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Dancing Maenad
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posted December 12, 2015 03:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dancing Maenad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've only recently started to pay more attention to tertiary progressions and I do find them very valuable. I am currently puzzled by the effect of planets turning direct/retro, for instance I have noticed that the last two Mercury retrogrades have been very brutal for me, spiking periods of depression and much introversion. I've also done some not so smart decisions during those times. Ugh. I've also noticed that I am at the end of a 6-year Mars retro period (it will be over in a couple of months) and I would say this has been a very inert, stagnant period in my life, when I wanted to work out but couldn't keep a routine for more than a few months. I struggle with being more proactive a lot. I would say my energy was depleted during these 6-7 years. It's not like I've done nothing in these 7 years, far from, but it's been done with huge effort and I've lacked proper motivation. My suicide attempt happened while Mercury and Mars were both retro (Nodes were direct if it matters). I can't wait for Mars to go direct in my tertiary progressions. I experienced Venus Rx when I was very young, about 9 years old and fell in love for the first time. It was unrequited but I was so infatuated for a few years until Venus got direct, nobody could've set me straight.

So, what about you? What have you noticed during tertiary retros? I'd love to hear your experience with tertiary progressions, if you want to post tertiary charts for significant events in your life you're welcome to do so! I am very curious to know more.

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Lerena
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posted December 13, 2015 05:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lerena     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I haven't found much. I'm too detached from my past to remember specific dates and sometimes I don't even remember the proper month for an event. However, I checked my tertiary progressions for these months:

April 2008 - break-up month
Mars Retrograde in Cancer

January 2014 - break-up month
Jupiter Retrograde in Libra

December 2015
Mercury Retrograde in Pisces
Venus Retrograde in Aries
Jupiter Retrograde in Libra

I have noticed that bad things happen in my love life when a planet in Retrograde opposes tertiary Venus in 7th house. I seem to be safe this time though. Venus is in Retrograde long enough to go into 6th house and this will probably protect me from a break-up when the Venus-Jupiter opposition kicks in.

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Ceridwen
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posted December 13, 2015 06:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ceridwen     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Interesting thoughts.
While I find tps valuable as well, I never even paid attention to the retros.

Well seems I have only the outers Retro currently (uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

okay so from january 2013 until september 2014 Mercury was retro; not an easy time, including my grandmother`s death, some serious inner searching and not being too happy about what I found. lol

Interestingly pretty much when the REtro phase ended Mr Sag and me got a little more "conversational". lol

It might have been triggered by something he said 3 months before, apparently directed at me (the very night when my tp Sun was conjunct tp Moon conjunct my natal DESC, all being within a degree of orb), and that led me to re-think some things, about what I thought it was or was not, and having to adjust my perspective on myself, my role in it, his perspective more than a bit.

Interestingly my tp Mercury at that time had taken a stand on 24°56 Taurus, until deciding to move on again.

and his sp Uranus at that time had been 24°57 Scorpio. Hard to NOT notice.


In fact my sp Mercury is at the moment preparing for its oncoming retro-period, which means he is sort of "glued" to 25°00 Aquarius
(sextile my n Sun-Mercury and conjunct my n Psyche and mean Lilith).


Well and it is squared by HIS sp Uranus on 24°59 Scorpio - so since it shows up in the secondaries as well, and was also happening in the tp`s , I think it clearly is a theme, and then also with the stationary Mercury in my chart.


Anyway he must have been there before, as my sp Uranus had been squaring HIS sp Mercury just a few weeks before that comment he made. lol
(and coinciding with me coincidentally crossing his path again after a certain "time-out" )

(after that my sp Uranus was preparing to square his sp MC-IC-axis and is continuing to do this for a while, just after having finished up with the square to his p Sun - all in Aquarius btw).

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Ceridwen
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posted December 13, 2015 06:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ceridwen     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
BTW I noticed that just today I have

tp Sun 27°02 Gemini
tp Venus 27°02 Gemini

tp Mercury is just 3 degrees off my n DESC, I suppose in about 2-3 month it will cross the horizon.

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