posted August 19, 2013 07:47 PM            

I've done SOME research on progressed charts and the way I understand what it said was that basically it represents the personality that you are becoming....?
However, I hear everyone here and anywhere else referring to their natal birth chart and to be honest, that's what I feel a connection with.

So what is the purpose of a Progressed Chart? Not to imply that there isn't one, just what is it?

I'm extra curious because several, mostly personal planets in my birth chart are late in degrees and such. So in my progressed chart that I looked up for free, a boatload of my signs are different.

posted August 19, 2013 07:55 PM            

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Zander916: I posted this in the Beginners Forum some time ago without answer. I wasn't sure if really was necessary to post here, but I suppose I will. I know someone will explain it to me.

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Ya LL has lots of other forums that like, no one goes to so really Astro 2.0 is your best bet and if it gets moved, good luck getting a reply lmfao!

posted August 19, 2013 08:14 PM            

So how they calculate your new ascendent, which I assume they have deemed accurate from real life test and observation, is that your ascendent moves 1-2 degrees for every year that you are alive. So if you were born with your ascendent at 5 degrees in leo and you are currently 11 years old. Your ascendent will probably be anywhere from 16-27 degrees in leo. And so to progress my chart I look at the placements of all of my planets at the time that my ascendent reaches a certain degree. So I am merely calculating which houses my planets were in minutes and hours after the time I was born. I believe that this is the most important time that the planets angles get engrained into your head.

But others think the progressed chart is like calculating one day for one year of being alive in your chart. Let me make that more clear: if you are 5 years old, you look at the planetary placements 5 days after you were born and those placements are supposedly your chart for your 5th year of life. I personally do not find that nearly as accurate as my personal method of just calculating your chart an hour or 2 after your birth. Because our ascendents only change signs a few times in our life time, yet if you calculated your fifth year of life according to the latter method I mentioned, your ascendent would have changed 60 times in 5 days. Which is not really the case is it?

I do believe that our brain definitely adapts to our current environment always and that it adapts strongly to the planetary positions days after we were born. But I do not believe those positions to be nearly as significant as my first progression method mention.