The "snapshot" chart. Since there's no movement, there's no recognizable direction.
Sabian Symbols aside, do you make the retrograde distinction in reading a Natal-chart, or considering the effect of transiting planets?
In Natal? Of course I do. I've always given a bit more of the planets influence to be accounted for and directed as to more of the precepts of whatever Sign it might be in, House placement, etc.
As for transiting? Yes I do and it seems you have forgotten... as well you might as I haven't posted on the subject in some years.... that I've given demonstration as to why one should note the Sign and degree a planet begins its retrograde motion in and where it begins its "final return" and noting what the placement of the N. Node is at each juncture.
The Sabian Symbol found at the point of the initiation of retrograde is symbolic of why that planet has reached an impasse and the N. Node gives the symbolism of why, or what it means, to human society as a whole. The point of the return to direct is symbolic of what that planet needed to progress past that point of impasse and the N.Node again giving the reason why.
When it makes it "final return" the N. Node again gives us the state of what existence is all working towards at the time.
...and you may have noticed how I tried to bring everyones' attention to the current retrograde motion of Saturn? It has made two exact Squares to transiting Uranus, the last in retrograde on June 14-15th and that the third and final will be next December and how I warned that I foresaw a resurgence in the COVID virus to spark at that same time
It's these kind of retrograde activities that are the most noticeably of impact.
A Sabian analysis of where Saturn began and the corresponding position of the N.Node at each of those three points would be an interesting and revealing exercise.
Then the same should be done for Uranus.
I'm just not really up to it. Been too much death and illness around me the last 8 months... a close relative just got out of the hospital after three days caused by a blood clot, caused most likely by the vaccine, and triggered a minor heart attack... gave us all quite the scare. Lost another old friend at the beginning of the month to a heart attack, He was only 61.
I've got too mush else to do at this time.
One thing that does really intrigue me about this Saturn retro however is that astrodiensts pdf ephemeris says that it will go direct at 06° Aquar. 53' and my natal N. Node is at 06° Aquar. 54', although adjusted for sidereal precession of a rate of one degree every seventy one and a hlf years, that amounts to an additional 00° 57' 14' to be added. The natal S. Node of the U.S.A. is at 06° 35' 08", you do the sidereal adj. ...hint; it's around 3 degrees and 30 seconds.
The Sabian Symbol for the 7th degree of Aquarius is [from Dane Rudhyar's book on the Sabian Symbols, "An Astrological Mandala"]
"AQUARIUS 7°: A CHILD IS SEEN BEING BORN OUT OF AN EGG.
KEYNOTE: The emergence of new mutations according to the great rhythms of the cosmos.
The ancient symbolism of the Cosmic Egg (Hiranyagharba in Sanskrit) out of which a new universe is born can be interpreted at several levels. Here we see the appearance of a new type of human being who is not born from 'Ancestors' and who therefore is free from the inertia of mankind's past. He is a new product of evolution, a mutant. He constitutes a fresh projection of the creative Spirit that emanates from the cosmic or planetary Whole, and not from any local culture and racial tradition.
This second stage symbol is in contrast with the preceding one. It can be said to announce the EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL MAN for the New Age. The power of the whole is focused within him in perfect freedom from ancient standards of value based on local conditions."
This is also a notable degree as it is one of the four other points that make up a perfect pentagram to the M.C. found in the chart I contend is the natal chart for Yeshu'a/Jesus of Nazareth. Those five points, when read through the Sabian Symbols for each of those degrees will give the symbolic illustration of what the perfect life plan is for any natal chart... as the Sabian for the M.C. is the "WHY" of one chart in a mundane sense and it is the "HOW" of that chart in an interpretation concerning ones spiritual evolution.
