What Horary Says about the Nature of Astrology

    Horary is the act of asking a question while assuming that that weight of the sky bore down upon your mind and affected the inclination to ask the question in the first place.  Within that moment in time, the answer to your question, and all potential questions are held.  It's rather mind-blowing to consider.  More than any other practice of astrology, horary will break down the pseudo-scientific inclinations of the most pragmatic practitioners, relying on vague notions about how the electro-magnetic and gravitational web of the solar system might affect our consciousness.  While there is some relevance to those theories, they can in no way completely explain how the sky in any given moment holds the answers to a question as specific as, "where did I leave my keys?"
   As with any branch of astrology, there are many different theories and practices, all of which seem to work in the proper hands.  One of the most fascinating elements of horary is that traditionally, the question will be asked from the locality and time in which the astrologer receives the question, not generally the location and time when the quesitor asked the question.  This says something absolutely crucial about the nature of astrology.  It is not merely an assessment of correspondences in the sky with life on Earth, but a divine connection between the mind of the astrologer, and the heavens themselves.  
   This simple fact, once fully understood, answers some of the biggest questions and concerns the astro-curious may have.  The debate between different house systems, sidereal versus tropical, and any number of other contentious minutia becomes irrelevant because the point is to have a cohesive language with which to commune with the divine; and what is more divine than the shining lights in the heavens?  To learn a system, and apply it rigorously and expertly, opens up the mind to the messages of the great spirits in the sky.  Different systems exist to give the proper learned astrologer a specific message which may not be needed by a different astrologer asking a different question, using a different system sitting right next to them.  What then blows any open-minded, communing astrologer away is giving the same chart to a group of differently inclined interpreters who all come to the same message using completely different systems.  The infinitely fractal nature of astrology always knows how to land for those who know how to listen.

   The heavens have a plethora of ways to tell any one story.  All it takes is the time to learn, and then get quiet enough to hear your own special language with the stars.