Professional horary question

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Hello,

I would be very grateful if you could give me your input on the following chart, or more exactly, if you could tell me whether I reasoned correctly or if I got it all wrong.

The querent wants to know if she would manage to make a decent living as a translator specialised in astrologic literature.
The question was asked on Monday August 29, 2005, at 10.12 am local time (Universal time 8.12 am)
1:44:00W 43:22:00N

The chart is radical (I think).
Libra is rising: the querent?s main significator is Venus.
Venus is in 1, in its sign.
Co-significator: Jupiter,
Normally, those 2 planets in 1st are beneficial and suggest a likely positive outcome. Unfortunately both are afflicted by their conjunction with the SN.
The SN points to fragility and decline, and that could well describe the querent?s present situation and state of mind. It's also a hindrance which might come from the querent itself since the SN is placed between her two significators.
Venus also rules the 8th: this too could represent the extreme anxiety of the querent, as well as her financial dependance on her partner.

For the quesited, the 10th in Cancer, significator: the Moon.
The Moon's usual role as cosignificator of the querent gives way to its role as significator of the quesited. In addition, here, it might confirm how important her professional future is to the querent.

The Moon is on the cusp of the 10th, in its sign, angular, strong. It is in the exaltation of Jupiter and in the triplicity/face of Venus, favorable to the querent. It applies to Venus by square (simple reception) and its last aspect before leaving its sign is an applying square (simple reception) to Jupiter: not a frank ?no?, but many difficulties and complications on the way.

The Moon applies to the Sun by sextile (w/o reception), a weak aspect.
The Sun is in Virgo, in the 11th ("salary"), which it rules. It has mediocre strength, since it is in a succeedent house, which doesn't bode well for the income.

The 10th hosts Saturn and the POF.

Saturn is in Leo, in minor dignity (face), angular, applying by sextile to the 1st cusp and in the term of Jupiter, but in detriment, a potent essential debility. Being also the natural ruler of the 10th, it afflicts it.
The Sun, its dispositor, doesn't help since, as mentioned before, it is poorly placed.

Saturn is in conjunction with the POF. From what I?ve read, the POF is with the Moon the most characteristic symbol of the chart solution. It is often found in the house concerning directly the question, which is certainly the case here. Though it?s angular, its conjunction with Saturn (malefic and afflicted) is very unfavorable for the querent.

I guess I don?t have to look further. The aspects and placement of the main significators seem to point to a way paved with a lot of difficulties and a poor income, if any at all - not a totally unreachable goal, but a hard one, a long way away, and not financially rewarding.

There are, of course, other aspects which should be studied and would give a more in-depth answer, eg the Mercury/Venus applying sextile, the Mercury/Mars separating square, the interconnection there seems to be between the Sun and Mercury, both in 11th?
However, being a beginner, I preferred to keep it simple and just study the main significators. I tend to get mixed up and confuse everything when I try to consider too many elements.

In addition to being a beginner, I?m not fluent in English and I realise how tiresome this is for readers. So thank you very much to those of you who had the patience to read the above.

Thanks also in advance for your comments and advice. For the sake of the querent, I would prefer to be proven wrong.

KitKat

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Just after I posted the question on the forum, I was told that the South Node in the 1st was one of the considerations before judgement to take into account when reading the chart. Apparently, it indicates that the querent is withholding information.

I understand that, as Sue explained in a previous thread, a consideration is not a stricture, but an element to take into advisement and maybe even a sufficient answer in itself. Reading the chart might just point to the same answer. However, since I didn?t take it into account when analyzing the chart, I suppose my above commentary is obsolete. It changes the way to look at things.

Before I grill the querent to know if she really withheld info :shock: :D, could someone confirm that the SN in the 1st is a consideration before judgment, and also confirm its meaning?

Thanks!

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Hi KitKat,

I can't say for sure whether SN in the 1st is a consideration or not but I haven't heard this. I certainly haven't heard that it means the querent is withholding information. Lilly sees conjunction of the SN with malefics as increasing the evil of the planet concerned. Being conjunct a benefic significator is a potential risk to a positive outcome. Even if the significators are promising a positive result, the matter will sometimes flounder with many difficulties and often come to nothing if the SN is conjunct one of the significators unless the significators are angular or well fortified with essential dignities.

Cheers
Sue

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Thanks for your answer, Sue.
I can't say for sure whether SN in the 1st is a consideration or not but I haven't heard this. I certainly haven't heard that it means the querent is withholding information.
That info was apparently found on a forum, but there was no source mentioned. I'll try to find more about it.
Lilly sees conjunction of the SN with malefics as increasing the evil of the planet concerned. Being conjunct a benefic significator is a potential risk to a positive outcome. Even if the significators are promising a positive result, the matter will sometimes flounder with many difficulties and often come to nothing if the SN is conjunct one of the significators unless the significators are angular or well fortified with essential dignities.
In this case, then, the SN isn?t as negative as I thought, since both significators are angular and one of them, Venus, is in its sign.

What I knew about the nodes was that according to Arabic astrology, the NN amplifies what it touches, therefore it is considered favourable with the benefic planets and detrimental with the malefic planets. The SN reduces what it touches, therefore detrimental with the benefic planets and favourable with the malefic planets.
I wasn?t sure it applied in horary, though.

I really must read Lilly but his English is difficult for a foreigner. On the other hand, it does have a unique "flavour", a sort of an out of time atmosphere.