tsmall
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Or chronocrators. I've only just begun reading about their use, and from what I've read the broadest outlines only give the major planetary periods as occurring for everyone at the same age. Moon is the first, since I think by it's nature changes quickly, and so rules the first four years of life. Mercury has the next ten years, because it is the planet most associated with learning, reason, and speaking. Venus is next with 8 years, governing adolescence and physical maturation to the age of 22, followed by the Sun who gets 19 years, or early adulthood. I think perhaps the Sun gets this period because it is when most of us are really becoming "ourselves," and in the natal chart the Sun gives the best representation of the inner self. At 41, Mars takes over for fifteen years and the best description I have read of this is "unfortunate." Jupiter, planet of wisdom, gets the next twelve, bringing us to age sixty-nine when Saturn takes over. Some of what I've read says Saturn has us until death, while another view is that Saturn has us for 30 years. I imagine then that if we are fortunate, the cycle would repeat with the Moon beginning at age ninety-nine?
What I haven't yet seen is an example of a chart outline of each of these periods, and whether or not the condition of these planets in the natal chart will help to give an overview, with due consideration given to other predictive methods such as profections and solar returns (or even primary directions) of how the native can expect each planetary period to go.
As an example from my own chart, both Venus and Sun are in fall, but Mars is exalted. Would it be reasonable to think that the condition of each planet, as well as how it is aspected, would give clues as to what one could expect from each "age?"
What I haven't yet seen is an example of a chart outline of each of these periods, and whether or not the condition of these planets in the natal chart will help to give an overview, with due consideration given to other predictive methods such as profections and solar returns (or even primary directions) of how the native can expect each planetary period to go.
As an example from my own chart, both Venus and Sun are in fall, but Mars is exalted. Would it be reasonable to think that the condition of each planet, as well as how it is aspected, would give clues as to what one could expect from each "age?"
There are a few things to note though, those discussions raise the fiercest of arguments here, I can't imagine in conferences, it would be important to preserve knowledge and not lose it in standardisation (e.g. local dialects vs. mother languages) and I note that even in science, an unfortunate enemy (they laugh all the time at us) has extreme diversity...I've heard one scientist say that quantum physics is a new box that scientists put all the things they don't understand. My point is and I'm sure you know this is that some diversity is natural. 
about technique. Rather, I meant that the various predictive systems can't be applied as separate, discrete methodologies. It makes more sense to use them all in concert.
) that the planet's effects, aspects, et cetera, would be felt when that planetary period is activated...