Horary reads the moment you ask, not your birth chart. A chart is cast for the second you send the question, judged by the classical rules, and returned as a yes, a no, or a conditional yes — with the timing attached.
Classical horary tests the chart before it trusts it. If even one of these three conditions fails, no judgment is given. Most apps skip the checks entirely and produce something for every question; we decline, and tell you why.
The Moon is void when it will make no further aspect before leaving its current sign. The classical rule is not a suggestion: no judgment is given, because there is no light left to carry. Baby Astro refuses the question at that moment and tells you the hour the Moon reconnects.
Under 3° the matter has not ripened yet — it is too early to ask. Over 27° the thing has already resolved and the question can no longer change it. Neither rejects your question; both reject the moment you asked it.
Saturn in the 1st corrupts the querent's own judgment; in the 7th, the astrologer's. The classical texts read this as a warning that the answer will not be trustworthy. Most software ignores it entirely — we surface the warning instead of hiding it.
The order matters. An aspect between significators means nothing until the significators are known, and a no given before the Moon is heard is a no given too early. Every horary question runs through these five steps.
The chart is cast for the moment the question reaches the astrologer, not the moment it first crossed your mind. In Baby Astro that is the second you submit it — and it cannot be edited afterwards, because a moment you can edit is not horary.
To the second, from the server clock rather than your device's.
The querent is always the 1st house, signified by the ruler of the Ascendant. The quesited is whichever house owns the matter: money is the 2nd, romance the 5th, any partner or open opponent the 7th, career the 10th. Choosing the right house is half the work — "will I get the job" is a 6th-house question, not a 10th.
The answer lives in whether the two significators are applying to an aspect. An applying aspect speaks toward yes; a separating one says the opportunity has already passed. The kind of aspect tells you whether the outcome arrives easily or expensively.
The Moon co-signifies the querent in every horary chart. When the significators do not meet directly, the Moon can carry light from one to the other — translation of light. When a third planet gathers both, that is collection of light. Either can turn a no into a yes.
In practice this is usually an intermediary, or an event nobody planned for.
The verdict is written as a clear yes, no, or conditional yes — and the degrees remaining to perfection give the timing in days, weeks or months. When the chart is genuinely unclear we say so rather than inventing certainty.
Horary reads concrete events. If you could one day mark the answer as happened or did not happen, the question is written correctly.
“Will I be happy?”
There is no measurable event. Horary reads events, not moods.
“How will my life go?”
That is a natal chart question. Horary answers one matter, at one moment.
“Can I ask the same thing again?”
Not unless the circumstances changed. Re-asking because you disliked the answer does not overwrite the first chart.
Electional astrology is the technique of choosing a favorable moment to begin something.
Read the guideThe stretch where the Moon makes no further aspect before changing sign.
Read the guideHow the four layers of a chart — planets, signs, houses, aspects — combine into one reading.
Read the guideNo birth time needed. Just a clear question, and the moment you ask it.
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