There’s so many people who claim they were on the Titanic in a previous life, it’s no wonder it sank.
I have always held a healthy scepticism around reincarnation claims. We can’t all have been Cleopatra, someone had to be the third eunuch from the right.
My recent discovery of Secondary Regressions has enabled me to plot past lives and their significant events with great accuracy and all of my clients have found the findings resonate strongly with them.
But these have mostly been fairly ordinary citizens going about their business with family themes playing out in a way that relates to the lives that they have chosen this time round.
No Napoleons, Shakespeares, Pharaohs or Ancient Greek philosophers. None of the usual romantic stories that people like to imagine they were part of.
But just recently I had a client who almost certainly was the leader of a small Scottish clan who was killed at the Battle Of Culloden.
She contacted me because she was herself convinced that she had previous incarnations and wanted to find out if other members of her family, particularly her young daughter, had also been with her in past lives.
This is her current natal chart.
Obviously she has a Capricorn stellium but from a past life perspective the thing about this chart that truly stands out is the exact opposition (less than half a degree) between the Taurus Moon and the 8th house Pluto.
If reincarnation belongs to any single symbol if would have to be Pluto in Scorpio in the 8th house.
That this is so strongly connected with the Moon, shows the family and parent role that she would have had in any past lives.
My method of Secondary Regressions is to take the Sun backwards by reverse progression to a point in the chart that is powerful and significant, particularly in that it might relate to previous lives.
So with this chart, it’s clear that we have two possible targets.
One would be where the regressed Sun was in Scorpio, conjunct her Pluto.
Given that the regressed Sun moves approximately a degree for a year before her birth, I would say we are probably looking at somewhere around 1930.
The other one would be when the regressed Sun went back to form a conjunction with her Moon. A quick look at the chart for 1745 meant that this was a no brainer.
Not only was the regressed Sun exactly conjunct her Moon, but the regressed Moon was there too.
So it’s clear that 1745-46 was a very significant time in her past life.
My client’s main question was about her other family members and if they were with her in a previous life. She asked about her husband, daughter, mother and brother.
This is quite a common question for clients to ask. In order to answer it I regress their charts back to the same date to see if there are any significant contacts to that time.
If there are, I assume those people were also players in that previous life, the more significant the contact, the stronger the role they played.
If there are no contacts, I assume that those people were not part of that life.
For this client, all four of the people she asked about had very strong regressions to 1745-46. This is the first time that I have found a past life connection for everyone that a client has asked about.
So how to find out what roles each family member played back then?
This is where horary really comes into its own.
Horary is a unique branch of astrology. It is closer to divination than any other form of the subject.
It is about drawing a chart for the moment that a question is asked and using that chart rather than an individual’s natal chart to find the answer.
So it is particularly useful when dealing with past lives, because apart from as a point for regression, the client’s current birthchart is not a symbolic picture of that time.
Every time I write about horary, I feel compelled to point out that it is a very different method to natal chart reading. It has strict rules that have to be followed and precepts that cannot apply to birthcharts.
Many traditional astrologers get confused about this, particularly when it comes to the importance of rulerships.
Horary is strongly based on house rulerships.
A horary chart is not a birthchart for the person asking the question. Only one planet represents them.
Other planets will signify other people or other things involved in the question.
So if we want to answer that question we need to find out if there is a connection between the planet signifying them and the one standing for their question.
Houses are the simplest way to do this.
While Zodiac signs are a good description of personality, houses refer to areas of life. So if someone is asking a question about their career, it makes more sense to look at the 10th house (of career) than to try and work out which sign might be the most appropriate.
We can’t just simply look for planets in that house, because there are often empty houses (particularly back in the days when there were only the 7 known planets, rather than the 10 we currently use).
And given that the Sun, Mercury and Venus are more often than not in the same house, the chances are that most questions would have to be answered in the negative.
However, each house has a ruler, regardless of whether there’s any planets in it or not, so if we use the ruler to signify the question asked about, it is possible to answer all questions.
As the first house (Ascendant) is the one that covers the self and most personal concerns, its ruler is the one that is taken to signify the person asking the question.
So if the question is will I get this job and we find the ruler of the first house is applying to a trine with the ruler of the 10th house (career) we can say yes you will.
If they are asking whether they will survive the current plague that is going around and the ruler of the 1st is applying to an opposition with the ruler of the 8th house (death), we advise them to take out life insurance (also 8th).
Therefore if someone is asking what role a particular relative played in a past life, we would take the planet that rules the house associated with them and see where it is in the horary.
This was the horary cast for the question.
So the first thing to do is identify the client and find her role in that life.
With Scorpio rising, this means Mars and Pluto are the rulers.
Many horary astrologers would be horrified by the use of Pluto here. Only recently I joined a horary Facebook group and offered a view of Pluto as a potential ruler of a question and was immediately blocked from the forum.
My feeling is if these people wish to live in a medieval hologram and ignore anything discovered since the 18th century, maybe they should not be using astrological computer software and just restrict their practice to people who live in their own towns.
In this horary, Mars and Pluto are both saying the same thing.
They are both in Aquarius, which as a masculine sign identifies my client as a man in this life. On consultation with her, she agreed and felt that since Mars was at the very end of Aquarius, that this was her last life as a man, having been reborn since then exclusively as a woman.
I have said before that I believe that a planet conjunct an angle belongs to the house of that angle even if it is technically in the preceding house.
So Pluto here would be a 4th house placing, because of its conjunction with the IC.
With both Mars and Pluto in the 4th house, my client would have been a parent in this life, so therefore a father.
I also believe that Pluto’s position right on the IC would indicate that he played an important role in his community.
So how to find my client’s other relatives?
Her husband in this life would be signified by the 7th house ruler.
Venus is in Pisces, so he was female in this life. It is placed in the 5th house, so her husband in her current life was her daughter back in 1745.
Her brother would be signified by the 3rd house ruler. Saturn is also in Pisces in the 5th, so he would be another daughter.
Her mother would be the 4th house ruler. With Aquarius there we might have Saturn or Uranus, but as Saturn is already taken, we have to go with Uranus.
Uranus is in Taurus (female) in the 7th, so my client’s mother in the current life was his wife in 1745.
Her daughter would be the 5th house ruler. So we have either Jupiter or Neptune. Both are in female signs.
Jupiter is in the 6th house but also conjunct the Descendant so could be a 7th placement. As he already has a wife, that doesn’t work.
In the 6th house it could be an aunty, but the obvious thing would be to go with Neptune.
Neptune in the 5th means that her daughter in this life was also a daughter in that one.
A horary is a fascinating thing, a glimpse into another world, and it can give you a lot more information about a situation than was actually required by the question.
With the three daughters, we note that two of them (Venus and Saturn) are very close together, Neptune is much later in the sign.
This made me wonder about the relative ages of the daughters.
The distance between Saturn and Venus is only half a degree, given that he could not have daughters who were only half a year between them, I felt that these two were twins.
I have a method which enables me to ascertain when someone was born in a previous life.
This involves regressing the current chart further back to when the Sun formed an aspect with the 4th house ruler.
In this case we are talking about Mercury at 7.40 Capricorn in my client’s chart.
Her regressed Sun would have made a square aspect to Mercury in 1699, making her 46 years of age when these events occurred.
Given that fact, I think its perfectly reasonable for her/him to have had three daughters, the oldest could easily be in her late twenties.
So I’m going with the degree positions of the three Piscean planets in the horary as describing their ages – a 27 year old daughter and a pair of twins aged 12-13.
Can the horary tell us anything else about this life and the circumstances of October 1745?
One very strong feature is the exact opposition between Uranus and the Ascendant.
So we can see that at this time he was separated from his wife.
The other feature is that the Moon is right out on its own.
The chart has a Bucket shape with all of the planets bar one contained within a third of the Zodiac. The Moon is the handle of the Bucket.
In a natal chart, this usually means that there is one important feature in the person’s life that is heading in completely the opposite direction to everything else, and that it has great power over the chart and the capacity to upset all the other features.
Given that all of the rest of the planets are contained between the 4th and 7th houses and there’s a stellium in the 5th, we have to conclude that this life was one devoted to family and community.
The Moon in Virgo in the 11th is the outlier.
The Moon is also the apex of a Yod formation as it is quincunx (150 degrees) both Pluto in the 4th house and the Sun in the 5th.
Pluto is the chart ruler and the Sun is the 10th ruler.
So it seems that something to do with politics and his career has taken this man away from his wife and family.
The Moon being in Virgo suggests a type of service but also as the apex of a Yod a type of sacrifice.
A Yod pattern is often called a Finger Of Fate and can be associated with health and/or death owing to the 6th/8th house connection of this aspect to the Ascendant.
The Moon is the ruler of the 9th house of travel abroad.
I have often found that the key moment in Secondary Regressions refers to the person’s death in a previous life, because the whole method is about connections between this life and a previous one, and what themes are being carried over to the present.
With all of this in mind it seems very likely that this man was forced to go away from his family for political service and died as a result of it.
To locate where this life occurred, I use dowsing with a pendulum.
I would start off by asking if it was in the same country as the current life and it was positive about the UK.
Then when asking about which area, it settled on Scotland.
Given all of the above and the date picked by the Secondary Regressions (28th October 1745), it seemed that my client had to be involved in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite rebellion.
At that stage, the Jacobites had taken Edinburgh and were in discussions about what to do next.
Looking at the horary, I believe my client was one of the clan leaders who were advocating for settling with the gains that they had made.
Prince Charlie, however was keen to push on the advantage because he wanted his father to take up his rightful Stuart claim to the throne of England, and insisted on venturing much further south.
Looking at the horary, we can see Charlie. He would be the 10th ruler, the Sun in gung ho Aries, as part of this Yod.
So the political advice for caution (Moon in Virgo in 11th) fell on deaf ears because it was inconjunct the Sun.
As my client is Pluto, the other part of the Yod, she/he was dragged into an unwinnable war with the inevitable sacrifice to follow.
Somewhat surprisingly, the Jacobites got as far as the Midlands, because the English army were distracted by events elsewhere and underfunded. Once they realised the extent of the threat form the north, they fought back and chased the Scots all the way back to the Highlands.
Then came the Battle of Culloden, one of the darkest days in British history, where Jacobites were slaughtered in their thousands by superior English firepower.
Anyone who has visited the site of the battle near Inverness will testify what a dark, depressing energy is there still.
I believe my client was killed at Culloden.
How can we know for sure? We can check the horary.
Horary, even for a past life is all about what happens next. The key factor in this is the movement of the Moon.
The Moon in the horary is at 1.15 Virgo, Pluto representing my client is 1.42 Aquarius.
The aspect between them is a quincunx (one that is associated with death), this perfects in 0.27 degrees. If we take one degree to equal a year, and the base date as the Regressed chart says at 28 October 1745, this portion of a year takes us to the middle of April 1746.
The battle of Culloden happened on 16th April 1746.
Horary can predict anything, even when you were going to die in a previous life.
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