7 posts tagged “predictive astrology”

My question's finally up on Gryphon Astrology. And as I pretty much figured by now (considering that Dad is now Doing Just Fine!!!!!... you know, for a vegetable... instead of declining even more right about now the way I had figured), he's going to be That Miracle Patient who lasts long past 16 months on a ventilator.

Whee. Watch my excitement. Watch Mommy go broke paying $24,000 a month for his care.

She's totally called it, though.

Your dad is the main concern in this horoscope, so we will turn to the chart so that his house is on the ascendant. Fathers are ruled by the fourth house, so we will look what is going on with the ruler of the fourth house, Venus, and see whether there are any testimonies of immediate death.first, we notice that Venus is in its fall in the eighth house. The eighth house rules death, but since your debts planet is already in it, we can see that it is because you are thinking of death; he is not already dead. The fact that Venus is so debilitated in Virgo, shows that your dad is in a bad way healthwise.

Much of the time, we will see in aspect between the person significator, here, Venus, and the Lord of the eighth house or the turned eighth house; those are Mercury and Jupiter, respectively. Venus does not make any applying aspects to Mercury, and indeed the two planets are in mutual reception by sign. This means that Mercury is in the sign of Venus, Libra, and Venus is in the sign of Mercury, Virgo. When we see this, this often means that death will not occur in the timeframe provided.

Even if the eighth house ruler does not show death, we must also look at the turned eighth house, which in this case is the eighth from the fourth, or the 11th house, ruled by Jupiter. If we look at the relationship between Venus and Jupiter, we see a terrible mutual reception, as each planet is in the detriment of the other planet. Jupiter in Scorpio, and Venus is in Virgo. However, the two planets are separating from an aspect. Venus recently sextiled Jupiter, and the meaning of this must be judged according to the situation. If your dad is in a coma, it shows that death has already occurred, in any meaningful sense of the word, and the question will be when the doctors and your mom will recognize it. If your dad is still alive, it shows that he has come as close to death as he will get for a while.

Thus far, the testimony seems to be that your dad will live out this year. There are two potential testimonies that may show a turn for the worse, but they are not as strong we would want to see for an unequivocal testimony of death. in 6°, Venus will conjoin the South node. Whenever we see something bad happening to her person significator, when the question is about death, we can assume that that nasty thing symbolizes death. This would judge that in about six weeks, there is the potential for death. This testimony is strengthened by the fact that the Moon will conjoin the Sun (a New Moon), which might be a supporting testimony if death is in the cards. This will happen in about 5 1/2 degrees. So we can see that six weeks or so might give death, particularly if your father is already comatose; if nothing happens then, it is likely your father will live out the year.

Checking when I originally sent it in to her, that would make the "six weeks" be coming up about the second week of November.

Bet nothing happens, though, since he's not officially comatose.

This is a damned good book, and is pretty clear as to what you are looking for and what is going on. It goes into progressed charts, orb of aspect, prioritizing aspects and transits to the progressed chart. It goes into detail about solar, lunar, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn returns, and their transits.

I do find it kind of amusing that in the planetary transits section, she reprints information written by Dr. J. Heber Smith in the 1900's or so, and even missing a planet, it's still pretty fun and current to read.

I keep putting off writing this review because going into greater detail would take me forever (it's a thick book). I'll just leave it as, I highly recommend this one for predictions. It makes sense to me!

Have you ever not been able to sleep because you're so damn worried about something (in my case, a package that I thought had been stolen, but it turned up), but you're tired, but you're not getting to sleep unless you think about something else?

This is what led me to start rooting through bookcases at 4 a.m. or so, and I found this old copy of Dell Horoscope Magazine I'd bought last year. My birthday was on an eclipse (oy) and i wanted to see what was up with that. Anyway, I found an article in there this morning called "Maximizing Eclipses" by Celeste Teal that actually broke down the prediction process pretty clearly. So, I'm going to give a rundown. (This is either direct-ish quoting or paraphrasing, unless it's in parentheses, that's me.)

• Calculate your secondary progressions to the natal chart for the date you want to do the prediction (she mentions the whole "year for a day" thing, but isn't doing it here...interesting), and then look up the transits to the natal chart for the day. If you can, run a three-wheel chart with all three combined.
• Look for the "active" aspects that have formed among the natal and progressed planets or points within a 1-degree orb.
• Aspects that have formed involving the angles are the highest priority and are most significant of eventful times approaching. Begin by finding major aspects to the natal ascendant from progressed planets. Then do that with the natal Midheaven. Then check the progressed ascendant and check for aspects it makes to planets in the natal chart OR to planets in the progressed chart. Then check the progressed Midheaven for aspects to natal or progressed planets.
• If the Midheaven is involved in the aspects, it will be more likely to be related to character and career goals. If the ascendant is, it'll be more personal in nature, related to home and family.
• If any angular aspects involve the Sun, that's very important. Note other aspects to the natal or progressed Sun.
• Then check for aspects involving the other planets.
  
• If a house ruler becomes very active, activity involving the isseus of that house are coming due.
• For any significant event to unfold, the aspects must suggest it at least three times.
  

From CafeAstrology: This one has you do a large amount of math and then create a table of sensitive points to look at. It's based off of the Rose Murray books.

"Formulate a list of the following points and planets so that you can quickly and easily look for sensitive romantic/love times in a person's life:

   1.Sun/Moon Midpoint.
   2.Venus
   3.Descendant
   4.Vertex
   5.Ruler of the 7th House
   6.Ruler of the 5th House
   7.North Node

We will be looking for hard aspects to these points, as well as "soft" ones, in terms of transits and progressions. Hard aspects include the conjunction, square, opposition, semi-square, and sesquiquadrate. Soft aspects include the trine and sextile."

After much tedious math, I came out with this chart. However, now my brain has dribbled out my ears too much to try to see if any aspects are hitting those points. I may get back to this one later.

More on progressions:

"What you really have to look for are progressions (Secondary Progressions) involving the angles, 7th house ruler, Venus, and any planets in the 7th.
It bears remembering that a certain percentage of your clients (or even you, yourself) do not really want a relationship. Many people have such afflicted 7th houses or 7th house rulers that, even as they obsess over having a relationship, their own resistance and fears will prevent one from ever getting truly started.

So your first step is to examine your client's chart for hir likely pattern of relationship.
Look at the whole chart, then examine the 7th house. Any planets in the first house are liable to make relationships difficult to sustain, because there is automatically more of a focus on the self, and not on the 'other'. A loaded seventh house is just as difficult, because it reflects someone who may be too reliant on the other, so that it is difficult to establish an equal give and take, or that the native is too willing to be in any relationship at all, or if the seventh house planets are badly afflicted, the native may not find anyone who lives up to hir standards.
So it's very necessary to assess at the outset what the likelihood is of your client's ability to establish a relationship. Afflicted 8th house planets can be equally problematic as well, because they'll indicate a disinclination to intimacy. The afflicted 8th houser might be prone to many short-lived, meaningless flings, but not psychologically willing to engage in an intimate, longterm relationship.
If you find these sorts of patterns in a client's chart, please refrain from blurting out, "Hah, you wish!". You don't know how much work your client has done in overcoming self-defeating patterns or fears."

Apparently, this makes me quite screwed, 'cause I have planets in ALL of those houses. ("Yeah, you wish, biyotch.")

"What you look for is exceedingly simple. You look for the aspects formed by the progressed planets and angles to either other progressed planets, or to natal planets and angles. Focus on aspects involving Venus, the MC and Ascendant, the seventh house ruler, and any seventh house planets. For example, a semi-sextile of p Sun to natal Venus can indicate the start of a new love. But it's the involvement of the *angles* that will show the major relationships. The progressed Descendant (calculated from Solar Arc Midheaven) aspecting *any* planet, can indicate a new relationship. Also, any progressed planet aspecting the natal Descendant can indicate a new relationship.
It's as simple as that. The p MC aspecting Descendant ruler, or Descendant, or 7th house planets, or Sun, Moon, or Venus, will also signal a probable new relationship.
If it is apparent to you that such an aspect will not occur for awhile (a few years), and your client is im- patient, it is time to do two things: 1) look at transits from the outer planets to the Sun, Moon, Venus, and 7th house planets (if any) and ruler, since these may indicate at least some 'relief' during the wait for the 'biggie', and; 2) look at the other things currently affecting your client's chart."

Yeah, I'm still screwed.

"It is more than possible that, when a client is obsessing over having a relationship when the time isn't yet ripe for one, that s/he is trying to escape other issues that are less pleasant and more pressing. These issues should be discussed if possible. For example, a client's parent may be ill or dying, or pressures at work might be becoming unbearable. These can be difficult issues that a client would wish to escape or evade."

I do have to agree: that bit is ENTIRELY TRUE.

Then there's the Venus Return. However, my brains are still dribbling out my ears, so I'm not even gonna cover that one.

I never did explain why I've got all of the marital prediction books: that's because it's easier to FIND said books than anything that predicts lottery winnings, health issues, etc. And even though I'm ambivalent (way ambivalent) about marriage, I do get curious if it's likely or not. Turns out, NOT!

These two turn out to be pretty much the same dang book. I gather WPPL is an "updated" version of WWYM, with a bit more stuff in it. Anyhoo, go buy that one instead, should you choose to order.

I find this book(s) pretty hard to follow for the most part. Mainly because her methods are pretty painstaking and complicated, and I usually just get lost trying to follow them. I suspect this book is for Advanced Astrologers Only.

At first, things start out simply. She discusses sign compatibility- fire and air should be together, earth and water should be, the others shouldn't mix- the usual. Then she goes into the timing of Venus and Mars transits and how when those occur in your sign, your odds for meeting people are better. She helpfully puts dates and times for these into the book, should you wish to up your looks or dating activities around then.

Next, she analyzes birth charts for placements to determine what your planets of romance are. Venus and Mars, plus whatever planets are in your 5th and 7th house natally, plus whatever planets rule the rulers of your 5th and 7th. (This pretty much nails me down to Sun, Venus, Mars, and Neptune. Slim pickins compared to Elizabeth Taylor.) She also goes into what you'll be looking for in a mate, depending on those placements.

Whenever aspects hit those love planets, you should keep an eye out for romantic things happening. Mostly, this will occur when Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, or Jupiter has a conjunction, trine, or sextile with a love planet, but the inner planets hitting trines or sextiles can set things off too. Also, any positive Venus aspect might mean something. She then goes into how outer planet transits influence what kind of partner you'll attract at the time.

Lucky me, I get Uranus conjunct Venus coming up on November 5 in the fall, with Uranus in the fifth house of romance. Which means I get excitement and major love-at-first-sight Fling Potential with people of a drastically different age and personality that'll come up as a surprise. Then I'll get dumped just as surprisingly- whee. Boy, can I not wait for THAT to happen! Why can't I get a Jupiter/Venus on?

I can't really speak to the synastry/compatibility/comparison methods since (ahem) I have no test subject around to do that with at this time (I'll check back in November...:P), but the solo methods of pinning down times and ages and numbers that come after that were pretty hard to follow.

I don't understand progressions. I don't get the concept of "a day close after your birth equals a year 28 years later". (Or converse directions, which is "a day close BEFORE your birth equals a year 28 years later.) Plus, my progressed planets really don't do much in the way of aspecting to the natals or each other up until I'm 75 years old (at which point I stopped checking in sheer disgust). I don't get why THAT should be more important than transits. Or maybe I'm just bitter because according to this book, I only once in a great while have ONE marriage aspect, and it takes 3-10 to make something happen, and I don't even have any marriage aspect until I'm 65 or so.

Even more irritating and confusing than THAT is the section on finding marriage years in the natal chart. I'll quote her directly: "Sometimes your marriage year will show up very plainly in your natal chart."

Let's see: It could mean any of the following:

(a) number of degrees between Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mars, and the ascendant, descendant, midheaven, and IC. That's as specific as she gets there, other than to say that it's very obvious in Elizabeth Taylor's chart that one of her many marriages was going to be at age 58 because there was 58 degrees between the IC and Mars.

Meanwhile, I am all, "Um, is this checking the closest planets to these aspects? What if I come up with a 24? I wasn't married at 24. What if I come up with 117?"

(b) a number that comes up a lot in your chart. For example, Prince Albert has 21's show up in three places in this degree counting.

(c) Then there's the option of counting degrees between your Part of Marriage and a love planet.

(d) Or you can divide in half the distance between a love planet and an angle to get the right marriage age.

By the time I finished this section, I was all, "WHICH THE HELL IS IT?! WHAT NUMBERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CORRECT HERE?!"

It gets worse.

(e) You can supposedly use an ephemeris to spot your marriage year "at a glance" when the ruler of the sign on your first house aspects the ruler of your seventh house sign in progressions.

Lucky me, that's Pluto and Venus. Yeah, Pluto moves ONCE, and Venus doesn't line up with that until...I mentioned age 65, right? The author then goes on to tell the heartwarming story of how Fred Astaire had a marriage aspect at age 80 and married some kid then.

(f) Other things you can look for, should you be kind of screwed astrologically, is to see if the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars make aspects to a slow seventh-house ruler.

I find it funny that my seventh-house ruler being a faster mover, and that I have more than one planet in it, SHOULD mean that I get more marriage aspects... and I don't.

(g) There should at least be one progressed aspect involving the seventh house when marriage takes place. You should also keep an eye out for Venus and Mars being positively aspected to each other, or in the same aspect to the Sun or Moon, or the Sun and Moon being aspected to each other. Or aspects from a love planet to the seventh house ruler.

(h) At this point, she recommends you get a triple wheel computer chart with the natal, progressed, and converse directions altogether. Then you circle all 12 of the angles on the 3 charts, circle the love planets, the seventh-house ruler, and seventh-house planets, and figure out the aspects.

At this point, I don't even know who does triple wheel computer charts and got dizzy.

Then she answers a question that was becoming rather important to me at this point in time: "What if you have no marriage planet interchanges such as the preceding- can you still have marriage aspects? The answer is a definite 'yes.'" She goes on to say that a third or more female charts and more than half of the male charts didn't have any of this going on with them.

At least Carol Rushman admits that some people just aren't going to get married. Ahem. At this point I'm feeling rather bullshitted by all the (so far, eight) different ways to check.

Later, she goes into the various Arabic Parts and how to calculate them, more composite/synastry stuff, and more celebrity charts.

Every time I read this book, I think, "Hey, this is pretty cool!" Then I try her methods and just get confused and depressed. I think it's really for the advanced and the good at math. Grrr.

Since I keep acquiring books on this subject, I figured I'd review a few. Or at least go into how easy/hard they are to follow. Plus, well, my results when it comes to trying to use the techniques.

I'm pretty fond of this one, as it seems less complicated (though still pretty complicated!) than other stuff I've seen so far.

First, Carol Rushman goes into detail about analyzing someone's natal chart, figuring out their drivers (what drives them in life), issues and psychological profiles. Then she goes into the natal promise- i.e. the things that won't happen if they aren't allowed for in your chart. This applies to how many marriages you can make, whether or not you can get divorced and what aspects lead to divorce, how many children you can have, whether or not you'll ever be lucky enough to win the lottery, whether or not you'll ever attract violence or rape into your life (if it's not promised, you won't, and if you do have that promise, she tells you how to use your energy for a more positive result), and vocational indicators.

She does NOT go into detail about death or health predictions, other than to say that if bad health isn't promised in the natal chart, it won't be an issue. It's kind of frustrating because it seems like everything I've read says something like, "I'm afraid to predict that stuff. But some other people will do it!" Good luck finding WHO, though, 'cause I haven't seen anything anywhere on the subject.

As for me, I could get married twice because I have two applying aspects from my Sun, but divorce is screaming on my horizon because I have divorce aspects (strong and bad natal Uranus aspects, which make you want to break free and do your own thing). Well, isn't that depressing. And yet, I have a Taurus/Scorpio axis going on, which means it should be almost impossible for me to divorce... Uh, which one here? See, this is why predictive astrology is confusing. It seems like everything conflicts sometimes.

Next, you get to the prediction part. First, she goes into progressions and aspects  of the Sun, Mars, and Venus, ``and what they're likely to mean.

Then there's a chapter on "the importance of the progressed moon" and how it influences you for the two years it spends in each sign, and the effects it will have on you while in each sign. It also goes into the aspects the progressed moon can make and how those will affect you. She also goes into what Critical Degrees are. (Lucky me, my Neptune is smacking a Critical Degree right now. Whee, crisis city!)

There's a chapter on progressed house cusps, but to be honest, this goes beyond my ability to comprehend it. It has something to do with axises, that's all I got.

Next there's the coverage of the transits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and what the aspects mean.

Checking my chart:

• Saturn aspects: "If Saturn is not making good aspects, a parent can be a responsibility." Whee.
  
• Uranus aspects Venus: "In some way the pattern of income will change. Sudden losses or sudden windfalls are to be expected. Personal values may be altered. Love can enter your life suddenly and in an unusual and unexpected way. The person will not fit into the old mold of what you have attracted before. This person can also leave just as quickly as he or she appeared. What will remain, however, is a change in the love consciousness, and what was learned from the relationship will benefit you forever."
• Uranus in the fifth house: "It can bring a sudden love alliance. You will be drawn to people and situations that are different and special in some way, but the involvement may be fleeting, ending as quickly as it started. If you are normally quite conventional, you may present yourself in an more unusual manner and may no longer want to conform at all." Reading this, I can't help but think I'm supposed to go BATSHIT INSANE.
• Neptune in the fourth house: "I also observed a friend's parent get Alzheimer's disease when Neptune entered my friend's fourth house and made very difficult aspects." That figures that it'd be an illness in the family thing. Checking ephemeris.com, It goes into Neptune around the time where my dad had to retire due to the disease fucking with his speech.
  
• Pluto in the second house: Again, "the pattern of income is changed. The aspects will tell you how it will change. You could become extremely wealthy or go bankrupt." (Luckily for me, only positive aspects seem to be happening there. I did get a raise this year, and I guess some kind of inheritance might be a factor?) "A lot will depend on the reinforcing progressions and other transits that are active at this time. A magnficent love obsession can also take place at this time. I call Pluto transits to Venus the fatal attraction aspect. If the aspect is positive and the progressions and natal aspects are positive for love, it can be wonderful, but Pluto always takes things to extremes." Oy.
  

Later chapters cover stationing and retrograde planets and lunations and eclipses, both of which I don't get too much about.

So, to sum it up, this one's useful in most areas, or at least I can fairly understand it. Which is a plus.