I continue to consider the idea, progressed charts should be elevated. I’ve been in astrology all my life and can tell you, thirty years ago, a good percentage of astrologers used the progressed chart over the Natal. I recall mentioning this here or there, but not in the last twenty years.
I was getting good results with natal charts and transits so I didn’t look at this, in depth. Time passed and this trend faded. This is just a historical note, so this information can be carried forward.
I’m not ready to do this, myself. I get excellent results using the natal chart, but I know now, there’s something here. I’m mulling this… well, brainstorming may be a more accurate word. To be clear, these astrologers used transits… but to the Progressed rather than the Natal.
I’m thinking about clients who enjoy blood-pumping competition. They thrive at the top, waking up in the morning, ready to rage against, whoever for whatever. But it’s common a person busts their ass to get somewhere. Later in life, the come to hate their job. I might chock this up to disillusionment, with any number of things, but what if they have just simply, changed?
Same with drug users or drinkers who sober up. I don’t know this, I’m just trying to wonder about it, productively. We know a Uranus transit can liberate a person in an abusive relationship, but can their progressed planets do the same?
If you’re new to Progressed charts, here’s a good intro:
It’s all there… wanting to be single and then wanting to not be single. Now, think about the narratives out there. Some would say I was getting old (27) and now I want a man. Is it that? Or did my progressed Venus leave Virgo for Libra?
This is about really understanding your individual situation so you’re not knocked off your true course by propaganda aka orchestrated trends.
What do you think about favoring a progressed chart over the natal?
My progressed moon in Leo will soon conjunct my natal ascendant. I have been curious to see if I’ll notice anything!
Yes the older I am the more I look at my progressed chart and consider it more accurate. It’s not that I ‘like’ it, I much more like my natal..but hey, to be honest, my progressed is more who I am today.
I think it begins to make sense when a person is older and got that idea of ‘becoming who they want to be’ out of their mind and can have a honest look at who they actually are without freaking out. My sun progressed into Pisces two years ago and it currently opposing natal Pluto and about to go into a long trine with natal Neptune. Not my favourite as a natal Sag but it’s actually much closer to the reality of who I am now and feels more comfortable than I could have imagined.
So yes, I prefer looking at the progressed chart and transits to progressed planets…for a reality check. I have changed.
My progressed moon is currently in Pisces in my first house. Dont know how this has effected me but I do feel more introverted and my writing has really taken off – I’m writing about deep subjects based in my spiritual experience.