A chart consists of 12 houses, each one ruled by the planet that rules the zodiac sign on the cusp of each house. In other words, if the 1st house has Capricorn on the cusp, then the house ruler would be Saturn because Saturn rules Capricorn. Using these house rulerships, we can get more specific about what area of your life will be affected by the lunation in question.
Let's say you want to know the next time you are prone to getting hurt. You'd look for a Mars transit that would aspect your 1st house ruler. That could mean an injury is forthcoming. (Mars is associated with sharp things, cuts, knives, pain)
So you'd look to the nearest lunation and see if Mars will be within the allowable orb for that type of lunation. If it is, then the Moon reaching the trigger point will be when it happens. If it isn't, then you'll have some minor event that you won't pay much attention to. Another example, look at Venus aspects to your 1st house ruler. A tight orb aspect will often times result in either the flu or possibly a sore throat.
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Building the Forecast Story
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Once you locate the active aspects that are within orb for the type of lunation you are working with, you begin to construct a story from the symbolism of the type of aspect, the planets involved, the houses ruled in the natal chart, and the house the natal planets are in.
Here is some sample planetary sybolism to get you started: Mercury - mail, communications, transportation, siblings, neighbors Venus - money, food, personal interaction Mars - action, anger, injury, new things, energy Jupiter - good fortune, expansiveness, excess Saturn - delay, restriction, responsibility Uranus - unexpected, chaos, innovation Neptune - deception, confusion, creativity, sleepiness Pluto - major change, decay Others using this system have reported good results by watching where the transiting Moon lands in the natal chart. The focus for that month (in a new moon phase) could be indicated by the natal house in which it occurs. An example would be if the Moon falls in the first house, there would be a focus on the physical body and self interests for the month.
Another example: Let's say that transiting Mars in a quarter Moon chart will exactly square your natal Mars, and the orb is the required 1 degree. Then we would expect that not only would you find yourself feeling quite angry over something, but we could also say that it would involve the house that your Mars rules.
Transiting Venus trine your 1st house ruler could have you improving your appearance or being in the company of another person. In a soft aspect, the person would make you feel happy; if it is a hard aspect, the visit would be uncomfortable in some way. If the transiting Venus squares the ruler of your 11th house, those plans you made with friends won't work out.
If you want to know when the next time you will have a cold, just watch for a quarter moon where the Moon itself is Square or is opposite your Sun. That's usually going to bring one of those really nasty colds.
If you were wondering when your Income Tax refund was going to arrive, you could watch for a lunation where Mercury favorably aspects your 2nd house ruler. Mercury would represent the mail, and the 2nd house ruler governs your money. Trines have midpoints, too, so that point will still be the trigger.
If you have a lunation where the Moon is aspecting one of your natal planets, then that means whatever your natal planet rules will be highlighted for that period of time.
The technique I am describing works mainly for the faster moving planets. Many astrologers are taught to work with a list of transiting planets to their natal planets without ever using the transiting or lunation Moon. The focus of the lesson would have to do with understanding how the outer planets affect their lives. Forecasting with lunations and the inner planets offers a world of information not found any other way.
When you are dealing with transits from the heavies (ie. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto), you would be better off looking at the eclipses for the year -- both Solar and Lunar.
[Please note that when drawing up an eclipse chart, you should use the time of the eclipse NOT the time of the lunation. They oftentimes differ by several minutes.]
A 5 to 10 degree orb is allowable for eclipses. The timing here would be 1 year influence for the Solar and 6 months for the Lunar. In the case of using eclipses, the trigger changes over to the Sun. Because you are dealing with greater periods of time, watching the Moon won't work. In this case, the Sun comes to a trigger point and should be watched at the midpoint degree of the aspect.
If you have a difficult natal aspect, then whatever that aspect represents in your life will probably come to light. If it's a difficulty with your siblings, you'll find out in a big hurry. Look at the sample bi-wheel and observe that the lunation Venus is square to the natal Mercury, which happens to rule the 3rd house of siblings and/or neighbors. This suggests that relations (Venus) with your siblings and/or neighbors will not go smoothly at all, in fact there might be a surprise visit that is terribly inconvenient for you.
The full moon could have brought it on, but you must also look back to the eclipses to see if they were involved too. Sometimes, things coincide in such a way that it looks like one thing is the reason, but it's really because something at the higher level (eclipse) was being triggered off. If you watch these lunations very carefully, you will begin to be able to tell where events are coming from. You'll gain confidence in the timing mechanism and be able to say, no, that couldn't have come from this or that.
Aside from viewing the aspects with regard to house rulerships, we can also look at the aspects at their most fundamental meanings. For example:Mars to Sun = Ego Anger, feeling slighted, put down, disrespected Mars to Moon = Emotional Anger, feeling wounded emotionally Mars to Venus = Contrary behavior Mars to Mars = Anger, impatience, irrational behavior This should be enough information to get you started on the road to forecasting by lunations. Once you see how reliable this method is for timing the outcome of an aspect, I think you'll continue using it for many years to come.
Sandra Rozhon © 2002
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