Before you log into your progressed chart you must know your birth chart very well. Progressed aspects stimulate birth chart potential. So, birth chart knowledge is crucial to making sense of each progression.
Your progressed chart pictures your birth chart with an outer circle where the progressed planets are located in the degree of the zodiac they occupy and you must get to know your progressed chart very well.
On a selected date each birth chart planet, ascendant and Midheaven has progressed and you must know their progressed house positions. They will have formed progressed aspects with birth chart or other progressed planets and your first experience with a computer calculated report of major progressed aspects can be daunting: there are just so many.
The report for the date you’ve selected documents all the progressed aspects that are in operation. It indicates that a progressed planet is forming a certain type of progressed aspect with a birth chart planet (identified by a B, N or R) or other progressed planet (identified by a P) and its start, peak and end dates.
Every aspect has a start date but some long-time parallel and other aspects may never peak and some may never end within the time-frame of the report. Some may have started 5, 10 or 20 years ago. Others are more recent.
Your task is to work through your chart’s progressed aspect report. There’s a lot of data to get your head around but at the start you’re seeking to acquire a general overview of what’s going on rather than making in-depth aspect assessments.
At the start you should immediately get into the habit of personalizing the data by associating each planet with its thought-cell desire and applying the aspect’s keyword.
Read a Sun progression as ‘my power urge and desire for significance’; a Moon progression as ‘my frame of mind’ a Mercury progression as ‘my intellectual urge’; a Venus progression as ‘my social urge’; a Mars progression as ‘my aggressive urge’; a Jupiter progression as ‘my religious urge’; a Saturn progression as ‘my safety urge’; a Uranus progression as ‘my individualistic urge’; a Neptune progression as ‘my utopian urge’; and a Pluto progression as ‘my universal welfare urge’.
And a conjunction aspect as a prominence influence; a semisextile as a growth influence; a semisquare as a friction influence; a sextile as an opportunity influence; a square as an obstacle influence; a trine as a luck influence; a sesquisquare as an agitation influence; an inconjunct as an expansion influence; an opposition as a separation influence; and a parallel as an intensity influence.
So you’ll read progressed Mercury trine birth chart Saturn as my intellectual and safety urges are forming a harmonious luck though-compound; progressed Mars sextile progressed Jupiter as my aggressive and religious urges are forming a harmonious opportunity thought-compound; progressed Sun square birth chart Neptune as my power and utopian urges are forming a discordant obstacle thought-compound; and progressed Venus opposition progressed Uranus as my social and individualistic urges are forming a discordant separation thought-compound or words to that affect.
This nutshell description of an aspect when backed up with birth chart knowledge pertaining to the power and functional status of each planet and knowledge of your conditioning by environment immediately puts you in the picture regarding the trend of the thought-cell activity and the kind of event it’s inclined to attract.
If a progressed aspect replicates a birth chart aspect the birth chart predisposition is very inclined to occur.
A progressed trine, sextile or semisextile aspect modifies your thought-cell activity in the direction of harmony and a progressed opposition, square, sesquisquare or semisquare modifies it in the direction of discord.
You may find that a planet is not involved in a major progressed aspect so its unstimulated thought-cell activity is unable to attract a major event of its type while other planets are involved in 3, 4, 5 or 6. And each aspect maps a stellar aerial that is picking up planetary energy and transmitting it to the thought-cells mapped by the planets.
So, the thought-cells ruled by a planet that’s involved in 4, 5 or 6 progressed aspects are under high level stimulation. And this is important information for you to know about.
Your progressed chart can be astrodyned to determine the progressed power of each planet but with knowledge of your birth chart planets and the power of each aspect you can make a very accurate estimate of your dominant thought-cell activity at a selected time.
It’s likely that your dominant thought-cell activity as mapped by your dominant planet and your current dominant thought-cell activity as mapped by your progressed aspects hasn’t changed; and you can be certain that you’ve become accustomed to the thought-cell activity stimulated by a progressed aspect that has been influencing your life for many, many years. It’s become a part of your routine daily life thinking and behavior.
If your progressed chart indicates a high number of progressed parallel aspects, you’ll know that there’s an intense amount of thought-cell activity going on beneath your objective consciousness.
You need to know when each progressed aspect reaches peak power and be aware as this date approaches. Events associated with a progressed aspect, environment permitting, are more inclined to occur as it reaches peak power.
So, at the start you’re dealing with long time progressed aspects, aspects that have started recently which need your attention, and progressed aspects that will start in the immediate or near future. And it will take some time to develop a progressed chart habit system involving birth chart knowledge and the effective utilization of the energy being supplied by your progressed aspects.
We reiterate: The release of planetary energy by a progressed aspect which you can feel does not map a specific event. Rather it adds energy to the thought-cells mapped by the planets making the aspect stimulating them into activity. When thought-cells are more active than their normal they work with this additional energy to bring into your life events and conditions consistent with their desires.
What actually occurs is not foreordained or inevitable: it is due to the interaction between your (inner-world) thought-cells and your (outer-world) environment.
Your inner-plane thought-cells have desires which they strive to realize through events of the physical world. And to the extent they have energy, or gain it from a progressed aspect, they exert pressure upon your external outer-world environment.
So, each significant event which comes into your life is due to the activity of thought-cells within your finer-astral-form which have acquired an added supply of energy from some characteristic progressed aspect.
You can change or modify thought-cell activity that’s inclined to express destructively; and you can intelligently divert stimulated thought-cell activity into channels that will attract events and conditions that are much more fortunate than had you made no such intelligent effort.
Through proper thinking any group of thought-cells can be trained to desire events which are characteristic of the constructive and fortunate expression of the planetary energies giving them activity.
A birth chart predisposition only becomes a real-life event when its birth chart constant aka marker is stimulated by progression.
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