CIIAPTER XXV. ‘ Prouressiy Lunar Dixections
HE Moon travels through the Zodiae at an aver-
age rate of between twelve and thirteen degrees a day, and as the day im the art of progression is taken as a time measure equivalent to a year, we may say that the Moon by progression from birth to death travels at the rate of between twelve and thirteen -degrees a year, or about one degree per month. Thus in the course of nbout twenty-eight ycars she circles the whole horoseope and forms all the aspects that. ean be formed to all the planets in the radical figure, and she may thus travel two or three times around the horoscope in the life of the average man or woman, It is her passage around the horoscope that. makes the life fruitful of events for the aspects of the planets themselves which indicate the year, when a ecrtain influence is ready to be reaped. as ripe destiny and produee events in the life, do not, of themselves eause cither good or ill effects un- Jess an aspect of the progresscd Moon or a Iunation brings the matter to a foeus and marks the month when the oceurrence will take plaee. Therefore: sometimes even strong aspects between the Sun and. planets, or between the planets themselves, are bar-
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