The Considerations Before Judgement with Sue Ward

Episode 296 features an interview with astrologer Sue Ward about the considerations before judgement in horary astrology.

The considerations before judgement are a set of aphorisms that were first outlined in the 17th century by William Lilly in his book Christian Astrology.

Lilly introduces them as a set of considerations for answering horary questions and determining whether the question is “radical” or has a strong foundation.

The considerations were passed along in later authors, and by the mid-20th century became a set of “strictures” that were believed to indicate whether a horary chart could be read at all or should be rejected outright.

In the 1980s there was a revival of interest in the practice of horary astrology, and Lilly’s work in particular, due to the reprinting of Christian Astrology in 1985.

By 1992 some astrologers such as Maurice McCann noted that Lilly still read horary questions where one or more of the considerations were present, based on the chart examp…