#primary directions

[phoebosacerales]

is there some specifics transits that can indicate breaking up with someone? like mars transiting my 5th or anything like that (since my venus is scorpio)? i just broke up with my bf (well ex now lol) today and i'm trying to figure this out astrologically cause i'm curious (i'm fine btw). Thanks in advance!

If you're fine then congratulations! haha. Making these kind of decisions isn't usually easy.

Transit is not a technique that works the way most people think it works. When ancient astrologers talked about transits they were usually talking about the overlap of the solar revolution chart and the nativity. If your solar return (SR) has a planet on the sign of your natal 7th house, then that planet is transiting your 7th this year. The kind of transit that you're refering to will only be relevant if the planets involved are relevant for you this year, if at least one is the current time lord.

But there's also other techniques, like primary directions or progressions (this last one more recent and less used by traditional astrologers) that can show important changes in life. The presence of these can show bigger and more impactful life-altering events than the ones only indicated by the SR.

I have an example of this in my own life: I had my biggest break up and the passing of my maternal grandmother happen on the year when Venus was the time lord by profection (12th house profection). Besides the 12th, Venus also rules my 7th house, which has to do with partners and also the maternal grandmother. On the SR that year, Mars was on top of/transiting my natal Venus, which indicates severing, separation. It doesn't help that my Venus is in the 8th, and the fact that it's in a dual/mutable sign can indicate doubling, more than one thing being signified, and of course, there were two events in the same month indicated by the same configuration/transit. The fact that I'm ruled by Mars can mean I had agency in at least one of the events: I broke up with him. But in primary directions you could also see Venus was finally setting in the western sky. Big events, changes or transitions happen when you see planets reaching and passing an angle in primary directions, and the setting of a planet usually means endings.

I could take a quick look at your chart to see if I can easily identify something if you want. And if you're interested I'm available for full readings.

[weirdaquarian]

My favourite prediction tools:

1. Annual Profections

2. Primary Directions

3. Transits

4. Solar Returns (annual and monthly)

5. Zodiacal Releasing

[astrologyreadingsonline]

Primary Directions Calculator Updated With Classical Options

The Primary Directions calculator just shipped a major update, with three new classical options added to the filter bar.

The first is Use Latitude Of, which controls how planetary latitude is handled in the directions. You can now choose whether latitude is ignored completely, applied only to the promissor (prom), only to the significator (sig), or to both. In practice, this changes the timing of the direction because planets are no longer treated as perfectly flat on the zodiac. For charts where a planet has strong latitude, especially Pluto, the resulting dates can shift by months and sometimes line up much more closely with the actual lived event.

Bianchini’s Circle has also been added. This is a traditional method used when calculating aspects with latitude enabled. Instead of treating every aspect as if it travels in a perfectly flat line, the aspect ray is adjusted geometrically depending on the angle involved. Conjunctions preserve the full latitude, squares reduce it to zero, oppositions reverse it, and sextiles and trines blend somewhere in between. It is one of those older techniques that gives the calculations a more physically coherent structure.

The new Aspect Side toggle handles another distinction found in traditional practice. You can now calculate either the aspect cast from the moving planet (prom) toward the target (sig), or the prom directing toward the sig’s own aspect ray. These are not mathematically identical, so the same event can appear twice in the table with slightly different timing. The toggle lets you isolate one method or view both together.

Alongside the new filter options, the mundane house-cusp calculations were also rebuilt using the proper Placidus semi-arc framework.

Open the calculator at astrologyreadings.online/primary-directions-chart-calculator/ and the new options live in the filter bar above the table. Full theory and a worked walkthrough of every option is on the blog.

[phoebosacerales]

Hi, I recently found a post you made about primary directions and other means in astrology that can indicate a major life event. Can you give more details about primary directions? Thank you so much

I'm not the best person to explain how this technique works and the theory behind it, so I'll redirect you to where I learned about primary directions:

Astrological Predictive Techniques | Primary Directions | 1. Ascensions and Bounds - Seven Stars Astrology

A tutorial in the early use of primary directions. Primary directions are a celebrated predictive technique of traditional astrology. Their

The Seven Stars Astrology blog was my introduction to every predictive technique and I still go back to it. He also talks about how with primary direction you can find chronocrators in the distributions through egyptian bounds. This is a very important time lord technique, because it's about the progression of the ascendant through your life. You might be an Aries rising and ruled by Mars, but you can distribute the years of your life to different timelords. Donald Trump, for example, was born with a Leo rising at 29° in the (egyptian) terms of Mars, but when he was 1 month old the ascendant was directed to Virgo in the terms of Mercury. In 1973 it got to the terms of Mars again (in Virgo) and stayed until 1981. Next time it would be in the terms of Mars again would be in the final degrees of Libra, and that happened in december 2019. His rising changed to Scorpio in 2022, but it's still in the terms of Mars until 2031. Mars is a pretty difficult planet in his chart and that's why since 2020 he hasn't been doing good, politically or personally. For public figures like him it's interesting to see how everything coincides in mundane astrology as well. I made a post about this year's usamerican elections where I said Mars is this year's ruler for the USA, that means whenever something important happens to Mars we're going to see drama in the USA, but also with public figures that are ruled by Mars now. The attack he had last month happened during an important Mars square.