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The querent said, 'My friend has been taken to hospital. She is in a coma. The doctors don't know what's wrong with her, but think she may have had a brain haemorrhage. What is the problem? What is going to happen?'

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SIXTH AND EIGHTH HOUSE QUESTIONS 187 The querent is not involved in this question, so we go straight to the IIth, the house of friends. Its ruler, Mercury, signifies the friend. Seeing Mercury in Gemini, we might think that the friend is doing fine. But no: although Mercury is in a sign that it rules, in a medical question it is in a very bad condition. Mercury is a cold/dry planet. It is in a hot/moist sign, a sign contrary to its nature. It is dis-eased. The friend is not well. This much we know, of course: the woman1S a coma.

Which planet is causing Mercury problems? We can look to the ruler of the sign Mercury is in. This brings us back to Mercury. There is no reason that the significator of the illness should not be the same as that of the patient. But here we have a more likely culprit, especially considering the sudden onset of the illness. Mercury is just separating from opposition to Mars. Mars is peregrine and retrograde, so it is a nasty sort of Mars.

The Moon's most recent aspect can also be taken into account. Its last aspect was to this nasty Mars. Mars is confirmed as significator of the illness.

Mars in this part of Sagittarius, Saunders says,40 'is hot and dry above nature, consuming and drying up the radical moisture and humidity of the body, and utterly extinguishing the life of man'. It does this by infecting 'the body and blood with much thick, red choler that is hot and very dry'. Choler is the fiery humour, the fiery part of the human constitution. The doctors suspected a brain haemorrhage; had this fatal Mars been in the friend's 1st house (the 1st being the house of the head), it could well have shown this: a kind of fiery explosion in the brain. It isn't; it is in her 5th (the 5th house from the lIth), which is the house of the heart. She has had a heart attack. This was confirmed at the post mortem.

What will happen to her? She is in a coma, so our first question must be, 'Will she live or will she die?' Looking into the death of somebody other than the querent, we must consider both the turned and the radical 8th house. Here, the turned 8th house (8th from the lIth: the radical 6th) is ruled by Mars. Mercury (the friend) is separating from opposition to it. If the sick person is sitting up in bed and chatting, this is a most positive sign: she has come into contact with death; she is still alive; she is going to survive. In the context of someone in a coma it can be taken that death, in the real sense, has already happened.

The Moon separates from Mars and applies to Mercury, translating light between them and so remaking the aspect: the friend will die. The number of degrees the Moon must traveltoperfect the opposition gives the timing: she will

be pronounced dead at the end of that afternoon. In the blessedly small number of horaries I have been asked to judge on death in comas, this remaking of a separated aspect by translation of light is typical for showing the doctors' recog- nition that hope has gone.

DOCTORS, AND SURGERY

'Is this doctor any good?' 'Is this treatment working?' 'Should I have this opera- tion?' When judging such questions, do be cautious. The astrology may be eloquent, but unless you have a sound knowledge of medicine you are unlikely to fully understand what it says. But we can, even without such a knowledge, make the suggestion that 'These pills seem to be doing you more harm than good; maybe there's an alternative', or 'This doctor seems to be out of his depth; can you insist on seeing a specialist?'

Doctors in general, seen as learned people, are 9th house ('Was that the doctor's cat who chased mine down the street?'), but the doctor that is dealing with this illness, or who is potentially dealing with it, is 7th house.

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the querent is asking about someone else's illness, the doctor will be that person's 7th house. People often ask about their spouse's treatment: spouse is 7th, so the spouse's doctor will be 7th from the 7th, which is the 1st. That's fine: we don't need to have the querent in the chart, so we can give LordI to the doctor.

In this context, take the treatment as Lord 10. This is only in this context: the 10th is the treatment that is being given, not the treatment that should be given.

In some cases, surgery will be seen as part of the range of treatment prescribed and so can be taken as 10th house. In itself, however, surgery is a 6th-house matter. There is an idea that it is 8th-house, but this is wrong: the aim of surgery is to keep us out of the 8th house. Inpractice, we can usually go straight to Mars, natural ruler of surgery.

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you need to distinguish between doctor and surgeon ('My doctor says this but my surgeon says thaL') keep the 7th house for the doctor and use the dispositor of the planet signifying the surgery (usually Mars) for the surgeon. There is no problem with this planet dispositing itself: read the same indications for the surgeon and the surgery.

Once you have identified the relevant planet, consider its strength and its receptions with the patient and the illness. Essential debility is not necessarily a problem, if it is descriptive. Example: if Mars is the surgery, Mars in a Venus sign would well describe gynaecological or cosmetic surgery.

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SIXTH AND EIGHTH HOUSE QUESTIONS 189 the operation, the essential debility could be ignored. More important than dignity - though strength is of course helpful - is reception. We would hope to see the significator of the illness in strong dignities of either the doctor, the treat- ment or the surgery. If the illness is disposited by the doctor, he has power over it. Finding doctor, treatment or surgery in strong dignity of the illness is negative testimony: the illness is boss. Doctor, treatment or surgery in dignity of the patient's significator is helpful, although less so than testimony showing power over the illness; but it is most important that doctor, treatment or surgery is not in the detriment or fall of the patient's significator.

Examples: suppose the patient is Jupiter, the illness is Mars and the treatment Saturn. Mars is in Aquarius: good - the treatment has power over the illness. Saturn is in Sagittarius: good the treatment loves the patient, and so will want to help him. Bur Saturn in Capricorn would be bad news: despite its essential strength, it exalts Mars, showing that the illness has power over the treatment, and is in the fall ofJupiter, showing it harming the patient.

Certain fixed stars can be important in questions about eye surgery. See pageII4.

Don't expect charts for questions on surgery to look pretty. No matter how beneficial the surgery might be, it remains a drastic intervention.

You will sometimes be asked to compare two doctors. They cannot both be shown by the patient's 7th house. Asking for a brief description of the two will enable you to them in the chart. For instance, a querent thought her son would need an operation, and asked if this should be carried out by a National Health Service surgeon, or if she should go private. Her son was receiving NHS treatment, and his 7th house (the doctor treating him) was ruled by the Moon (the people). The ruler of the querent's 7th (which we could read as the doctor the mother was considering) was Jupiter, natural ruler of rich folks. The Moon, at 29 Scorpio, was immediately leaving Mars dignities: the NHS surgeon decided that he did not need the operation after all.

HIRING STAFF

If you are hiring someone at work, taking on a new downstairs maid or calling a plumber, the prospective employee is shown by the 6th house. Ideally, Lord 6 will be essentially strong (the person is honest and has the necessary skills), accidentally (no impediment to using those skills) and in dignities of

Lord1.The latter is important because the servant must accept orders. Too often the chart shows the reverse: Lord 1is in major dignities of Lord 6, showing that the querent likes the prospective servant. This is not the best reason for hiring someone. Lord 6 in the detriment or fall of Lord1would be a definite No.

Watch out for afflictions to the 6th house. The South Node, for instance, in the 6th would be a definite No. Always be cautious with Mercury and the signs that it rules: even at its best, its concept of honesty can be flexible. A client phoned to ask if she could trust her cleaner, who was shown by Jupiter in Gemini. Debilitated planet in a Mercury sign: definitely not! She called back a few minutes later to say she had gone upstairs to find the cleaner packing her best clothes into a suitcase.

If you are asked 'Should I employ A, B or C?' give the 6th house to the favoured candidate and find other significators for the rivals. Keep it to A, B or

C: the que rent who can't come up with a shortlist is not treating the matter seriously, so why should you? Ask the querent for a brief description of each candidate. As long as it is kept brief, the description will contain whatever clues you need to pin the candidate to a planet. 'One of them is a redhead (Mars) and the other is really solemn (Saturn).' You can trust that each querent will give the appropriate identifying words, because the chart is a picture of that que rent's reality. Once you found a planet for each candidate, compare them by the criteria above.

We are not looking for aspects in this question, as it assumes that the querent can hire that person if they decide to do so. But querent and candidate applying by opposition is a strong warning that employing that one will lead to regret.

When will the plumber arrive?

Casting such a chart, I would expect to find Lord 6 applyingto conjunct the Ascendant (coming to the querent's house). Failing that, an aspect between Lords 1and 6 or, at a pinch, Lord 6 applyingto the 4th cusp will do. Take the timing in

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