The main astrological driving force of my life has been my T Square.
The nature of this aspect pattern is that three placements are strongly pulling in very different directions setting up a challenge for the person who has to spend their life trying to resolve it.
The closer the three planets are by degree, the tighter and more pronounced this theme is. Mine contains four placements all within 1.5 degrees.
My Capricorn Ascendant (along with my Sun and Moon) endows me with a grounded and pragmatic nature. I see everything in terms of whether or not it works in practice and refuse to believe in something unless it can be proven to me to do so.
This is opposite a Jupiter/Uranus/Descendant conjunction which is my passion for astrology, and has been the biggest driver of my life for the past 50 years.
They are both square an apex Neptune in the 9th house, which has given me an equal obsession with attempting to understand spiritual and religious questions over the same timeframe.
Along with a 12th house Sun and Moon, this means I have spent my life testing techniques, both astrological and meditation, to see if and how they work.
For everyone, how they see astrology and their own chart evolves over the years with more experience of the subject and also of their own transits in action.
Because these things are experiential, they are difficult to put into words and may not make sense to other people but I will try to do so.
I see the astrological chart wheel as a symbol of the totality of everything that has ever been, is now and ever will be.
You can call it the Universe, or God or the Collective Unconscious or whatever you like.
It is a vast space, within which all things are possible.
Our true selves, our soul, our essence (again you can call it whatever you like) is this space. We exist in this space. Buddhists might call it enlightenment or the natural great peace and encourage us to recognise it and rest in it.
It is where we come from and where we will return to when we have finished our current sojourn on this Earth.
When we are born, something emanates from this space that is partial. This life is best described and understood by looking at the interrelationship of the Sun, Moon, 8 planets and Ascendant at the moment of that birth, as seen from the perspective of the Earth.
This tells us what we have chosen to experience this time round, our fortunes and our challenges. It can also identify other beings that have contracted with us to help us with this experience.
It’s as if our chart symbols emanate out of this space at our birth and recede back into it at our death.
We have chosen to emerge from our resting place in the collective to experience the conditions symbolically indicated by the planets’ patterns at our birth.
This choice is likely to have been made as an inevitable consequence of unresolved patterns coming from previous appearances on this planet.
We have to experience these planetary patterns this time round but it is also our identification with these patterns that naturally prevent us from resting in the natural great peace represented by the empty space behind them.
It is also possible that the tighter and more powerful the aspect patterns are, the stronger our current life themes are and the more unresolved drama is being carried over from past lives.
Therefore the stronger the aspect patterns, the more difficult it is to detach ourselves from them and to rest in the natural great space.
But unless we can find a way of accepting all of our chart patterns, even the challenging ones as aspects of ourselves and what we inevitably need to experience this time, we have no chance of achieving any of this peace.
Because if we can’t come to full acceptance of all of our planets and the inevitable transits to them, we will always be fighting other aspects of ourselves and therefore unable to rest.
But with a T square, while you have an immense drive to try and resolve the apparent contradictions between the three directions, it is difficult to do so.
For me I have to acknowledge that I chose to live in a dysfunctional relationship for the best part of 40 years with someone who resented my interest in astrology and meditation.
I might have missed out on what most people would consider a normal family life, but I needed to do this in order to explore these interests in isolation.
So all the points of the T square played separate roles in my life. I had assumed that this would be my path for life.
Over the last few years however, both transit Pluto and my progressed Venus has moved through this T square, during which time I met and married my soulmate (Jupiter/Uranus on my Descendant) and emigrated to Australia (apex Neptune in the 9th).
She is as consumed with astrology and spirituality as I am, and has inspired me to bring these T Square themes together in a way that I had never imagined possible before.
My current understanding of an astrological chart is not only that it will accurately describe the themes that we have to experience in this life, it can also give us the greatest insight into our connection with the space beyond our placements and our previous lives.
This is particularly the case when we are using astrology for divinatory purposes.
It is in this way that the subject of Horary works with astonishing accuracy.
Clients are constantly blown away by the success of a horary in making very specific predictions about what will happen to them and in answering their particular questions.
How can this work? Does it mean that all the thoughts that occur to us are already preordained and dictated to by the planets at the time?
No it doesn’t mean that.
Horary is a quantum science. It represents our connection with the collective unconscious.
We choose to ask a question about something in our life that we don’t consciously know the answer to. But there is a part of us where we are at one with the collective unconscious mind which knows everything, including the very reasons why we have chosen to have this life experience in the first place.
So by asking a horary question, we are opening ourselves up to that connection with the natural great space in our chart. We are tapping into the part of ourselves that already knows the answers to our questions.
Through that space emanates the answer in coded astrological form. If the question is something that it is appropriate for us to have answered, the horary chart of that moment will precisely do that.
The horary chart, if it passes a simple connection test with the natal chart and question of the person asking it, will supply the answer.
It doesn’t matter whether the client is asking where their cellphone is or who they were in a past life, a horary will tell you.
Given my own T square, I am much more interested in the latter type of questions and indeed a use horary as a key part of my method of Astrological Past Life Regression
When I begin looking at a past life review, all I have to go on is the client’s current life chart, so I have to start with the major themes there and see what that brings up.
X asked for one a month ago.
The house in a chart that would be likely to most represent themes that are being carried over from a past life is the 8th.
X has Neptune there in exact trine to her Mercury/Mars in Cancer in her 4th house.
If we want to find out more about the timing of her past life, we can use a method that I discovered and have developed which is called Secondary Regressions.
This is using the same method that constitutes Progressions (one day for a year) but taking them back before she was born.
The most important regression is that of the Sun, so if we want to look into a past life event that will have set the pattern for her Neptune in the 8th experiences in this life, we should regress her chart back to the date when her Sun was conjunct it.
This takes us to April 1714.
The fact that the regressed Moon was at 19 Taurus opposing her Neptune as well reinforces the idea that we have hit on the right moment.
So what was happening at this point in her previous life?
I have found that a horary cast for the moment I receive a request for a Past Life Review will reveal the major themes involved in it.
Horary is very helpful in this regard because it is not tied to a natal chart and can apply to any question about anything, even a past life.
So here is X’s.
It is extraordinary how closely this horary connects with the themes in X’s natal chart.
There is an opposition between Mars at 22 Cancer and Mercury at 27 Capricorn.
This sits right on the most challenging pattern in her natal chart which is the square between Mercury and Mars at 23/24 Cancer and Saturn at 25 Aries.
Mercury is even in the same house as it is in her chart.
In her natal chart, Mercury and Mars are exactly trine Neptune.
In this chart Mars is trine Neptune and Mercury is exactly sextile it.
Also in your natal chart, Mercury and Mars are sextile Uranus.
In this chart, Mercury is trine Uranus and Mars is exactly sextile it.
The Sun is opposite her natal Sun too.
So it’s clear that this chart represents X and this horary will describe many of the themes from a past life that are relevant to her current one.
Because I have my Sun, Moon and Ascendant in Capricorn, I feel compelled to state how extraordinary this horary/natal chart crossover is.
The placements that we have identified in X’s natal chart as being the most appropriate in terms of her past lives are her Mercury/Mars in Cancer in the 4th in trine to Neptune in the 8th.
What are the odds of these features coming up again so powerfully in the horary?
Mars in the horary is 2 degrees 12 minutes away from its natal position. The odds against that alone happening by chance are over 80/1 against.
Mercury is under 4 degrees from an opposition to its natal place. If we assume that we might have allowed the square aspect as well, we have at least 10/1 against.
Mercury occurring in the same house would be 12/1.
So we are talking about a 10,000 to 1 chance with these placements together.
But the key here is Neptune.
In the 56 years since X was born, this is the first time Neptune has been trine its natal position. So in reality, at no other point in her current life could X have asked this question about her past life.
The odds against all this happening by chance are off the scale, a true quantum experience.
But it’s not just that either.
On looking at this chart, I felt that there were other people who play an important part in X’s current life that were involved in this previous one, so I messaged her to see if she would like me to look into that as part of her past life review.
She replied giving the go ahead to do so. The horary chart for this moment would enable us to see what their roles might have been. It was about 1.5 hours after the previous one.
This is the chart.
The rising degree is 23.22 Scorpio, within half a degree of X’s natal 8th house Neptune and the very feature that we were regressing her chart to.
Again, another example of horary’s quantum operation.
This chart clarified the past life times that were indicated in the other one.
The Mercury/Mars/Uranus/Neptune theme had now formed a Kite with the Ascendant with a clear and exact (6 minutes) opposition between it and Uranus on the Descendant.
So there was a strong theme of separation from a marriage.
Using a combination of Secondary Regressions, Regressed Solar Returns and these Horaries I was able to surmise that X’s past life occurred in Catalonia, Spain. She was the wife of a military officer and working as a battlefield surgeon or nurse during the War of the Spanish Succession.
A regression of this nature will always pick out a date in someone’s past life that was a turning point for them and a crucial one in contributing to the themes that are still being worked through in their current life.
X was 38 years old for this particular moment when the Catalan forces lost the war through the Treaty Of Utrecht in 1713.
The Duke of Anjou became Philip V of Spain and he subsequently abolished the Crown of Aragon, as well as the Catalan institutions and prohibited the administrative use of Catalan language.
As a result of the treaty, the Catalan army was disbanded and X left her husband. Under the new regime, there were no obvious outlets for X as an independent Catalonian woman, so she went into a Catholic nunnery.
X was taken under the wing of the Mother Superior and had a powerful religious experience of her own five years later when this lady passed from that life.
X spent the rest of her life in spiritual retreat.
The indication from the 2nd horary was that the Mother Superior figure from that life is in fact her daughter in this life.
The army officer that X was married to back then is also her ex husband in this one, and therefore her daughter’s father.
On receipt of this review X replied
“I’m in awe of the precision and accuracy of this Past Life Review. Especially that it was based on a feeling I got about a day six years ago that also happened to be my birthday in the 1600’s (the Past Life Review said X was previously born in 1675).
Yes, it’s her (my daughter) and her dad. He was an Army officer, I was a dental hygienist (in her current life). Our marriage ended after his affair.”
We can see some similar themes occurring. There does seem to be an unresolved theme between X and her husband that has required another life. There may have been several, with intervening lives bringing them together again.
My belief is that by taking X’s current chart back to when her regressed Sun was conjunct her Neptune, we could see when the spiritual retreat theme of the 8th house Neptune started for her.
There also seems to be a nurturing theme that exists between X and her daughter, again coming from this 18th century connection.
It’s very interesting that when her daughter was born in this life, X was 38 years old, the same age as when they met in the nunnery in the 18th century life.
And when her daughter was born, X’s progressed Sun was conjunct both her Moon and Jupiter.
So we obviously have a soulmate connection here.
Most of this information can be gleaned from the horary.
With Scorpio rising, X would be either Mars or Pluto. Which is it?
There are no planets in Aquarius in X’s natal chart but her Mars is at 24 Cancer, so the red planet must be her significator.
Cancer is a female sign, so therefore she was a woman in that life.
Mars in Cancer in the 9th house suggests that she was fighting for her country in a foreign land but also perhaps in a caring profession rather than overtly on military duties.
Mars makes two very tight aspects to other planets the sextile with Uranus and the trine with Venus.
These are key features and describe the other two people involved.
Uranus in the 7th suggests a separation from a relationship. It also suggests that X was married to this person in this current life too.
Venus in Pisces conjunct Neptune, suggests a spiritual person in a monastic situation, conjunct Saturn suggests that she was older and a leader of that community.
Venus being in the 5th house indicates that this Mother Superior is her daughter in her current life.
In the same way that the horary Mars in Cancer confirms itself as X’s significator, her daughter in this life has Venus at 21.46 Pisces, a mere degree away from this one.
I don’t have access to X’s ex husband’s birth details but I would not be at all surprised if 23 Taurus contains a significant placement.
Mars sextile with Uranus confirms that the separation from her husband after the war was a relatively easy one, a natural result of a relationship ending and a need for both people to go their separate ways.
It’s possible that there are more things to be gleaned from this horary.
The Moon’s position in the first few minutes of Capricorn in the 2nd house in square to Neptune in late Pisces might suggest that X is just starting out on a simple, rather austere life and letting go of an attachment to luxuries and money to do so.
We are able to deduce all this information because horary is a method for delving deep into the collective unconscious as represented by empty space in an astrological chart and coming up with information concerning another time when the person we know as X previously journeyed from that same space into this earthly realm.
The empty space in an astrological chart is very important, it gives context to our life and can allow us to see our current patterns in relation to those that came from our previous lives.
This is also why I like to keep my charts clutter free and not fill them up with asteroids and other irrelevant nonsense. For a triple Capricorn, it’s important to be able to see the wood for the trees. If we want to truly understand our astrological chart we have to be able to contemplate the space behind our placements.
So horary is a method of the past, but it is also one of the present and future. It has a timeless quality of its own.
And yes I would be happy to cast one to look for your missing cellphone but would be so much more interested in searching for your missing carrier pigeon from the 18th century.
Posted on February 25th 2025
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