This is because each of the planets in a natal chart has a meaning that applies uniquely to the chart owner – even in the case of two people born in the same location and at the same time.
Consequently, when a planet makes a “within-orb” progression or transit to a planet in our natal chart – it’s effect will be determined by many factors that cannot be taken account of by even the best astrological “cookbooks”, including what has happened to us in the past and what we have/have not learned from it.
For that reason, the first step in all predictive astrology is to obtain a sound astrological understanding of the natal chart – and modify this in the light of the native’s life experiences to date – as knowing where we are going to (natal chart) and where we have been (experience) is essential to determining the direction in which we need to go now (progressions) and the experiences we are likely to encounter along the way (transits).
[Note :- On page 69 of Predictive Astrology, Carol Rushman states :-
Once an astrologer understands natal promise (and masters the techniques of spotting drivers and interpreting them) the next step is to begin the process of making predictions :-
1. Progressions, heavy transits and eclipses portend the events of the large one to three year cycles.
2. Saturn and Jupiter transits show cycles of one year or less.
3. The progressed Moon refines predicting into a one to three month cycle.
4. Lunations give us specific dates, as do triggering transits, stationing planets and exact transits of all the major planets.]
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Carol Rushman’s 4-step approach to making predictions expressed in my own words
1. Progressions and Uranus/Neptune/Pluto transits usually take one to three years to cover a three-degree-orb of influence – and can consist of as many as three forward and two reverse crossings of the same degree*
2. Saturn and Jupiter transits move faster, covering a three-degree-orb of influence in less than one year
– and can consist of two forward and one reverse crossing of the same degree*
3. The progressed Moon never goes retrograde and moves at around one-degree-a-month, taking 3 months to cover a three-degree-orb of influence – which makes it a good tool for timing the events of outer planet transits
4. Lunations give us specific dates of events arising from progressions and outer planet transits – as do triggering transits, stationing planets and exact transits of all the major planets
[*Note :- The related event tends to “appear” at the first forward crossing of the degree, with a possible solution “appearing” at the first retrograde crossing of it and the solution being implemented at the second forward crossing – but, with a Uranus/Neptune/Pluto five-fold crossing of the degree, the “real/underlying” issue appears at the second forward crossing and is resolved at the third.]
