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Horary Question:

My daughter used to live with me for the last eight years. I sent her school to be a beautician. She wanted to open up her own business. I purchased a commercial property and invested all my savings to set up a salon for her. She was supposed to open her business on the last week of October 2006. While her business place was being renovated she met a guy on the Internet and decided to get married to him. She got married on November 2, 2006 and moved 1000 miles from me.

She refused to open the business. Now the property is on the market for sale and I have to pay the mortgage and expenses without any money being produced by the business. She asked me to quit my job so I could help her in the business which she did not open. My question is if her getting married and putting me into all this would be worthwhile for her. Would I have to foreclose on the property or I would be able to sell it soon cutting my further losses?

—D.

Nina Gryphon:

Dear D.,

Your situation sounds like quite a predicament; on the one hand, you need to take care of your financial situation, and on the other hand, you want to do what’s best for your daughter. The way that I will analyze this chart is to see whether the property can produce money for you if you keep it, or whether it will bring you more money (and if a sale is imminent).

I cast a horary chart for the time that I understood your question, and the chart for the question is below:

First, we have to look at the potential profit from the property if you decide to — or have to — keep it. Profit from the property is shown by the fifth house, as it is the second house from the fourth; profit from real estate. This is shown by the Moon, which is just now exiting Capricorn and will shortly move into Aquarius. In Capricorn, the Moon is in the sign of its detriment, and in Aquarius, the Moon has only medium strength, which is still better than its position in Capricorn. So thus far, there has been little or no profit coming to you from the property. However, it looks as though things are about to improve, if you choose to rent it out or something like that, though with the mortgage payments and so on, you probably would still just end up breaking even at the end of the day.

Now, let’s take a look at what will happen in terms of selling the property, and whether that is a better option for you. The potential buyer is shown by Mercury, ruler of the seventh house of other people. You are shown by Jupiter, ruler of the first house of self. What we are hoping to see is an aspect between Mercury and Jupiter, showing the two of you reaching a deal. We seen a Mercury was applying to a square with Jupiter, showing a potential deal being made. However, Mercury has just turned retrograde, backing out of the deal as it were. I wonder if that was the reason you were moved to contact me, because something had fallen through at the last minute. It is interesting to see that your money and their money recently were in contact, so I wonder if the person even put up some kind of earnest money or something like that. This is shown by the separating sextile aspect of Venus and Mars, each ruling your and your partner’s second house of money.

So I don’t see a sale in the very near future, which means that you will have to have the property make money for you in some other way while you wait for a buyer to show up. It might make sense to rent the property out and at least stop the place from draining your money. The rent isn’t going to make you rich, but it will help you cut your losses, and may even help prevent immediate foreclosure.

—Readers who wish to get a horary reading with Nina Gryphon (free or paid) may contact her via the readings request page on her website.

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