May Discussion Thread: What Secondary Progressed Moon Phase Are You In?
What are progressions, how to track the secondary progressed moon, and uncovering what moon phase you're in right now
This month’s discussion thread for paid subscribers is jam packed with information about the secondary progressed moon, which is a key timing technique that I use in my practice. I will be explaining what secondary progressions are in general, before I get into how you can locate what secondary progressed moon phase you’re currently in and why that’s important. Then you can share in the comments how you’re seeing it show up in your own life.
For those who aren’t familiar with secondary progressions, your progressed chart is a special type of chart that advances your birth chart placements forward in time one day for each year that you are alive. So your progressed chart for age 25 will show where the planets were 25 days after you were born. Typically during your entire lifetime (assuming you live to be 80s/90s) the progressed sun will only move through 3-4 signs, because in real time it takes about 90 days for the sun to move through 3 signs. The first 90 days of your life become symbolic of 90 years. I know it’s tricky, and it may take a while to wrap your head around this concept, but bear with me.
Let’s say you had an emotionally rough day when you were 15 days old, where you threw a huge tantrum or witnessed your parents getting into a big fight. At age 15 years old, it might be that you go through an emotionally challenging year or face relationship struggles yourself during that time. Another example would be taking a trip away from the home when you’re like 3 weeks old. That might then translate to you going on a big trip abroad that completely changes how you look at the world at age 21. What happened when you were a baby takes on a bigger significance when you are older. What’s so fascinating to me about secondary progressions is that that the first few days of your life set the stage for all of the decades to follow.
Because planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all move very slowly in general, only covering like 2 degrees (often less) of a sign each month, they are barely going to move in your progressed chart and will likely never change signs or houses. Instead, it’s much more important to track the movements of your progressed sun, moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars, plus the angles (ascendant, descendant, midheaven, and imum coeli). For the purposes of this particular newsletter, we are just going to be zeroing in on the progressed moon, because there’s a lot to unpack there.