{"id":44421,"date":"2022-04-22T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrostyle.com\/?post_type=as_learn_article&p=44421"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:06:00","slug":"progressed-chart","status":"publish","type":"as_learn_article","link":"https:\/\/astrostyle.com\/astrology\/progressed-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressed Chart in Astrology, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The progressed chart in astrology shows where are you on your soul\u2019s journey. It answers: how are you transforming with each year? Secondary progressions\u2014also called a progressed chart\u2014map your personal evolution over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is a journey and astrology operates the same way. Though each of us is born with planets in a fixed birth chart, we are shaped by outside influences like our environments, family structures, experiences and so on. The progressed chart is one way of tracking your cosmic evolution over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the difference between my birth chart and my progressed chart in astrology?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Think of the birth (natal) chart<\/a> as your factory settings. This is the \u201cfresh out of the box\u201d model of you, and reveals your fundamental nature. The progressed chart maps your system upgrades. You wouldn\u2019t run an old Windows or IOS when a far more advanced software was available, right? The progressed chart keeps you updated over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How do I calculate my progressed chart?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A progressed chart in astrology is calculated according to the \u201cday per year\u201d system. In other words, one year of life translates into one day on the ephemeris. You can run a progressed chart using this calculator below, but we will explain how it works using an \u201cold school\u201d ephemeris\u2014the essential map for every astrogeek!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show me this ephemeris thing\u2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Like we said, in a progressed chart in astrology, each day counts for a year of your life. Said another way, where the planets were on your first day<\/em> of life is where they are in year <\/em>one of your progressed chart. Stay with us here\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s use our birthday of December 2, 1972 as an example. If we wanted to see our secondary progressions at age 3, we\u2019d pull up a 1972 ephemeris<\/a> and count three days from our birthday to December 5, 1972.  We love the Swiss ephemeris that\u2019s available for free at astro.com. Have your pick of 9000 years of them right here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sample from an ephemeris to show how to calculate a progressed chart in astrology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The only change here? On December 2, our birthday, the moon was in Scorpio. On December 5, the moon has moved into Sagittarius. Thus, at age 3, we had a change to our progressed moon. Sounds minor, but it\u2019s not!  The progressed moon is incredibly fundamental to casting these types of charts\u2026more on that shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading into the progressed chart in astrology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough, it was at age 3 that our parents left the comfort of our grandparents\u2019 home and moved the family into a house of our own. This felt like an abrupt and unsettling change\u2014and was particularly stressful for our Sagittarius father. The Scorpionic security was replaced with a new sense of Sagittarian independence. We also began reading that year, which is in alignment with the bookish way of Sagittarius. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At age 5 (December 7, 1972) our progressed moon was still in Sagittarius. That year, our obsession was memorizing state capitols and countries across the world \u2014 instead of puppy and kitten posters, we had a giant map hanging on our bedroom wall! Hello, globetrotting Sag progressed moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then what do you do with a progressed chart?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Now, let\u2019s jump ahead a few decades. In 2014, we turned 42. To find our current progressed chart we count 42 days from our birthday which takes us all the way to January 14, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further explanation of the progressed chart in astrology using an ephemeris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 All of the inner planets<\/a> (the planets before Jupiter) have progressed to new signs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n