One of the folks with ludicrous ideas about what should be basics of #horary told me they have a YouTube channel as if that's a qualification.

Do they know anyone can start one of those?

I get it, even in #horary we have to be open to new ideas and learn to see things differently.

But lots of people new to the art are just making things up and calling themselves horary astrologers, and failing their clients.

Most #horary questions come when people are having a hard time, so many predictions are negative in nature.

Sometimes, I get to hear back that yes, the querent got the job, or their partner proposed when I said they would, or someone seriously ill recovered against all odds, as predicted. Magic.

That's it, I've fully nerded. I had a bunch of #horary event charts to do with timing involved, and I did them in a spreadsheet.

I have become everything I purport to despise. Kill me now.

When you're a few (or more!) years into reading #horary charts, you start to learn their seasons - both in clients and in watching learners read for themselves. At the moment it's spring, when we get a lot of wishful thinking! Refreshing after gloomy winter reads, but no fun giving a 'no'.
There's something particularly satisfying about hearing back on long-term #horary #astrologypredictions, because while they are as accurate as short-term ones I usually forget about them in the meantime. I've had feedback that a prediction from a year ago, timed to this month has just come to pass.
I love how a #horary client's mental state is almost always reflected in the chart, and not just by their significator planets. The more hectic things are, the wilder the context and the crazier the chart.

The pro-AI crowd are back in the #horary forums claiming AI can do horary readings based on claims about everything being conscious and whatnot. Even if that's so, a slug is conscious but I've never managed to get one to help me read a horary chart. He just left slime on the paper.

I thought it would be fun to pull a chart for 'Can AI be useful for horary reading?', and the response was SCATHING. Chart in the reply. 1/4

#Horary is such a blunt, literal instrument that you get to see astrological fundamentals at their most clear. I really think it should be a fundamental start in any curriculum.

It's almost impossible to ignore structures that make all this work, because there's little subjectivity in the mix.