covenrochester | Geomancy: Missing Wife

A geomancer in Africa asked me to take a look at this missing person chart. I am going to talk him through it by the Socratic method so he can learn from the chart, but I thought I would point out a couple of things.

FACTS: The Querent's wife went on a business trip to Dubai. After a couple of weeks, her telephone stopped working, and the husband has not heard from her since. Is the Wife alive? Where is she? Is she coming home?

If these questions were asked of me, I would want to know more information before I decided whether I would give the Q the correct answers. The geomancer himself cast the chart on behalf of the client. That makes the Geomancer HOUSE 1. The client is HOUSE 7. The client's wife is HOUSE 1 again. So, Ms. Wife is HOUSE 1, ACQUISITIO. ACQUISITIO jumps from HOUSE 1 to HOUSE 3. Do dead people jump? No, they do not. :D Therefore, at the time the chart was cast, Ms. Wife was alive. That is confirmed by both HOUSE 1 and HOUSE 3 being inconjunct to HOUSE 8 (Death). CAUDA, the figure of HOUSE 8, jumps to HOUSE 11 and makes aspects with ACQUISITIO in HOUSES 1 and 3, but their reception figure, PUELLA, is not persuasive testimony of death.

Whether I would tell the Q where the Wife is, I am not sure. I looked at their relationship. HOUSE 1/Wife (ACQUISITIO) + HOUSE 7/Husband (TRISTITIA) = RUBEUS, a violent, passionate Mars figure. Well, that's kind of horrible, innit? So, I would answer the "is she coming home?" question with this: "I don't know, Mr. Querent. Were you nice to her? Or were your horrible to her? Were you violent to her? Have you hit her? Would you want to come back home to you if you were she?"

If he was an abusive husband, I might not answer the other questions. In all likelihood, I probably would not answer any of the questions, including whether she were alive.

VIA is the natural ruler of fugitives. Another relevant testimony: VIA in HOUSE 12: someone fleeing and in hiding.

When teaching divination, the Witch under whom you study will cover such touchy questions as this. There are several classes of question which I will not answer, or will not answer without the greatest justification. The Witch will also teach you to reject questions with false logic built into them. They must be rejected inasmuch as even the most expert diviner cannot answer them. False logic in questions is a huge problem in published divination material. When a Witch teaches divination, the most important thing she is teaching you is HOW TO THINK IN ACCORDANCE WITH REALITY. Everything else pales in comparison.

You might think: "How can I get the job I just applied for?" might be a reasonable question. It is not. It actually has an assumption built into it, and there is not a single person on Earth or in the Otherworld that could answer it as stated.

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