I must confess that this horary was more to test just how exact this hermetic art can be than to find out where the object in question actually was. Because I knew where it was. Yesterday, while showering, I lost my earring, an Ankh, and saw it fall down the bath drain.
On returning to the bedroom, I decided to cast a chart. With Leo rising, I am Lord 1 and find myself in the 9th house, exalted in Aries. I attribute this position more to the fact that I was slightly irritated by what had happened, something typical of a Sun in the choleric cardinal Fire of Aries. Right from the outset we also see the South Node in the 1st house and the Moon going through the motions in the 6th, negative testimonies in favour of recovery. I immediately took it as lost and did not look in this chart for many points in favour of getting it back.
The 2nd house represents the querent’s possessions and therefore the earring. With the house cusp in Virgo, we have Mercury as Lord 2 positioned in the opposite 8th house, the house of loss. Also, it is in detriment and in fall, an earring in a bad state, obviously drowned in the Water of Pisces. These are not fixed waters, but mutable, which reflect well the sort of pipework that depends on turning a tap on or off. To paraphrase The Godfather: my earring is sleeping with the pisces. Besides that, the 8th house, when applied to the home, represents bathrooms and toilets.
Another interesting detail is the fact that Mercury is void of course, with no aspects left to perfect while still in Pisces. Which is to say: it is isolated in the pipes, with no contact with any rescuing forces, stuck in that 8th house, one of those that does not see the Ascendant and is dark and gloomy.
Obviously, the symbolism of Mercury is also interesting, associated by syncretism with Hermes-Thoth, so often depicted holding an Ankh in his hand. There we have it… Horary in all its splendour of symbolic precision. I will miss my earring, though.
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