Chris Brennan, Astrologer

How is a horary consultation conducted?

The first step is to formulate your question clearly, and then you should send it to me in an email by using the address listed on my contact page. If your question is relatively straight forward and answerable then I shouldn't need any additional information, although please include any pertinent background information that is necessary in order to understand the question fully. If the question is unclear then I may need to ask you for clarification.

Once I have received your question and cast the chart I will start working on the delineation. Usually a horary consultation consists of a two or three page written report which provides the answer to the question as well as a detailed explanation of why I came to the conclusion that I did regarding the outcome.

The written report will then be sent to you as a PDF file via email, along with a copy of the horary chart that was cast. If you need any further clarification after that point then we can correspond about it by email.

If you need any clarification about this process then please feel free to contact me before you pose your question.

Rules for Asking Horary Questions

There are a few important rules to keep in mind when asking a horary question. Please take a moment to read through the rules below before you send me your question, as they play an important role in both helping to properly formulate horary questions, as well as in determining which questions I can actually answer.

• The question must be important to the person asking it. This statement has two meanings. The first is that in order for a horary chart to give an accurate answer the question must have a significant degree of mental or emotional meaning to the person who is asking it. Trivial matters do not make for good horary questions. In some sense it is best if the person asking the question is so consumed by it and needs it answered badly enough that it almost doesn't matter what the outcome is, because they simply want to know the answer even if it doesn't work out the way that they would prefer. A good horary question is one that has been eating away at a person for at least a night and a day, so much so that by the time that it is posed to the astrologer it has fully matured and can be articulated very precisely. The other meaning to the above rule is that a horary question has to have great importance to the questioner him or herself in a personal way, and therefore questions should not be asked for other people, or about other people's business unless it has direct personal meaning to the person asking. Some would object to this rule, and in certain cases there are exceptions, but in general I ask that this be followed pretty closely by my clients.
• The question must be answerable. This seems pretty self-explanatory. The question must be verifiable. Horary doesn't work very well with most spiritual questions concerning karma, or reincarnation, theology and other such things like speculative history and philosophy for example. For example, "what is the meaning of life" is not a legitimate horary question, since there is no viable way to answer the question with the techniques of horary astrology.
• The question can only be asked once. This is a generally accepted rule for most forms of divination, such as Tarot and the I-Ching for example. The only possible exception being that if a great deal of time has passed and circumstances have changed significantly since the last time you asked the question, then it may be permissible to ask the question again in light of the new circumstances.
• Only one question at a time. This is also a pretty simple and generally accepted rule. At any given horary consultation only one question may be asked at that time. Part of the reason being that this ensures that the question asked is of the utmost importance to the querent. The other reason is that horary astrology relies on a very narrow technical framework, and within the context of that framework it is usually not possible to distinguish between multiple questions in the same chart. So, only one question per horary.

Proper and Improper Horary Questions

Horary can be much more specific and precise than natal astrology, which can be both good and bad in certain instances. While it is very good at answering specific questions like "will I get the job?", it is not very good at asking broader ranging questions such as "what kind of a career am I best suited for?".

Most horary questions should be answerable with a straight forward 'yes' or 'no' response. Additionally, the question should be directed towards determining something that either will or will not happen in the future, although it should not be directed towards determining whether the questioner 'should' or should not do something in the future. Horary is useful for determining what will happen in the future, but it is not very useful for asking advice about what actions one should take.

For example "should I take the job offer?" would not be an appropriate horary question, because whether or not the job 'should' be taken is ambiguous and involves some sort of subjective value judgement about the quality of the job and its appropriateness for you at that point in your life, presumably. A more appropriate horary question would be "will I get the job?" because it references something that definitely will or will not happen in the future, and thus it has a straightforward yes or no answer. This is important because the second question can be depicted in a horoscopic chart with much less ambiguity or subjective value judgements on my part, whereas that is not the case in the first instance.

So, please do not pose questions about what you 'should' do, but instead think more in terms of questions about what 'will' happen in the future.

One final point here: the question answered by the horary chart is always the one that is posed to the astrologer, exactly as it is phrased, so it is important to think about your question quite a bit beforehand and to phrase it very precisely.

Not sure if your question is appropriate for horary?

Sometimes people that are unfamiliar with horary astrology have a hard time determining if they have a legitimate horary question to ask. A good way to figure this out is to determine if your question has any association with one of the 12 houses of a horoscopic chart, which astrologers use to designate topics or areas of life.

What follows is a list of the 12 houses and some of the topics that are associated with each house, as well as a few relevant examples of typical horary questions that are associated with each of the houses.

• 1st house: life, body, health, vitality, the basic physical constitution of the native.


• 2nd house: material objects, possessions, money, wealth, things that the native owns in general.
  • Example: "Will I get my laptop computer back?"
• 3rd house: siblings, travel, being abroad, education, etc.


• 4th house: home, parents, family, residence, living situation, etc.
• "Will I move?"
• 5th house: children, pregnancy, sex, etc.
  • "Am I pregnant?"
• 6th house: illnesses, injuries, work, your job, etc.
  • "Will I get the job?"
• 7th house: relationships, marriage, partnerships, other people in general, etc.
  • "Will Jane and I get married?"
• 8th house: death, the money or possessions of other people, inheritance, benefits from death, etc.


• 9th house: foreign countries, travel, higher education and schooling, foreigners, etc.
  • "Will I get accepted into the university?"
• 10th house: career, what one does, social standing, reputation, superiors, etc.
• "Will I become the president of the company?"
• 11th house: friends, associates, groups, social movements, alliances, etc.


• 12th house: loss, enemies, jail, long term ailments and sickness, etc.

Cost, Payment and Contact Information

The price for a horary consultation is $40 per question, to be paid via the PayPal 'buy now' button on this page once you have submitted the question for delineation. Please be sure to contact me first through the email address listed on the contact page so that you can pose the question and confirm that it is something that I can answer. As stated above, please pose the question very precisely and clearly in your email, and I will get back to you as soon as possible.