Progressions
Transits show how the sky now meets your chart. Progressions show how your chart itself unfolds. They are based on a simple, symbolic idea: one day after birth equals one year of life. The positions of the planets on the day you were 30 days old describe your inner life at 30.
- Return the planet back where it was at birth
Ages are averages. The real timing can move by months, and retrogrades can repeat a return three times.
The progressed Sun
The progressed Sun moves about one degree a year, so it changes sign roughly every 30 years. If you were born with the Sun at 20 Pisces, your progressed Sun enters Aries around the age of 10 and Taurus around 40. Many people feel those sign changes as new chapters of identity, while the natal Sun stays their core.
The progressed Moon
The progressed Moon moves much faster, about a sign every two and a half years, round the whole zodiac in about 27 years. It describes the changing emotional climate: what you need, and what feels like home, in each period of your life.
A day for a year
Here is the idea at the heart of progressions, and it is older than it looks. The symbolic link between a day and a year appears in many traditions. In astrology it makes the slow unfolding of a life visible in the fast motion of the first weeks after birth: the first three months of your life describe roughly your whole lifetime.
What is moving in your chart now?
Start with your birth chart: every transit and return is read against it.
