Olympus voice recorder

My voice recorder is this nifty little digital thing made by Olympus, no bigger than 5 Marlboro Light 100’s side by side. It’s a handy little gadget, and it’s what I use to record my chart readings.

This morning I sat down with a chart and my cup of tea, ready to start a reading for a wonderful client. But I could not find my recorder! I looked everywhere. I retraced my steps. I looked in the drawers. I looked in between the books. I looked under the desk. I looked in the drawers again. I looked in the trash. No recorder. Do you ever lose something, get stupefied, and start looking in the most ridiculous of places hoping it will turn up? That’s how far things had gone.

So I thought, what do I have to lose here. And I ran a horary chart.

Where is my recorder?

horary chart

I tried horary years ago, but I got confused and frustrated, and abandoned it for other things. So I cleared the cobwebs from my bookshelf and opened up Tony Louis’s Horary Astrology Plain and Simple.

Chapter 12, Finding Lost Items. The significator of the lost item is the first thing to work out. Is it the 2nd house because it’s my possession, or the 3rd house because it’s technical equipment? No matter, the 2nd house cusp is Capricorn and the 3rd house cusp is Aquarius. Both have Saturn as the traditional ruler. Makes sense, as this thing is a tool for my work.

Okay, Saturn’s in the 9th house.

The significator of me, the querent, is Jupiter, over there in the shadowy 12th house, square Saturn, the ruler of my recorder. I’m not liking the looks of that! But I press on.

The 9th is a cadent house. Louis writes, “Cadent houses signify hidden, concealed, or secret locations.” Greeeaaat. But a few paragraphs down, he gives me a clue that breaks this case wide open. “If near a house cusp, then near a door, window, or passage between rooms.” I check the bag hanging from my doorknob. No luck. I check the chest of drawers next to the door. Nope. I open the window shade. TA-DA! There it is, sitting on the windowsill, absolutely concealed by the shades. A happy ending!

Shifting gears for a moment, if any of you are market watchers, did you know the stock market is doing exactly opposite what astrologers are expecting it to do? Lynn Hayes posted an article about it recently. I just started watching the market, but I have long known that Jupiter square Saturn historically has brought higher interest rates and inflation. But the market chugs on. I wonder if the other shoe is going to drop, and if so, when? Any thoughts on that?