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AJ Astrology said:

House systems are relatively new in astrology.
If you believe the Zodiac is 27,000 years old
then it's only been in the last 1,500 years or so
that house system were used.
Sumerian star lists always begin with Pisces.
The last time Earth was in Pisces was 25,000 BCE.
That suggests, but doesn't prove, the Zodiac
was created around that time.
It's possible the Sumerian created the Zodiac
then worked backwards to identify the ages.

Still, that begs the question, "Why Pisces?"
If the Sumerians created the Zodiac during the Age of Taurus
why not work backwards to Taurus and stop?
Why keep going to Pisces?
Or, why not go beyond Pisces?

Did something important happen around 25,000 BCE?
By the time Earth entered Pisces again around Year 0
the Sumerians had been dead and gone for ~1,900 years.
Anyway, you don't really need a house system
and the ancients didn't use one.

I don't see where they really add anything, except complications.
Progressions were calculated differently than modern astrologers do
and they were only used for mundane charts, not personal charts.
A slow planet can never aspect a faster planet
unless the slow planet is retrograde.
I've never seen anything of any importance in a progressed chart,
except in two cases.
One is when a planet changes signs
and the other when a planet in an applying aspect changes directions.
You don't need a progressed chart for that.
All you need is an ephemeris and it'll take you all of 5 minutes
to see if there's anything important to note.
The reason I say a planet "chasing" another
is because that's what's happening.
You're chasing something you'll never get:
wealth, power, fame, good fortune, good relationships, good health, career
or whatever those planets signify in your chart.

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