The journal · Technique
Predictive techniques
Every timing method astrology uses, and what each can fairly claim about a period.
12 articles.
Timing a move with astrocartography lines
A map of where each planet sat on an angle when you were born, and what that can and cannot tell you.
3 min read
Outer planet transits: the big life chapters
One to two years each, arriving at ages nearly everyone shares.
2 min read
Annual profections: your year's ruling planet
One house per year of life, cycling every twelve, and you can work it out on your fingers.
4 min read
Progressed Moon cycles and emotional chapters
Two and a half years per sign, a full circuit in about 27. The one progression you can check against your own diary.
2 min read
How to read your own transits without an app
Two lists, one table, and the discipline of ignoring most of it.
2 min read
Eclipse cycles and the Saros series
Eclipses run in families lasting over a thousand years, real astronomy, and older than the astrology attached to it.
4 min read
Secondary progressions: your chart's slow evolution
A day of sky for a year of life. The slowest clock in astrology, and the one most practitioners keep.
2 min read
Solar arc directions for beginners
Everything in the chart moves a degree a year, together. Simple arithmetic, one-year timing, one argument about which arc.
2 min read
Transits vs progressions: what's the difference?
Transits are the actual current positions of the planets compared against your birth chart, real astronomy happening now.
4 min read
Zodiacal releasing, simplified
The most elaborate timing technique in the revived Hellenistic toolkit, and the hardest to check.
4 min read
The Saturn return: what happens around ages 29 and 58
The most talked-about transit in modern astrology, and the one with the most obvious non-astrological explanation sitting right beside it.
9 min read
Solar return charts: what your birthday chart can and cannot show
A whole chart for a single year, cast for the minute the Sun comes home, with one unresolved argument sitting at the centre of the method.
6 min read
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