covenrochester | Entries tagged with prediction

Another instance of the Queen of Heaven speaking as clear as crystal on a matter of great importance to a Seeker.

FACTS: A female Seeker, 37 years old, accidentally forwarded an inappropriate visual email joke to an office email list. Before anyone could complain, she went to the Personnel Department of her company and confessed the error. The Personnel Department told her that they would conduct an investigation and get back to her within the week. She telephoned the Magister within the hour with this question: "Will I lose my job?" I telephoned her back within the next hour:

JUDGMENT: Yes, the company will fire you in five days, on February 21.

RESULT: And so it was.

( If You Want To Read The Technicalities of Judgment )

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester

It is not necessary, per se, to understand astrology to practice the Craft of the Wise. But it helps indirectly in various ways to know its basic cosmology and symbolism. It informs the symbols and meanings of our Sabbats. It can be used as a means of answering divinatory questions, from finding lost objects and people, to predicting the course of relationships, to determining the causes of illness in the body (within reason, if one is not a medical doctor), to predicting elections, sporting events, and the outcomes of civil and criminal litigation. It can show us how an individual, too, or even a dynasty or country, fits within the Great Pattern. It also keeps us grounded in the structure of reality. As Witches, we are sometimes called upon by the Gods to be the instruments of shaping reality in certain directions through our spells and magical workings. If we do not face the reality of something as it actually is, we are unlikely to be able to shape that reality successfully into something else.

In this posting, I again look at astrology's marvelous divinatory form. For some predictions, one does not have to wait very long to see if one is correct. A sporting event, for instance. Or finding a lost object. Or picking the day when a package will arrive in the mail, or determining when a friend will call you next. Or predicting if the Seeker will get a certain job he has applied for. Apprentice astrologers practice on such things regularly and can get immediate satisfaction. I, myself, have twice predicted the day when the Seeker would receive a job offer, and I sat in the Seeker's office as the telephone call came. Very gratifying indeed!

But some predictions are slower coming to fruition, and this chart is an example. One of the benefits to practicing astrology for a long time is seeing even one's long term predictions come to pass. And if you receive personal instruction in the art--a lineage of sorts--amazing charts and predictions get passed down from teacher to student. This is such a chart, more than worthy of being used to instruct others.

FACTS: The Seeker was a woman in her mid-20s. She was not dating anyone at the time of the question. She asked:

Will I ever get married? If so, when?
How or where will we meet?
What does he look like?
What does he do for a living?
Will I be happy in the marriage?

The only other note I would add to the chart above is that the Part of Marriage is at 15 Gemini 11, making Mercury the dispositor or symbol of the marriage, itself.

I will not go through the entire process of judgment (which took me 4 1/2 pages when writing it out), but this was my answer to the Seeker:

JUDGMENT: Yes, you will get married, in a bit less than 5 years from the time of the question. Both of you are not yet living in the city where you will meet, so you will both move to a common city in the future. You will meet at an evening class, library, church, on holiday, or through a dating service. His build will be muscular but wiry, with thick dark hair and a darker complexion. You will be quite magnetically attracted to his masculine charms. He has a visible scar on one foot. He will be mainly interested in himself and his own needs, although he will be concerned about your womanhood and fertility. As for job, he will likely be in the finance industry such as a stocks or commodities broker, but other possibilities are working with chemistry, or even a cook or a baker. The marriage will not be a particularly happy one, and emotionally turbulent for you at times. Although it will last, there will be talk of divorce, but both of you will want to avoid it. He is currently, i.e., at the time of the question, having a romantic affair with a friend. Don't get jealous about this! You haven't met him yet, after all.

RESULT: The Seeker married in March 2012, just shy of 5 years. He was an Indian man raised in London. They met in Washington DC after both of them moved there for work. He is tall, lean, dark-haired, and dark complected. He is very good looking with a soccer player's lean musculature. When he was a child, he broke one of his baby toes on one of his feet, and it never set right, so it juts out from his foot. He had a career as a commodities broker, but left that in London, moved to DC, and was working at a nonprofit company. As they were dating, he insisted that he try to get her pregnant, as he wanted children and he wanted to make sure they were fertile together. The last I knew, they had two daughters. The Seeker told me that she was extremely attracted to him when they met, and that he is a rather self-centered person.

Although not 100% accurate (visible scar on foot versus jutting toe), it is more than sufficient to constitute a prediction fulfilled. Keep in mind, too, that traditional astrology is a rule-based discipline. Every thing I concluded can be easily justified from the chart. NO CLAIRVOYANCE ALLOWED. Your teacher would rap your knuckles with a ruler if you dared try to slip in psychic perception. The art must be guarded from nonrepeatable assertions, and its only guardians are those who teach and practice it.

We don't need psychic perception for astrology, anyway. The Goddess Above, the Queen of Heaven, already speaks plainly enough, if you will learn Her movements and language:

see: https://covenrochester.dreamwidth.org/9380.html

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester

Geomancy Chart, 1946

Witches have little patience with modern fortune-telling fakery, in which the holy art of divination is reduced to nebulous life-coaching, counseling, or unlicensed psychological therapy. The goal for those of the Wicca who specialize in divination should be to answer questions clearly and accurately, with specific and verifiable predictions of events. Leave counseling, therapy, and psychology to those who have earned degrees in them through education.

Here is a chart that I was assigned when I was learning geomancy. The geomancy master of my own geomancy master cast this chart in 1946. This is one of the great benefits to having a lineage in any art or tradition -- thousands of verified examples are available to train people. I still use this chart for training purposes. I will spare the reader the complete technical judgment, but you are welcome to email and ask for it.

FACTS: 19-year-old woman, whether she would marry, what profession her husband would be, whether they would be well off financially, and whether they would have children.

JUDGMENT: The Q will marry. Her HUSBAND will be above average height, slim build, handsome, and of pleasant disposition. The marriage will be a happy one only if the couple maintains a steady and healthy sex life, otherwise the ungrounded sexual energy will turn into aggression and arguments. The HUSBAND'S PROFESSION will be intellectual, managing, design, or sales work related to property, thus along the lines of REAL ESTATE AGENT, ARCHITECT, PROPERTY MANAGER, or perhaps ACCOUNTANT or ESTATE ATTORNEY. The HUSBAND will be the money-maker of the family, and he will be successful in his career. The Q will not produce money for the marriage, but will be occupied raising the couple's TWO SONS.

RESULT: Q married a somewhat older man, 29 years old, an ARCHITECT, in 1949. He was successful in his career, and eventually a partner in his firm. Two sons, born 1950 and 1952.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester

The Magister has been receiving quite a few hurricane-related requests for assistance over the last couple of days. Here is a redrawn chart from a worried Querent who asked whether her friend in Florida would be okay (i.e., safe) during the hurricane and its aftermath.

The Querent is represented by Venus at 29 Virgo and the Moon at 7 Scorpio. You can see how worried the Querent is. Venus is in fall, a terrible state of debility, and the Moon is fall, in the Via Combusta, and carries Venus into detriment. The Querent's emotions are doing a number on her mind. She cannot think clearly. She is in a spiraling state of alarm. She'll snap out of it, soon, though. Venus will enter Libra, her sign of domicile, and gain a huge amount of dignity. The overexcited emotional Moon will conjunct the Dragon's Tail and deflate into the proper perspective of reality. Those are good signs.

The Querent's friend is Lord 11, Mercury, Rx, at 25 Virgo. The friend is in her own sign and house, so that is a good sign. But Mercury is about to move into an opposition with Neptune, the Lord of the Seas, and the Earthshaker, as Homer calls him. Not good. But not unexpected, either. The friend, after all, is getting exposed to a HURRICANE. So, as always, the chart mirrors reality. An opposition: it will not be a pleasant experience, and the friend will probably have some regrets over it. And yes, it is a nasty Hurricane. A nasty Sun -- the Sun is in detriment in Libra -- is about to conjunct Neptune by antiscion, too.

But, will the friend be safe? She will. At least, she isn't going to die. We have two candidates for Death in this chart. One is the radical Lord 8. That's Venus. Venus is not going to aspect Mercury. Mercury's moving backward away from Death/Venus. The second candidate for Death is the lord of the friend's turned House 8, which is radical House 6, giving Jupiter as the Lord, i.e., the second possible mask for Death. Mercury Rx and Jupiter Rx were recently conjunct by antiscion, but they have been moving away from each other since then. Sure, Mercury will soon enter STATION and turn DIRECT, at which point it will probably catch up with Jupiter. But that's too far out in the future to concern us and, moreover, remember the rule: conjunction by antiscion cannot show a death. In answer to the question, "Will my friend die?" the Queen of Heaven is not saying, "No, child," but "HELL NO, child!"

So, the friend will go through a terrible and wet experience thanks to Neptune-Earthshaker-Lord-of-the-Seas, but she will live. So says the Queen of Heaven.

There are a couple of card spreads that are easy for beginners to do. So easy, in fact, that all you really need to know is the meaning of the suits. Here is one such:

Instructions From a Witch's Workbook on Cartomancy

THE WEEKLY ENQUIRY SPREAD

This spread is easy to learn because only the meaning of the suits are used, and the specific meaning of the suited cards' pips can be ignored, if desired. The method yields information concerning the next 7 days, and answers a general "yes or no" question.

The Seeker shuffles the cards while thinking of his question, then cuts the cards into 3 packs. The Reader removes the top card of each pack and lays them aside, starting a row that will proceed from left to right. This process is repeated 4 more times until there are 15 cards in a row.

The Reader tuns over the two cards at either end of the row, which together will represent the "tone" of the follow day.

The left-hand card always takes precedence while the right-hand card is a modifier.

For instance, if the left card is a SPADE, and the right card is a CLUB, giving SPADE-CLUB, there will be difficulties but they can be overcome with work, effort, and enterprise. If the left is a DIAMOND and the right a HEART, giving DIAMOND-HEART, material things will bring pleasure and enjoyment.

The next pair of cards will show the day after tomorrow, and so on, until all the fortunate and unfortunate days of the week have been determined.

The single card remaining in the middle answers the Seeker's question, as follows:

HEART: yes
SPADE: no
DIAMOND: possibly
CLUB: probably

MONTHLY ENQUIRY: One may also deal a monthly enquiry of 4 weeks, using only 9 cards. The middle card can be used to answer a question or read first to give a tone for the entire month. Read the 4 pairs as above, a pair for each week.

From a Recent Reading

Of course, if you are knowledgeable in the specific meanings of the cards---not just the suits---you can give more detailed predictions for each day. Don't expect startling revelations, though. The predictions are often quite mundane, but still can be impressive in their accuracy.

For instance, I did a Weekly Enquiry for a man last week, and his two cards for Monday were as above -- the 5 of Spades, and the 2 of Hearts. My interpretation just from the SPADE-HEART combination was: "Your energy level will be low today and you will not feel like doing much." The 5 of Spades and 2 of Hearts is a common combination indicating pills or medication, because the 5 of Spades can indicate ill-health and the 2 of Hearts can indicate the restoration of harmony. So I added in a more specific prediction: "If you take medication, you must check your stock of pills. You are running out of one of them and will need to re-order them."

The day after this prediction was to come to pass, the Seeker contacted me and told me that he had checked his medication and realized that he was soon to be out of one of them. All day he meant to re-order them, but forgot. Later that night, he received an email from his pharmacy telling him that he needed to re-order.

So, you see . . . mundane and not very earth-shattering in significance, but still accurate and helpful.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester

A Chart Shown To Me Recently By a Student

The student's friend was taken to hospital, and the student immediately consulted the heavens to determine if his friend would die.

My answer was: Yes, almost immediately. Imminent death is shown by the immediate applying square between Mars (playing the role of the Friend) and Mercury (playing the role of Death). If you are skilled, you will also note that Mars and Mercury not only aspect bodily, but that they are immediately applying to conjunction by antiscion. This is not an uncommon pattern -- two aspects indicating death quickly following one another. The first usually indicates functional but not literal death, where the person lapses into unconsciousness or coma, and the second usually indicates literal death a few hours later.

So it was here. The friend had passed over by the next morning.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

One commonly hears the opinion these days that one CANNOT predict death by means of divination. That is 100% verifiably false. One CAN and, in most instances, quite easily, even unto timing the death. Whether one SHOULD predict death is another question altogether, and involves ethical considerations. I, personally, will calculate dates of death if a person can convince me there is a good reason for doing it. Otherwise, I will not do it.

Soon I will post one of my own charts on death. My brother called me to tell me that my mother was taken to the hospital in the middle of the night and, in his words, "it didn't look good." He sounded worried, and that made me worry. I immediately consulted the heavens to determine whether she would die and, if death was not imminent, what the problem was. I knew within the hour what it took her doctors days to determine.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester