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with your mother). All of these possibilities exist simultaneously, and it’s not possible to know if or when any of the waveforms will collapse and become a reality.
However, if you consider the bigger picture and take into account multiple triggers and multiple waveforms, you can get a more accurate view of the context. Repeated triggers group the di erent waveforms and limit the range of possibilities. Your current reality focuses the options even more. If you don’t have any children, a trigger to the Fifth House would have to relate to something else, such as gambling or love a airs. If you’re working overtime hoping to get a promotion at work, a Tenth House trigger will probably show up in the context of your career, rather than in the context of your relationship with your mother. You still can’t predict a future event with certainty, but you can consider the context and make an educated guess.
You can also identify future “hot spots” — periods of time when multiple triggers and the Rule of ree suggest events are more likely to happen.
Solar Returns are a hybrid between single-chart and multiple chart interpretations.
of any signi cant event seen in the solar return must also exist in the natal chart.
For the best results, combine multiple tools and use the Rule of
Three.
Not every predictive tool works well together. My current interest has been predicting events, and I’ve been working with primary directions, solar returns with annual
profections, and transits.
I eventually gured out William
Lilly’s guidelines for primary directions, and was able to create keywords and blueprint templates that allow me (and my students) to work with primary directions in a
practical manner. Primarydirections establish a context
that lasts for about two years. While a primary direction is in orb, I consider that both planets
On the one hand, the solar return chart is an independent chart, with a limited scope. e events and energies contained in the solar return will
unfold over a single year. On the “A debilitated planet in a other hand, you can’t interpret a
solar return chart in the way that
you would interpret a horary or event chart. e context of the natal chart shapes the interpretation of the solar return.
A debilitated planet in a solar
return chart is only a challenge
for the year if the planet in the
return chart is signi cantly more
debilitated than the corresponding
planet in the natal chart. If you
have Mercury retrograde in your natal chart, retrograde Mercury in a solar return isn’t cause for concern. And Principle One still applies: the potential
solar return chart is only a
challenge for the year if the
planet in the return chart is
significantly more debilitated
than the corresponding planet are in the spotlight
in the natal chart.”
individually, and any trigger by transit or in a solar return that
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especially signi cant.
both planets will be