Your first experience with your chart’s progressed aspects can be a challenge. There are just so many. So where do you start? And how do you judge the importance of each progression and the precautionary measures the discordant ones require?
Your starting point is your birth chart and you should not venture into your progressed chart until you know your birth chart very well. And you should have learned to place the emphasis on your soul’s thought-cell activity and not the planets in your chart which are best viewed as reference data points.
You should know your dominant planet (the one with the most astrodynes); the planets that have above average power (those that have 8.3% or more of your chart’s power); your best planet (the one with the most harmodynes); and your worst planet (the one with the most discordynes.) And you need to know and understand the power and nature of the ten aspects used in Hermetic astrology.
In accordance with its power and nature each progressed aspect maps stimulated thought-cell activity which is working to attract a new experience.
A progressed conjunction or parallel aspect has a powerful, neutral influence which modifies towards harmony when Venus or Jupiter are involved, or discord when Mars or Saturn are involved.
Prominent thought-cell activity mapped by a conjunction aspect and intensified thought-cell desire mapped by a parallel aspect are capable of producing significant life changing events.
And a progressed inconjunct aspect has a weak, neutral influence which modifies towards harmony when Venus and Jupiter are involved and towards discord when Mars and Saturn are involved.
A progressed trine aspect has a powerful, highly harmonious influence that’s capable of producing very fortunate luck events and conditions. They’re a great aid especially if they stimulate harmonious thought-cell activity.
A progressed sextile aspect has a moderately powerful, harmonious influence. It always maps an opportunity to do of have something or extend your scope of influence.
A progressed semisextile aspect has a weak, harmonious influence.
A progressed opposition aspect has a powerful, highly discordant influence that’s capable of producing a very stressful separation event. It can have you feeling like you’re life is being torn apart. You’re being separated from what you had to something new.
An opposition aspect in your birth chart maps two dynamic desires that have merged under discordant conditions. The intensely painful conditioning energy stored within the thought-compound is irksome and discordant. When it’s stimulated by progression it works to attract a separation event and the more you feel the discordant conditioning energy the greater your tendency to attract stressful conditions.
A progressed square aspect has a powerful, highly discordant influence that’s capable of thwarting desire and producing frustration.
A progressed semisquare or sesquisquare aspect has a moderately powerful, discordant influence.
Square, sesquisquare and semisquare aspects in your birth chart depict thought-compounds that possess discordant conditioning energy and when they’re stimulated by progression they work to attract unfavorable events and conditions.
Venus and Jupiter add harmony to any progressed aspect and Mars and Saturn add discord.
A high-discord progression to a high-discord planet inclines towards unfortunate events and a bout of difficulties.
A progressed planet carries half its birth chart power and harmony or discord; and the progressed Moon carries 1/7 of its power and harmony or discord. Events associated with a Moon progression are designated sub-major.
Your keynote progressions
Any progressed aspect to your dominant planet is a keynote progression. It maps your dominant thought-cell group and its aspect structure depicts various thought-compounds that desire events. When its thought-cells are stimulated into activity they’ll work to attract a major event associated with the departments of life they influence.
Your dominant thought-cell group will be harmonious or discordant and its conditioned mode of expression, which is something only you know about, is modified by the nature of the progressed stimulus which in turn influences the nature of the event it will work to attract.
If it’s discordant any progressed aspect will require precautionary measures and constant monitoring.
When there are several progressed aspects stimulating your dominant thought-cell group its influence is greatly enhanced.
Your prominent planets map prominent thought-cell groups and any progressed aspect to a prominent planet is a keynote progression.
A prominent planet depicts a prominent thought-cell group that has an established mode of expression and when it receives a new supply of energy it’s able to work vigorously from the inner-astral-plane to bring into your life a major event that’s associated with the departments of life it influences.
A progressed conjunction, parallel, opposition, square or trine aspect involving a prominent planet maps a big increase in its thought-cell activity. It’s harmonious or discordant and its conditioned mode of thinking and feeling is modified by the nature of the progressed stimulus.
Progressed aspects to a discordant prominent planet should be monitored carefully. They’ll require precautionary measures.
A prominent planet that’s involved in several major progressed aspects maps a thought-cell group that is having its capacity to demonstrate events correspondingly increased. Events relate to the departments of life indicated by its birth chart position, progressed position and sign rulership(s).
Progressed aspects to your best planet are keynote progressions. It depicts a harmonious thought-cell group that’s working to attract fortunate events and conditions associated with the departments of life it influences. Harmonious stimulus enhances its harmony. Discordant stimulus modifies it accordingly.
Progressed aspects to your worst planet are keynote progressions. It depicts a discordant thought-cell group that’s working to attract misfortune through its associated departments of life. Any type of progressed stimulus will enhance its discord. Precautionary measures will be required.
Any progressed aspect involving your best and worst planets inclines towards your best thought-cell group attracting a fortunate event involving the departments of life its influences and your worst thought-cell group attracting an unfortunate event involving a life-matter or activity it influences.
Your birth chart may display a unique hotspot – a conjunction aspect involving 2, 3 or 4 planets, a conjunction aspect forming a square or trine aspect with another conjunction, a grand trine, a T-square, or a planet that conciliates an opposition aspect – and a progressed aspect involving a hotspot planet should be closely monitored. Whatever the hotspot indicates can only occur when it’s stimulated by progression.
When a planet involved in a birth chart T-square is aspected by a progressed planet the situation mapped by the T-square can easily develop.
Any progressed aspect involving birth chart or progressed Sun is a keynote progression. It can influence your vitality and health. The aspecting planet has easy access to your body’s electromagnetic energies and will influence your sense of significance and self-worth. Discordant stimulus to the Sun requires precautionary measures.
Any progressed aspect involving birth chart or progressed Moon is a keynote progression. It can influence your constitutional magnetism and health. The aspecting planet has easy access to your body’s electromagnetic energies and will influence your mentality, mood and temporary frame of mind. Discordant stimulus requires precautionary measures.
Any progressed aspect involving birth chart or progressed Mercury is a keynote progression. It can influence your nerve health. Your conscious thoughts radiate etheric vibrations. The type of thinking you engage in affects your observable behavior. The events you experience are due to your thoughts being energized by a progressed aspect. The aspecting planet has easy access to your body’s electromagnetic energies and nervous system. Discordant stimulus requires precautionary measures.
Progressed aspects with long timeframes won’t attract a constant stream of major events. The thought-cell activity usually requires an energy boost from another progressed aspect. Harmonious longtime progressions favor fortunate events and conditions. Discordant longtime progressions require monitoring and precautionary measures.
Progressed discord makes it hard to achieve and win. The obstacles and opposition can be too great to overcome. But if the difficulties are surmounted, they act as a springboard to a higher level of undertaking.
The progressed aspects you’re destined to experience are nature’s way of ensuring that you get the necessary training to fulfill your unique and special role in God’s Great Cosmic Plan.
Each progression is an energy provider – it puts fuel in your tank – and the nature of the energy – whether harmonious or discordant – determines if the road you’re travelling is likely to be smooth or rough. But nothing is inevitable and your role as the very smart thinker is to monitor your major progressions and to use the planetary energy they provide to the best of your ability.
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