A chart for the moment of your question.

Horary is the branch of astrology that answers a specific question by casting a chart for the exact moment the question first formed in the asker's mind. It does not require the asker's birth time. The chart's Ascendant marks the asker (the 'querent'), the house ruling the question's subject marks the matter (the 'quesited'), and the relationship between the two — whether and how the planets ruling each one come together — is read as the answer. It's the most direct branch of classical astrology: a chart, a question, a judgment.

A full classical horary judgment computed for the question moment and place: chart with Regiomontanus houses (the traditional horary system), identification of the querent and quesited significators, evaluation of all twelve considerations-against-judgment (William Lilly's classical guards against premature reading), the perfection analysis (applying aspect, translation of light, collection of light, prohibition), and a Vedic Prashna companion (Prashna Lagna + Moon nakshatra). Each component comes with practitioner-written reasoning, not a one-line verdict. Free as of v2.215.

Horary works on the premise that when a question forms with real urgency, the sky encodes the answer. The chart of that moment is read like a snapshot of the question itself. A casual or repeated question doesn't have the same charge — horary practitioners take the first moment a question genuinely demanded an answer, not the moment you opened this page. If you've been chewing on a question for days, it's the original moment that matters. If now is the first time you're really asking, it's now.

Yes/no questions work best. Will the offer come through? Should I take this role? Will the marriage happen? Will I find the missing item? Closed-ended questions about a defined matter give horary the cleanest grip. Open-ended questions ('what should my life look like?') are too diffuse — they have no quesited to point at. Pick the topic that fits, phrase the question with clear stakes, and the judgment will be more honest.

They're a set of conditions classical horary practitioners check before declaring a chart 'fit to be judged.' If the Ascendant is too early or too late in its sign, if the Moon is void of course, if the seventh-house lord is afflicted (the astrologer themselves is hampered), the chart may not yield a reliable answer. We surface every consideration the engine checks; a green dot means clear, a red dot means violated. Multiple violations don't void the chart — they qualify the confidence with which the verdict can be read.