CHAPTER 12
The
progressed chart provides a detailed outline of our life from birth to death.
It is a road map created by the soul and offered to us as assistance on our
journey of life. It can be used to look back at the past to better understand
the formation of our behavior. It can be used to look ahead and become more
aware of the potentials and possible pitfalls along the way. With greater
awareness comes greater preparedness. With foresight we can more rapidly
assimilate and integrate the experiences that come to us from life.
This
author presented an entirely new format of constructing the progressed chart in
an earlier volume written about numerology. The enthusiastic response from
professional numerologists and students has confirmed my earlier convictions.
The new format offered a special tool for practitioners that enhanced the art
of interpretation.
Since the
publication of Numerology for the New Age, I have subsequently improved
the interpretive power of the progressed chart. The experienced practitioner
who has been using the previous method will want to make special note of this
latest development.
Following
is a sample chart to help the reader understand the construction of the
progressed chart.
A.
INTERPRETING THE LIFE CHART (PROGRESSED)
JOHN ALBERT JONES 6 26 1959=38= 2 LP
YEAR
59 60 61
62 63 64
65 66 67
68 69 70
71 72 73
74 75 76 77
AGE
0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15
16 17 18
PERS J H H H H H H H H N N N N N L L L
SOUL O
O O O
O O A
E E E
E E O
O O O
O O
ESS 8 16 17 18 19 20 16 21 22 20 21 22 24 25 24 25 26
8 7
8 9 1
2 7 3
(4) 2 3
(4) 6 7
6 7 8
P YR 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 1 2
OPT ?
(YEAR)
This line obviously indicates the calendar year.
(AGE) This
line indicates what age the client turns on the calendar year indicated.
(PERS)
This line is the line of the personality number. The personality line gives
an emphasis upon external factors and
the personality reaction to life events. The reader can find the meaning for the
letters in the progressed chart in Chapter 11 on the symbology of letters.
(SOUL) This line is the soul
line. It emphasizes the internal reaction of the individual to the events
taking place. In chapter 11 (The Symbology of Letters) you can find meanings
for each letter in the progressed chart.
(ESS) This
is the line of the essence. The essence is the combined energies of the
personality, soul and the vibrational influence of the person’s age. (NOTE)
This factor of interpretation is introduced for the first time in this volume.
The number of the age is rarely used in numerical evaluation. There are a few
practitioners who do factor it in as a meaningful indicator. The age vibration
emphasizes the life factor impacting the individual during the specific year.
The combined number is a powerful indicator of the meaning for that particular
year. It takes time and practice to develop a sense of integration of the
essence. For the beginning student you can use these simple guidelines as a
helpful start.
When the
essence number is:
1. The
lessons relate to tests of will and individuality.
2. The
lessons will be related to cooperation, criticism, and social opinion.
3.
Creativity, self-expression, sexual issues.
4. Work,
discipline, and determination.
5.
Sensual temptation, prejudice, change and variety.
6.
Responsibility, marriage (relationships), service.
7.
Withdrawal, introspection, arrogance, intuition.
8. Power,
money, authority.
9.
Altruism, release, idealism, completion.
(P YR)
This is the line of the personal year. The personal year vibration has been
heavily discussed in an earlier chapter. When the essence and personal year are
the same the lesson takes on even more intensity and significance.
The
essence and its components are calculated from birthday to birthday. The
personal year is computed from calendar year to calendar year and changes with
the first day of January. That is why the personal year is not combined with
the others.*
* (AUTHOR’S COMMENT) It is realized that this departure from the earlier interpretations can be confusing to someone who has been computing the essence by another system or particularly if you have been using the calculation in Numerology for the New Age. I was influenced, like so many numerologists, by several different authors and teachers in my early years of practice. I accepted their expertise and combined different techniques of interpretation where I felt the quality of interpretation was improved.
Over the thirty-five plus years of my practice there have been several occasions when I became uncomfortable when there were clashes of differences between some of the techniques I was using. I looked for a more consistent and integrated methodology that I believed would further improve the art of interpretation. This new methodology for the progressed chart particularly filled a missing link I had experienced while doing progressions. I believe if the experienced practitioner takes time to go back and test this with earlier charts, there will be many who find the accuracy and depth a grateful contribution to their work.
The
slanted line is present in the first year of the chart to serve as a reminder
that there is an overlap of the years. For example, in the chart of John Jones
the progressed chart goes from 6/26 of 59 to 6/26 of 60.
(OPT) This line stands for optional. You may want
to use this line to include the changes in triune cycles, pinnacles and
challenges. With time you may want to include some additional factor that you
find adds to your own interpretive strength.
The
experienced practitioner will know how to use the progressed chart and is
encouraged to explore and test this new model.
The
beginning student may find the construction (and particularly the
interpretation) of the progressed chart overwhelming. You can start by reading
the appropriate personal year in chapter 7. Then go to the symbolic meaning of
the letters in the progressed chart from chapter 11. Next, much can be learned
from the introductory meanings to the numbers in chapters 4 and 5. All of these
combined will provide you with a good overview of the influencing factors.
One thing you can do to increase the learning curve is do your own chart and those of people close to you. Because you know the years that certain events have happened, you can begin to extrapolate what might have happened in the life of someone you do not know. Also, from the confidence of seeing what has happened in the past, you can begin to get pretty high probabilities as to what may happen in the future. There is no substitute for experience, and improved interpretation comes only from practice, practice, practice.
For the
trained professional therapist or counselor the progressed chart during the
formative years can be very helpful for recognizing likely moments of trauma
and the formative cycle of subconscious patterns. The intuitive and skilled
numerologists may use this same doorway. One needs to be careful when opening
the door into the shadow side. When looking at arrangements of the essence in
adult years you may find an exact or very similar arrangement in the early
childhood period. If you go back to the underlying issues during the childhood
years, you will usually find them being acted out similarly in the adult year.
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