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The Perspective of Prediction
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by Basil Fearrington |
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From the very beginnings of astrology in ancient times, the focus has been on prediction. For thousands of years, people have come to astrologers to find answers to the age old question, “When?” Questions regarding “when” are often paralleled by questions beginning with, “Will or Is?” Make no mistake about it. If you are a professional astrologer, you know what I am talking about and if you have aspirations to be a professional astrologer, someone is going to be asking you to make a prediction because to the public, astrology is a tool to “tell the future.”
Many Avenues to Answers
Prediction in astrology opens a huge can of worms because there are scores of ways to approach it. If you own a professional astrology software program, it reveals to you just a portion of how much is possible. There are transits of all kinds – to natal, to progressions, to other transiting planets. There are Secondary Progressions to natal, SP to other SP positions, and the use of the SP horoscope itself as a core predictive tool. There are also Minor Progressions, Tertiary Progressions, Quotidians, Solar Arcs, Lunar Arcs, Planetary Arcs, the Uranian system, the Classical system (eliminates Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). I can recall using a system involving “Astrodynes” for awhile. There are some who do transits to progressions or progressions to transits. And there is the Vedic system, as well. Some use a Heliocentric system. The possibilities are too numerous to name all of them. And if you add asteroids and Chiron, you end up with too large a toolbox to work with.
One thing is for sure. You cannot use all of astrology’s predictive techniques. For one thing, many of them don’t work at even a 50% consistency rate. As well, the great majority of the predictive techniques were created before the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It is difficult today, outside of Classical astrology, to imagine working with a horoscope without those three planets. But just imagine that it is 1810. A person has gone to an astrologer because life has just become one challenging circumstance after another. Today, we could look at that horoscope and see that transiting Pluto was on the person’s Ascendant. But what was an astrologer to do in 1810? They had to come up with some kind of answer; they had to be able to help that client. So the astrologer found something that worked and used it. Many, many of our techniques of prediction emanate from that reality, including Secondary Progressions. They were methods of getting answers before the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
I am now 53 years old and started working with astrology when I was 13. Between then and now, I have forgotten more about astrology than I use now because most of it, frankly, was useless and not helpful. In man of the last 22 years or so, I have had no less than 200 clients a year. I have maybe 2 gigabytes of horoscopes in my system from clients alone. When you are working directly with the lives of people who are paying you for assistance, you learn what works and what does not work. You begin to streamline things, just as you do in real life. Life is an ongoing process of learning but you certainly don’t utilize everything that you have ever learned in life to get through life. You use what works and what’s important and that’s the way it is in astrology. A dependence on techniques cannot supplant the artistry of analysis.
People, by and large, come to an astrologer with concerns about relationships, money (employment; job) health, and sometimes for a perspective on what astrology says about who the person is. Almost every consultation centers upon one or more of these concerns, yet, you would think, by looking at the myriad of techniques in astrology, that every person has all kinds of very complex problems. No! It’s real simple, usually. It is certainly a lot simpler than the scores of techniques that we have available in astrology.
How I Keep it Simple
The tools that I use in prediction work are extremely streamlined:
a. Transits: Jupiter through Pluto to the natal horoscope, using only the conjunction, square, and opposition.
b. Solar Arcs to the natal horoscope and natal midpoints, using hard aspects only.
c. I look at the Secondary Progressed Moon’s conjunction or square to the Angles and track its very important conjunction, square, and oppositions to Saturn, as that is usually a time of important developments in life for a person who is out in the world trying to work towards a goal. As well, I track the Lunation Cycle, the aspect relationship between the SP Moon to the SP Sun, as that gives insight into where a person is on their particular path in life – working towards a new beginning or working towards a peak. That is all that I use. I get my software to print a list of those measurements in chronological order and that’s it. Believe me when I say that I have used every slick method in the toolbox at one point or another. I settled on these tools because they are consistently reliable 85% of the time, which is as good as we can get in astrology.
Using the measurements above, I concentrate on contacts to the Angles, Sun and Moon as well as certain direct arcs. Contacts to the Angles, Sun, and Moon always suggest life changing event potential. The events that change lives are the one’s that are most important.
All of these measurements are printed out in chronological order and it usually takes me just a few minutes to make deductions.
Perspective
You cannot do accurate predictive work in astrology 100% of the time! It just isn’t going to happen. Every astrologer has been wrong about a major prediction and will continue to be now and then. The reason for this sometimes is because people are not at the mercy of planets! Nothing happens in a person’s life because of their horoscope. It is a mistake to think that Saturn’s transit to natal Venus is what broke up the person’s relationship. The planets had nothing to do with it. It was the people involved and the fact that at least one of the two was unfulfilled. The astrology simply REFLECTS the reality. That is the magic of our astrology – its reflection of reality, like a mirror. Planets do not cause anything to happen. You must see the horoscope as a mirror of what should and can be in a life. It can be nothing more. A horoscope is not human. It doesn’t have a brain or any willpower. People are completely and totally in charge of what happens to them. There is no causation connected to one’s horoscope.
A point within this that is very important to consider is the person’s life. My mother, now 87 years old, has experienced just about all there is to experience in an astrological chart. She has had transiting Pluto make contact with all four Angles. Transiting Uranus has conjoined all 4 Angles and the Sun. You name it and it has happened in her horoscope. Yet, with the exception of the passing of my father, her life has been one solid stretch of routine. She was a non-working wife and mother who is now a loving, senior grand and great-grandmother. Through all of the astrological activity in her life, nothing ever changed except for the death of her husband, my father, of some 45 years. My father set the rules in the beginning that he would work and provide and she would take care of all that is domestic. That’s the way it was for their entire marriage. She was a homebody with whose social life existed through his social life. In a life of this type, any prediction that you make goes down the drain because the lifestyle of the person, the choice that that person makes, usurps astrological influences. You may have transits of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto on your Ascendant with absolutely no external manifestation at all if one decides that they are just going to wake up every day, grab the remote control and watch television. The only thing that can happen is what can happen!
Also, a life of routine that is off the path that is best for the person poses a very difficult situation for an astrologer. This is why it is crucial to always know about the life of the person that you are working with. For example, I recently had someone come to me because of a lack of fulfillment with what was being done to make a living. The horoscope had Leo on the Midheaven with the Sun in the 5th House conjoining the Moon. A total of 5 planets were in the 5th House and the man had 4 quintiles, always suggesting heightened creativity that should be focal in what one does for a living. But the man was a banker specializing in mortgage loans! When I told him about the creativity shown in his horoscope (I forgot to mention Neptune=AP), he said, “I started out playing music but I don’t know, I got away from it.” In going back 15 years in his life, there was hardly anything, any measurement that symbolized an event in his life. Every day was a repeat of the day before and this is not what he was supposed to be doing.
With transiting Pluto approaching his Sun at the time, I suggested to him that he open a music store, which he did. As a result of the store and interaction with customers, he plays in a very successful local band in his area, for starters. He is also involved in playing on television and radio jingles. When we talk about his horoscope now, everything works in textbook fashion because he is now the person that his horoscope suggests it best for him to be.
I lived in South Africa for a year and while in Johannesburg, I met my astrological twin. Our horoscopes were separated by just a few degrees on the Ascendant but our lives had been very different. I have been through some 20 passports in my life. There is hardly a country that I have not been to and I have always been very goal oriented, always needing something to achieve and I am never satisfied with myself. I am my worst critic, without a doubt and because of it, there have been some nice things that I can talk about in terms of achievements. On the other hand, my astro-twin had never been outside of South Africa or even outside of a certain section of South Africa. At the time that I was having this discussion with the person, transiting Uranus was opposing my Sun and I had endured an extremely difficult 16 months of transiting Neptune conjunct my Ascendant. A marriage ended. An important professional situation ended. A whirlwind new love interest developed and it ended for me to go to South Africa when Uranus opposed my Sun. But nothing changed in the life of my astro-twin. He had been thoroughly victimized by the Apartheid system and was without much beyond a very basic, elementary education. His life was bound by difficult circumstances for which he was victimized (Southwest Hemisphere emphasis, as is the case in my horoscope) and rendered severely limited. There just wasn’t much that could take place for him.
What magic was astrology going to perform for him? Like myself at the time, he had SP Moon and transiting Saturn about to cross the Nadir, a time of definite new beginnings. It was easy for me to make plans but what could he do? Near penniless and without opportunity, what was going to change?
All of this leads me to the important issue of – PROJECTING AHEAD. Projecting has to replace predicting. The idea in projecting ahead is that you are taking the person’s life situation into consideration first and, based on that, you see how that reality can fit into the astrology as you see it. For someone who has committed to doing nothing, to staying in the home, to doing as little as possible, there is little, if anything, that you as an astrologer can say. The person needs to commit to something in life, to come in line with the path suggested by astrology instead of symbolically hiding in a cave.
In the horoscope shown above, I had the computer run measurements for this year, 2008. As I view the measurements at a glance, I see that transiting Jupiter squares the Sun to start the year as it makes its way to conjoin the Midheaven. In the process it will square Mercury and Venus. Initially, this makes me feel light, expansive, and happy. It suggests a time of opportunity and “sunny skies” in potential. The person should be optimistic, feel popular, etc. When I look for further corroboration, I see that SA Venus=Moon (a pleasant relationship concern and/or, for a public person, popularity) forming, exact in August (and SA Sun=Moon by quindecile). In addition to this is SA Jup=MC. The suggestion here, simply, is one of pleasant relationship concerns and career opportunity. SP Moon conjoins natal Saturn later in the year. Leading up to it, we expect a time of planning and development, especially since Saturn rules X.
Suppose this horoscope belonged to a 92 year old invalid. The chances are that the astrology is rendered null and void.. Even on that level, there isn’t much that’s going to happen to such a senior who is heavily challenged physically. Or suppose the person is in jail serving a life sentence. The symbols have to be conditioned to fit the reality of the person. Perhaps the inmate is transferred to a prison where there is an opportunity to study and get a degree. Perhaps he/she is placed in a much better situation.
This is not the horoscope of a physically challenged senior. It is not the horoscope of an inmate. It is the horoscope of singer Mariah Carey. Carey, who is worth just over $100 million dollars and has had more number 1 hits than anyone ever has, has obviously maximized her potential. In these cases where a person is doing is on the right path, astrology often works like clockwork.
If you apply the astrology to the person’s life, you will grace your predictions and grace astrology!
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Basil Fearrington,
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Basil Fearrington is the author of "The New Way To Learn Astrology." He has been a professional astrologer for 22 years.
Basil's articles have appeared in the leading astrological publications around the world. He was the Inaugural Chairman for the MilleyDome project in Johannesburg, South Africa and taught astrology there for one year.
Basil has twice been a faculty member of UAC and spoke at Astro 2000. In addition to his work in astrology, Basil is a professional musician who has toured with and/or recorded for artists such as Stevie Wonder and George Benson.
He was on a team of composers who did the music for a network show called "New York Undercover." The same team won a Grammy award in 1980.
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