A client of mine asked me this unsettling question after his gardener discovered a broken egg, its shell cracked and oozing dark-red blood, right on the doorstep of his home. The scene was so revolting. No one could explain how the egg got there—it seemed to appear overnight, as if someone had placed over there while the house slept. Spooked, my client emailed me straight away, asking, “Am I under some kind of magical attack?”

Questions like this aren’t as rare as they sound. Belief in witchcraft—whether one practices it or not—has always been part of human culture. In traditional astrology, covert attacks and secret enemies belong to the 12th house, the place of things hidden out of sight. Open fights, where you know exactly who’s against you, fall under the 7th house. So a bloody egg left on a doorstep feels like a classic 12th-house matter: something to harm from the shadows.

(for more information concerning the 12th house click here)

The person asking the question is shown by the ruler of the 1st house, Mars (L1) and the Moon.

Any potential “magical attack” would be shown by the ruler of the 12th house, Jupiter (L12).

If a real magical attack were happening, you’d expect to see some astro-evidence that the attacker (Jupiter) has power over the querent (Mars / Moon). Sometimes, though, the chart only reflects the querent’s suspicion that they’re under the power of such influence—even if nothing is actually going on. In this chart, Mars isn’t placed in any of Jupiter’s dignity, which means Jupiter has no real hold over Mars. Even emotionally there’s no grip, because the Moon is only in Jupiter’s Face, which is quite trivial.

The only real evidence of such magical attack would have been a past meeting between Mars and Jupiter. But in this chart their conjunction still lies ahead, so there’s no link tying any magic attack to the person who asked the question. Even the Moon—a minor testimony—never quite reaches Jupiter, its earlier path to Jupiter blocked (prohibition).

The horary points to the fact that there was no magical attack to the querent.