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Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and The Lark by Bernadette Brady (Samuel Weiser Inc, 1992, 1998).

© Bernadette Brady and Darrelyn Gunzburg 1994, 2012 www.AstroLogos.co.uk

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Contents

The Houses in Predictive Work ... 4 

Grading and Sorting Transits ... 8 

Transit Graphs or Graphic Ephemeris ... 9

 

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto... 30 

The Axes of the Angles and the Axes of the Nodes ... 31 

Putting It Together ... 33

 

Cycles and Transiting Cycles ... 35 

Understanding Outer Planets via Cycles ... 38 

Synodic Cycles ... 40

 

‘The Mid-Life Crisis’ or ‘The Mid-Life Blooming’ ... 42 

Secondary Progressions: ... 51 

Introduction and the Progressed Sun ... 51

 

Secondary Progressed Moon and the Progressed Lunar Phase

... 60 

Secondary Progressions – ... 70 

Time Maps ... 83

 

Putting It All Together ... 83 

Returns ... 89 

Planetary Firdaria ... 112 

Eclipses ... 121 

Predictive Packages ... 125

 

APPENDICES ... 143 

APPENDIX 1 Creating a 900 5 Year Transit Graph using Solar Fire. ... 144 

APPENDIX 2 Producing a Lunar Phase Printout in Solar Fire.147 

APPENDIX 3 Creating a Time Map in Solar Fire ... 149

 

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Introduction to Transits

Predictive Astrology Workshop

PARTS 1-5 on DISC 1.

General Introduction

These notes form part of the Astro Logos teaching syllabus which

accompanies the Astro Logos Predictive Astrology lectures. These are classic lectures delivered by Bernadette Brady and Darrelyn Gunzburg to their

students in face-to-face sessions between 1990-2002 in Adelaide, South Australia. Both lecturers make frequent references to Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and The Lark by Bernadette Brady (Samuel Weiser Inc, 1992, 1998). Although not essential, this book is a helpful adjunct in learning predictive astrology.

Finding Transits

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When Margaret Thatcher was born V was at 140 D. Currently V is in J. That means that during her life time V has transited through her 9th house, passed over her M, conjuncted her MC, moved through her 10th house, entered the 11th house, conjuncted her Q, her N and her O, entered her 12th house, conjuncted her S and Ascendant, entered her 1st house,

conjuncted her P and and is currently transiting through her 2nd house.

Each time V formed a conjunction in her chart she was said to be having a V transit. By looking at the movement of V in your

ephemeris you well see that from 1925 until the present day V has moved from D to J.

Now look to see when V was at the same degree as her natal Q which is at 90 _G

28’. V moved over this zodiac degree and minute on the 12th October 1975. It then moved forward until in January 1976 V it went retrograde. It then formed another conjunction to Q on 3rd May 1976. This is known as the retrograde hit, as transiting V appeared to move ‘backwards’ over this sensitive point. In June of 1976 V turned direct and once again moved forward through the zodiac and formed a third conjunction to Q on the 3rd August 1976. The transit of V conjunct natal Q was therefore effective from the 12th October 1975 to the 3rd August 1976. It was during this period of time that Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons.

Later as it continued to move forward through the zodiac, transiting V formed a conjunction to her natal N.

See if you can find the dates of the three exact transiting conjunctions to her natal N? This was the period in which she became Prime Minister.

Now take your own chart …and, using your ephemeris, look up today’s

position of V. Place transiting V in your chart and look at the arc that it has moved through since you were born. In looking at that arc, ask yourself the question: ‘Has transiting V formed a conjunction to any of my angles (Asc/Dsc or MC/IC) or to any of my personal planets (NMOPQ)?’ If the answer is ‘yes’, then look in your ephemeris to see when transiting V was forming this conjunction. Now think about that period of your life. Was anything significant happening in that period?

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The important points of the above exercises are

four-fold:

1. Understanding how planets continue moving after you are

born and therefore can move into key sensitive degrees in your

natal chart.

2. Learning how to use the ephemeris to find the exact dates that these transits are going to occur.

3. Understanding that most outer planet transits will move over a

particular degree three times, and possibly even five times, due

to the planet’s retrograde motion.

4. Using your own life history to start to understand or get a feeling for the effect of transits in a person’s life.

The Houses in Predictive Work

The natal house involved in a transit gives the astrologer valuable information concerning the areas of a person’s life that are being effective.

For further information see also Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark, pages 29-44. This section of the text discusses each house and gives you ideas of its meaning, depending on whether it is the house of the natal planet (top row), the house being transited (middle row) or the house being ruled by one of the planets involved (bottom row).

The Houses and Transit Grid for Margaret Thatcher

Example 1:

Using the example of Margaret Thatcher, we can start to gain an

understanding of her V transits, firstly, by considering the meaning of VaS and then by looking at the houses involved.

Further material can be found in Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark, page 48, as well in the audio lectures.

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The transit of VaQ involves the following grid:

V a S

8 12aAsc

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1 3 (3)

The brackets around the 3 indicate that K – the other sign ruled by S apart from J - is intercepted in the 3rd house.

The nature of the transit:

The VaS implies super-human effort and hard work. It is a transit where the person can feel miserable and melancholic, as if they are constantly in a black hole. There is a potential for anger or violence or a great deal of political lobbying and working behind the scenes.

The top row of the grid:

The 8th house and 11th houses along the top line describe where the transit originates. They come about as a result of something that has been there all the time (12) which now becomes apparent regarding upheaval and change (8).

The middle row of the grid:

The transit’s activity is focused in the 12th house, so the transit is telling you that it will be focused into her feeling a sense of isolation and separation.

The bottom row of the grid:

The bottom row of the grid shows the results of the transit. In this case due to all the political lobbying and difficulty that has burdened her throughout the transit, she herself (1st house) makes a statement (3rd house) or re-situates herself in her local neighbourhood.

What happened?...

Throughout 1990 Margaret Thatcher was under continual political challenge from her party to step aside. She eventually gave way to this challenge and resigned as Prime Minister and from politics in November 1990. Does this transit describe the huge change in her life that this resignation represented?

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Example 2:

In 2011 a film, The Iron Lady was produced with Margaret Thatcher as the subject matter. Although Thatcher was not involved with the film and did not appear in it (Meryl Streep played that role), the subject matter meant that her name was in the public domain.

However, in 2011 Thatcher was having transiting UbM. The grid on this was as follows:

U b M

9 9

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4 9

The nature of the transit:

The UbM is a transit where the person can feel more than usually susceptible to the emotions of others. It can be a visionary, drug-sensitive time or a time of insightful spirituality but the outcome is to pull away from the world in order to re-organise one’s emotional reality.

The top row of the grid:

The duplication of the 9th houses along the top line describes where the transit originates. In this case the transit originates in foreign affairs, publishing, connections overseas, politics and legalities.

The middle row of the grid:

The transit’s activity is focused in the 3rd house, so the transit is telling you that it will be focused into how she communicates, or in this, the pulling away from communication.

The bottom row of the grid:

The bottom row of the grid shows the results of the transit. In this case it reshapes where she lives (4th house) in connection with her political or foreign connections (9th house).

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What happened?...

In 2011 Baroness Thatcher’s health declined and she made decisions not to attend key public events such as the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Garter Day ceremony at Windsor, Founder’s Day at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and the unveiling of a statue of Ronald Reagan in

Grosvenor Square on July 4. Furthermore at the end of July 2011, her office in the House of Lords was closed down in what has been described as her final and irrevocable

withdrawal from public life. Her son, Sir Mark Thatcher, told Tim Walker of The Guardian: ‘If I am honest, I think it highly unlikely that Margaret will now ever be seen in public again.’

Does this transit describe the final withdrawal from public life that this transit represents?

On another level, the film The Iron Lady – another expression of the virtual reality that transiting Neptune connected with the Moon can represent – depicts Thatcher over the course of three days struggling with grief and the loss of her husband, Denis, until finally packing up his clothes to be sent to a charity shop.

Other Aspects

So far we have just been looking at transiting planets forming conjunctions to natal planets. However, a transiting planet may also form a transiting

opposition or square, or indeed any type of aspect to any natal point in a chart. When Margaret Thatcher was married in September 1951 she had transiting R opposing her natal Q. Indeed whenever an outer planet forms a

SQUARE, OPPOSITION or CONJUNCTION to a your chart, you are having

important transits and it is worth taking note of them. This is much stronger for STU and V than for R.

Now do the same exercise but now follow the movement of U through your chart.

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Grading and Sorting Transits

Every day your chart will be receiving transits. Therefore as astrologers we need to have a method of sorting though the information in order to focus on the transits which are going to have a significant effect on our own or our client’s life.

There are four major rules for sorting transits which are given in the text. By applying these rules to a set of transits you will have a consistent method of finding which are the strongest transits. It is the strongest transits which will be the ones which shape the year.

For example, if you were having transiting Q conjunct your natal M, this may

be a day where you lose your temper or are very motivated. However, since this transit is going to happen every two and a half years, it is not going to dramatically change your life. However, transiting T square your natal M is only going to happen maybe twice in your life time and could therefore symbolise major changes.

The single biggest defining statement between an educated, qualified astrologer and a hobbyist who has just read a few books is that the

professional will have an understanding of the frequency of certain events and will not be swept away with worry or concern or anticipation by the arrival of high-frequency transits.

Exercise for you to do to help you understand this technique

Take your own chart and, using the ephemeris, find all the transiting

conjunctions, squares and oppositions that transiting Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto form during the coming next twelve months.

LIST these down the dates on which they occur and then using the rules

given in the text, find the top four transits of the year and list them in order of importance.

Take what you consider to be the most important transit and DRAW UP ITS

GRID. Write a paragraph delineating each house and then write a page

delineating the transit grid.

(There is further information on this in Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark, pages 73 to 97, and also in the lectures.)

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Transit Graphs or Graphic Ephemeris

Time Map Workshop

PARTS 1-4 on DISC 2.

See Appendix for how to do this in Solar Fire.

One of the difficulties in working with transits is actually finding the particular transits that are active at any one time. Computer programs can be of

assistance but to quickly sort 12 months or more of transits and see the retrograde and direct hits, the best tool is a Graphic Ephemeris or Transit Sheet.

GRAPH 1 ... is a 30° Graphic Ephemeris for the period 1st January – 31st

December, 1997.

ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE … is a scale of numbers of 0 to 30. These

are the degrees of ANY zodiac sign.

THE HORIZONTAL AXIS ... forms the months of the year.

THE GRAPH... contains the plotted planetary movements Q,R,S,T U and V.

EACH LINE ... is labelled with a planetary symbol as well as a zodiac sign.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE GRAPH...

… you will see SA sitting on a line. The line starts at a point on the 0 to 30 scale at about 1 and a bit. This is telling you that S was in A at 10

25' on the 1st January. Following that line through the graph. you will notice that it sweeps downwards, going deeper into A until early August. At that point you will notice a small dash on the line which indicates that the planet is changing direction. Thus from the graph we can see that S turns retrograde in early August 1997 and if we read the degree scale we see that this occurs about 20 and a bit degrees of A. From that date it continues to move retrograde through A – we can see this by the way the line moves upwards on the graph - until mid-December 1997 where at about 14° A it turns direct.

SIMILARLY IF YOU NOW LOOK AT THE LINE LABELLED R...

… you can see that R is moving through K throughout 1997 and has two

STATIONS (the term used for when a planet slows to a standstill and changes

its direction of movement). One station is in early June is at about 23° K and the other in early October is at about 12° K.

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You will also note that the R line crosses the S line three times throughout 1997:

 once in mid-February when S is at 4° A and R is at 4° K.  secondly in mid-July when S is at 20° A and R is at 20° K.

 and finally in mid-November when S is at 14° A and R is at 14° K. Whenever any two printed lines cross on a Transit Graph, then the two

planets are forming a transiting aspect to each other. The type of aspect is found by first considering the type of Graph - this one is a 30° graph, thus each time these lines cross the graph it indicates that the two transiting planets are forming a 30° aspect to each other - and then by taking into account the signs in which the two planets are situated.

Given that it has to be a 30° aspect – a, h, e, d, c, b and the i – and that S is in A and R is in K – then the aspect is a e.

The Major Points to Understand

Graphic Ephemerides quickly show you a year or more at a glance and make it very easy to find planetary stations, when a planet will change signs, and what aspect it may be forming throughout the year to other transiting planets.

Adding a Natal Chart

EXAMPLE 1 John Howard

John Howard, the 25th and second-longest serving Prime Minister of

Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. His Ascendant is 5°C31' and his MC is 170L44'. GRAPH 2 is the same graph as Graph 1 but in this case these two angles have been drawn on the graph.

With John Howard's Ascendant at 50C31'. we can draw a line at 5½° across

the graph. This line is labelled with what natal point it is (in this case the

Ascendant) and the sign of the natal point (in this case C). His MC of 170L44' is added to the graph in the same manner. An astrologer would normally enter the entire natal chart on the graph but for the sake of simplicity we shall work with just Howard's angles.

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In looking at the Ascendant line we can see that S,Q,R, T, and V all cross the line in early February:

 S is in A so it will be forming a e to the C Ascendant. Not a very strong transit.

 T is in K, so it also forms a e to Howard's Ascendant.

 R is also in K, so it, too, forms a e to the Ascendant (indeed the graph is showing you that there is a R T conjunction which only happens every 14 years.)

 Q is in G so it is forming a c to Howard's Ascendant.

All of the above transits are interesting but none of them make very strong connections. However…

 … when we look at V we see that V is in I and Howard's Ascendant is in C, therefore transiting V is forming a a to his Descendant. This extremely strong transit will only happen once in his life time.

In further looking at the graph we can see that the V transit is stationary on his Descendant from mid-February to mid-March and then comes back to the degree of his Descendant in late November 1997.

In now looking to his MC, we can see that both R and S are forming transits to his L MC but both R and S are forming hs. By themselves this is not very important but later when we cover midpoints we will come back to this example.

The Major Points to Understand

By drawing the natal points on a graph you know that where a printed line intersects a drawn line the chart is receiving a transit.

The details of the transit are determined by:

• which natal point is receiving the transit;

• what is the point which is producing the transit; and • what is the aspect that is being formed?

The Graphic Ephemeris means that you no longer need to wade through pages of an ephemeris. You can see all the transits at a glance.

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HINT:

1. Once you have sorted out the transiting aspects, write them on the transit graph as shown with transiting V so that you can quickly read the graph at a later date.

2. Use a red pen or a bright colour to draw the natal lines on the graph. This will make it a great deal easier to read.

Other types of Graphic Ephemeris

Graphic Ephemerides can be made for any length of time and for any modality (number of degrees on the left hand side and therefore the types of aspects that the graph will show). A useful Graphic Ephemeris is shown in GRAPH 3. This is a 90° five year Graphic Ephemeris.

THE 900 GRAPH

At first glance this graph looks like the previous example. However, you will notice that the degree scale is not 0 to 30 but rather 0 to 90. This means that the

graph will only find aspects between planets and/or natal points which are made up of units of 90°. There are only three such aspects: a, d and b.

As well, this graph is for a much larger time frame covering the period January 1997 - December 2001. Each planet has been plotted against time as in Graph 1 but now any intersections of the line indicates that the two planets are forming one of the three aspects given above.

This graph is also called a 4th HARMONIC GRAPH as the modulus of 90° is called the 4th harmonic (900 divides into 3600 exactly 4 times or 3600 divided by 4 gives 900) and it reveals the three aspects of the 4th harmonic.

Note that Graph 1 which is a 30° graph is also called a 12th HARMONIC GRAPH as it gives the aspects that belong to the 12th harmonic. (300 divides into 3600 exactly 12 times or 3600 divided by 12 gives 300).

In looking at the graph, the diamond blocks at the 30° line and the 60° line indicate a change of sign. For example, in the case of U, throughout 1997 U is still in J but by early 1998 U moves into K. The movement from one sign to another is marked by the diamond.

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The first 30 degrees of the scale 0 to 30 belong to all the CARDINAL signs: A, D, G, J.

The second 30 degrees of the scale 30 to 60 belong to all the FIXED signs: B,E,H,K,

The third 30 degrees of the scale 60 to 90 belong to all the MUTABLE signs: C,F,I,L.

To enter a natal chart on this graph…

… you have to first decide whether the natal point is cardinal, fixed or mutable and then use the appropriate 30 degree scale.

For example, in graph 4, part of John Howard's natal chart has been drawn onto a 90° Graph. His Ascendant is 5°C31'. This is a mutable sign, thus it will be

entered in the 60° to 90° slot, as this 30° has been reserved for mutable points. As you can see the Va Descendant transit is still showing but all the other transits to his Ascendant/Descendent axis are no longer apparent, as they do not belong to the 4th harmonic (are not made up of 90° units). His MC of 17°L44' is also mutable, so it is also entered in the mutable area of the graph (60° to 90° zone).

Howard's Q is at 28°J55'. This is a cardinal sign, so to enter his Q on the

graph we would used the Cardinal zone (0 to 30) as shown.

Howard's M is at 28°H51'. This is a fixed sign, so to enter his M on the

graph we would used the Fixed zone (30° to 60°) as shown.

The power of this graph is that once you have drawn a person's natal chart onto the 90° graph, you can quickly see all the major transits that the person is having for the next five years.

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EXAMPLE 2 Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born to a white American

mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii.

When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment - his

grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, though he travelled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten.

Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a

prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle Robinson, a fellow attorney.

Eventually he was elected to the Illinois state senate, where his district included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position.

Reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682433/bio - February 2010

Left: Ann Dunham with her father and children during Ann's

brief stay with her family in Hawaii during the mid-1970s.

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‘On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the general election with 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173 and became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.’

Recognizing this is a huge year for Obama, how would you delineate the astrology of the grids and how it might have related to the year in which Barack Obama stood for President of the United States of America?

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The Transits of

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Lectures 1,2 and 3 on DISC 1

The transits of these four outer planets are the major transits with which the astrologer works and although the transits of R can be illuminating, enlightening and inspiring, the reality is that for most people, it is the above four planets which cause the most positive or negative stress when involved in a transit.

For example … A MS combination in a natal chart is a theme of loneliness

and separation-anxiety linked to a fear of rejection. If, however, a person’s chart is receiving a transit of S to their M, they will also have to deal with issues of lack of resources, feeling unloved and a period of isolation.

NOTE: If you are unsure of these combinations,

look at the Astro Logos Planets and Aspects Kit.

There is further material contained in Chapter 1 ‘The Alphabet’ of Predictive Astrology: The Eagle

and the Lark. Pages 1-16 deal with the planets giving or receiving transits.

Points that need to be stressed with this material:

 Each planet or luminary has a particular use in predictive work. For

example, the N is used for receiving transits and can make and receive

progressions (something we will cover later in the course).

 Each planet or luminary has figures with which it can be linked. Thus if you are having a S transit, then a person or group who has authority over you may be putting pressure on you. This is called ‘projection’. Projection is where we use another individual to take a role or play a part in our own internal drama. This occurs within a natal chart but can also occur when the person is receiving a transit. The purpose of projection is to help us

understand the issues via seeing them being played out around us.

For example, by dealing with the authority figures that transiting S can bring into our lives, then we are learning more about our own S, we are learning more about dealing with authority and issues of responsibility. However, by simply blaming authority figures for your problems and considering yourself to be the totally innocent party, then you are projecting without any

consciousness and you therefore fail to learn or grow from the experience. Projection of transits is very common. The astrologer’s role is not only to see these future potential projections but to also help the client own and accept responsibility for the events around them.

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The Axes of the Angles and the Axes of the

Nodes

Further material on the different axes in a natal chart can be found in Predictive Astrology:

The Eagle and the Lark, pages 17-19, as well in the audio lectures.

‘Opposition to’ or ‘conjunct’?

That is the question.

Computer programs will list transits or progressions as ‘forming an opposition to an angle or main point of an axis’. For example, a computer program would list John Howard’s V transit, discussed in the previous section, as being in opposition to his Ascendant rather than ‘conjunct his Descendant’. If we interpreted this extremely important transit in that light – ‘opposite the Ascendant’ - then we would hypothesise that intense and difficult events were happening to Howard and/or his environment due to the action of other people (b). This may or may not be

correct.

However, if we acknowledge that the Descendant (a person’s intimate

relationships and commitments) actually has some influence on the individual, then it is better to shift the focus of the transit to the Descendant and delineate the transit as being a the Descendant. In this situation we would hypothesise that some intense and difficult events are going to be happening in his personal

relationship and/or his political alliances. Granted these will affect his environment but to delineate this transit as simply ‘opposite the Ascendant’ would greatly reduce the astrologer’s accuracy.

The same concept applies to the MC/IC axis as well as the Nodal axis. If the IC is receiving a transiting conjunction, then the effects will be felt in the home and family environment. The impact on the MC - one’s social standing and place in society - would be a secondary result, not a primary cause. Similarly a transit to the South Node emphasises health, old issues from the past, family patterns, genetics, and so on which is quite different to the North Node which would be describing associations and groups.

Just because a computer program finds it easier to list such a transit as opposite the ‘main’ end of the axis does not mean that that is the way they should be interpreted. Indeed the ‘shadowy’ end of an axis is usually more sensitive to transit as it is the areas of our lives where we are more vulnerable. John Howard, as the Prime Minister of Australia, may have felt able to handle problems of State but he, like all of us, would have felt far more powerless in matters to do with his family and his wife.

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THE ASPECTS

Further material on the meaning of the aspects in predictive work can be found in Predictive

Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark, pages 22-29, as well in the audio lectures.

Points that need to be stressed with this material:

 When dealing with transits, generally the astrologer is working with

the hard aspects (a,b,d) and will only turn to other aspects to either

amplify what is already being indicated by the transits or if there are no large transits occurring. However, this does not mean that transiting e,i,f or g have no influence on a person. It is just that their

influence may be drowned out by larger transits or they become minor subplots in the central story that is emerging with the major transits.  If an individual is in a waiting mode, either trying to prevent a difficult

thing from happening or waiting for a long-planned positive event to finally occur, then a cluster of transiting cs may well be the indication of the timing of the event.

 A series of transiting es will indicate incoming opportunities but not all opportunities will be seen as pleasant when they are presented. A person’s house burning down is an opportunity to change where they are living or to do extensive rebuilding. In retrospect this may be considered a positive thing but at the time of the house fire, your client will not consider this a good event. Be wary of too many transiting sextiles.

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Putting It Together

So far we have been concentrating on one transit at a time. Later in the course we will consider TIME MAPS, a method by which all the predictive events can be viewed at once, thus enabling the astrologer to synthesise the different predictive influences happening to a client at any one time. However, at this stage a simple Time Map can be constructed.

Take a piece of paper and across the long edge write the name of the months of the year. Once you have found the transit that you are examining, draw up its grid and enter it underneath the month in which is will be exact. For other months where the transit is also exact, write just the transit itself .

For example, Howard’s V transits in 1997 were as follows:

1997

JAN FEB MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPT OCT NOV DEC  

 

 VT a Desc VT a Desc         VT Desc 

     2 7 6    

This is a simple Time Map. The advantage of this system becomes apparent when you are working with more than one transit.

However, be aware that clients do not experience transits as isolated events. If a client is experiencing a major transit, there is a strong possibility that there will be two or three major transits happening in the same year. By entering each transit on the Time Map, the astrologer can see the sequence of the major transits. For example, during 1997 Howard also had UT a natal Q. This

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Adding this to the above Time Map we get the following:

   

1997

JAN FEB MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPT OCT NOV DEC  

 

 VT a Desc VT a Desc         VT Desc 

     2 UT aQ UT aQ 7 6   UT aQ          4 8 8 10 11  

Provided his birth time is correct, the difficulties will start in February-March.1 By late March through to June he is going to feel ineffective and the difficulties do not clear up until December. This is not really delineating these transits but rather is a simple example of how large transits will combine with other large transits to form an overall picture of the year and the combination and the timing and order of these transits is important.

These are two strong transits and they will not act as two isolated events but rather combine to talk about one very difficult event. Since the V transit is before the U transit, here is a crisis in his committed relationships (VT a Desc) and it is

only after this that Howard feels unable to take effective action (UT aQ ). If the

U transit was first, followed by the V transit, then it is through inaction that a crisis occurs: quite a different meaning to the year.

Exercise for you to do to help you understand this technique

 

 Find what you consider to be your two major transits for this year.  Draw up a simple Time Map, like the example for John Howard.

 Delineate these two transits taking into account their relationship to each other.

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Any transit to the Angles is dependant for its timing of the accuracy of the birth time. If Howard was born 5 minutes later, then this transit would not occur until 1998.

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Cycles and Transiting Cycles

Lecture 5 on DISC 2

In the Delineation module you encountered the 8 stages of the Lunation phase and their meanings in the lunation cycle.

These eight stages, however, have a far larger implication than just the lunar phase under which you were born. They are a universal mechanism

or pathway which all living things, and all things that support life, follow. And

because cycles are the core of all life, they are also the pathway by which we learn things or by which we grow in understanding.

As an example, consider the way in which you learnt to read:

First stage:

NEW MOON (00 - 450 ahead of the N) Beginnings

You hear someone reading you a story and you wish that you could do it. The beginning of the journey.

Second stage:

CRESCENT MOON (450 - 900 ahead of the N) Assertive emerging

You are given books with pictures and someone points to large letters and coaches you to link sounds to symbols. You are keen, you

concentrate and put in a great deal of effort.

Third stage:

FIRST QUARTER (900 - 1350 ahead of the N) Immature action

You can read your first primer slowly but without help. You can read as long as there are no unexpected words.

Fourth stage:

GIBBOUS (1350 - 1800 ahead of the N) Adjustment

You feel more confident and are starting to tackle larger words. You learn that some sounds can be spelt in different ways to mean different things. You are learning the subtleties of the language.

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Fifth stage:

FULL MOON (1800 - 1350 behind the N) Achievement

You can read. You are proud that you can read and you are aware of ‘reading’. You consciously ‘read’ signs, and so on.

Sixth stage:

DISSEMINATING MOON (1350 - 900 behind the N) Transform and Change

You discover books. Now the focus shifts from ‘reading’ to using reading to explore the world of books.

Seventh stage:

THIRD QUARTER MOON (900 - 450 behind the N)

Mature action and productivity.

You read a book that impresses you. You forget about ‘reading’ for now you are actually using the skill in the way it was intended, to broaden your mind.

Eighth stage:

BALSAMIC MOON (450 - 00 behind the N) Endings or completion.

You forget about consciously reading. You forget about how you learnt to read. Reading has now become a part of who you are, one of your skills which you can use as you desire. It is now impossible for you NOT to read a sign when you see it.

The eight stages of a cycle are traditionally named after the lunation cycle but such a cycle does not have to involve the N or the M. As planets transit through your chart, they will form aspects back to their natal positions. When working with the outer planets of S,T,U and V, these cyclic transiting aspects become extremely important and are considered to be markers of large developmental changes in your life.

Material on pages 19-21 in Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark shows you a list of these key cyclic transits. You will need to make a note of the ages at which these cyclic transits tend to occur. For example, if you had a client coming to see you and they were in their late 20s, then you need to be aware that the client’s Saturn Return has just occurred or was about to occur and that would make a major difference to how you would delineate the client’s predictive work.

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Exercise for you to do to help you understand this technique

What cyclic transits have you experienced during your life?

List down the dates of your R returns, S cycle aspects and, if you have had them, your TbT, UdU and VdV transits.

Arrange all of these cyclic transits on one page in chronological order. We

have provided a separate handout for you to do this.

In looking at this list, ask yourself about any events that may have been occurring during these cyclic transits. Did you change as a result?

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Understanding Outer Planets via Cycles

When a new planet is discovered, it symbolise to astrologers that the human collective is becoming conscious or aware of an insight or philosophy. At the discovery of the planet, the potential for the insight is there but that is all. However, as the planet moves in its orbit and makes aspects to its zodiacal position at discovery, then the concepts symbolised by the planet are revealed to the human collective. The full nature of the planet is not fully understood until it has completed at least one full cycle and returned to the position it occupied at the time of its discovery.

For example…  

U was discovered in 1846 at about 240 _{K and completed its ‘Return’ in 2011.}  

 

U describes oneness and, simply put, at a political level this implies that all humans should have equal rights. When the U was discovered, the wars against slavery were just about to begin. That was its ‘New Moon’ phase. People were beginning to think that maybe it was not correct to ‘own’ another human being. Those wars were won and slavery was abolished but that did not mean that minority groups had equal rights.

U has a period of 165 years.

We can look at the four major stages of its cycle

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1846: U discovered. (New Moon phase). Wars against slavery. Gold discovered in New World and for the first time the poorer classes could have access to wealth and all its power.

1890’s: (First or Waxing Square or First Quarter phase ). U forms its first square to itself since its discovery. Suffragette movements.

1930’s: (Opposition or Full Moon phase). U forms an opposition to its discovery position. The depression. Old Wealth being eroded. The breaking down of old industrial practices. The beginning of a rapid increase in the persecution of Jews in Europe. Major lack of human rights in this period which forces to world to relook at human rights issues.

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1970’s: (Third or Waning Square or Third Quarter phase). Equal opportunities for women. Major women’s movements. Anti-war groups. 2011 (Next New Moon). The beginning of a new cycle of Human rights issues and environmental issues.

U has only just completed its first cycle, so the meaning of U now has a greater clarity with regard to human rights. However, U is much closer to completing its first cycle than V which has a period of 248 years. It was discovered in 1929 in the middle degrees of D. We will not experience its opposition or ‘Full Moon phase’ until 2050 and we, as a race, will not truly understand V until after 2175 when it completes its first orbit since its discovery.

Cycles are the way we LEARN things, whether that is on a personal scale or the scale of the human collective.  

     

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Synodic Cycles

Lecture 5 on DISC 2

Synodic Cycles are the cycles formed between two moving bodies.

If you consider two runners on an oval who are running at different speeds, then eventually the faster runner will lap the slower runner. If it takes the faster

runner 10 minutes to lap the slower runner, then the Synodic Cycle between the two runners is 10 minutes.

The most common Synodic Cycle that we work with in astrology is that of the N and M. We call this the Lunar Phases and the M takes 29.5 days to lap the slower-moving N. However, all the planets move at different speeds around the same ‘oval’ called the ecliptic, thus all planets will have synodic cycles with all other planets. Some of these synodic cycles are quite important.

In Appendix 4 page 301 in Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark, you will find a list of the synodic cycles of the outer planets giving their periods, as well as their dates and places of occurrence in this century.

Each time a large planetary pair come together, as is the case with the TaU in 1993, astrologers believe that a new concept or awareness is going to come into the human collective. However, this new awareness will reveal itself through the concept of cycles. TaU occurs every 171 years. The last

conjunction before 1993 was in 1820s and it was in that time that Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross was born, as was as Florence Nightingale, a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician who came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War. Here we can see the expression of the reform (Uranus) of medicine or drugs (Neptune). This did not happen at once in the 1820s but slowly emerged as the two slow-moving transiting planets formed different aspects to each other. Eventually they came together again in 1993. Whilst it is clear that this heralded the digital revolution, the reform and availability to all (Uranus) of virtual reality (Neptune), astrologers are aware that there were some important people born in the early 1990s and that we will have to wait until well into the middle of the next century to really start to understand the meaning of this conjunction.

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You were born as a member of a generation. In astrology we define a human generation:

1. by the zodiac placements of the outer planets – for example, the VE generation (the Baby Boomers) which is why you would never

delineate an outer planet in a zodiac sign on a personal level for someone as it is meaningless on this level; and

2. by the SYNODIC CYCLE and the aspects between these planets – for example the SV generation which includes children born with SaV, SdV (waxing square), SbV and SdV a (waning square).

You are a freeze frame of the many constantly unfolding different synodic cycles. You, as part of your generation, have a role to play in bringing to awareness your generation’s message. This is expressed in astrology by the different stages of synodic cycles that have been captured in your chart. Your generation will do this via the fashions that it follows, the music that it likes, the activities that it seeks and, most importantly, the changes that it demands. Think about these:

Neil Armstrong was born when U and T were in a Disseminating phase. Alexander Graham Bell was born just before TaU.

Madam Blavatsky was born on a TaR. Lewis Carroll was born in a UR crescent.

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Mid-Life Cycles:

‘The Mid-Life Crisis’ or ‘The Mid-Life Blooming’

Lecture 6 on DISC 2

The cycles of R,S,T,U and V can be lined up in columns alongside each other (see Handout entitled The Mid-Life Crisis Cycles). When this is done, it is easy to see that from the ages of roughly 37 years old through to roughly 43 years old – a window of roughly 7 years - the three outer planets T,U and V all form major hard aspects back to themselves : TbT, UdU and VdV. These years are known collectively as the mid-life crisis or the mid-life

‘blooming’ and they are the trademark of the generation who were born in the late 1940s and 1950s who received the VdV much earlier than their

parents, due to V’s erratic movement through the zodiac. Indeed it is the Baby-Boomer Generation who has named this particular series of years and the changes they invoke ‘the Mid-Life Crisis’. Before this, such a phenomenon was not known or acknowledged.

These years are as big a change mentally as puberty is physically and they have just as big an impact as the Saturn Return. To shy away from them, to pull back and fear these mid-life changes is to pull away from life. For whilst the years of puberty can be difficult, no functioning adult would not want to have gone down that pathway.

The following great planetary cycles can occur in any order and sometimes two cycles can occur within the one year.

A note on

SdS, RaR and SbS

If you look at the handout, you will notice that S squares itself at age 35 just before the third R return at age 36 and then S opposes itself around the age of 44. Whilst technically not part of the mid-life crises years, it is as if the cosmos is book-ending this time, opening it with the responsible action of the waxing square of S, followed by the success, optimism and expansion of the third R return and closing it with the clarity of responsibility and consolidation of the S opposition.

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VdV - A CRISIS OF MORTALITY

For people born between 1900-1940 with VC and VD, the VdV occurred when they were in their 60s, anywhere from 1958-1984. For the VE generation - the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation born 1940-1958 - the VdV occurred when it went into H in 1984-1995 and for that generation it occurred anywhere between the ages of 37-42 years old. The generation born with VF also experienced the square around the ages of 37-42 years old.

Technically this occurred due to the erratic orbit of V which moves faster through some signs than it does through others. Yet any astrological phenomenon is simply reflective of the Collective Unconscious. Where our parents were ready emotionally and mentally to retire in their 60s and wind their life down, the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation is still reaching for their prime of life, still working at a career and still finding their place in life. The ‘Baby Boomer’ generation has been asked to deal with VdV much earlier in life.

So what is this issue about?

V is always concerned with the more primal and visceral layers of a person that haven’t yet been encountered. Illogical and hidden, V forces change on the chthonic parts of ourselves. VdV brings tension which forces a person to take action. This action is internal (due the nature of the transit: a planet making an aspect back to itself) and wants us to deepen, broaden and irrevocably change our emotional spectrum. It wants us to work out what issues we need to get

emotionally worked up about, recalibrate them and put them into perspective. It is a time of re-evaluation of our emotional expression.

As it occurs, we notice external changes in the physical body – fine lines and the greying of hair - and begin to realise for the first time:

1. that life is finite

2. that we are mortal and

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She says: ‘In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer. A few days later, I went for a partial mastectomy and breast reconstruction, followed by a year of chemotherapy. The entire experience was very traumatic - I needed counselling afterwards.’

Newton-John took time out from her career to focus on her own healing. The result of this period of introspection was Gaia (1994), an extremely personal album, self-written and produced, that reflected her experiences with cancer and loss. Yet facing issues of mortally is the first step towards living life fully. This is ‘the getting of wisdom’.

Knowing death is the door prize of life forces one (the square) to adjust one’s mental and emotional priorities. This deep body realisation brings with it a realisation that life is not a dress rehearsal, that this is life in the ‘ever after’ and the fairytale of ‘One-day when I grew up I will be...’ is over, for this is ‘one-day!’ What you've got of your life is what you've made it and if what you're trying to do isn't fitting in with what you're doing, you need to make changes, otherwise there will be strong consequences. Once such a realisation is made, it brings with it tremendous energy as a gift of grace for accepting who we are. This can be seen in the photos of Oliva Newton-John from when she was young to more recent times. She has allowed V to transform her and she is the more beautiful because of it.

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Other people will not want to accept this realisation and will prefer to stay as the puer/puella. They may express this by taking a young mistress or a Toy Boy, buying sports car or blowing all their money in a casino. Some will have face-lifts, such as Paul Hogan and Elizabeth Taylor as a way of staying the hand of time. If person can go with the

changes being asked, their life will run smoothly. But if this is someone stuck in public service job, believing that all they have to do is stay there until they retire and all will be well, it can cause all sorts of havoc as a way of forcing adjustment. That's why this period of time is called “a crisis”.

The VE generation are the ones who are in power today and hold public office and it is this generation that is redefining ageing, refusing to retire and demanding more of life than our parents ever dreamed. They are the ones who are lengthening life through scientific and medical research, making Keep Fit DVDs and writing endurance books, redefining the family and clarifying the nature of intimate

relationships, happiness and self-fulfilment.

NOTE: Due to the length of time to complete one cycle, VbV occurs at roughly age 130 years, hence VdV is the only hard aspect we will receive from V to itself in our lifetime.

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Excellent films to watch which encompass the VdV are:

 LANTANA (Australia, 2001) – Geoffrey Rush, Anthony La Paglia, Barbara Hershey.

 THREE COLOURS – BLUE – (France 1993) Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent.

 MY LIFE AS A HOUSE (USA, 2001) - Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas.  DAMAGE (UK 1992) – Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche.

TbT – A CRISIS OF INDIVIDULITY

Uranus is always concerned with independence and self-hood, being strong enough to go against the tide and having differences acknowledged in the group. Our first sense of individualism comes with TdT at age 20-21. At this age we feel that it is in important to be seen at the right places but it is also a time when we are trying out different images and seeking for our own

uniqueness in the group.

The TbT is, as its name suggests, an ‘opposition’, so we ‘see it’ clearly. Now, at age 42, we see clearly the goals we have set up in our early twenties, the goals we have strived for and reached towards and which we now

question: ‘OK – I’ve got there. And now what? how do I redefine myself? What do I reach for now? What are the terms of my self-differentiation?’

The answer comes with the recognition that rather than this being the goal for which one has strived, it is merely one step on a flight of steps and hence we have to look for the next step.

With this transit we encounter the new and the unexpected in order to expand the boundaries of our world in order to gain freedom and independence from the shackles of the past. TbT brings new internal areas to explore which reveal the hidden through the sudden and the unexpected and asks us to go down that path. This transit is about taking risks and being brave. It is about stepping off into unknown territory because one sees clearly who one wants to be and how this gives one uniqueness and emancipation. As VdV was totally emotional, so TbT is entirely unemotional. The clarity is an internal

expression but it may express itself externally as stepping into new areas of life that have previously been hidden. The bottom line is clarity of vision: ‘For the first time I clearly see who I am as an individual.’ TdT waning square occurs around age 63 and TaT occurs at age 84.

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Excellent films to watch which encompass the Uranus opposition Uranus are:

THE MATRIX (USA, 1999) – Keannu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne.

BLADE RUNNER (USA, 1982) - Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer.

THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR – (USA, 1999) – Armin Mueller-Stahl, Craig

Bierko.

UdU

- A CRISIS OF FAITH

This transit occurs around the age of 40 years old. It is the waxing square so it is the young, immature square which, through tension, forces action. This transit is about a religious crisis or a crisis of one’s relationship to the cosmos. It

causes an examination of the self at what one might term the soul level and gives one a sense of the manifestation of one’s faith or spirituality. It is a walk down the Road of Enchantment and it brings with it either a total clarity about what one believes at a deep spiritual level of one’s soul or a total confusion about one’s place in the world.

This transit will bring with it all manner of opportunities which force or corrupt one’s sense of integrity and can lead to deep despair.

For some it may express itself as being caught up in drug dealing, alcohol abuse or a fraud scandal, felt as internal loss or confusion and the erosion of boundaries, with the year summed up as: ‘I've never been so deceived by people.’

For others, it will manifest as being enfolded in the arms of a Tibetan monastery during a trekking expedition in the Himalaya or a new artistic expression coming into one’s life or a metaphysical or religious infusion, with the year summed up as: ‘It was an awesome time that forced me to have faith in myself and gave me a profound experience of enlightenment.’

Ultimately this transit shows one the quality of one's soul and if one can have faith and integrity, it becomes a deeply enlightening time.

UbU occurs at the age of 84.

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Excellent films to watch which encompass the Neptune square Neptune are:

MOULIN ROUGE” (Australia, 2001) – Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.

MUSIC OF THE HEART” (USA 1999) Meryl Streep, Cloris Leachman.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE” (UK, 1998) – Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes.

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE” (USA, 1990) Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine.

SHINE” (Australia, 1995) – Geoffrey Rush, Lyn Redgrave.

Suggested reading List on the Mid-Life Crisis

Carroll, L. Patrick, Chaos or Creation: Spirituality in Mid-Life.

Katherine Marie Dyckman (Photographer) USA: Paulist Press. 1986. Engelsman, Joan Chamberlain. The Queen's Cloak: A Myth for Mid-Life. USA:

Chiron Publications. 1993.

Hand Clow, Barbara. The Liquid Light of Sex: Understanding Your Key Life

Passages. USA: Bear and Co. 1991.

O'Connor, Peter. Understanding the Mid-Life Crisis. Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan, 1981

Rountree , Catheleen. Coming Into Our Fullness: On Women Turning Forty Freedom,California: The Crossing Press. 1991

Sheey, Gail. New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time. Joelle Delbourgo (Editor) USA: Ballantine Books. 1996

Jungian:

Sharp, Daryl. Survival Papers: Anatomy of a Midlife Crisis. (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, No 35). USA: Inner City Books. 1988.

Sharp, Daryl. Dear Gladys: The Survival Papers, Book 2 (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, No 37). USA: Inner City Books. 1989.

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etween twenty and forty is when you build all your connections, you build your base. It’s after forty that you relay come into your maturity as an artist.

Judy Chicago

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geing can be fluid and graceful and funny even thought it hurts since death is the door prize. In indigenous cultures, shamans don’t reach their potential until their fifties. It is expected that they will grow into their power, not out of it.

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e came into this life to give certain gifts and if we don’t give them

no-one else ever will. We are so unique, so individual, it would be a precious gift lost to the world if we don’t share ourselves fully. The gifts we contribute from that kind of warrior stance will be much more profound than the gifts we give by living as society prescribed.

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12 year cycle 28.5 year cycle 84 year cycle 167 year cycle 247 year cycle

7 years old …square Saturn 12 years old …conjunct Jupiter 14 years old …opposition Saturn 21 years old

… square Saturn 21 years old … square Uranus

24 years old … conjunct Jupiter 28-29 years old … conjunct Saturn 35 years old … square Saturn 36 years old … conjunct Jupiter 37-40 years old … square Pluto --- 41 years old … square Neptune 42 years old

… opposition Saturn 42 years old … opposition Uranus

48 years old … conjunct Jupiter 49 years old … square Saturn 56-57 years old … conjunct Saturn 60 years old … conjunct Jupiter 63 years old

… square Saturn 63 years old … square Uranus

70 years old … opposition Saturn 72 years old … conjunct Jupiter 77 years old … square Saturn 83 years old … opposition Neptune 84 years old

… conjunct Jupiter 84 years old … conjunct Saturn 84 years old … conjunct Uranus

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Secondary Progressions:

Introduction and the Progressed Sun

Lecture 7 on DISC 3

Further material can be found in Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark Chapter 3, pages 98-106, the example of Joan of Arc, and pages 144–147, as well in the audio lectures.

Exercise for you to do so that you understand this technique:

Given that the progressed N moves approximately 10

per year:  How old were you when your progressed N changed signs?  How many signs has it progressed through?

 On what dates did the progressed N change houses in your natal chart? Think back, not so much to events but rather to changes in your attitudes and beliefs around those times.

 In a couple of paragraphs, write how you think this has been reflected in the astrology

Important points:

House System

When working with progressed planets moving through the houses, the house system you use will change the times that the N, or any other progressed planet is going to change houses. Thus before an astrologer will give a prediction about the timing and effect of such an event, they need to be confident of the house system they are using. Generally it is far better to assume that, for example, the N is going to change houses over a period of four or five years. This allows an orb of 40-50 for a house cusp which will cover most variations.

Birth Time

If there is any error with the birth time, then the progressions of the N to a house cusp could be many years out, as 4’ error in the birth time correlates with approximately 10 of movement and 10 of movement = one year of time for the progressed N. Link that to the question of which house system should be used and this makes using the precise timing of the progressed N to/over a house cusp a risky predictive tool. This problem also applies to the progressed N making an exact aspect to an angle. Any error in birth time can shift the predicted event considerably and the astrologer could be years out in their prediction. For these reasons, when working with

progressions of any planet to the angles, the astrologer must be extremely confident that the birth time is correct.

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Progressed Planets Changing Sign or House

Further material on the movement of the progressed planets O,P and Q can be found in

Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark Chapter 3, pages 150-158, as well in the

audio lectures.

Look at your own chart and ask the questions:

 When did these planets change sign by progression?

 Taking into account the problems of house systems and birth times have they changed house and if so, when?

 Can I relate to these times of change as shown by these three progressed planets?

Progressed Planets Changing Direction

Further material on the movement of progressed planets changing direction via secondary progressions can be found in Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark Chapter 3, pages 158-160, as well in the audio lectures.

Look at your own chart and ask the questions:

 Have any or will any of my natal planets change direction during my life?

 If so, what age was I or will I be when this occurs?

Exercise for you to do so that you understand this technique:

Using the chart of Queen Elizabeth II (following) and her attached biography, answer the following, assuming that her birth time is correct and that she is responding to Placidus houses:

1. Look at the movement of her progressed Sun though her chart since her birth. How old was she when it changed houses or signs and, if possible, link these changes to her life?

2. The years of 1991 and 1992 were particularly interesting and, at times, difficult for the Queen. Working with her secondary

progressed Moon (and other secondary progressed planets) changing house, sign or direction or conjunct an angle, what was happening in her progressions? How do these secondary

progressions support the events occurring to the Queen in this

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Elizabeth II, Queen of England

The Queen was born in London on 21 April 1926, the first child of The Duke and Duchess of York, subsequently King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks later she was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in the chapel at Buckingham Palace.

Left: Princess Lilibet. Derivative image from Time Magazine Cover, April 29, 1929.

When she was 6 years old, her parents took over Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park as their own country home. Princess Elizabeth was educated at home with Princess Margaret, her younger sister. After her father succeeded to the throne in 1936 and she became heir presumptive, she started to study constitutional history and law. She also studied art and music, learned to ride (she has been a keen horsewoman since early childhood) and enjoyed amateur theatricals and swimming. She enrolled as a Girl Guide when she was 11 and later became a Sea Ranger. At 13, she won the Children's Challenge Shield at London's Bath Club.

The Princess broadcast a message for the first time at 14 years of age in October 1940 during the BBC's children's programme to those children who were being evacuated for safety reasons. In early 1942 she was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guard. On her 16th birthday she carried out her first public

engagement when she inspected the regiment. In April 1943, Princess Elizabeth carried out her first solo public engagement when she spent a day with a Grenadier Guards tank battalion in Southern Command. Shortly after her 18th birthday in 1944, Princess Elizabeth was appointed a Counsellor of State during the King's absence on a tour of the Italian battlefields and, for the first time, carried out some of the duties of Head of State. By the end of the war she had reached the rank of Junior Commander, having completed her course at No. 1 Mechanical training Centre of ATS and passed out as a fully qualified driver.

Her first official overseas visit took place in 1947 to South Africa. Shortly after the Royal family’s return, the Princess was engaged to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. The couple, who had known each other for many years, were married in

Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947. His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria. In 1952, King George VI's illness forced him to abandon his proposed visit to Australia and New Zealand. The Princess, accompanied by Prince Philip, took his place.