Many Paths to One Answer: Does My Music Suck? Yes. Times Two.

   I want to share an interesting personal horary example to explain the glorious fractal nature of astrology and how it reveals itself personally to all learned and dedicated astrologers in a unique and intimate fashion. I rarely cast horary charts for myself, though I do love to judge charts for others.  To ask a question to the sky, and allow God to answer it with the specific alignment pressing upon us in that moment. It's bizarre and wild, but it works.  Not only does it work, but it works in all systems, for everyone, simultaneously. 

    Case in point: the videos I'm making about astrology are profound works of my inner creative self, even if it seems like I'm just goofing off about Wrestling.  I'm uniting my art, my acting, my comedy, and, most importantly, my music to explain the astrological significations of things as I see them.  This is a deeply personal creative work for myself.     Of course, I know that my music, and the mind that it springs from, is seemingly too chaotic for most people to deal with.  I'm following numerous tangents simultaneously which all build to a climactic cacophonny of purpose, but this is hard to comprehend for those not experiencing it as I do.  I get that, but this is such a cohesive assimilation of theme and plot for myself that I have a hard time not making things this way, while understanding that I am turning people away by doing so. 

    With this in mind I cast a horary chart specifically with the question, "Is my music ruining my astrology videos for the wider public".  So I struggled with this chart.  I find delineating charts for others to be fairly straightforward and simple, but when it's a question that I ask, I find my own intuition and desires complicate the judgment greatly.  I had to take a few approaches to this chart before settling on my solution.

    The fifth house is your baby.  Be it a creative work, or literal children, they become one and the same within the houses.  Both my music and my astrology videos are my babies.    Music came first for me, and is accurately described by Mars, the ruler of Aries.  My music is aggressive and impulsive, both significations of Mars.  My Moon is in Aries, and the Moon plays a prominent part in how we channel our creativity into the world.   The next sign cusp within the fifth house is Taurus.  My second great love being astrology.   Taurus is ruled by Venus, planet of interpersonal relationships, astrology connects people on a social level, so this fits well enough.  Now how do I find my audience?  Well the seventh house, which generally represents the other, is ruled by Mercury, which is placed with no major dignity towards Mars OR Venus, so this is not very helpful to me.   Given this, I went with the Moon as the general significator of the public.  The Moon is juuuuust moving past a conjunction to Jupiter, which is my significator in this chart, (ruler of the ascendant).  The public is moving past its interest in me.  Ok, why?  Well the Moon in Taurus LOVES Venus and hates Mars!  In other words, the Moon loves the video but hates the music.  Ok, that's pretty clear, and I guess I already knew that.   Note that both Jupiter and the Moon are WITHIN the fifth house of my creative work, making this chart VERY radical, (meaning descriptive of the question at hand). 

    Now let's get to the real purpose of this post.... I have a friend, Trevor, who is a Horary expert.  His methodology is more rigid and rule based than my own, but he has much more experience within this specific domain of astrology and was extremely helpful in my own journey into Horary.  Trevor has made some incredible esoteric discoveries within the art, and I encourage him thoroughly to write a book about some of his adventures in this domain.  At any rate, I shared this chart with him to give his own interpretation of it, and he came about a completely separate path which led to the same answer.  

   Interestingly, he bypassed using a significator for the music entirely, and instead looked at the fifth house cusp as the video, and the ninth house cusp as the knowledge contained within the video.  Within this framework, the actual content of the videos, the astrological insights, are ruled by the Sun.   Mars, the video, is in the detriment of the Sun, so the videos themselves are corrupting the wisdom within them by being so boistrous and loud.  The Sun itself, the Knowledge, is held hostage in Aquarius, the Sign of its detriment.  The public or audience, is signified by Mercury as ruler of the descendant. Mercury is also within Aquarius, so it hates the actual content of the video, but doesn't care either way about the video itself.   

  Trevor then pointed out that my significators, (both Jupiter and the Moon as a general co-significator of the querent) are in the detriment of the video in Taurus, meaning I am displeased by the videos. I can't say that I'm specifically displeased by the videos, I see it as a long term work that gains momentum.   I'm not especially discouraged by the current lack of interest, but conscious of the detriment my own musical tastes place upon them.  His advice from this was to take the music out and focus on simplifying the material to connect with the other.  

  I'm sharing this story as an indication of how a single chart can send essentially the same message through multiple different lenses at once.   This is the infinitely fractal nature of astrology.  In practical terms, I might start providing more silent zones in the videos, but I'm going to keep recording music for them! Of course I will, after-all, I'm Leo ascendant on Regulus, you thought I wasn't going to be loud and obnoxious?

  Here's a video about a more serious Horary chart for those who are interested... in my music.