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THE INGRESS CHART: The Essential Mundane Astrology Chart

What is an ingress chart?

An ingress chart is a chart which is calculated for the exact time which the sun makes its entry into the cardinal signs of Aries, Capricorn, Libra, and Cancer.

It is one of the major charting delineations used in Mundane Astrology. The others are as follows:

1. The Horoscope of a Country

2. Birth charts of country leaders

3. Solar and Lunar Eclipses.

4. Lunations

5. Conjunctions and Declinations that happen in a cyclic manner: used a great deal in financial astrology

6. Astro-carto-graphic maps

7. Event charts

The Ingress,is based upon the exact astronomical events timed by changes in the sun through the ecliptic. Since the astrologers before the 20th century didn’t have as much data as we, they used them as accurate astronomical events to forecast the fate of kings and emperors and to warn of attacks from hostile nations. Because it is an exact chart, and because it connects the masses, or large planetary events, one is able to use Arabic parts and other technical stuff more effectively.

When calculating any of these charts, look in your ephemeris and note the date and time of the Ingress. Alternatively, just make sure that the sun, in your locale on your computer, is a 00deg, 00min, 00sec of cap, can, ari, or lib, and you’ll have the correct chart, and don’t do this at 1:00 AM when i did recently and was too tired to notice I’d calculated it for GMT, London.

Why Cardinal signs? Because everything in astrology happens within the ecliptic of the sun(some things are outside like OOB, but in a sense they are accounted for actually this way.) The cardinal signs are the points where the sun makes a change i its pass through the ecliptic:

1. The solstices: Cancer and Capricorn: when the sun changes direction moving closer to the sun or farther away from he sun(Alternatively, all the solstice points.)

2. the Equinoxes: where the sun passes across the center of the ecliptic and heads into the southern portion. They are significant timing points of the change in mundane astrology.