As you know I’ve been doing an astrologic experiment for quite a few months now, where I estimate good/bad/neutral days in advance and look back on it after the month has passed. I’ve been working on the predictive analysis for myself for the coming year as well. This means working with transitions, solar and lunar returns, solar arc, progressions, etc. I’ve noticed quite a few uncommon patterns, which I’m relatively sure is an understatement.

In the years I have practised astrology, I have seen my share of “heavy configurations” but I believe that this year for me the “heavy configurations” are stacking themselves in a way I’ve never seen before. If you ask me what it’s about, I’m surely to have my ideas, but when it comes down to it the only thing an astrologer will be able to tell you for sure is that “x marks the spot” for change. Will it contain a pirates’ treasure or will the chest be empty?

I’ve written this entry primarily to show you how “x marks the spot” comes together. A compilation for anyone that’s attempting predictive astrology that has trouble putting the pieces of the puzzle together. The two questions it attempts to answer:

• Where exactly is “x”?
• When is a chart configuration “heavy”?

Notes on the time sheet and other included charts.

I. Time sheet

The how
Generally the first thing I do is create a timesheet by astrology software. I make sure the transitions of outer planets are included, conjunctions by Node,  eclipses, secundary progressions of personal planets (including the moon as trigger) and lastly primary directions of the ASC/MC. Since the software can’t plot Solar Arc, I print out the time sheet and draw those on myself. After that is done, I check for clusters and triggered transitions in the time sheet. When I think I’ve found one, I check the tertiary moon to try and narrow the timespan down further.

Where is “x”?
Judging from the time sheet only, “x” is found in two places. On the first sheet the green marker is used to combine a few things together (Vertex, Moon). Vertex has a tendency to call ‘fateful events’ in your life, which can be of any kind. There also is a Solar Arc in that time period on the second sheet. Looking at the second sheet, you can see by the Solar Arc, Tertiary Moon highlights October. There also is a Solar Eclipse very important to my chart to my Natal mars at 29 degrees Cancer in July. If you’re familiar with eclipses, you’ll know that an event doesn’t need to happen right away, but it can be 3 months later when the Sun squares the Eclipse or any other personal planet. In my case the sun squares the Eclipse point on the 22nd of October, and a mere few days in front of that Mars is conjunct the Eclipse point.

II. Lunar Returns

What the lunar returns look like.
Attached you see quite an amount of lunar returns. Though on itself you should never attribute great meaning to these charts when the time sheet doesn’t give any indications, look at the charts for September and October. Note that these charts start 22nd of August and 19th of September respectively. These two charts have distinct patterns and are heavy on the ASC/MC axis in comparison to the other lunar returns. You’ve now found supporting charts of the timeframe you marked on the time sheet. What’s especially compelling is the concurrent focus on the 29th degree; the same degree of the eclipse and the same degree of my Natal Mars. Every time I look at it, I’m simply awed.

III. Solar Returns

I haven’t said anything about the Solar Returns that are active during this period. I’ve spoken about the 2008 solar return before, here. What you generally do here is watch what the same planets involved or highlighted in the time sheet do in the active solar return. For instance, what/where is the Solar Eclipse degree in the Solar Return of 2009? Seeing as Saturn is the main planet transiting my stellium in the 8th house, how about Saturn in the solar return of 2009?

Conclusion:

I somewhat fear and dread these patterns but at the same time I’m welcoming them, change is not always a bad thing. I’ve even noticed recently that my mother has Mars and Venus conjunct in the Anaretic degree (Aries). The Eclipse is surely to impact her as well, though perhaps in lesser manner than it will for myself (her’s are square). My father and I have Mars conjunct Mars in synastry, though his Mars is not in the Anaretic degree. In any case, after discovering “x” by identifying “heavy configurations” you will keep adding elements to your analysis as you go along. Hope this has made the art of predictive astrology slightly clearer.