Questions people ask

Will he text me?

You have checked your phone twenty times in the last hour. Nothing. The waiting is taking over the rest of the day.

Horary handles this question well. News and messages are one of the oldest topics in the tradition: Lilly's casebooks are full of people waiting for a letter, and their questions read exactly like the ones people ask today.

Which planets to look at

You are the ruler of the first house. The person you are waiting for depends on who they are to you: a partner, a date or an ex is the seventh house, a friend the eleventh, a sibling the third.

The message itself is a separate thing. News, writing and short contact belong to the third house, and Mercury is their natural significator.

Signs a message is coming

The Moon applies to their planet. This is the clearest sign. The Moon carries news, and if her next aspect is to their significator, the news comes from them.

Applying aspect. The two significators move toward each other. The connection is forming and the event is on its way.

Their planet applies to yours. They make the move, not you.

Mercury is in good shape. Mercury in its own sign or in a strong house means communication flows.

Signs it is not coming

Mercury is retrograde. The message is delayed, misunderstood or never arrives. Old conversations also tend to resurface in these periods.

The Moon is void of course. For news questions the meaning is plain: nothing comes of it.

Void of course Moon. The Moon makes no aspect before leaving her sign. The traditional answer is short: nothing comes of it.

Saturn sits in the third house or afflicts Mercury. They want to write, but something holds them back.

Timing

Timing in message questions usually comes out short, because the Moon moves fast. The degrees left before the aspect completes are read as hours or days here, not months.

How to ask it

"Will he text me?" is a good question. Adding a time frame makes it better: "Will he contact me this week?"

Avoid "Why isn't he texting me?". A chart shows outcomes, not reasons.

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Common questions

Can I ask again tomorrow if the answer is no?

Tradition says no. The first sincere question is the one the chart answers. If something has really changed, a new question about the new situation is fine, but repeating the same one until it says yes is not.

Does it matter who I am waiting for?

Yes. The person's house changes the significator. A partner and a friend are read from different houses, so say who they are in your question.

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