Accuracy in Prediction:
by Noel Tyl
The prediction technique of solar arcs is resourceful
and powerful. It is based on concepts of primary directions formulated by
Ptolemy early in the second century, but this technique, refined over
centuries, is much simpler. The system of solar arcs takes prediction
potentials well beyond the main limitation of secondary progressions, i.e., the
minimal progressed movement of the planets beyond Mars.
The Principle of
Solar Arcs
There
are two principles in solar arc interpretation. The first is to personalize the
general degree-for-a-year (i.e., day-for-a-year) symbolism that is the backbone
of secondary progressions (and which intrigued European astrologers for
hundreds of years, especially since the late sixteenth century). The second is
to use that symbolism throughout the entire natal horoscope.
The
ultimate refinement of the system as we know it today uses the exact arc of the
Sun from the birth position to the secondary progressed position in the
birthday month of any given year of life and applies it to every planet, the
ascendant, midheaven, and lunar nodal axis in the birth horoscope. A new,
thoroughly dynamic progressed horoscope is created!
The Exact,
Personalized Solar Arc
Using
the secondary progressed Sun position as the benchmark focus for a symbolic
projection into the future allows this prediction system to capture and use the
individual's actual rate of natal Sun motion, as opposed to using a one-degree
projection or an average (Naibod) for all horoscopes regardless of whether the
natal Sun's motion is in fact fast (a winter birth) or slow (a summer birth).
The
"magic" of the system takes place when this exact, personalized solar
arc increment is added to the position of every natal significator; the natal
horoscope is uniformly progressed in terms of the symbolically developing Sun,
and new, telling aspects are formed between the solar arc positions and the
natal positions (the planets and the angles).
What the Computer
Program Does
The
computer does all the computations, of course, but the Matrix Solar Arc
Prediction Package also annotates
every direct solar arc (solar arc planet in relation to natal angle or other
planet or solar arc angle to natal angle) and every midpoint picture occurring
in any horoscope at any time in the past or future!
The
measurements are made precisely, and a text-image of what the arc-picture
suggests is presented in the printout. It is as easy as reading the newspaper
to see, literally, years at a glance, punctuated by the arcs of major change
and the behavioral nuance before and after. So quickly, the power of solar arcs
is personalized and translated into modern behavioral potentials.
The
computer program gives a monthly reference for all relevant predictive arcs.
The Square-Family
Aspects
Solar
arc theory only uses aspects within the square family: the conjunction,
semisquare, square, sesquiquadrate, and opposition. The theory is that squares
(and all related aspects) "make things happen" while other aspects
keep things as they are. The relationship of solar arc planets to natal planets
and angles is not necessarily defined in terms of the quality of aspect
(although conjunction, opposition, and square seem stronger than semisquare and
sesquiquadrate); it is the contact that is important, and this contact is
expressed in terms of a simple equation. For example: SA Â=«.
This particular equation means that solar arc Uranus forms a square-family
aspect with natal Mars, which suggests the sudden application of great energy,
the exercising of dominant will; a disruption through feud or combat; an
accident. The interpretation has to be adjusted to fit the individual's reality
situation at the time of the occurrence.
Solar
arc theory also extends to solar arc aspects with midpoints between planets;
858 are possible! For example: SA Û=¤/è, which means that solar arc Saturn is conjunct,
semisquare, square, sesquiquadrate, or opposed the natal Venus-Pluto midpoint
(whatever the distance between those planets may be). This aspect suggests the
fear of losing love, and during the month of the occurrence there is a sense of
the tragedy that is possible.
Another
example: SA £=¦/©. This is solar arc Mercury forming a square-family
aspect with the midpoint of Jupiter and Neptune in the natal chart, which
suggests an active imagination, learning to communicate fancifully;
visualization; changing character; inspiration.
Direct
Solar Arcs dominate; the "heavier" planetary equations are the more
significant; and all solar arc projections must be framed within the
individual's reality situation and potentials.
Arc, Transits, and
"Time Orbs"
Arcs
become background blueprints of developmental growth. Transits then become the
accents that "set off" the potentials of the developing horoscope at
any given period of time. For example, transits of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and
Pluto define large periods of time, focused on particular concerns suggested by
their slow passage through any given house. When an aspect
"connection" is made with natal planets in the given house or elsewhere,
the structure of life is affected in terms of that given house and the house
ruled by the transiting planet.
These
effects synchronize with solar arc development, often amazingly. There may be
four or more solar arc "pictures" coming into focus within a four-month
span of life time, and two major transits click into the sequence, timing and
specifying the potential occurrence or reaction in life.
Margaret
Thatcher, for example, had SA Û=å in June 1990, certainly a signal for career
attention during that period. Then, five months later: SA «=è/, upset and change; and then, in January 1991: SA Û=¢, certainly suggesting a major professional change
and tension with one's "place in the Sun."
These
very strong background solar arcs cast a Time Orb over a period of some seven
months. Transiting Pluto became the slow trigger, stationary on Thatcher's
ascendant for a month in July 1990 at the beginning of the solar arc Time Orb
period. Other transits started to come into play; the die was cast; reality was
alerted to the potential for change; Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of
England; history continued. Solar arcs and transits had measured the entire
process eloquently and, indeed, also gave testimony of Thatcher's future beyond
her resignation. Arcs never stop forming!
Getting the
"Feel" for Solar Arcs
Let's
say you have a strong planet in a cadent house (12th, 3rd, 6th, or 9th),
heading for an angle (counterclockwise, of course). Count the degree-distance
that planet has to go to cross that next angle. As a generalization, let the
number of degrees be "years" of your life and take into account in a
general way the number of minutes of distance, with five minutes of arc
equaling one month of time. Think of what occurred in your life at that time of
angle-conjunction and relate it to the nature of the arcing planet, the angle,
and the house ruled by the arcing planet.
If
you were very young, still living through your parents' lives, perhaps there
were important changes in family life due to changes in their lives, or nothing
at all. If you were out on your own, you should be able to zero in on major
developments in your process of becoming.
The Outer Planets
Arcing
Pluto
arcing to conjunction with an angle will be most powerful: a tremendous
adjustment of life perspective. Neptune arcs to angles will often correspond
with a loss of ego definition, impressionability, and wandering off the track.
With Uranus, sudden fractious change; with Saturn, a maturation through change
under pressure for strategic growth.
At
the midheaven, a job can be at issue or, for a youngster, certainly something
that affects the family through one of the parents. At the seventh cusp,
relationships take on dramatic emphasis for adults or, again for the young,
through the parents' jobs, since the seventh cusp is the midheaven of the
parent in the 10th house. At the fourth cusp, there is undeniably a whole new
beginning. At the ascendant, there usually is a personal challenge to stand up
and be counted in some way that undeniably touches the rest of life.
Planet-to-Planet
Arcs
A
second projection possibility is to advance any planet into a powerful new
relationship with a natal planet, again counting the degrees/minutes of
distance and calling them years, as a general time approximation. For example,
Sun arcing to conjunction with Venus or Venus arcing to conjunction with the
Sun: If this arc occurred in early adult years, it usually corresponds to a
time of romance, marriage, or a birth. The square, opposition, or conjunction
between solar arc Pluto and natal Saturn, or solar arc Saturn to natal Pluto,
usually marks a period of painful loss, of losing prior to renewal (a most
difficult time). The house ruled by the arcing planet most often fills out the
interpretation.
Summer and Winter
Births
When
using the degree-for-a-year generalization, summer births will require (over a
span of about 30 years of life) about one more year of life to complete the arc
symbolism than the number of degrees measured to form the solar arc aspect.
Winter births will be right on the money!
But
don't be concerned with these technicalities: The Matrix Solar Arc
Prediction Package takes care of the
measurements. Then, working with Tyl's images, you can take your clients into
the future!
About Noel Tyl's
Book
Prediction
in Astrology has been called
"the most complete presentation of solar arc theory and practice ever
written in English." It can be purchased from Llewellyn Publications by
calling 1-800-THE MOON.
Solar
arcs are taught extensively in Europe. This predictive method has not had full
exposure by any means in the United States. Noel Tyl, the prominent American
astrologer, has been deeply involved with astrological teaching on both
continents for some 20 years and, in his latest book, Prediction in
Astrology (Llewellyn
Publications), he has provided astrologers the most complete presentation of
solar arc theory and practice ever written in English.
Tyl's
book and his lectures show how simple and yet how dramatic solar arcs are, and
Tyl shows how interpretations are derived. Basically, the sense of the planets
brought together in square-family aspects by solar arc projection is the same
as those same planets making aspects with each other by transit. Within
midpoint pictures, of course, the synthesis involves three points of reference.
While there are many nuances in such dynamic interaction, the relationships are
ever so clear in interpretation. Full details of the entire subject of solar
arcs are presented in Tyl's Prediction in Astrology, and his interpretive images for all possible solar
arcs (based on the formative work with solar arcs done some 50 years ago by
Rheinhold Ebertin) are presented in the Matrix Solar Arc Prediction Package.
In
this day and age, in any astrological interpretive or systemic discussion, we
must always acknowledge the computer, what it can do accurately, time after
time after time: it gives results. The rest of the job is up to the astrologer.
The Matrix Solar Arc Prediction Package takes Noel Tyl's interpretive work and presents the results to you for
your study and application. The interpretations will be instantly clear to you;
the words used in the interpretive images are modern and to the point, backed
up by Tyl's vast experience; and the power of solar arcs as a predictive
technique is yours at the press of a button!
Solar Arc
Pictures for Martha Stewart Jan
01, 2005 to Jan 01, 2007
Aug 03, 1941 01:33:00 PM EDT
074W04'41" 40N43'41"
2005 Jan 03 Ma
Sqr Me/As Negotiating
with others; deciding on the best course of action in collaboration with
advisors.
2005 Jan 17 Su
Ssq Ju/As Pleasantness
with others; enthusiasm brought to the fore.
2005 Feb 11 Ve
Ssq Ne Love
in a swoon; erotic imaginings; artistic ideas.
2005 Mar 20 Pl Sqq
Mo/Ma Powerful
opinionation; demanding nature.
2005 Mar 21 Ne Sqr
Ju/As Living
with hope and speculation; dreaming; projecting the niceness of things; not
admitting the adverse.
2005 Apr 15 Ve Sqr
Su Idealization
of outlook; feeling love; the artistic "touch."
2005 May 14 Mo Sqr Sa Awareness
of ambition, strategy, direction.
2005 May 15 Ma Ssq Su/Me Excitement;
nervous drive; energies to tackle a project; possible quarrelsomeness.
2005 May 30 Pl Sqr Ma/Ne Apparently
irresponsible attitude; selfish pursuit of one's objectives; devil-may-care
attitude.
2005 Jul 13 As
Sqq Sa One's
position of maturity, wisdom, control, and patience is shown openly.
2005 Jul 24 Ur
Ssq Ve/No Intense,
sudden attraction to someone; quick liaison; making friends with someone out of
the ordinary.
2005 Jul 31 Ne
Sqq Su/Ju Increased
sensitivity; the sense of things spiritual; loss of concentrated orientation.
2005 Aug 09 Mo Opp
Ju/As Largesse,
kindness; a happy time.
2005 Sep 07 Ju
Ssq Ur/Pl Enormous
success potential.
2005 Sep 09 Ve
Sqq Me/Sa Frustration
in romance; fickleness; needing reassurance.
2005 Sep 16 Mc
Sqq Me/Ma Bravura;
the champion salesperson; ready to win the fight.
2005 Sep 17 Ve
Sqr Pl/Mc Attractiveness;
emotional charisma; appearing sexy.
2005 Oct 18 Me
Sqr Ve/Ma Physicality,
love, and togetherness influencing the mental outlook; writing about love.
2005 Nov 14 Ur Sqr
Mo/Ve Sudden
romantic feelings and attachments; intensification of sexuality.
2005 Nov 25 Mc Sqq
Ju/Sa The
philosopher; thinking with grandeur.
2005 Dec 19 Mo Sqq
Su/Ju The
feeling of needs fulfilled; good health; fine relationship.
2005 Dec 19 Sa Cnj
Me/Pl Insistence
of a point of view; unrelenting demands; driven by fear of failure; needing
control.
2005 Dec 19 Ju Cnj
Me/Ve Expansive
idealization; perhaps religiousness; aesthetics; publishing; artistic
achievement.
2005 Dec 25 No Opp
Sa Meetings
of a serious nature; a lonely position.
2006 Jan 03 Sa
Ssq Ju Control
tempers zeal; opportunities are carefully evaluated; success takes on long term
security; one has "made it happen"; strategy.
2006 Jan 24 Ur
Ssq Ve/Ne Intensified
fantasy setting up impractical expectations; going too far; susceptibility to
exploitation through ego aggrandizement.
2006 Jan 24 Ur
Ssq Ma/Mc The
big push; the quick advance; winning right away; rashness; argumentative;
inflamed.
2006 Feb 16 Su
Sqq Sa/Ur Tendency
to rebel; egocentric drive against controls; separations in order to find one's
way.
2006 Feb 17 As
Opp Su/Ju Great
enthusiasm; infectious happiness; successful teamwork.
2006 Mar 23 No Sqr
Ju/As Needing
to be with other people for their support and appreciation of who one is.
2006 Apr 20 Ne Opp
Sa/Ur Break
down under emotional pressure; new vision fighting to be understood; sadness;
feeling lost.
2006 Apr 24 Ma Ssq
Pl Extreme
force; persuasion; control; brutality; excessive effort.
2006 Jun 07 Ur
Ssq Me/As Impetuous
opinionation can irk others; being critical.
2006 Jun 08 Su
Ssq Ve/Mc Being
very strongly aware of oneself; confident sense of attractiveness; success.
2006 Aug 01 No Sqq
Su/Ju Meeting
happy/wealthy/successful people; new plans with others that feel "bound to
succeed."
2006 Aug 09 Ne Sqr
Ve/Mc Imagination;
artistic achievement; losing touch with the most satisfactory ways of relating
and loving.
2006 Sep 08 Mo
Sqr Sa/Ur Emotional
courage emerges under duress; changes for freedom.
2006 Oct 16 Ur
Cnj Su/Me High
excitability in the nervous system and thinking process; sudden eruptions of
temperament; quick trips; new circumstances.
2006 Nov 07 As Sqq
Sa/Ur The
loner's position is established; indecision.
2006 Dec 28 Mo Opp
Ve/Mc Feelings
about romance; relating to others deeply; being valued for one's work;
recognition for a job well done.