Progressed Standalone Chart correlates to Primary Directions

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Starlove

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Hi all,

Something I just noticed and thought it might need more focus.

I follow the progressed standalone chart (let's call it PS) and have found it to be very useful.

I just did it for James Woods (18 May 1947 (11.30am Vernal, Utah) and saw something that seems to throw everything out.

If you add his current age (77 and 9 months) to his birth date, you get early hours of 5 July 1947), you will note, approximately:

PS Mars 2Gem45 conjunct PS Node 0Gem20.
PS Venus 25Gem42 conjunct PS Uranus 23Gem09.

You can see that these positions show a major event about 18-24 months ago, when the Mars was conjunct the Node and the Venus was directly conjunct Uranus.

Either he had a major event then (which he did not, apparently), or these conjunctions are indicating the massive event he's just gone through, along with thousands of others, Mars (fire) and a violent Venus disruption, the fires around LA.

So my quandary now is that I've been looking at the progressed standalone chart incorrectly, perhaps it responds to the length of the solar day, as do primary directions?

Can anyone help? I am confused because I watch my PS planets hitting the angles and there are events, very pertinent, e.g. Mars on my MC, dived off a surfboard after riding a wave and compacted/nearly broke my neck on a shallow sandbank.

According to Astro d0t com, "Uniform movement of all points or use of a time equivalence that includes actual planetary motion. Traditionally, all points are moved uniformly with their directed positions being calculated on the basis of advancement of the RAMC, but ignoring any proper motion due to the passage of time. This uniform motion is the common understanding of the word "direction". Another view is to consider the direction to be a mapping of an earlier time in the native's life to a transit time. In this approach, sometimes called "primary progressions", the proper motion of the planets between the radix and directed times is taken into account by erecting a normal chart for the directed time and comparing its mundane positions to those of the radix."
 
Some ideas you might consider:

I. In addition to comparing the (secondary) progressed chart to itself, I would suggest it is good to compare it to 1. the natal chart and 2. the antiscion positions of the elements in the natal chart.

II. Consider using the Sidereal day (24 hours of sidereal time) instead of the Solar day (24 hours of clock time) as the basis of the "day for a year" calculation. See my posts in the thread Progressions | You are using the WRONG DAY! for what that means and how to do it. The older the client, the more significant the difference.

III. Advance the progressed Midheaven using the progressed solar arc in Longitude (ie, degrees in the Zodiac on the ecliptic) and/or the progressed solar arc in Right Ascension. The progressed Ascendant is taken from a Table of Houses (or calculated on the basis of) that derived progressed MC, at the birth (terrestrial) Latitude.
Do NOT use the Right Ascension of the Mean Sun (RAMS) to calculate the progressed MC, which in a lot of software is the default; do NOT use the Ptolemaic "one degree = one year" shortcut measure to calculate the progressed MC, either.

IV. Eventually you might consider investigating the use of Tertiary (1 sidereal day = 1 lunar revolution [ie month]) progressions and Minor (1 lunar revolution [month] = 1 solar revolution [year]) progressions as companion techniques.

There are several posts illustrating these techniques on this forum, including Celebrity Astrology | Marie Antoinette which study IMO is quite comprehensive.
 
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My post, above, item III. suggests calculating the progressed Midheaven using the progressed solar arc in Longitude and/or Right Ascension.
The Solar Arc in Longitude is the basis for Solar Arc Directions.
The true Solar Arc in Right Ascension, in my experience, and that of Jayne, Johndro, DeLuce, Schwickert and others, is the correct basis for Primary Directions (and also what have been described as Equatorial Directions).
In all of these directing techniques, the planetary (or other) promittors are advanced (and/or regressed) by the same arc, retaining their relationships in the radix.
For more background on these measures see the thread Progressions | Your progressed Midheaven is NOT your progressed Midheaven!
 
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