part the First ---- a few ideas with which to
begin
Lunar astrology suits nomadic movement, while the Sun is the
focus of those who have settled down to one place.
Astrology was passed
to us from God, and this "revealed faith" is congruent with the traditions of
astrology.
Profit, stocks etc are 2nd house issues. Profit relates to
the fertility of the sign.
The principle of cazimi---“Mercy is in the
heart of the King.” A planet in cazimi can get away with things because no one
can see what it is up to.
In questions to do with whether the person
will go to jail, the significator going into a sign of its Fall or Detriment is
a strong indicator of a yes.
Horses are
associated with our desire nature, and so belong to the 12th house---the house
of “sin.” Small animals and those animates we possess are in the 6th, while the
4th is the house of “buried treasure.”
If, in a horary about a lost
object and the object is represented by an earth sign, then the object is on the
ground.
A medical question needs the whole chart read. So the 6th house
should not be singled out. Find the first house of the quesitor, the ruler, and
its temperament and aspects, also the last and next aspects of the Moon.
Considerations before judgement are open doors for the astrologer, so the chart
doesn’t have to be read if they don’t want to read it (or think they will not be
paid for it).
When reading ancient texts, watch out for:
1) material
written to flatter or please the King
2) aphorisms; First Principles cannot
be violated
3) insanity (!)
First Principles = the philosophical background to
astrology. God is perfect, and there is no “before” or “after.” If God is
perfect then His Creation must also be perfect. Time starts in the middle, with
the Revelation. This can be represented as a straight line up and down, with
Time moving out in rings around the line of the
Revelation.
There is “a” time for every purpose.
Time is not a constant.
Synastry is the triumph of Hope over Experience!
Why doesn’t it work? The timing of a relationship is essential. We have to meet
at the right time. So we need to know where they are in their orbit, as it
relates to us too.
Part the Second ---
the Arabic Parts and ways to enlightenment
Light starts astrology, and
the essence of Light is immaterial, the kind which moves from planet to planet
(becoming en”light”ened). Nothing can stop this light. This is what is meant by
the Translation of Light, it is the Essence which is being carried from and to
(objects and people).
When two people gaze into each other’s eyes,
what is happening is the Light being reflected back and forth. The Light is
Essence and Soul and binds two people together.
Natal charts
provide a dispassionate view of character, and can be considered the Lesser
Mystery in astrology.
(Revelation and Koran refer to?) astrology being
given to Man. It is not a man-made construct.
Some of the important uses
of astrology are in locating the Pilot of the Soul---which planet is in charge,
and which planet is in the least-bad condition.
The Essence and Light of
the Angelic order can be seen in the dignity and condition of the planets. By
abandoning essence we are left only with the material. For example: Venusian
things are of the essence of Venus, and they are one with Venus.
Accidental/Essential dignities are not equal.
Essential = Essence,
and shows how close that planet is to its divine nature, its natural Goodness.
The Pilot of the Soul is the best-behaved planet, and has got to have
some essential dignity. But even a well-dignified planet is weakened if it
cannot act (i.e. in 12th house).
“Scoring” debility or dignity is
usually irrelevant, and matters only when the matter concerns a certain planet.
So, take account of dignity when it is pertinent to the question.
In the
ancient past, people perceived astrology by direct revelation and by intuition.
But we here live in the material world.
Judging the person’s level (of
soul development) through:
1) Joys of the planets in the chart
2)
Exaltations in the chart
3) 7 key Arabian parts
For example: Mercury
is in its Joy in the 1st house, and this is the Word made material.
Why are
these placements Joys?
Saturn---the 12th is the house of Sin, captivity,
self-inflicted---but this placement also gives a hint of the way out, by using
Saturn we utilize restraint.
Mars---the 6th house is the place where we
suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, it’s the nasty things the
world does to us such as illness. We deal with it by doing Mars stuff, things
like surgery to correct ill health are Mars driven---it is how we use Mars to
put right the matters of the 6th house. It can also be seen as the
Jihad.
No one can explain why the Exaltations are where they are. (J.F.
says he has tried to understand from many points of view but has failed.
Therefore he has concluded that the Exaltations are where the planets were at
the time of Creation).
The opposite of a planet’s Joy is its
Gloom.
The 7 key Arabian Parts are all derived from the Part of
Fortune (note: J.F. does NOT use day/night formulas and all these parts are
calculated according to a day formula for P.Fortune).
1) Part of
Fortune---Asc. + Moon – Sun
2) Part of Spirit---Asc + Sun – Moon
3) Part
of Victory---Asc + Jupiter – Part of Spirit
4) Part of Courage---Asc + Part
of Fortune – Mars
5) Part of Love---Asc + Part of Spirit – Part of Fortune
6) Part of Despair---Asc + Part of Fortune – Part of Spirit
7) Part of
Captivity---Asc + Part of Fortune – Saturn
1) Sun = Love, indicated by
its continuous outpouring. Moon = Poverty, because it is always missing a part
and so longs for the Sun. When it is Full it is perfect, and the handmaid of the
Lord of the Soul. PF is what we most dearly love and where the person’s treasure
lies. (Part of Fortune)
2) This is where we can get to when we get
everything else right. (Part of Spirit)
3) We are given victory, and this
is where we receive Grace. This point shows the bridging of the space between us
and the Divine. (Part of Victory)
4) Mars is Greatness of Soul, where we
can transcend the ego, where this part is says where we can get beyond the ego.
It is “right action, where we might sacrifice. (Part of Courage)
5) Venus
is the planet of conciliation, of being reunited, where we have desire to be One
(with someone else or the Divine) but Venus can hurt---because wanting to be
conciliated implies we are not presently conciliated---this Part is the Soul in
Action. (Part of Love)
6) Part of necessary limitations in the World and
how this makes us suffer, where being incarnated hurts most. (Part of
Despair)
7) This is where we most imprison ourselves but also how we can
release ourselves. It has the nature of the 12th house. If it is closely
aspected especially by its own dispositor then the person is capable of freeing
themselves through the actions of that planet. (Part of
Captivity)
Part the Third --- the
Mind
In a horary chart, when the Moon is VOC it signifies the querent
(as co-significator) who will not be bothered to do what is necessary to get the
desired result.
Temperament---this is the manner, how people do
things. For “wit”----cleverness, how the mind works, how well-ordered the mind
is and how healthy and sane---we look at Mercury and the Moon. Do they “behold?”
Can the planet see the other--- if adjacent (semisextile) or quincunx---they
cannot see each other.
Mercury is the left brain. Moon is the right
brain. Moon is action of Grace, which is why we need it connected to our
Mercury, since we cannot have a thought without Moon.
Mercury + Sun
(combust) is a sign of a powerful mind, for prying through things without being
observed as doing so. The Moon reflects the Divine Essence into our minds, and
this is clear when Moon, Sun, and Mercury interaspect. The actual strength of
Mercury doesn’t matter.
Mercury retrograde shows a slow start to
learning, and for all life must not be trusted too far in and of itself.
Knowledge is internalised but might be too subjective.
If the planets do
not behold each other, but there is mutual reception then this helps.
In terms of the elements, cardinal =
go, initiating, drive forward. Fixed =
exploring every nuance, every aspect. Mutable = return and
contemplation.
Temperaments: warriors (cholerics), scribes (sanguines),
farmers (melancholics), and slaves (phlegmatics).
Oceans of water =
desire nature, and Neptune is the God of Desire Nature.
Although
Aquarius has the Water Bearer in its glyph, the water of Aquarius is the sweet
water of Reason. The rest of the water signs are salt water of desire.
Similar and opposite types do not get along. Opposites have total
incomprehension for each other (for example Melancholics and Sanguines). Ideally
you would want one element in common with each other.
Lunar Latitude
This is the Moon’s movement over the
ecliptic.
Sometimes the natal Moon is relatively close to the nodal points
(short latitude), and sometimes relatively far away (long latitude). This is
lunar latitude (not declanation), and it chops the world into 2 bits. In other
words, it is how close to eclipse events you were born. Long latitude people are
“spiky,” (I assume he means confrontational, provocative etc. and where he
probably places himself), whereas short latitude people are “cuddly” (for what
this is worth).
Long latitude people are extreme whereas short lat. people
play it safe. Looking at a progressed Moon---from North or South Long latitudes,
when these points are reached then major turnarounds can be experienced, and
this is particularly useful for mundane charts.
Recommended reading:
Burckhardt/Ibn Arabi---this is esoteric astrology and is available at
www.fonsvitae.com Macrobius---the commentary on the Dream of Scipio (the Roman
general who defeated Hannibal)
Martine---Sexual Astrology (seriously he
really did recommend this and I think I have it!)
The dark part of the
Moon is in the World of the Divine, and the other part is in our world…it is
completely Divine and it is corrupted (not sure of the context)
He
mentions the Mansions of the Moon, and their particular importance to Electional
astrology.
In any second our whole life is all there,
past/present/future, which is why we can predict.
Mr. Frawley's Workshop This was mainly on horary.
The
Regiomontanus house system is used for its timing which is Earth-based and
suggests the whims/illusions/ fantasies of this realm.
Many times in
horary, the wrong question is asked. (And I add: or asked at the wrong
time---consult your gut instincts as to how sincerely you want to know the
answer. With practice it will become clear when the time is right, passed, or
still to come).
The Chaldean Order:
House
1) Saturn---the Soul becomes incarnate House
2) Jupiter---wealth
House
3) Mars---journeys of daily round of a routine nature, so Mars
deal with these House
4) Sun---rules Fathers House
5)
Venus---Good Times House
6) Mercury---rules doctors, and this house
rules ill health House
7) Moon---natural partner opposite to Ascendant
House
8) Saturn---given its nature by Saturn, who is God of Doors, as it
gives door in it also gives the door out of Life House
9)
Jupiter---Holy, the rainbow bridge to the Divine House
10) Mars---Master
of our Empire, whatever that is House
11) Sun---House of Gifts of the
King, of Good things which drop down in the way that the Sun shines down onto
us. House
12) Venus---House of Sin, Self-Undoing and Venus leads us into
temptation
Remember, these are NOT House rulers, they are there to
give the House its nature.
The 6th house is NOT the house of work (that
is the 10th). The 6th indicates people who work for us such as slaves. It is
those who serve or slave.
The 2nd house and cars. They belong here
because they are movable possessions, and the 2nd also is house of food and the
act of eating. Don’t mistake function with object.
The 11th house is
about friends who benefit us, and so those who do us a favour or help us in
times of need are like “a gift from the King.”
In horary you only check
the planets if they are involved in the action.
In a woman’s chart,
Venus/Sun shows her animal passions *providing they are not ruling the other
person.
A change in reception shows a change of attitude and this is the
sign change, where something happens to trigger the change in attitude.
Peregrine means having no essential dignity nor debility, spewing out
rays that are lukewarm in no apparent moral direction, where there is no drive
to either evil or good but more likely to evil (probably by taking the path of
least resistance, eh?)
Peregrine planets have no strength.
For a
man, the Sun is the function of sex. It is common to see the cheated spouse
being ruled by the lover, or vice versa, and this shows the politics of the
situation.
The Part of Marriage---Asc + Desc. – Venus The planet which
disposits the Part of Marriage, stands as that thing. This is always the case.
For example, the Part of Marriage in Leo has the Sun standing for the marriage
of the people involved.
Whether the future of the marriage shows
children: ---the 5th house, and the 5th of the 7th which is the 11th house
---the Lord of the 1st, 5th, 7th, 11th, Part of Marriage, and dispositor of the
Part of Marriage ---the fertility of the signs involved:
Fertile---Cancer,
Scorpio, Pisces
Barren---Gemini, Virgo, Leo
Look for Sun dignities
for the sign of homosexuality, when it is in the proper context (ie a man’s
significator conjunct Mars and Sun in Aries; all ruled by Mars and exalting the
Sun---he likes men). Mars = lust; Sun = men;
Lord of the 1st = head
attitude; Moon = heart attitude.
Aspects = verb; Planet = noun; Sign =
adjectives including good and bad
Things behave better in their own
house (sign). Things are arranged the way they like it. In exaltation the
planets are like honoured guests and they get the best of everything. In a
relationship at the start, we exalt the Other and are ignoring their feet of
clay. Sooner or later the bubble will burst, but an exalted planet has
exaggerated honour.
For the trip rulers, he uses 2 for Horary, and the
Dorothean trips for natal charts. A trip ruler in reception feels something like
friendship, warm and nice but not passionate.
And there are qualitative
differences between dignities. In a reception by Fall there is exaggerated
loathing. A planet in Fall sees things as much worse than they are.
For
example: Mars in Cancer in its triplicity, but in Fall, and this reflects the
normal ambivalence of life, our own personal strength.
Fall is a much
more strong negative than positive trip rulership. Reception also shows how the
other parts of your life talk or connect to other parts. Unaspected planets need
to have some reception in order to talk to the other planets. A badly behaved
planet should be strengthened through its “friends”---planets who are positive
in mutual reception. We should act through those positive and
positively-connected planets, instead of straight through the ill-behaved
planet.
The Ascendant is particularly us. The Lord of the 1st is the
most “me-ness.” When the Asc/MC is ruled by the same planet, then use the Lord of
the Asc to represent oneself (or the querent) and for the MC use the next sign
in the 10th house.
Planets in houses affect the affairs of that house
for better or worse. After taking the next sign, any planet on the cusp of the
house can signify the affairs of it. For example: A question of taking one job
vs another job---sign on the cusp is current job, next sign is next job. For 2nd
wife, take the 2nd sign in the 7th house. We can pick the strongest planet and
live that, or marry that.
The ruler of the MC is default ruler of our
vocation, but that is the routine version of job. We can choose another planet,
one which is strongest, to follow as our truest vocation.
Venus as the
planet of conciliation comes in different grades, from malfunctioning to very
good.
The Sun is heart, in core sense.
The Moon is mind.
Perfection---an aspect has to perfect or nothing happens.
A significator
aspecting within 2-3 degrees could affect outcome. But the fewer characters
(planets) involved, the better. In horary, less is more.
In a chart
about illness particularly, then the whole chart is used. But if the ruler of
the 6th bumps into another then illness may be a factor.
Collection or
Translation of Light---either they can be connected or not. Receptions and
essential dignity imply how the connection works.
Collection---2 planets
we want to connect are both aspecting a third; it is collecting their light and
bringing them together (the third must be the slowest of the 3).
A
change in sign indicates a change of attitude. And there are no aspects to
out-of-sign placements (!).
Weather forecasting: Everything is based on
Hot/Cold/Wet/Dry and Mercury for wind.
The sign on the house cusp ---for
ex., what will the weather be like for my party? Look to the sign on the 5th,
and what sign is the ruler in? If it indicates Wet, then look to the Moon to
check Wet-ness. A Moon in Pisces is very wet. Conjuncting Jupiter in Pisces
makes it a very big wet.
Asking questions twice: every instant of time is different
so it is impossible to ask exactly the same question twice.
Organic Divination for the
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