#secondary progressions

[astrolovecosmos]

Random question. Which persona charts (or any other Astro placements) highlights a persons strengths, weaknesses, personal development, and path to self improvement?? Thank you

I am a fan of analyzing secondary progressions for self-improvement and introspection. Especially focus on your Moon placement within that type of chart.

Your solar return chart is useful for general strengths and weaknesses. This can can dive into core qualities, talents, and what makes you stand out.

As for persona charts, Mercury can highlight intellectual strengths. Venus can indicate artistic talents.

A MC/Midheaven persona chart can be super helpful for career development as well as personal development. This will closely analyze your ambitions and potential.

A Saturn persona chart can shed light on challenges and overcoming those challenges.

When it comes to personal development and self-improvement paying attention to the North and South Node in many chart types will be useful.

[ariesdescendant]

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒮𝓊𝓃 𝒩𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈 - 𝟣

I have been learning about secondary progressions and how to read a progressed chart. Astro-seek has a lovely assortment of calculators that make it so easy to access these charts!

Progressed charts show the personal evolution that takes place over your lifetime.  

It’s important to remember: these charts are meant to add a layer on to your NATAL chart, which is the most important chart to have.  

I’ve done a progressed Sun, progressed Moon, ascendant persona and solar return chart for myself and I want to share some of the things that stand out to me.

First of all, the Progressed Sun chart.

☀️ Your Progressed Sun, depending on how old you are and the degree your Sun is in your natal chart, may not show you much YET. Over your lifetime, it’s only going to move about 4 signs. Mine was at 23° Aquarius in the 5th house at birth. It is, as of today, at 0° Aries in my 6th house. That 0° is an important position because it is a critical degree, AND, it happens to be the exact position of my natal moon. Having the progressed sun at a critical cardinal degree suggests a theme of bringing something out into the open, taking charge, initiating a turning point.

☀️ When the Sun enters a new SIGN, we might feel a very distinct change in our energy. Some say it’s a very drastic change that is apparent to others as well as one’s self. New hobbies that seem surprising might arise. One that seems like an obvious one for me is an interest in physical activity and movement. There have been events happening throughout my entire last year or so that have sort of started building a foundation for a better understanding of the benefits of movement. I’ve always been totally averse to exercise. As a kid, I had trouble understanding the rules of organized sports and games. I was teased a lot by older kids, which started my shame complex. I’d sit out of everything and daydream. So... 

☀️ Since 1° equals a year, then my progressed Sun remained in Aquarius for the first 7 years of my life, then slowly transited the entire sign of Pisces. This makes SO much sense. There WAS a big change sometime around 8 years old; I became more reclusive and stuck inside my head. I went through that miserable chunky stage before puberty, my mom gave me a ridiculous series of haircuts that have NEVER been socially acceptable at any time in history, and I became so incredibly sensitive. My first experience with trauma happened around then too. The way I responded to that trauma was excessive, endless crying fits. I would cry myself to sleep every single night, for about 7 months straight at it’s worse. This was the start of my Major Depressive Disorder. During my older childhood years, I was frequently called “gentle” and “caring”. I took on a lot of traits as coping mechanisms that have stayed with me... what’s a little chilling is to consider how Piscean placements are known for disconnecting, disassociating, retreating into addictions when faced with life’s troubles. That was me. That was 100% me from about 8-now. The first “addiction” I had was the actually the crying. I was still the quirky, strange Aquarius I was born- but with a new layer. A new Pisces layer.

☀️ With my progressed Sun finally being done in Pisces and entering the assertive, firey sign of Aries, I could really be at the start of a major transformation RIGHT NOW. Exciting! And scary! In Alan Oken’s The Progressed Sun, it says:

“You have behind you a great deal of gathered information about human nature, now you need to personalize what you know and make it into who you are. Keywords: I seek a direct relationship to my creative center.“ https://www.astrologi.no/images/stories/gh/Guides/alan%20oken%20the%20progressed%20sun.pdf 

I’m doing lots of reading and research about this progressed sun transit from Aquarius into Pisces into Aries. 

I’ll probably post another one about Progressions, looking at the ascendant and aspects, etc.

[catmarlowastrology]

🌙🦂 Progressed Moon in Scorpio: Vanessa Hudgens’ 2007 Scandal

Back in September 2007, private nude photos of Vanessa Hudgens leaked. In her Progressed chart, her Moon was in Scorpio, transiting her 4th house, and conjunct Pluto. 

🌙 The Progressed Moon in Scorpio

The Progressed chart shows our evolution. It is also quite a useful tool to time major events. When the Progressed Moon enters the sign of Scorpio, we begin a more psychologically charged period in our life. 

Scorpio is a survival-oriented sign. This is why Scorpio natives strive for power and control over every aspect of their existence. Nobody will harm them if they are in charge, at the top of the food chain. We become considerably more sensitive to external threats, and we no longer trust people.

Depending on what else is going on in the chart, the Scorpio Moon can imply intense, life-changing events that have a significant impact on one's psyche. Things that will leave an indelible mark on us. 

A death is taking place. Our former self will be forever altered.

🌙 The Progressed Moon in the 4th House

Vanessa's Progressed Moon was transiting her fourth house. This house deals with our home, our family, and our past. But the fundamental theme of this house, though, is our privacy. 

It's the stuff that most people are unaware of about ourselves. The 10th house represents our reputation, thus it stands to reason that the 4th house, the opposing house, represents our private life.

A Progressed Moon in the 4th house indicates that issues related to our privacy will influence us emotionally for about 2 years. 

🌙 The Progressed Moon conjunct Pluto

Vanessa was also starting to experience the Moon-Pluto conjunction. Her Progressed Moon was already emotionally loaded and intense, but Pluto pushed things to the limit. When Pluto and a personal planet in Scorpio connect, you often reach your lowest point. You have to go to the extreme of whatever that sign represents.

More: Want to unlock the secrets of your natal chart? You can purchase unique and insightful readings on my website, www.catmarlow.com!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Palestinian activists in Ontario are asking you to email your reps about Bill 166. The wording of the bill is extremely vague, but it seems like the Ford government wants to open itself the possibility to meddle in mental health services provided by Universities and to change their anti-racism policies. It is very likely - with the timing - that these policy changes are going to be saught to arrest / institutionalize Palestinians for divulge during therapy, or to deny them service altogether. They want to control University campus mental healthcare, something no other province does.

@newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Stolen Moments: A Fairy Tale

A spur-of-the-moment story for @inklings-challenge

The princess steps into the center of a whirling masquerade. She is resplendent in green as the Queen of May. A man slips through the crowd and stands before her, dressed all in brown as the Autumn King. He bows with a flourish, silently asking for a dance.

She stands like stone. “You should not be here,” she says.

“Can I not dance with my wife?”

He reaches for her hand. She pulls it away. “I have no husband.”

“In this place, no. Yet I remember otherwise,” he says. “And so do you.”

She turns on her heel and strides away. He follows, quick as ever. The dancers part around them like water. She scowls. He was always too clever for her, always too quick. Even a world of her making bends to accommodate him.

“Do you know what I’ve done to find you?” he asks. “The countries I’ve crossed? The mountains I’ve climbed? I’ve fought gryphons and giants. Searched for treasures lost since the invention of time. Flown to the moon and tunneled to the center of the earth.”

“I’m sure you enjoyed yourself immensely.”

“I bargained with the four winds, gave up my shadow, traded three days of my life just to have this moment with you.”

“I am sorry you wasted your time,” she says. “Do what you will, you cannot take me from here.”

“No,” he agrees. “You are trapped here by your own will, and only by your will can you escape.”

She chose this day well when she arranged her escape. The grandest ball the Mountain King ever held, the day of her sixteenth birthday. Long before she ever met that too-curious trickster who stole away her heart with cheap promises. Here there is music, beauty, bounty, every pleasure she can imagine. She will gladly live in this day forever if it means freedom from her ties to him.

“You think you can persuade me,” she sneers.

He laughs. “No one in the twelve worlds can do that.”

“You think you can steal me.”

Even behind his mask, she can see his gaze darken. She has offended him. “I will not steal a wife.”

“What do you call our wedding day?”

“You chose me.”

“Do you call it choosing, when you hid your true face behind so many lies?”

“You had your own secrets.”

“Do you blame me for hiding them?”

“No,” he says.

She stops. Of all the things she imagined him saying, this was not one of them.

“No,” he says again. “You were right to keep your secrets. I was wrong to seek them out.”

She turns to look at him. He removes his mask, revealing his deceptively young face. His eyes, once blue, have turned greenish-gray. His face has three jagged scars.

“You hid from me,” he said. “As I hid from you. I should have been patient--proved that you could trust me. Instead, I forced my way into your secrets and destroyed everything. I'm sorry.”

She is speechless. She expected excuses. Dazzling explanations.She had never expected contrition.

He reaches beneath his jacket and removes a small glass pendant. It shines the same bright blue his eyes had once been.

“This is yours,” he said.

Her heart. Taken from her in a childhood curse so long ago. Only her husband could put it in its proper place, if it remained unbroken during five years of marriage. Prince of thieves that he once had been, he had found it and broken it on the eve of their second anniversary.

“You repaired it,” she said.

“I replaced it. With mine.”

She has seen him in a million lies. This is not one of them.

“You may stay here if you wish,” he says. “I came only to atone. I do not expect you to forgive me.”

He places the pendant in her hand, bows, then turns away.

When he leaves, she knows she need never see him again.

“Wait,” she says. She removes her mask. “Don’t leave without your wife."

He stops. The other dancers disappear.She puts her hand in his and kisses him as she did on their wedding day.

He is alight with joy as she pulls away. "Does this mean--?"

“I forgive you,” she says.

He laughs aloud.

The heart he gave to her, she freely gives to him. The blue returns to his eyes as their hearts are restored, new and whole.

As the curse crumbles around them, they leave the ballroom behind.

[geckogeckogecko]

this one got away from me a little…

for magistrate astarion week day 5. There is…another version of this that I shouldn’t share on tumblr 🙃

This and previous pieces in this challenge were heavily inspired by @cinnamontails-ff ‘s fic, magistrate’s advocate.

[legionofpotatoes]

star wars outlaws

[krisluxxeeempress]

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NATAL, PROGRESSIVE & SOLAR RETURN BIRTH CHARTS | ASTROLOGY OBSERVATIONS

a natal birth chart explains who you are , straight out the womb. It’s essentially a map of your life including your family, friends, challenges, successes, your personality and it also explains what you’ll need and or want in this lifetime. With every map, there’s a destination. There are many paths you can take - right , left , up and down and maybe, just maybe you’ll reach your destination. It’s never guaranteed that you’ll arrive.

a secondary progressive birth chart explains your progress on your destination. Like a GPS, it always reveals the time your journey starts and when you are expected to arrive. Your GPS will tell you when you’ve made a wrong turn but let’s be honest. How many times have you ignored the turn your GPS suggested? How many times have you became distrustful of the instructions your GPS has suggested because you “ KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!”

Technology and Computers are a lot smarter than you and yet - you thought you knew better.

In school , there are educational advisors who help you map out your college courses with intent of getting you to graduation day - or better, to put you in a position for better opportunities. How many of you dropped classes that were suggested that you take because

1. The class was too hard

2. You didn’t like the teacher or course

3. You didn’t think you needed the class or credits?

4. You lost interest

A secondary progressive birth chart is essentially “ CLASSES “ or “ DIRECTIONS” pre-planned, plans for you. If you are religious, there’s a scripture in the Bible in the Book of Jeremiah 29:11 “ For I know that plans I have for you, plans to prosper you not harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future”. A lot of people derail their progress because they are under the misconception of FREE WILL. Ultimately, most people IGNORE their GPS or Life Advisors- which in reality , is yourself. Most want what others have and do what others tell them to do resulting in ignoring their own GPS aka. staying in their own pre- planned lane. In conclusion, most never reach their destination. Most never progress. There is a strong illusion that most create with the help of everyone around them - that they’ve reached their destined destination but usually after some time - it is revealed that they went the wrong way. People will build a complete life with a person, at a job and go on to earn degrees that at some point doesn’t fulfill them and worse- they quit , leave and or experience burn out. Then they feel lost .

Have you ever felt lost? Have you ever had to start over? That feeling, is your GPS , your inner Life Advisor making you aware that you’ve made the wrong turn only now that your at a dead end and you have no choice but to listen. Secondary progressive birth charts are very important because like children, it explains your path towards development. For parents it becomes concerning when their child is at the age where they should be talking, reading, writing etc. and they’re not.

Secondary progressive birth charts is your map of development and the lessons, challenges and people who will come into your life to enforce this.

Solar Return birth charts reveals your “ classes for the semester” and these classes change every year. When someone’s declares “ I am not the same person i was a year ago” that is a true statement of someone who is evolving, learning but ultimately developing - in the right direction. ( most times , some people take a turn for the worst and they are not the same person from a year ago) Like someone who was 130lbs a year ago and a year later they are 160lbs. Clearly, they’ve changed physically and most times this indicates in the wrong direction. ( unless your building muscle - I digress) Solar Return charts will reveal whether you need to retake a “ class” because you’ve failed - went the wrong way. Or if you’ve passed your “ classes” and are ready for harder “ classes” ie. responsibility and growth. Leading you a step closer to your destination - graduation. You will know if you’ve failed and went the wrong way if old people, habits , behaviors , thought processes and pain come back into your life or remain.

To my next point - Tropical Astrology is the wrong direction considering it is in alignment with elemental seasons whereas Vedic Astrology, is in alignment with the Planetary positions- which is most accurate. We cannot manipulate Planets however, it has become clear that elemental seasons have been manipulated.

The manipulation that I speak on, is equivalent to you ignoring your GPS “because you think you know better”. It is equivalent to adapting “FREE WILL” that doesn’t exist in addition to, following someone else’s “plan” for you and being who someone else told you to be. But of course, most will continue to adhere to a manipulated system because energetically they are trying to manipulate a life - their life, that has already been pre-planned by something much SMARTER like that of technology, a computer - if you will.

[bibururokku]

Sometimes, I forget that Blue Lock takes place around 2018-2019 and get super surprised when I remember because that would mean I'm actually around the boys' age.

Like, I've been reading and watching the series as if I were another Anri because I'm currently her age at the moment, so I've been looking at most of these boys with a bit of a mother's heart, y'know?

...Then I remember the year the story is set, and everything sorta crumbles because that puts me in the same age group as all the second-year boys of the series. I could be some of these guys' classmates for crying out loud, and here I am calling them "children" and "babies" and stuff.

For example, Nagi, who would be several months older than me, but he gets babied by Reo anyway, so I think I get a pass there. Speaking of Reo though, even that guy would be older than me by a few months in the setting of Blue Lock! I'm 13 days, barely two weeks, older than Chigiri!!! Eat your heart out, pretty boy. I ran out of the womb faster than you did /j

At this point, I need to make an age list with their ages and birthdays to arrange them from oldest to youngest because the identity crisis this gives me is getting ridiculous.

[selunesfavouriteprincess]

okay but it’s like. if Lae’zel was in the modern day she’d be the top of all her classes (beating Gale who would be so fucking mad about it), on every sports team, head of the prom committee, just constant after-school activities, total overachiever, and she will not accept being second place to anybody. meanwhile Karlach is on every sports team but she doesn’t really want to be, she just wants to do sport for fun and hang out with her friends, but the head of P.E. made her join because she’s good at it. unfortunately getting mad about it makes her compete better. Shadowheart grew up in a weird church and was definitely homeschooled for most of her life and is only in a mainstream school for sixth form because her weird church want her to recruit new members (she sucks at convincing people the church is good). sometimes she says fucking insane things totally seriously and everyone in the class goes what the fuck. Wyll is a very nice empathetic boy who tries to get along with everyone including Shadowheart even though she roleplays warrior cats at lunchtime and Lae’zel even though she threatens to murder him if he gets a higher grade in the debate than her, and it blindsides everyone when they find out his dad is the Head Teacher. Gale would be taking five A-Levels instead of three or four solely for the academic clout it brings him. Astarion should have graduated ten years ago and nobody knows why he’s still here. Withers is the school nurse.

[astrolovecosmos]

During my Saturn Return I actually focused a lot on comparing my transit chart to my secondary progression chart. It was interesting to see how the transits matched up and compared with what I was feeling and thinking internally (progression chart).

[foundationsofdecay]

wheeeeee second bracelet's done! on to the third ^_^

[spaghett-onaplate]

mutuals send me the strength to get through tomorrow

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Ontario government is introducing new measures to crack down on cellphone use and vaping in schools as the province sees an "alarming rise" of vaping and cellphone distractions in classrooms.

In an announcement Sunday, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the province is removing distractions as part of its back-to-basics plan, and addressing the "negative impact" of mobile devices, social media and vaping in classrooms.

"Every parent and teacher we speak to has shared the growing problem of cellphone distractions in class … in addition to the disturbing rise of vaping in schools [among] our youth," Lecce said at a news conference in North York Sunday.

"We will be denying cellphone use during instructional time. We need to be bold, we need to be comprehensive and we need to act with urgency today." [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[famouslysleepy]

when the main plot line for your Magnus Opus group of ocs is really starting to come together in your mind

[ace-and-ranty]

You know how "revolution" in Utena has a double meaning? It's revolution as in a cycle, you go around and you come back to the same spot, and it's revolution as in something new and revolutionary?

I was just thinking today. You know one way you can go in circles, but still progress?

Spirals.