Here are two charts, both showing my husband's planets. Here's why I am posting them:
My husband and I are very very focused on him getting a new job. He is eligible to begin drawing on his retirement (a comfortable amount of money) as soon as he can quit his old job. But at age 60, the only way to look attractive to a new employer is to waltz into an interview already employed by someone else.
He interviewed, this week, for a job he really wants. It doesn't pay much, but offers high job satisfaction. I have been obsessing about his progressed planets for months. Previously, he was interviewing in his own field. Jobs kept not working out. We finally decided that maybe it was God's will for him to let go of his former career choice, and try a new career. The old one was in public service. The new job falls into that category also, but very different work.
This job change is crucial. We bought a house in a new city a year ago in order to be closer to my aged parents. Now, he's trapped in our old city because the regulations of his job require that he live in the city where he works. He can only come home to me and our new house on weekends. The rest of the time, he is living in a motel an hour and a half away.
So. He had this job interview on Thursday. That stellium of his never tells me much about the current activities in his life. But his progressed chart shows that his Progressed Moon begins opposing his Natal Midheaven this month , and then it will conjunct several planets -- natal ones and progresed ones -- for the next few months. His Progressed Sun squares his Progressed Uranus -- which supports the radical shift in focus for his life's work.
My question for myself was, are the upcoming movements of his progresed planets, particularly his Progressed Moon, good news?
(In case there was any doubt, my own Progressed Moon is currently in my 12th house. I have several months before it will finally get out!)
Finally, in an effort to try and get some sleep (in this big house, all alone, with him an hour and a half away), I decided I should look at when was the last time his Progressed Moon conjuncted or opposed his Natal Midheaven? This might give me a clue about what impact the current Progression would have.
The date I got was December -- maybe November -- 1992. Guess when he started working at the job where he's currently employed?
So then I went to sleep -- for about 20 minutes! -- and woke up totally alert!
Okay, if the 1992 conjunct and the 2006 opposition of Progressed Moon to Natal Midheaven both work the same way, then he's got the job and he'll be moving here soon. But if they don't...
-- or, if free will or God's will or serendipity makes it so that he doesn't get this job, my nerves are so wracked at this point, I guess I feel like I'll not only suffer the loss of him not getting the job, I'll also suffer a kind of spiritual loss -- I guess I've placed a large portion of my faith in astrology (okay, so maybe this isn't healthy, but it seems to be what I'm doing).
I could fill up this thread with other versions of charts of my husband's progressions and/or transits, but really, I just wanted to share this much with people who understand.
-- C Jayne