posted July 27, 2005 04:07 AM
Progressing a chart is to take it forward into the present or future. As you progress through life so does your birthchart. There is more than one method of doing this. Planets in progressed charts do not move very fast from their natal position but as they do they make aspects to the natal planets and angles as well as making aspects between themselves. The house cusps, the Ascendant and other angles also progress. It is when these progressions, whether a planet or the Ascendant, change signs that the most marked events in one's life usually occur.Progressions can be used alongside the transits to give more detailed information of the trends due to occur, or what have occurred in some past event chart. A combination of the natal chart, progressions and transits, when blended together can be very informative. Of particular interest for a yearly forecast are the progressions used alongside the Solar Return.
Progressions can also be used in attempting to rectify a birth time, although this would only be useful if some idea of the time is already known, such as: afternoon, evening etc.
Methods of Progressing a Chart
A Day for a Year
The day for a year method is otherwise known as Secondary Progressions. This method is the commonest and most logical to use. It takes the day of birth as signifying the first year of life, the next day as the second year of life and so on. It is as simple as looking up the planetary placements in an ephemeris for whatever day will represent the year of life. Each of these progressed days charts uses the original birth time, so that the Ascendant will also progress along with the planets. Naturally the outer, slow moving planets will hardly move within a lifetime. Sometimes the planets will remain stationary for years or turn retrograde or direct during that time. Generally, only the faster moving planets, the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars are of interest as the rest hardly move in progressions.
Aspects in Progressions
The aspects are interpreted just the same as in a natal chart or indeed any other chart. Minor aspects are used in progressed charts as much as the major aspects. The aspects can be between the natal and progressed chart along with transits, and between themselves within the progressed chart. The orb of aspect generally allowed for progressions is a tight 1 degree.
Significant points in a Progressed Chart
When the Ascendant progresses to a new sign.
When a planet progresses to a new sign.
When a planet progresses to a new house. When any other angle (MC, IC, Descendant) progresses to a new sign.
What's the difference between Transits and Progressions?
Transits happen for everyone. They're important and effect you personally when they contact a planet or point in your chart. Transits represent outside energy, things happening outside yourself. They describe external events and your responses to them. Progressions, however, move very slowly and are a natural progression of your original chart. The events and emotions they describe are part of you, deeply ingrained in your psyche, internal, and psychological.
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