Progressions and Daily Angles
For a lively account of the DPAs - the Daily Progressed Angles - go to the Articles section and
"A Case of the DPAs"
A more detailed and technical discussion can be found further on - "Associate Angles and the DPAs".
These are both pieces I wrote way back before the computer came to our aid!
It is so much easier now to calculate and present any set of progressions, whether annual (the Midheaven moving by approximately one degree every year during the life of the individual or institution, taking the Ascendant with it at the natal or current latitude) or daily (the MC moving approximately one degree a day, 361 degrees a year.)
In Solar Fire you are asked to select the rate of progression in the Properties; my progression of choice is the Standard (Q2) Mean Quotidian. This will give you any annual or daily angles you specify, direct or converse.
You are probably very familar with the Secondary Progressions; but not everyone takes advantage of the cosmic fact that the phenomena of Time radiate from any given point in many directions, many dimensions. So at the very least we need to study not just the Direct progressed patterns but also the Converse (see below.)
Tertiaries (the ‘mean’ rather than the ‘true’) seem especially eloquent when Converse, but Minor Progressions seem only really to speak Directly.
Progressed Stations are very important - charts should be set up for these, and the life-epoch noted. It was the late Al H.Morrison of New York who pointed out how life would come literally to a turning-point when the True Moon’s Node went from retrograde to direct or vice versa - and other planetary stations are important also, each in their own context.
Progressed Ingresses are also worth looking at, particularly the regular, rhythmic sign-changes of the progressing Moon. Work needs to be done in all these areas.
Absolutely invaluable are the above-mentioned Daily Progressed and Converse Angles. Use these daily patterns in conjunction with the daily Quotidian chart to keep track of opportunities and hazards.
The Question of Converse Patterns
BACK TO THE FUTURE,
FORWARD TO YESTERDAY - I
AM A SPLASH IN TIME
There probably are folk among you who question this odd business of working backwards in time from the natal chart. So did I, at first. My mind was completely changed when my parents died within a year of each other and I couldn't find the patterns in my chart at all. Then there was a little light-bulb moment - I fished out of a drawer a beautifully-made astrological circular slide-rule that I had bought from its inventor Maurice Silver s few years previously. He had made provision for calculations backward as well as forward in time ... this was where I at last discovered the progressed planets and angles telling the sad story of my double bereavement. The converse Sun was opposite Saturn.
Later I was to find the same poignant contact in the nativity of Jesus when he was taken to the Cross. The converse Sun was conjunct Saturn.
So when you are checking progressions for yourself or for anyone or anything else, don't neglect the converse chart: we are each effectively a splash in time and the ripples go every which way!
What does it all mean?
After a lot of pondering - as you do - my feeling is that direct progression of the natal or inceptional chart is developmental, with considerable freedom to express the planetary and angular energies as you will. You are invited to add the qualities and experiences of the new signs, houses and planetary aspects to those embedded in the nativity.
Whereas the converse progressions have more of the character of appointments kept; these seem to me to be more 'fated' than the direct patterns. Jesus was predestined for his Crucifixion - had he not made that supreme sacrifice and then reappeared to his friends, there would have been no astonishment, no drama, no Saints, no world-wide Christianity. On a far humbler level, had my lovely Mum not died when she did, had I not lost her in 1992, I would not have had her legacy in time to buy my first computer and first astrology program and that October, sufficiently equipped, discover the beautiful Nativity of Jesus when it was meant to happen.
Life's Rich Tapestry
On a lighter note, it is very entertaining to watch one's progressing Moon (especially as a woman, lunar creatures that we are) as every two and a half years or so it changes sign - and it is so easy to see how we women have a reputation for being ... changeable!
It was colour that I first noticed - at the sign change my wardrobe would be in upheaval. Leo meant there was a rush of yellow and orange. In Libra, after years of avoiding it, I couldn't let a day pass without wearing blue. Sagittarius was my Purple Patch; Scorpio a disconcerting blend of the dark and the fluorescent! And so on. I have learned so much about colour in astrology, not only from the progressed Moon but from observation. My resulting colour diagram is in the Dwad article ... but here it is again. Some of its subtleties are lost in the scan, but by and large it gives a good idea of the decan and dwad colours as well as the way some of the principal Reflex energies (centre) bounce around the equinox and solstice points to form crosses and rectangles in 'Life's Rich Tapestry'.
There will be more on Colour soon.
For a lively account of the DPAs - the Daily Progressed Angles - go to the Articles section and
"A Case of the DPAs"
A more detailed and technical discussion can be found further on - "Associate Angles and the DPAs".
These are both pieces I wrote way back before the computer came to our aid!
It is so much easier now to calculate and present any set of progressions, whether annual (the Midheaven moving by approximately one degree every year during the life of the individual or institution, taking the Ascendant with it at the natal or current latitude) or daily (the MC moving approximately one degree a day, 361 degrees a year.)
In Solar Fire you are asked to select the rate of progression in the Properties; my progression of choice is the Standard (Q2) Mean Quotidian. This will give you any annual or daily angles you specify, direct or converse.
You are probably very familar with the Secondary Progressions; but not everyone takes advantage of the cosmic fact that the phenomena of Time radiate from any given point in many directions, many dimensions. So at the very least we need to study not just the Direct progressed patterns but also the Converse (see below.)
Tertiaries (the ‘mean’ rather than the ‘true’) seem especially eloquent when Converse, but Minor Progressions seem only really to speak Directly.
Progressed Stations are very important - charts should be set up for these, and the life-epoch noted. It was the late Al H.Morrison of New York who pointed out how life would come literally to a turning-point when the True Moon’s Node went from retrograde to direct or vice versa - and other planetary stations are important also, each in their own context.
Progressed Ingresses are also worth looking at, particularly the regular, rhythmic sign-changes of the progressing Moon. Work needs to be done in all these areas.
Absolutely invaluable are the above-mentioned Daily Progressed and Converse Angles. Use these daily patterns in conjunction with the daily Quotidian chart to keep track of opportunities and hazards.
The Question of Converse Patterns
BACK TO THE FUTURE,
FORWARD TO YESTERDAY - I
AM A SPLASH IN TIME
There probably are folk among you who question this odd business of working backwards in time from the natal chart. So did I, at first. My mind was completely changed when my parents died within a year of each other and I couldn't find the patterns in my chart at all. Then there was a little light-bulb moment - I fished out of a drawer a beautifully-made astrological circular slide-rule that I had bought from its inventor Maurice Silver s few years previously. He had made provision for calculations backward as well as forward in time ... this was where I at last discovered the progressed planets and angles telling the sad story of my double bereavement. The converse Sun was opposite Saturn.
Later I was to find the same poignant contact in the nativity of Jesus when he was taken to the Cross. The converse Sun was conjunct Saturn.
So when you are checking progressions for yourself or for anyone or anything else, don't neglect the converse chart: we are each effectively a splash in time and the ripples go every which way!
What does it all mean?
After a lot of pondering - as you do - my feeling is that direct progression of the natal or inceptional chart is developmental, with considerable freedom to express the planetary and angular energies as you will. You are invited to add the qualities and experiences of the new signs, houses and planetary aspects to those embedded in the nativity.
Whereas the converse progressions have more of the character of appointments kept; these seem to me to be more 'fated' than the direct patterns. Jesus was predestined for his Crucifixion - had he not made that supreme sacrifice and then reappeared to his friends, there would have been no astonishment, no drama, no Saints, no world-wide Christianity. On a far humbler level, had my lovely Mum not died when she did, had I not lost her in 1992, I would not have had her legacy in time to buy my first computer and first astrology program and that October, sufficiently equipped, discover the beautiful Nativity of Jesus when it was meant to happen.
Life's Rich Tapestry
On a lighter note, it is very entertaining to watch one's progressing Moon (especially as a woman, lunar creatures that we are) as every two and a half years or so it changes sign - and it is so easy to see how we women have a reputation for being ... changeable!
It was colour that I first noticed - at the sign change my wardrobe would be in upheaval. Leo meant there was a rush of yellow and orange. In Libra, after years of avoiding it, I couldn't let a day pass without wearing blue. Sagittarius was my Purple Patch; Scorpio a disconcerting blend of the dark and the fluorescent! And so on. I have learned so much about colour in astrology, not only from the progressed Moon but from observation. My resulting colour diagram is in the Dwad article ... but here it is again. Some of its subtleties are lost in the scan, but by and large it gives a good idea of the decan and dwad colours as well as the way some of the principal Reflex energies (centre) bounce around the equinox and solstice points to form crosses and rectangles in 'Life's Rich Tapestry'.
There will be more on Colour soon.