Missing Item Horary Chart
Where is the silver endcap?
Walking through the shopping centre car park on my way to offer walk-in astrology readings at the crystal shop, I reached up to touch my necklace. It is a pendant on a chain, or, more specifically, a silver cylinder filled with materia magica and sealed under auspicious stars. I love my Jupiter talisman because it brings me wisdom, good luck and abundance. I was disappointed to discover one of the endcaps was missing. I retraced my steps thinking it may have fallen out in the car, the upholstery muffling the sound of it landing. No luck.
I took the incomplete necklace off and put it in the pocket of my handbag. I rang my husband and asked him to keep his eyes open at home, as it may have fallen off before I left the house. I worked for several hours. It was not a lucrative day.
Once home, I looked in all the places I’d been in the course of getting ready that morning, paying particular attention to soft furnishings as I hadn’t heard it land on the wooden floors. No luck.
Being an astrologer who had run into a dead end, I cast a horary chart and stared at it for some time.
Missing item horary chart: Where is the silver endcap?
Capricorn rising seemed somewhat ominous, burdensome, but then it was a Saturday and I had been at work doing my duty sharing planetary wisdom with the world. More fortuitously, Capricorn rising meant the object and I shared a significator – Saturn retrograde in Pisces in the 3rd house – due to Aquarius being on the cusp of the 2nd house. Saturn is in a cadent house which does not enhance the prospects of recovery; however, being retrograde, Saturn is applying by sextile to the Ascendant, which is promising.
Immediately after the sextile to the ascendant, Saturn forms a received square to Jupiter. It is received because Jupiter rules Pisces, the sign where Saturn is; Jupiter is interested in what’s going on in the houses it rules. I needed to double-check that retrograde Saturn reached these earlier degrees in my ephemeris. And it did.
The shared significators and Saturn more-or-less simultaneously connecting with both the ascendant and a benefic planet, cheered me up significantly. The endcap wanted to come back to me.
But when would I get it back? Years from now by chance? Or soon due to my active involvement? And where would I find it?
Capricorn is a cardinal sign and Aries, the sign of the Moon, is also cardinal. It’s the get-up-and-go mode of the zodiac. This suggested I would find the endcap sooner rather than later. My enthusiasm and agitation to find the item certainly fitted with the impatient Aries Moon.
The Moon is also a co-significator for the missing item. The Moon in the 4th house told me the endcap was somewhere at home; and Aries, as a fire sign, suggested it was near a heat source. Angular planets are always important and with Neptune in Pisces close to the IC, which suggests water and plumbing, the kitchen, or perhaps a bathroom seemed likely contenders.
Consulting my notes on directions, Aries is associated with East and the 4th house corresponds to North. My kitchen is roughly north-east and my daughter’s bathroom east-ish. I’d been in both these rooms earlier that day to get a muesli bar from the pantry and a comb from the vanity drawers.
Oddly specific details there, right? Why did I mention them? Because Saturn, our 2nd house ruler, is in a mutable sign, and mutable signs are often connected to nested items, like a shelf in a cupboard in the hallway or a box in a drawer in a cabinet.
Unfortunately, a sweep of these areas failed to glean results and I posted the following lament to social media.
Slightly perturbed, I turned my attention to tidying the kitchen (as you do when you’re middle-aged and in a bit of a mood). Lo and behold! I opened the cupboard door to my ‘hidden’ laundry (more poshly called a European laundry, lah dee dah) and there on the edge of the sink is the silver endcap. Hurrah!
I was so happy, I hastily posted this update:
Our boarder, Daniel, is a lovely young man who lives downstairs and pops up to use the washing machine. I went to thank him immediately but he seemed somewhat perplexed by my overflow of appreciation and joy. English is his second language, I was speaking excitedly, and he was busy with my husband hanging some blinds. Plus he had no idea this was a magic endcap. Quite a while later, my husband told me Daniel had found the endcap inside the washing machine.
It was then that I remembered that I’d accidentally washed the necklace, having put it in the pocket of my jeans the previous week. Somehow in the busy-ness of getting ready for work, I put it on without realising the endcap was missing. The last aspect of the Moon (square to the ascendant) describes how the item was lost. It was all me. Saturn, ruler of the ascendant, is traditionally associated with forgetfulness that leads to the loss of the quesited item. Neptune on the anaretic degree of Pisces close to the IC certainly didn’t help either.
Inside the washing machine in my European laundry-in-a-cupboard in my kitchen.
Despite my wayward overwatered mind, I am over the moon to seal the magic in again. I am a slightly worried that, like me, the planetary spirit vessel is also feeling muddled-headed and worse for wear. The ride in the washing machine bent the loops that hold the chain so I am going to take it to a silversmith for repair. Given I too am ‘retrograde Saturn in Pisces in the 3rd house’, I will try to be more methodical and continue my education in the traditional magical arts.
Have you lost something important to you? A horary consultation can help you get it back or bring a sense of closure if it can’t be recovered. I love horary astrology and I’d love to help you find your lost item.