Will my mother recover from this illness?

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11th. October 2021, 4:34 pm, Worcester, UK. 18 degress 50 minutes Aquarius rising.

The querent's mother is very old and frail, has dementia and is currently in hospital with pneumonia. The querent asked, "Will my mother recover from this illness?

The mother is represented by lord 10, Jupiter, at 22 degrees Aquarius and Rx in the 1st. house. With her being so old and frail it seemed sensible to check whether she was going to die. Lord 8, Venus, makes no aspect to Jupiter. The turned eighth lord, Mercury, is separating from a trine with Jupiter, suggesting the worst is over and she will recover.

However, both Mercury and Jupiter are Rx and both will soon turn direct, and when they do Mercury will apply to trine Juptier again. I fear this will signify her passing. Am I mistaken?
H.

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Harlequin,

I agree with you, the worst is behind her.
- The Sun, frailed vitality just moved away from Mars and applies by trine to JupiterL1
- MercuryR L8 moving away from JupiterR L1
- The Moon is trine Fortuna and also to the Part of Sickness 29Lib21 but her mental condition may deteriorate as the Moon is moving in Detriment in Capricorn.
- Her 6th House Lord - Venus in Detriment in her 12th conjunct SN and the Part of Death 1 Sag 58 - It shows the chronic disease and it says she will die in hospital or nursing home.

According to Ptolemy's calculations, the Sun is the Hyleg in her chart. I would watch when the Sun will enter Sagittarius to conjunct Part of Death, SN and VenusL6 as a critical moment for her.
That's also the time when MercuryL8 will come back Direct to trine JupiterL1 portending a peaceful death.

Please don't quote me on this. The time of her death is really a long shot for me here. If you have her birthchart, check the midpoint Mars/Saturn as it moves by hard aspect to her natal Sun, Moon or ASC.

Blessings and good luck,
Ouranos
Blessings!

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Ouranos, thank you. Unfortunately I don't have her birth chart.

Despite the chart giving a positive answer to the querent's question, (Will my mum recover from this illness?: yes, she will recover, turned lord 8 is moving away from Jupiter, I am reluctant to give her this answer because of Mercury and Jupiter turning direct very soon and once more applying to trine. I fear that this time she will not survive when turned lord 8, Mercury, perfects the trine.

As they do not apply to aspect in this chart, it's very difficult to give a timing. I guess the best answer to give the querent is yes, she's just survived a life-threatening episode but be prepared for another one soon which she might not survive, given her frailty and age, so be prepared for the worst.
H.

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Hello

What I have notice with this kind of situations where Mercury is retro is that the conclusion comes when mercury being direct goes and perfect the matter. So probably, this time there isn't much time left for her and her health altough she is recovering it will deteriote again faster than we might think. Also, the chart was casted with mercury at 14 degrees, so check what happen when mercury direct go trought 14 degrees so that's around 25th Octuber, probably the person that asked for your help will worry again for her mother health or what he might think that is a recover, isn't one.

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Thank you Maleja.rangel.

I spoke to the querent today. She went and visited her mum today in hospital. The doctors said she is improving, which the chart shows, and they are thinking of discharging her into a nursing home. But I cautioned the querent that there was likely to be another crisis for her mum when Mercury trines Jupiter very soon. I think the querent is prepared for her mum's passing, she says it's very distressing seeing her mum suffering and thinks it would be a blessing for her to pass peacefully. We shall see when Mercury and Jupiter perfect the trine soon.
H.

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In her chart, MercuryL8 (death) gets a score of -22 in Ptolemy's table.
- Retrograde
- Peregrine
- Oriental
- Combust
- conjunct Mars (The pause Retro to prevent the conjunction for now)
- Besieged
Blessings!

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Ouranos, would you mind if I ask you something? Probably this is very novice thing to ask, but I’m learning, you said in her chart Mercury gives a -22 score and explained why, but in this case Mercury will leave that state and will recover from being combust and all the things you mention. Does it change the outcome? Probably if mercury would apply again in such a conditions will show a bad death, but he won’t be in that conditions, so will show a peaceful death?

Thank you

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Hard to say Maleja,
If you read Ivy Jacobson - Simplified Horary Astrology p. 241, 242 she has several aphorisms under
Will the patient recover? and Will there be a death soon?
Her mother has several red flags by planetary conditions in her chart.
I am no expert in predicting death nor do I feel comfortable doing so. I am just echoing what I have learned or read in horary books.

And timing in a chart can be hours, days, weeks, months, years (Symbolic)
Or it can be the ephemeris time (Transits)
Just like everybody's natal chart, we have an expiry date.
Even if some aspects improve by planetary motion, there are indicators you cannot change. The radix of the question is a moment in time, the starting point, the root from which you build your judgment.

For example, the ruler of the 6th in the 12th (chronic illness)
Or the Moon in a critical degree (29th) about to move in Capricorn (Detriment).
Or the ruler of the 8th (Mercury R) conjunct Mars combust and besieged.

As for Timing
If days, you can say in about 2 days and 1/2.
If years, each unit or degree will represent 1 year.
If transits, you have the real time when the aspect will perfect.

You have already identified Mercury perfecting the trine to Jupiter at the end of November. This is also the time when the Sun will enter Sagittarius to conjunct her Venus (ruling the 6th in the 12th), SN and the Part of Death.
You have 2 timings saying the same thing here.

Question remains whether or not we have picked up the right significators but my understanding is that this will be a 'critical' time for her.
Normally, we base our judgment on a combination of factors not just one.

And for most of us, we fear pain more than death.
The Greek philosopher Epicurus argued that death cannot touch us because “while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.??? Since death cannot touch us it cannot be bad. Fear is rational only for something bad. So Epicurus concludes that fearing death is pointless.
Or to quote an old woman who left this message for her children 'Don't cry, I know where I am going!"
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Blessings!

Re: Will my mother recover from this illness?

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Harlequin wrote:However, both Mercury and Jupiter are Rx and both will soon turn direct, and when they do Mercury will apply to trine Juptier again. I fear this will signify her passing. Am I mistaken?
H.


But before all this, the Sun will, by his trine with Jupiter, prohibit the trine of
Mercury.

Nevertheless this could be very dangerous, because the Sun could be seen
as positioned in the 8th, and the Sun is very bad being peregrine and in his
fall.

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Ouranos, I agree with you about the other factors, I also will read Simplified Horary Astrology, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with me.
I wonder why people try to get time in Horary Charts, I find that weird, if time is something created by humans, isn’t something that the universe care about, is it? So why would the chart give us a time if in the universe there isn’t such a thing called time?


You explained everything so well. And with the final teaching you gave a big light of wisdom, wisdom that I did not see until today.
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Now I don't understand you, Maleja.Rangel.

Why should the Sun not prohibit Mercury from trining Jupiter?

Mercury will apply to Jupiter after his second station. But BE-
FORE he can perfect the trine, the Sun has perfected his own
trine with Jupiter being much nearer to him by dgrees amd in
time.

Please, explain your problem, that I can't see as yet.