Alan Leo: Horary Astrologer?

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

Alan Leo a horary astrologer? Alan Leo is known today as one of the reformers who was directly responsible for inventing modern astrology. For one of the best renditions of his influence in this matter, I recommend Patrick Curry’s book, A Confusion of Prophets. Victorian and…

Continue readingHorary Astrology and Divination, by Alan Leo

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

Alan Leo a horary astrologer? Alan Leo is known today as one of the reformers who was directly responsible for inventing modern astrology. For one of the best renditions of his influence in this matter, I recommend Patrick Curry’s book, A Confusion of Prophets. Victorian and Edwardian Astrology (1992). Since modern astrology distanced…

Continue readingAlan Leo: A Personal Horary Example (1898)

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

Many of the writers of the 19th c. and early 20th c. used pseudonyms, and I don’t know who Astrolabus was. This horary was published in the June 1898 (pp 328-330) edition of Coming Events, which was the magazine published by Sepharial after he split with Alan Leo.

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Continue readingA Horary from Astrolabus (1898)

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

This is one of the examples that Alan Leo published in Modern Astrology: pages 157-158 of Volume 3, 1893. Later, Leo would reprise these published horaries as his examples in Horary Astrology. I should add that this is another example of a “horary” that I wouldn’t accept as such:…

Continue readingA Horary by Henry: Who shall I bet on, Harrison or Cleveland?(1893)

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

This is one of the examples that Alan Leo published in Modern Astrology: pages 326-327 of Volume 3, 1893. Later, Leo would reprise these published horaries as his examples in Horary Astrology. I have to admit that this is in the category of horaries I would not personally allow,…

Continue readingEdwin Casael: Is the English nation the lost sheep of the House of Israel? (1893)

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

This is one of the examples that Alan Leo published in Modern Astrology: pages 326-327 of Volume 3, 1893. Later, Leo would reprise these published horaries as his examples in Horary Astrology. Part of what is interesting about this example is what it shows of Casael’s method: because he…

Continue readingEdwin Casael: Two Partnership Horaries (1893), Part 2

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This is one of the examples that Alan Leo published in Modern Astrology: pages 326-327 of Volume 2, Number 2, September 1891. Later, Leo would reprise these published horaries as his examples in Horary Astrology.

Horary Question: Boy Missing from Home
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The Horary Examples of Ebinezor Sibly (1790, 1817)

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

I have hade several clients who have premised their horaries on similar questions: deciding upon a financial instrument based on either one’s life expectancy, or one’s immediate prospect of getting sick. Notice here with the question of length of life, Sibly proceeded because…

Continue readingEbinezor Sibly: QUESTION 1. On the LENGTH OF LIFE (1790)

Text Copyright 2007 J. Lee Lehman

Thanks to multiple reprints, many modern astrologers are acquainted with the works of W.J. Simmonite. However, those reprints of his horary work have been based on the 6th Edition, which was published posthumously in 1896, with commentary (and some changes) by John Story. The text here is quoted from the 1st Edition, pp 55-56.

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Continue readingW.J. Simmonite: Of the time of erecting a horary figure (1851)