Rules for the Use of Progressions
There are many large volumes on the use of progressions. Solar arcs are a
form of future forecasting, and with the slow outer planets one must use age
arcs, since these planets move too slowly to make much action in a progression.
The rules below are just as appropriate for age arc forecasting as they are
for other kinds of progressions, such as lunar progressions.
The finding of an event by secondary progression is a learned skill, and also
has a level of intuitive feeling connect to it. One of the disadvantages in
using them is that they cannot be seen instantly and must be calculated--preferably
by computer.
However, its more likely that one will succeed in reading them if a few basic
rules are kept.
You can actually find references here and there to these pretty simply rules,
but they don’t hit you hard unless you write them out and put them in
front of you.
1.
As Ivy Goldstein Jacobson has said: “NO PROMISE
MADE, NO PROMISE KEPT”
One must be fully aware of the aspects of an accurate birth chart, either
rectified or with a known sure birth time. Without knowing what the aspects,
including the Arabian points, solstice points, parallels, etc. are, one won’t
know where the promise of events takes place.
A corollary of this is that to have the progressed aspect involve the native
directly, as opposed to his group of people around him/her, the planet or
part must aspect an angular cusp(because they affect the ascendant by square
or opposition) or to a planet in an angular house, or to the ruler of the
ascendant. Without this angular house connection, the impact hits friend by
house, and only comes to the native later.
If, in the progressed chart, the 2 significators were not in some aspect in
the natal chart, then nothing significant will happen to them later. This
means that you would tend to believe that your progressed Mars conjuncting
your natal ascendant would be of some significance, but if mars had no aspect
to your asc in your natal chart, the progression(and the transits also) will
not have a significant issue for you.
Less significant aspects in the natal chart do promise. So such aspects as
treciles, quintiles, and biquintiles do promise and can have impact in a progressed
chart.
2.
The progressed aspect must be a major one for a major
event. Minor aspects by progression can only stand to confirm, and must be
accompanied by a major aspect transit to have an effect on the life in question.
One also needs to pay attention to three things that might impact a minor
progression by conjuncting it: a. a lunation, b. an eclipse, or c. a major
transit : thus putting it into a major action when it might have been of little
importance.
3.
The natal aspect is just sitting there. Its not more
than a potential until something activates it. This is done by a progression
to it. The sets off a prescribed area or period of years, which is then stimulated
to action by a major transit, eclipse, or lunation conjuncting the progressed
point.
Let me give you an example(right out of one of my textbooks--easy to see).
Suppose you have your natal sun applying to a planet in the 8th house in your
natal chart, and progressed to a three year area of action, telling us that
we are set for something. This is pretty easy, solar progressions are pretty
obvious in most books on progressions.
If that natal aspect to the planet was was difficult, you are looking at a
difficult 8th house action, such as surgery, taxes, losses of people, etc.
If the natal aspect was a positive one, it now means that a period of possible
financial gains through others, inheritance, pensions given, payment of debts,
refund of taxes, etc. will eventuate.
The nature of the progressed aspect tells us how we will handle the original
aspect in this time around.
How?
a. Square: go to extremes in handling obstacles, so the cost may be greater,
and you won’t be able to live and let live: you will act
b. Trine: opposite of the square.
c. Sextile: given just a chance, you will be able to handle it like a trine
d. The conjunction and parallel: you will get help from other in the situation
e. Opposition: no help from others and a separative action develops
f. Inconjunct involves a reorganization of handling the natal promise, and
possibly having to settle for less, and having to revisit again and again
during the period of the progression, rather than having it fade away, as
the waxing/waning intensity of other aspects tends to give you.
4.
Finding the event date is determined by looking at outside stimulation.
a. the exact year is within the orb of aspect given for that angle relationship.
if there is no outside stimulus on the progression for that year, then look
at another year
b. the month is usually when the progressed moon reaches the degree that aspects
the significator. As in horary astrology, the change provided by the moon
times the events. However, if a transit is stronger, that may supersede the
moon(such as a transit of Saturn.)
c. The day is also set by a major transit and by the moon.
Of all the transits that can set things off, Mars has an extra-ordinary ability
to do this.
If you have Mars transiting an on the progressed aspect AND at the same time
you have either the Sun, the Moon, or the Ruler of the Asc also in a difficult
aspect to one of the malefic(sorry Noel!) planets(Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
Pluto, or Mercury/sometimes) , you can be looking at an immediate difficult
event, and all the more so if it happens in an angular house.
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Copyright@Eric J. Uberseder, 2002
