Often a querent asks several questions at the same time. There are interesting rules for such cases in a book of Abenragel, the astrologer of X-XI cc. Is there any modern astrologer, who uses these rules in practice? 
I havn’t been tried them, actually. But after unexpectedly good results with the rules about querent’s thoughts I will try these as well 
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The fragment from Abenragel (Abû l-Hasan ‘Alî ibn Abî l-Rijâl), the court astrologer to the Tunisian prince al-Mu’izz ibn Bâdis, on how to find querent’s thoughts with horary astrology:
Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin), discovered in July 2007, is going to its closest approach. It will pass the opposition to the Sun at this period, and will have the greatest magnitude. The comet is predicted to be 5th magnitude, which means it could be visible to the naked eye. Though celestial bodies of 5th magnitude are visible to the naked eye, it will be not so easy task to see the comet in the sky. It will be visible only in rural locations without a light pollution.
We can try to see this comet at 24th-26th of February, at night. It will have only 5th magnitude, therefore it can be visible only after the end of astronomical twilight, i.e. when the Sun after a sunset reaches altitude of 18 degrees under the horizon. At this time we can try to find the comet somewhere between East and South-East. I think the good reference points can be Saturn and Regulus.
If you will be lucky and discover the first appearance of the commet in the sky, you can erect the chart and make a prediction. But what if we are not so lucky? Fortunately, The astrological tradition allows to say something about a comet even if we don’t know the moment of its first appearence.
I think every astrologer knows that there is a Placidean house system. Some of astrologers are informed that Placidus is not the inventor of this house system. Few astrologers heard that Avraham Ibn Ezra wrote about this system five centuries before Placidus. But much less number of astrologers know what and where Ibn Ezra really wrote.
Ibn Ezra really described the house system that is based on the hour distance of the point of ecliptic from the meridian. And it is really the same basic idea as in Placidean house system.
Ibn Ezra describes this system in his ספר הטעמים א (The Book of Reasons A). A is important in this case, because there are two versions of The Book of Reasons – version A and version B. Version A is more than twice bigger than version B. But the English translation of The Book of Reasons by Meira Epstein is based on the version B. Therefore English speaking readers are bereft of some very interesting and important parts of this Ibn Ezra’s work, including the part on house system.
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