Will Roy Moore win the election? Ask the Golden Apples of Hesperides.

Despite mounting allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior, Roy Moore has vowed to remain in the Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate seat in December of this year.  This week an astrologer friend sent me an email with the horary question, “Will Roy Moore win the election?”

This was my response:

I cast a chart for when I read and understood your question: 13 Nov 2017 in Orange, CT at 12:38 PM EST.

18 Aquarius rises with the South Node on the Ascendant, probably reflecting your negative state of mind about the matter.

Roy Moore, a public official, would be signified by the Sagittarius 10th house, ruled by Jupiter, which only has dignity by term.  This seems fitting, given his religious convictions.

The office he seeks is the 10th from the 10th = the Leo 7th, ruled by the Sun.  The Sun has no essential dignity and is separating from Jupiter, suggesting a loss rather than a win.  The Sun in the radical 9th occupies the derived 12th of the 10th house person, so it is in a house of undoing or exile for Moore.

This chart suggests that he will not win.

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I noticed after sending my response that the Part of Infortune or Misfortune (Asc + Mars – Saturn by day) lies at 6 Sagittarius 02, almost exactly on the MC, which symbolizes public officials and specifically Roy Moore in this chart. This Part of Infortune is also called Hermes’ Part of Defects, Infirmities and Accidents. Deborah Houlding mentions this Part of Disease and Defects in her discussion of Al Biruni’s Lots at http://www.skyscript.co.uk/alparts.html#9.

Bonatti attributes onions and apricots to this Part as well; onions make some sense because they cause you to cry, but why apricots? I can venture a guess. In ancient Greece apricots were known as the golden apples of Hesperides. In trying to obtain the golden apples, Heracles tricked Atlas into holding the sky on his shoulders for eternity. I guess having the weight of the world on your shoulders without respite would also be a misfortune and give you something to lament.

I have noticed that in the Spanish astrological literature there is much discussion of El Parte del Infortunio. For example, Segundo Ruiz writes, “el Parte del Infortunio representa un punto de la carta natal donde tenemos mala suerte, dificultades, nos boicoteamos y somos débiles” (the Part of Infortune  represents a point in the natal chart where we have bad luck and difficulties, where we sabotage ourselves and are weak). Its meaning appears to be related to taking the distance from the malefic of the sect of the chart to the malefic of the contrary sect (going from bad to worse) and projecting that difference from the Ascendant. In addition, Saturn rejoices in the 12th House and Mars rejoices in the 6th — these are the two most unfortunate houses in classical astrology, which associates them with illness, infirmities, defects, misfortune, sorrow and undoing.

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