Chapter XXIII. DIFFERENT METHODS OF PROGRESSION（续 1）

Local time of birth, April 25 1 :30 P. M.

Greenwich Mean Time of birth Apr. 25 . . 6 :50 P. M.

In compliance with Theorem II, we subtract from the birthdate, April 25, a correction for 6 hours and 50 minutes which the G. M. T. is after noon. The measure of time used in this system is as follows :

24 hours correspond to 12 months. 2 hours correspond to 1 month. 1 hour corresponds to 15 days. 4 minutes correspond to 1 day.

Correction for 6 hours — 3 months Correction for 50 minutes— 13 days

Adjusted Calculation Date January 12th, 1872

We may, however, find the Adjusted Calculation date much more accurately and with less labor by the following fourfold rule :

(1) Find the interval from G. M. T. to the following noon.

(2) To this interval add the Sidereal Time for Greenwich noon on the birthday, as given in the ephemeris. The sum of these is the Sidereal Time of the Adjusted Calculation Date.

(3) When the G. M. T. at birth is A. M. count forwards in the ephemeris till you find a day having the required S. T. that is the Adjusted Calculation Date.

(4) When the G. M. T. at birth is P. M. read backwards in the ephemeris till you find the day having the required S. T. which designates it as the Adjusted Calculation Date.

We shall use the same example as before to demonstrate this method.

Section 1 directs us to find the interval between G. M. T. and the following noon. Please observe this, the following noon, for all depends upon this being accurately understood.

Interval from G. M. T. to next Noon, 17 hrs. 10 min. By Section 2 of Rule :

S. T. of Adjusted Calculation Date. . .19 hrs. 25 min.

As G. M. T. is P. M. we read backwards in the column of the ephemeris giving S. T., until we come to Jan. 12, 1872. On that day the S. T. is 19 hrs., 26 min., and the A. C. D. is therefore Jan. 12th, 1872.

Thus, by both methods we have arrived at identical results, but slight discrepancies may appear in using the proportional method because that makes no allowances for long and short months, hence the method last demonstrated is more accurate as well as easier. If this lady had been born two hours later, the Adjusted Calculation Date would have been December 12, 1871, and where children are born late in the year and early in the morning, the Adjusted Calculation Date may run into January or February of the next year. It is therefore very important to state the Adjusted Calculation Date by year also, in this case January 12, 1872.

Now, that we have arrived at the point where we are to make use of our A.C. D. to progress the lady's horoscope and show how accurately it marks the crises, the first application of the date to the horoscope is a crucial point, and the student is earnestly warned to overlook no word in our description so that he may acquire understanding of the principle. Once having grasped the point, an immense amount of labor will be saved, so it will pay to follow our instructions to the letter.

Write in the margin of your ephemeris for 1872 opposite the birthday (April 25), January 12, 1872.

Opposite April 26 write January 12, 1873. Opposite April 27, write January 12, 1874, and so on, as shown below. Every day after birth corresponds to a certain year of life which starts on the day written in the margin, and the planets in line with any A, C. D. indicate the events for twelve months from that date.

Jan. 12, 1872. . . .Apr. 25 Jan. 12, 1888. . . .May 11

Jan. 12, 1873 .... Apr. 26 Jan. 12, 1898 .... May 21

Jan. 12, 1874 .... Apr. 27 Jan. 12, 1908 .... May 31

Jan. 12, 1877 Apr. 30 Jan. 12, 1909 June 1

Jan. 12, 1878 May 1 Jan. 12, 1910 June 2

The motion of the Sun and planets from day to day is slow, and as we count a day for a year, we may liken their progression to the short hand on the clock of destiny : they indicate the year when a certain condition shown in the natal horoscope has ripened, and is ready to manifest as an event. The swift moving Moon is the long hand; it marks the months when aspects culminate in events. Therefore we divide its motion during the year commencing with any adjusted calculation date, by 12, but for rough figuring we may consider the Moon's travel in the progressed horoscope one degree a month.

Planetary aspects alone do not operate, however; an aspect of the progressed Moon or a New Moon is required to focus the hidden forces. Therefore crises shown by the planets are sometimes retarded beyond the time when the aspect culminated and we

may think we have safely escaped, but the first aspect of the Moon which excites it will prove that ' ' though the mills of the gods grind /slowly, they grind exceeding fine." The finer forces lose none of their intensity by lying latent in Nature 's lock-box of events.

Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter were in 21-22 degrees of Declination at birth ; but the effect remained latent until the year 1902, when the Sun reached the same degree. (See ephemeris for 1872, May 25th, which corresponds to Jan. 12, 1902.)

The progressed Sun was then in Gemini 4 degrees, 31 minutes ; 31 minutes short of an exact opposition to the Moon 's place at birth : Sagittarius 5 degrees, 2 minutes.

But the progressed Moon on the A. C. D., Jan. 12, 1902, was in Capricorn 9 degrees, 27 minutes (see ephemeris for 1872, May 25), and traveling at the rate of one degree per month it reached the place of Saturn at birth: Capricorn 11 degrees, 15 minutes, in March, 1902. There it excited the parallels of the Sun, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter, also the opposition of the Sun and Moon, so that the lady was taken seriously ill with the disease which ended her life seven years later.

We shall next see what brought about the lady's final illness in the latter part of July, 1908, and terminated life in April, 1909. We copy the planets' places from the ephemeris for 1872, June 1st, into the outer ring of the natal horoscope, for the planets on that day correspond to the adjusted calculation

date, Jan. 12, 1909, but progress the Moon from the A. C. D., Jan. 12, 1908, and Jan. 12, 1909 (May 31 and June 1 in the 1872 ephemeris), to show the crisis thus marked.

If we subtract the Moon's longitude on a given day from its place on the following day, the difference is its motion during the 24 hours intervening, which corresponds to a year of life in progression, and division by 12 gives us its rate of monthly travel.

(June 1 in ephemeris for 1872) Aries 17.34

(May 31 in ephemeris for 1872) Aries 4.23

Moon's travel from Jan. 1908, to Jan. 1909 18.11

Moon's monthly travel is l-12th of the above: 1 degree, 6 minutes. This we add to its place for each month as shown in the following table :

By comparing this table with the horoscope, we note three aspects in 1908 and one in 1909, all from the House of death.

(1) The Moon in Sagittarius at birth gives the "Wanderlust," but if means are lacking and health none too good (the lady also had St. Vitus dance as a child, when the Moon progressed to conjunction of Neptune and squared Uranus) and the Moon, at birth, is cooped up in the Fourth House (the home), such desires cannot easily be realized. "When the Moon progressed into the Eighth House — which brings gifts and legacies also — and cast a trine to its place at birth in February, 1908, it improved the health, brought a gift from a brother, and caused the lady to travel.

(2) In July, 1908, the Moon squared Saturn at birth and excited his natal parallel to Uranus and Jupiter. This brought an illness as violent as it was sudden, which forced the lady to abandon further travel and return home. Had it not been for the sextile of the progressed Sun results must have been fatal.

(3) In October, 1908, the Moon progressed to conjunction of Venus in the natal chart. This, for a time, alleviated suffering to some extent, but you will note that from the time of the first violent attack in July, 1908, to the end of life, April, '09, the progressed Moon squared the degrees between Saturn's place at birth and his progressed position for 1909, as shown in the outer ring of the horoscope. This made the beneficent action of Venus less potent.