This expensive library book has been mislaid

[David Ames]

An expensive library book has been mislaid and I think I am not the
one who mislaid it. The last I knew, I set it atop a chair in the
kitchen, though perhaps I later used it while sitting on the TV sofa.
The kitchen area has been torn to shreds (well, not literally) and it
does not emerge. It is 1:12 pm in Boston.

Can someone help? I think I heard once from an astronomy professor
(no brief for astrology, mind) about following a method of proceeding,
starting from the center of the house, to locate a missing object.
In the case he was citing, it worked. Can anyone give me a citation
to such a method?

David Ames

[David Ames]

Post by David Ames
An expensive library book has been mislaid and I think I am not the
one who mislaid it.  The last I knew, I set it atop a chair in the
kitchen, though perhaps I later used it while sitting on the TV sofa.
The kitchen area has been torn to shreds (well, not literally) and it
does not emerge.  It is 1:12 pm in Boston.
Can someone help?  I think I heard once from an astronomy professor
(no brief for astrology, mind) about following a method of proceeding,
starting from the center of the house, to locate a  missing object.
In the case he was citing, it worked.  Can anyone give me a citation
to such a method?
David Ames

I do note that the Gemini Moon (ruler of querent and Ascendant) is
forming trines to Aquarius and Libra planets, with Mercury (ruler of
books) being first. Surely this book is going to be found. I recall
that once I was looking for a snow shovel. Mars was rising in
Cancer. The bladed tool was in the kitchen. The mislaid book
(question asked with Cancer rising) ought to be in the kitchen, not
because a chart suggests it may be hidden there (Moon in 12th), but
because that is where I remember leaving it.

David Ames

David Ames

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Post by David Ames
An expensive library book has been mislaid and I think I am not the
one who mislaid it. The last I knew, I set it atop a chair in the
kitchen, though perhaps I later used it while sitting on the TV sofa.
The kitchen area has been torn to shreds (well, not literally) and it
does not emerge. It is 1:12 pm in Boston.
Can someone help? I think I heard once from an astronomy professor
(no brief for astrology, mind) about following a method of proceeding,
starting from the center of the house, to locate a missing object.
In the case he was citing, it worked. Can anyone give me a citation
to such a method?

I do note that the Gemini Moon (ruler of querent and Ascendant) is
forming trines to Aquarius and Libra planets, with Mercury (ruler of
books) being first. Surely this book is going to be found. I recall
that once I was looking for a snow shovel. Mars was rising in
Cancer. The bladed tool was in the kitchen. The mislaid book
(question asked with Cancer rising) ought to be in the kitchen, not
because a chart suggests it may be hidden there (Moon in 12th), but
because that is where I remember leaving it.
David Ames

I'll have a go at this and report back in a few days. I like doing those -
basically just follow the recipes from Lilly's "Christian Astrology", but it
often seems to work. It's been a while since I did a horary chart, somehow.

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Post by David Ames
An expensive library book has been mislaid and I think I am not the
one who mislaid it. The last I knew, I set it atop a chair in the
kitchen, though perhaps I later used it while sitting on the TV sofa.
The kitchen area has been torn to shreds (well, not literally) and it
does not emerge. It is 1:12 pm in Boston.
Can someone help? I think I heard once from an astronomy professor
(no brief for astrology, mind) about following a method of proceeding,
starting from the center of the house, to locate a missing object.
In the case he was citing, it worked. Can anyone give me a citation
to such a method?

I do note that the Gemini Moon (ruler of querent and Ascendant) is
forming trines to Aquarius and Libra planets, with Mercury (ruler of
books) being first. Surely this book is going to be found. I recall
that once I was looking for a snow shovel. Mars was rising in
Cancer. The bladed tool was in the kitchen. The mislaid book
(question asked with Cancer rising) ought to be in the kitchen, not
because a chart suggests it may be hidden there (Moon in 12th), but
because that is where I remember leaving it.
David Ames

I'll have a go at this and report back in a few days. I like doing
those - basically just follow the recipes from Lilly's "Christian
Astrology", but it often seems to work. It's been a while since I did a
horary chart, somehow.

I've just remembered that Lilly's main recipe for finding objects depends on
whose the object is. If it's the questioner's own, you consider the first
house; if it's their child's, the fifth house, and so on. Can anyone
suggest which house might apply to a library? I'll do the chart in the
meantime, and note down the answers for all likely options.

[David Ames]

Post by David Ames

Post by David Ames
An expensive library book has been mislaid and I think I am not the
one who mislaid it.  The last I knew, I set it atop a chair in the
kitchen, though perhaps I later used it while sitting on the TV sofa.
The kitchen area has been torn to shreds (well, not literally) and it
does not emerge.  It is 1:12 pm in Boston.
Can someone help?  I think I heard once from an astronomy professor
(no brief for astrology, mind) about following a method of proceeding,
starting from the center of the house, to locate a  missing object.
In the case he was citing, it worked.  Can anyone give me a citation
to such a method?
David Ames

I do note that the Gemini Moon (ruler of querent and Ascendant) is
forming trines to Aquarius and Libra planets, with  Mercury (ruler of
books) being first.  Surely this book is going to be found.  I recall
that once I was looking for a snow shovel.  Mars was rising in
Cancer.  The bladed tool was in the kitchen.  The mislaid book
(question asked with Cancer rising) ought to be in the kitchen, not
because a chart suggests it may be hidden there (Moon  in 12th), but
because that is where I remember leaving it.
David Ames

The book has been found! Yes, it was in the kitchen (west or
southwest corner of the house), and yes, it was hidden. It was in a
tote bag hanging on the very chair where I remembered leaving it. It
had gone with me when we took a trip to the Emergency Room last
Monday. Am I glad I didn't have to wait four days to rediscover it!

I can't possibly guess which house might represent a library, but I
can guess that Saturn has rulership over amassed objects.

David Ames

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Post by David Ames
The book has been found! Yes, it was in the kitchen (west or
southwest corner of the house), and yes, it was hidden. It was in a
tote bag hanging on the very chair where I remembered leaving it. It
had gone with me when we took a trip to the Emergency Room last
Monday. Am I glad I didn't have to wait four days to rediscover it!
I can't possibly guess which house might represent a library, but I
can guess that Saturn has rulership over amassed objects.

Can't put it off any longer... here's what I came up with. I'd have posted
earlier, but since you'd already found the book I chickened out.

Lilly in "Christian Astrology" gives two horary methods for finding an
object. The first involves finding the house corresponding to the owner,
then considering the ruler of the house after that ("2nd house" relative to
the owner's house). Taking libraries as 3rd, the ruler of the 4th is
Mercury in Aqu, 8th. (Mercury is also natural signifier of books.) You
also have to consider the Moon and the Asc ruler, which here IS the Moon -
in Gem, 12th. That all being in air signs should mean it was raised up in
some way, perhaps in an attic, or on a high shelf near the ceiling. If
libraries are 9th, the 10th ruler is Jupiter, in Aries 10th, but on balance
it should still have been high up.

According to an old rule Lilly doesn't subscribe to, the Lord of the Hour in
4th means the north to northwest part of the house. Lilly's own rule means
balancing a great mess of factors, but the result did seem to be west if
anything.

Personally I prefer Lilly's second method, by which the sole signifier of
the object is the Moon.
The first aspect she applied to was to Mercury, the ruler of the house she
was in, which meant it'd be found quite readily. Venus and Jupiter applying
to Asc, should have meant returned by the help of "some trusty person"; but
in fact I was as much use as a chocolate teapot.

This method gave rather different indications of place. Moon in Gem,
possibly NE. Moon in 12th, ESE. Lord of Moon's house (Mer) in humane sign,
a place frequented by people. Moon in Air sign, high up. Condition of the
Moon generally (Gemini, trine Mer & Sat), suggested to me that it was on a
high bookshelf, maybe among dusty old books that aren't looked at, and I'm
glad I didn't get the chance to say so. Moon more than 90 degrees from her
ruler supposedly meant not in the same town!

How lost; Asc ruler last separated from Jupiter: "fast or abstinency, or
ordering of Laws, or by his excess of care of governing of things, or
managing the affairs of the house, or by some trust put upon him that
carried it away." Don't see what that has to do with anything! I think
your common-sense reading (Cancer rising and Moon in 12th - hidden away in
the kitchen) wins the day. Common-sense readings often do, I find!