Track your transits - a quickview astrological guide

Simply looking at a round wheel or an aspect grid doesn't always work for everybody. When you want to get a precise overview of connected factors there are a few easy steps to take:

• List all the planetary bodies and key axis points you use. N = lunar nodes  A =Ascendant-Descendant M =midheaven-IC
• Round up/down the degree positions to nearest whole number
• run a column to the right listing the 15 degree resonating point. for planets at over 15 degrees subtract 15. For under 15 add 15. 15 itself becomes 30/0
• Create another box with degree positions from 0-30/0
• Refer to box one and transfer each entry. Example : Sun is listed at 10 and 25.
• This graphic view allows you not only to see natally which factors are in strong synergy but also very useful with transits to track where the significant action is taking place and the sequential activations. Orbs of effect vary dependent upon speed and "weight" of the factor in transit. A transit one-two degrees off natal exact point is definitely worth noting.
• Every factor and point therefore gets a "double-dose" Example: Moon at 15 and 30/0. So when any exact point is "live" you know that 15 degrees later will be a further resonance activated.

the 15 degree factor comes as a result of dividing the 360 degree wheel into 24 divisions. Therefore this is called the 24th harmonic. semisquare and sesquiquadrate are most commonly known in that group but unwisely overlooked, considered weak. Incorrect in my experience. Hidden yes when nothing else seems to be identified as active. Look and you will find.

The logic behind the 24th and 15 degree divisions comes back to the finer divisions of the circle or wheel: angles 45 135 225 and 315 each sit midway therefore serve as a midpoint of the key angular points at 0 90 180 270 degrees.

Midpoint positions are known to capture the essence from both energies equidistant to that point.

The related drawing shows those 8 points.

The connection with Chinese Divination

Chinese divination uses the 8 compass points from what is to the West an upside down perspective facing the equator and sunrise and the South. The midpoints of the key 4 directions are well known to the world as NW NE SW SE . The Chinese method is to further subdivide each direction into 3 - giving 8x3 = 24 sectors of 15 degrees each. These sectors are called Mountains. Depending upon which "stars" fall into each sector determines good or bad luck for the year. One "star" equates to Jupiter (Tai Sui) - seen as a formidable force which demands respect or disaster will follow. It can be seen how Jupiter can also be adverse in the Western view if proper restraint is not used when excesses get extreme.

This use of 15 degree divisions has an application to the Chinese solar year beginning Feb 4 annually 9at our midpoint of Aquarius -Start of Spring in the Northern hemisphere but the framework is fundamentally based on the 4 fixed points -2 solstices, 2 equinoxes.

The whole year of days is divided by 24 to get periods of 15.2 days ( each division called a "Chi" ) . These represent astronomical points of the Sun's passage along the ecliptic using just 15 degrees of longitude along the horizon -versus the Western blocks of 30 degrees. Using the 15 degree system allows for the very alternating energy of Yin Yang to be identified.

The Yang ON point of activation sits at 15 degrees (matching 15 degree positions in Western zodiac) and the Yin OFF point occurs at the 30/0 degree position.

Which is very interesting in that the Western view reveres the zero degree ingress which the Eastern view sees as Yin - building to peak Yang at 15 degrees.

It is intriguing to look for a blend of these two perspectives or a comprehensive expansion of both. Many dismiss the superstitious aspects of Chinese geomancy and divination but often the issues arise in crude elaborations followed by poor translations that miss the essence.

The above image taken from Lillian Too's Feng Shui reference "Lucky Numbers"

Recommend: Derek Webster Chinese Astrology high level research

   

Disappearance of Naya Rivera -astrological signifiers

The 2020 Disappearance of Naya Rivera with Astrological Signifiers

update Naya Rivera was reported as dead on July 13 2020

Naya Rivera known well for her role in Glee disappeared in a California lake on July 8 2020. The only witness was her 4 year old son, accompanying her on a boating excursion.

This story from an astrological perspective is full of Neptune which expresses through Pisces and relates to everything watery confusing mysterious unknown.

To understand how this applies to Naya (aged 33 born January 12 1987) it is clear even without an exact birth time that she was born on a day when Jupiter was in Pisces - this planet in this sign brings large big extreme too much in combination with water. The second indicator to note is two sometimes dangerous planetary energies Saturn and Uranus are in the sign Sagittarius which wants to naturally express as optimism confidence adventurousness. Uranus in Sagittarius can encourage risk-taking. Saturn in Sagittarius generates anxieties caution worries related to adventurous freedom-seeking and is the key factor in bringing problems in that context.

Sagittarius naturally associates with Jupiter so it is not totally comfortable when merged with Saturn or Uranus - especially if there is a general picture of problems to be aware of.

Saturn and Uranus on Jan 12 1987 had a meeting point (midpoint) at 20 degrees Sagittarius. Jupiter was 19 Pisces. This is problematic. Big expanse of water impulsive adventurousness something going wrong. These potential factors were imprinted on the day of Naya’s birth.

Potentials rely on activation and timing is always a karmic factor.

A collection of energies in 2020 has accumulated (it’s never a single activator but a mix of major and minor) to place Naya at a much higher risk of a negative outcome.

NEPTUNE

The first major fact has been the transit of Neptune - being extra strong in Pisces until the 2025 transition into Aries. We are all in a significant water era with different  degrees of relevance for us individually while on another level generally relevant to our whole species and planet.

Late in March 2020 Neptune reached 19 degrees Pisces and began to strongly affect Naya in April May June and into July due to its activation of a total of 5 of her energies all sitting in the range 19-21 degrees. 

19 degrees Jupiter in Pisces

20 degrees Saturn and Uranus midpoint in Sagittarius

20-21 degrees Sun & Mercury at near total conjunction in Capricorn

This pattern of having so many significant factors ready to be triggered by any single major transiting planet is always a high risk factor bringing periods of extremes into a person’s life: intense crises lasting months to most of a year alternating with periods of relative calm.

Knowing almost nothing of Naya’s life and backstory it seems she has faced an ongoing run of challenges.

The impact of Neptune psychologically can be very disorienting -as if you are being flooded with a sense of being in a vastly different reality. At the extreme end this can express as delusions or paranoia but generally a disconnection from being grounded. We are Earth beings even if our ancient origins were Aquatic so keeping a balance with natural and especially land-based and vegetation energies is necessary for those who habitually get ungrounded. To be in water when ungrounded is creating a huge excess. This is the hazard of Jupiter in Pisces/big water/excess water energy.

Naya’s birth sign Capricorn is of the Earth element -the mountain climbing goat -suited to being on peaks as well as climbing to the top in careers. During a Neptune transit she needed mountains rocks and crystals.

URANUS

When transiting in 2020 at 9-10 degrees Taurus - June into July - this indicator of disconnection from the physical activates Naya’s Pluto position at 9’40 Scorpio.

This is clear transition energy that can deliver a shift from the physical to the metaphysical plane.

Fast moving influences

The fast transits of Mercury in Cancer and Mars in Aries strongly activated the birth position of Neptune in Capricorn on the day of her disappearance in July.

NEPTUNE

This planet stands out as a highly significant factor inherently for Naya and especially in 2020 due to the activations from transiting Neptune in Pisces. No one alive has experienced Neptune in Pisces prior to the current long cycle transit which first emerged in 2011 extending through to 2025 so this is new territory for all of us.

At worst Neptune can aggravate mental health problems and give a high disposition towards addictive behaviours especially drug and alcohol abuse and addictive behaviours of many types - commonly including gambling gaming. On a general level being flooded with Neptune energy wil be a very destabilising influence due to not knowing what is real or what is going on and loss of control or inhibition.

In addition:

The planet Mercury indicates mental capacity and the Sun is indicative of our key identity. Being born with Mercury too close to the Sun obliterates to some degree the strength of the mind can limit a person’s ability to function well in their thinking and mental processing.

The degree to which Naya fits any of these challenging potentials - especially in the period from late March through to week one of July 2020 may be known to just a few people. She has definitely been at high risk of a destabilised state from causes that fit a Neptunian profile. In that state people can be very drawn to disappearance, to escape withdrawal and sleep.