1. Conjure Godzilla to destroy a city
The Picatrix mentions several times the possibility of using the results of a horary reading to make magical images. For example, in Book 3, Chapter 5, one of the elections given “for the destruction of cities, houses and the like” utilises the ascendant of the city to be destroyed. (If you are wondering how a city could possibly have an ascendant associated with it, the ascendant of the city would have been drawn from the mundane chart erected for when that city was built.) However, in the absence of a known ascendant for the city, one could use the ascendant of a horary chart erected for this particular purpose.
“Make an image under the ascendant of the city, if it is known, or under the ascendant of a horary question. Make unfortunate the ascendant and fourth house, and the lord of the ascendant, and the Moon, and the lord of the house of the lord of the Moon, and the lord of the house of the lord of the ascendant, and the tenth and its lord. When the image is made as has been said above bury it in the middle of the city and it will be as you wish.” – Picatrix, translated by Greer and Warnock. Book 3, Chapter 5
OK, not quite Godzilla levels of destruction, but it’s a rather nasty election as the moon (a significator of the common people as well as a general indicator of luck and success in elections) and the major angles are made as unfortunate as possible. The ascendant is a significator of the city and all who live in it; the fourth house, the buildings, lands and crops; the tenth, the city’s ruler and government. Even the dispositors of the ascendant, the moon and tenth are made unfortunate so they cannot come to their aid.
2. The romantic side story
Perhaps you’re a romantic at heart or you merely want to insert some light hearted and clever dialogue about relationships into our story of epic destruction for those extra ticket sales. The Picatrix suggests we can cast a relationship horary and use this reading to “to generate peace and love between two people” with some magical images thusly:
“Make two images under the ascendant of the question, and make fortunate the ascendant and tenth house, and remove malefics from the ascendant, and make the lord of the 10th house fortunate and applying to the lord of the ascendant by a trine or sextile aspect.” – Ibid
Given that this election concerns the 10th house it is more suitable to generate reconciliation between a person and his lord (or boss, or superior, or manager, if you do not happen to live in a feudal system with a nobility and peasant class).
In this example, then, one would generate a horary question to determine the relationship between the querent and his lord and the likelihood of reconciliation. The ascendant of the horary chart is noted and you would then do the work when the same ascendant is rising, with fortunes rising or aspecting the ascendant and the 10th house and both free from malefics, with the lord of the 10th applying by trine or sextile to the lord of the ascendant.
3. When you find out this is less an action movie and more a romance
In Book 3, Chapter 5 of the Latin Picatrix, the author relates a more complete example of the use of a horary reading to perform magic In this example, a man approaches a mage with the desire that a certain woman with whom he is enamoured come to him. The mage casts a chart for the question and determines that Aries is rising (and so, the man is signified by Mars) and Libra is in the 7th house (with Venus, therefore, signifying the woman). The mage determines that these planets will be in an amicable trine relationship in 40 days and concludes that the woman will come to the man in that period of time.
The mage immediately creates an poppet of the man in powdered diamond and gum ammoniac and another of the woman with dry sycamore and wax. He takes a jug and places in it 7 twigs (myrtle, willow, pomegranate, apple, cottonwood, sycamore and laurel) along with the images of the future couple, noting when Venus would be opposing Mars and when Mars would be strengthened by the fortunes. He seals the jug and opens it every day at the same hour in which he places the items in the jar. At the end of the 40 days when the aspect between Venus and Mars was perfected, he places the images facing each other in the jar, and has the man bury it under the hearth of his house. At this time the woman appears at the man’s door as if by magic.
Using the same principles, it should be clear to anyone conversant with horary astrology how this example could be adapted to reconciling friends and lovers, getting a new job, attracting money from an endeavour, overcoming an enemy, and any other kind of magical working.