cassanra said:
With moon and sun square, relationships in general have not run smoothly
Why would they? Moon square Sun creates tension, because the challenge is to keep everything in your life the same. The placement of Moon/Sun is 6/3, which is your daily routine and your environment. I feel for you.
I've been thinking about Jupiter as the VOC Planet in the 8th House in both your natal/progressed chart. I can't believe it represents an inheritance, or sex, or death, or the occult. I think it represents that you'll have to pool your resources with others in order to accomplish what you want and some of the irritation is how to go about that, or that you haven't done it or don't realize you need to do that.
Your insecurity is a self-esteem issue. Having your progressed Sun in Leo is a good time to work on that, just make sure you don't alienate people coming across a little too brusque (that Leo fire).
cassanra said:
I do not think my reading material has been helpful but only served to confuse me further. Any insights would be helpful or direction for reading.
Read the old stuff. Your natal chart is transits frozen in time. Progressions show how your life unfolds. Transits are the timers that show you when something will happen or is the best opportunity to happen.
cassanra said:
Why did you ask about 2001?
Your progressed Moon would have conjuncted the Ascendant at the same time transiting Venus conjuncted the Ascendant. That often indicates marriage or "living in sin." In your case, another possibility might have been your first home.
cassanra said:
I keep reading that if its not in the progessions and transits then it is not going to happen?
Pretty much so. In the alternative, just because it's there doesn't mean it will happen.
If I tell you that you'll win the lottery, you won't if you sit at home waiting for the winning lotto check to arrive.
If I tell you that someone is going to help your career, nothing will happen if you sit at home waiting for the phone to ring (although in reality there is a teeny tiny chance it might happen just like that). I told an acquaintance he' find the people he was seeking, and one night he left a bar to go back to his dorm room, and on a whim, just decided to pop into another bar on his way to see who was there. He ended up staying a bit and got to talking to a couple of guys looking for a guitarist. His band isn't going anywhere, but at least he's happy screwing around with them.
cassanra said:
So clearly progressions are something i need to understand but I have picked up horary faster than progessions probably due to reading material.
People complicate progressions and over analyze them. Rarely do you need to look at anything other than Ptolemaic aspects.
When your Sun moves from Gemini to Cancer, it doesn't mean you become a Cancer, it just means you add a few Cancer traits to your Gemini self. Which traits will depend on what else is happening in your chart. Maybe you become a little more maternal and domestic, but you might also start brooding and become touchy or manipulative, or maybe not.
You should only have to do a progressed chart once, or maybe twice, and then refer to it from time to time (a few times a year, not a few times an hour).
The best thing to do is get you a spreadsheet, word processor or a legal pad and some crayons and make up a little chart. Put some columns in, Age, Year, Planet, Action, Event, Date, and Comments (if your want).
Age always starts with 1 and goes to 120. Are you going to live to 120 years? No, but the planets don't stop orbiting when you die. Does your estate end up in probate, children fighting over your will, spouse remarries, you end up famous or whatever can all be answered. Are you going to be cremated? Pluto/Fire/4th. That doesn't appear to be you, but if it did, and you don't want to be cremated, better make some provisions in your will (it'll probably happen anyway). Are your ashes going to end up on the mantle of someone's fireplace, at a masoleum or scattered in the sea? That answer's there too. Little Caylee has Pluto/Fire/4th and not just that, but Pluto in Sagittarius(Fire) in the 4th. It'll be some time before they find her. There's a group of Belgian and German civilians who have a hobby of hunting down dead US soldiers. They do it in gratitude for a debt owed to America. Even though the soldiers died in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, their charts live on and 60 years later their progressed Uranus came into aspect with natal Pluto on the dates their bodies were discovered. Pretty amazing. I have an MIA bracelet from back in the 1980s, and that guy has air signs galore. His body will never be found.
Grab an ephemeris and using a pencil, mark off 10 day increments from the day after your birth date (the day of your birth to the next day is year 0). Start with the Sun and mark down in the Action column each year (a day is equal to a year) the Sun changes signs or houses, or aspects a natal planet or a progressed planet. You can develop your own little short-hand for notation. Use different colors if you want. Skip the Moon and do the same for Mercury, except also record each time it changes direction. Do that for the rest of the planets. Use Ptolemaic aspects only and exact orb.
After you do that, look at the daily motion of the planets. The Sun moves about 1° per day. Divided by 12 means the Sun moves about 5' per month. If the Sun moves 15' to make an exact aspect, then it took 3 months do to that, so add 3 months to your birth month, which would make it mid-September of that year. Venus moves 1°12' per day, which means progressed Venus moves 6' per month. If Venus has to travel 60' to make an exact aspect, then it took 11 months, so add that to your birth month, which makes it mid-May of that year.
The Outers don't hardly move at all, but sometimes they change direction, and sometimes they move to form an exact aspect with a natal planet, so note those things if they happen.
Once you do that, go back and try to match the dates with significant events. An "event" in a progressed chart can be mental, emotional or physical. You sprained your pinky when you were 4 years old. Not a significant event. But it hurt. Who cares? You fell out of a tree and broke your arm. Sorry, not a significant event. You fell out of a tree, broke your arm, and had to have 3 surgeries to repair the damage. Now maybe you're talking significant event. Auntie Em died when you were 3. Not a significant event. In high school, someone died in a car accident. Not a significant event. You sat by the person in study hall once. So? You're best friend dies in a car accident, that's significant. Parents divorce, die, leave, a parent remarries, the parent you're staying with has a live-in, those are significant. Your sibling is born. Not significant. You're 12 and staying with your father who remarries and his new wife has a child, that could be significant (it could be traumatic for a single child who is spoiled). Your progressed chart isn't going to show you every time you had a bowel movement, or went on a date, or changed hair styles, or after shave, or stopped liking one musical group and started liking another or other mundane things like that. Just things that have an impact on you and helped define who you are.
Once you have your events listed, check the transits happening in that period. That will help with timing events in the future. Your chart says 1:21, but it could have been 1:21:55, which is not the same as 1:21. It isn't really a big deal, but it can throw off the timing a wee bit and it is important if the event in question is a physical one. In addition to timing events, it'll show you how to integrate the transits and progressions and their signs, houses and aspects to the natal planets.
To save you some time, Solar Return charts are not compatible with transits or progressions. You read a Solar Return Chart against a Natal Chart only. You can progress a Solar Return Chart, but you have to do it by hand, and it's incredibly time consuming because it's hit or miss and you need Koch's Table of Houses so you can calculate (by hand) a new MC, Ascendant and house cusps to see when a house cusp might conjunct a solar return planet, then use some mathematical acrobatics to figure out what the real date is.
) probably due to reading material. Thanks Bob for your reply.