Let’s talk about progressed houses

Your normal life trend is indicated by your birth chart.

Deviations occur when a progressed planet changes its house position. There will be houses in your chart that contain progressed planets and others that don’t.

Your progressed planets by their house locations indicate your current normal progressed chart.

You have a normal progressed chart and it’s easy to calculate.

It indicates the normal relative amount of activity and harmony or discord associated with each house in your chart on a selected date. 

You should calculate it for today’s date. It will stay the same for many years and will only change when a progressed planet changes its house position.

The major progressed Moon spends approximately 2 and half years in each house. It tends to attract sub-major events affecting the life-matters ruled by the house it occupies.

Birth chart planets have power and harmony or discord scores which directly influence the power and harmony or discord of the houses they occupy or influence by sign association.

Your progressed planets, ascendant and Midheaven carry one half of their birth chart power and harmony or discord so to learn their progressed power and harmony or discord divide their birth chart counts by 2.

The progressed Moon carries with it 1/14 of its birth chart power and harmony or discord so divide its numbers by 14.

To calculate the normal progressed power and harmony or discord of a birth chart house take its birth chart power and harmony or discord and add the progressed power and harmony or discord of any progressed planet located in it.

These new scores update birth chart measurements.

Deviations to harmony and discord have occurred.

When a planet with a harmony score moves into a house with a harmony score it increases its harmony; and when it moves into a house with a discord score it reduces its discord.  

When a planet with a discord score moves into a house with a discord score it increases its discord; and when it moves into a house with a harmony score it reduces its harmony.  

Your current normal progressed chart indicates the general trend of the 12 houses in your birth chart and marked deviations to this trend, as new events and conditions, only occur when more energy is added to them by a major progressed aspect. Stimulated thought-cell activity causes something out of the ordinary to happen.

Your life is a series of events through which your intelligence and ability develop.

A progressed aspect involving a progressed planet and a birth chart or other progressed planet maps a stellar aerial that is picking up energy from the aspecting planets for the aspect’s duration.

The energy event taking place involves their corresponding thought-cells and when their normal level of activity stimulated by a progressed aspect the event they attract may work out in terms of a physical event involving a life-matter, activity or person, a new or different mental state or viewpoint, a new or different emotional condition, a new or different moral (spiritual) condition or, as more often happens, a combination of all these factors.

In accordance with the aspecting planet’s harmony or discord the event or events attracted can be fortunate or unfortunate.

You can view your birth chart as a personal curriculum of experience.

Your chart is a map of your character and the planets by their house positions and aspects depict events that sustain your development.

By observing your progressed chart you can see, by the house positions of the birth chart and progressed planets, what departments of your life are particularly susceptible to major events and one or two are likely to stand out.

The houses in your birth chart

The houses in your birth chart map departments of life: life-matters, activities, interests and people through which events occur. They’re occupied by planets that depict thought-cell groups and throughout your early life and teenage years they acquire a conditioned mode of expression through experience.

Thought-cells associated with a department of life are working to attract events that replicate their nature and quality. They’re very inclined to express through events defined by their previous conditioning which is modified by harmonious or discordant planetary energy provided by progressed aspects. This is powerful knowledge.

If they’re feeling harmonious they work to attract a favorable-fortunate event; if they’re feeling discordant they work to attract an unfavorable-unfortunate event.

Birth chart planets are located in houses; progressed planets move into houses; and each house has a sign-cusp ruler of rulers and some can have intercepted sign rulers.

So, each house in your current progressed chart details a complex pattern of progressed aspects; and a progressed aspect involving a birth chart or a progressed planet or its associated sign-cusp or intercepted sign rulers maps a thought-compound working to attract a new event or condition involving and affecting its life-matters, activities and human or non-human associates.

A house that contains several birth chart planets indicates a department of your life that is naturally inclined to quite regularly attract a variety of major events. There’s a lot going on. As birth chart planets progress they form progressed aspects and progressed planets form progressed aspects with their birth chart positions; and progressed aspects can involve cusp sign or intercepted sign rulers.

A progressed aspect adds energy to several houses of your normal progressed chart and if you know their normal progressed harmony or discord you can make a better appraisal of their probable fortune or misfortune.

A house with a normal progressed harmony score predisposes towards fortunate events; and when it’s influenced by a harmonious progression you should push ahead with selected life-matters and activities.

A house with a normal progressed discord score predisposes towards unfortunate events; and when it’s influenced by a discordant progressed aspect prudent management and precautionary measures are needed to reduce the risk of harm and mishap.

Your progressed ascendant maps thought-cells that are working to attract events involving your health, personality and personal affairs.

Your progressed Midheaven maps thought-cells that are working to attract events involving your honor, business and publicity.

Any progressed aspect to house 1 indicates a new event or condition affecting your personal life, personality, appearance, personal interests or health.

Any progressed aspect to house 2 indicates a new event or condition affecting your personal finances or possessions.

Any progressed aspect to house 3 indicates a new event or condition involving your private thinking, short distance travels, personal studies, writing or a sibling or neighbor.

Any progressed aspect to house 4 indicates a new event or condition involving your housing, home, real-estate interests or father.

Any progressed aspect to house 5 indicates a new event or condition involving pleasure, love, sex, entertainment, sport, creativity, a child or children.

Any progressed aspect to house 6 indicates a new event or condition involving your work, workplace, work mates, quality of service, employees, diet, hygiene, sickness, tenants or pets.

Any progressed aspect to house 7 indicates a new event or condition involving your marriage or spouse, or a partner, competitor, client, customer, doctor, the general public, stranger, open enemy or law suit. 

Any progressed aspect to house 8 indicates a new event or condition involving joint finances, other people’s money, loans, debt, social security, taxation, insurance, inheritance or death.

Any progressed aspect to house 9 indicates a new event or condition involving religion, moral values, higher learning, university, overseas travel, a court case, teaching, publishing, radio, television or the internet.

Any progressed aspect to house 10 indicates a new event or condition involving your job, profession, business, reputation, honor, credit, (discredit, dishonor), public recognition or boss, employer or mother.

Any progressed aspect to house 11 indicates a new event or condition involving a friend, pal, buddy, wish, club, society or association.

And any progressed aspect to house 12 indicates a new event or condition involving your secret/confidential life, behind the scenes activity, secret enemies, charity work, volunteer work or disappointment, sorrow, regret, solitude, seclusion, detention, restriction or a hospital, nursing home, goal or prison.


Author: DW Sutton

Astrology for Aquarius – sharing our knowledge

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