posted January 29, 2017 12:28 PM
What have you observed? I know there are folks who have been working in the field a long time and have witnessed all kinds of things in terms of the efficacy of different methods in different situations and with different people. Different predictive methods work better for different people at different times. If you ever read Bernadette Brady's "The Eagle and the Lark," she makes that really clear. Some people are "eagles" and some are "larks," I can't remember which is which but some, she says, do not respond well to transits or at all! -so she uses the older methods like solar return charts or goes over to progressions only.
Anyway sorry to ramble more if this isn't directly answering your question. I hope folks chime in with theire experiences.
You can see a lot more subtlety with the transits to composite than with the progressed composite because the transits just move faster, you know? I really like to watch the progressed composite Sun/Moon midpoint asit activates the composite and progressed composite. It can be very telling as to where the focus of the relationship is at a given moment.
For big picture stuff the progressed composite can be really useful.
I think I have overall noticed that the transits to the natal charts are really most important (ducking-'I know that wasn't the question either!)... I mean you want to see all the boxes being ticked to have something really significant happening, the rule of 3 you know. I would want to see something happening for an individual by progression and transit and then I would want to see two individuals progressed charts lining up and perhaps also a progression to the composite but certainly a transit to the composite to accurately predict some occurrence. I think my answer is that I use the transits to the composite somewhat more at this point.
But you know... my teacher said to look at the transits to the progressed Davison to know when stuff would be happening. I don't know if it's been as revealing as she thought it would be but I have no doubt that the method works very well in some places.
Astrology is complex... you have to be willing to look in more than one place for information.
It's funny you didn't mean transits to the progressed because that's a thing too.
Curious to know other people's experiences and your feelings on the matter..