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increase in wealth only brings a proportional increase in wealth. If you have the potential to be exceptionally rich, you might win the lottery. But if you have a more modest nancial destiny, you might just nd $20 on the street.
Andyoumightnotexperienceanactualevent.AsPrincipleTwoexplains, that nancial gain trigger might just create a feeling of prosperity without a ecting your bank balance.
Principle Two: We experience every trigger, but not every experience is an event.
You experience every trigger to your natal chart, although you may not be conscious of all of them. e faster-moving planets may cause changes in your
planet is receiving three or more simultaneoustriggers,itwillprobably coincide with an event.
Over the years, I’ve discovered many applications of e Rule of ree. I don’t expect it to always correspond to events, but I nd that it always points to something signi cant. It’s an excellent tool to separate out the signal from the
noise.
mood. e slower-moving planets shift your focus and attention more gradually, and for extended periods of time. You notice them when they’re new, but after a while, they become background noise.
A Saturn transit might create three or four months of increased responsibility and longer hours at work. A Neptune or Jupiter transit might awaken an interest in spirituality or religion. And a transiting Mars-Saturn conjunction might made for a week of intense pressure and frustration, as you feel the need to take action, and yet you are blocked at every turn. But you can have an inner experience of an astrological trigger without an external event.
Events are signi cant; they’re impossible to miss, somewhat rare, and have an impact on the course of your life. Most importantly, though, as stated in Principle One, the potential of the events must exist in your natal chart. If it’s not in the natal chart, it won’t ever happen.
“A trigger that
suggests an increase
in wealth only brings a proportional increase in wealth. If you have
a modest financial destiny, you might just find $20 on the street.”
But even if the potential of an event exists, and that potential is being triggered, it still may not result in an event. is is addressed in Principle ree.
Principle Three: It takes more than a single trigger to activate the potential of the natal chart and create an event.
Many years ago, I took a predictive astrology survey course taught by Jim Shawvan, one of the most talented predictive astrologers I’ve ever met. Jim always used e Rule of ree when looking for future events. If a single
Armed with these principles, I launched the rst Online Predictive Astrology Class. e principles themselves are sound. I got into trouble because I, like most astrologers, thought transits mattered far more than they
actually do.
at was my next big mistake.
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