Progress Your Life
December 15, 2007
Title: Delineation of Progressions
Author: Sophia Mason
Publisher: American Federation Of Astrologers, copyright 1985
Used to delineate the evolution of an individual and as an addition to predictive techniques, progressions are powerful tools. Though there are several approaches to progressions, the most commonly used are called “Secondary Progressions”. Imagine the placement of your birth planets then move them forward one degree for every year of your life. This is your progressed position for each planet. Progressed as well are your Midheaven and Ascendant.
Progressions illustrate your personal evolution. For instance as your progressed Sun moves from one sign to another, your personality incorporates the qualities of the new sun sign. So carefree, love and leave ‘em fire sign eventually incorporates the more serious aspects of careful, practical earth planet that comes after it, the earth planet loosens up their communication style with the air sign that follows. Progressions are also used as a predictive technique.
Sophia Mason takes through the process of analyzing progressions, providing constructive techniques for weighing their importance against transits. One especially useful section is that of the progressed moon against the natal moon. Here we see the pattern of our emotional lives, the critical junctures of emotional growth. While the transits of the life cycle of man shows us what is happening, the concurrent progressed moon cycles shows us how we feel about those events. For instance the first moon square at the age of seven shows us the traditional separation from home and mother with the entrance into school and the emergence of knowledge of right and wrong, age fourteen the gateway into the rebellious period of the teenage years, the second square at 21 the final separation from the home as the child enters adulthood.
Not a book for the casual reader, it a must for every astrology student and astrologer.
astrology, zodiac, horoscopes, progressions, transits
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