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Secondary Progressions Beta
Your inner unfolding by the day-for-a-year method — where the slow-moving progressed chart sits today, plus your natal chart advanced by the solar arc.
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What are progressions?
Secondary progressions are a symbolic clock: each day after your birth stands for one year of life. The chart for your 30th day describes your 30th year.
Where transits are the outer weather, progressions are the inner unfolding — the slow ripening of the chart you were born with, from the inside out.
How to read them
Lead with the progressed Moon. It moves about one sign every two and a half years, and its sign and house describe your current emotional chapter — what you're growing toward now.
Solar arc directions move every point forward at the Sun's yearly pace, about a degree a year. When a directed point reaches an exact aspect to a birth planet, it flags a year of activation.
Key ideas
The headline — a two-and-a-half-year emotional season set by its sign and house.
The core method: one day of ephemeris motion symbolises one year of your life.
Every point nudged forward about a degree a year — a simple, powerful timing measure.
A progressed or directed point reaching an exact aspect to a birth planet — a themed year.
Common questions
Where it comes from
The day-for-a-year key traces to a line in Ptolemy and was formalised into secondary progressions by the 17th century. Solar arc directions are a later, streamlined cousin of the older primary directions.