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How to Calculate
Progressed Angles
POSTED BY FORREST ASTROLOGY · MARCH 14, 2016

THE PROBLEM CALCULATING PROGRESSED

ANGLES
by Steven Forrest

How to progress the four angles? The question is difficult and in all
honesty it lies on the far side of my own understanding of astrology’s
various spherical coordinate systems.
All the systems I know are based on progressing the Midheaven—
somehow—then deriving the current Ascendant based on the
latitude of the birth place.

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We can progress the MC by Solar Arc. In this method, see how far
the Sun has progressed by standard “secondary progression”
methods and then add that same number of degrees to the
Midheaven. This is based on the familiar day-for-year method of
progression. If the Sun has progressed 20° since you were born and
your natal Midheaven is at 5° Aries then your progressed MC is
currently passing through 25° Aries (5° + 20° = 25°).

We can also use the Naibod method of progressing the Midheaven.

This is very similar, except that instead of using the actual daily
motion of the Sun, we use its average daily motion, which is 59’08"—
a little less than one degree.

Solar Arc and Naibod produce very nearly identical results.

When we say “progressions” with the planets we mean

“secondary progressions.” Method: if you are forty years old, look
in the ephemeris for the year you were born, and count forty days
ahead from your birthday. The positions of the planets on that day
are your current progressed positions. But how can we apply that
idea to the four Angles?

Each day, the Ascendant passes through the complete 360° of the

Zodiac. Every sign rises once every day, in other words. So
technically, by this method of progression, each year would see the
four Angles make a complete circuit of your chart. This is actually a
legitimate method of calculating progressions. It is called Daily
Houses. But these Angles have a quick, triggering effect, like the
transits of the inner planets. We tend not to use them in more
evolutionary, thematic kinds of astrology.

Matrix Winstar software has a method of progressing the Angles

which they call "Secondary MC." I’ve used it with good results over
the years, although Naibod/Solar Arc works well too. I asked Stephen
Erlewine how these Matrix calculations were made. He told me, “The
first attempt was to duplicate what most astrologers were doing by
hand at that time, and we call it Secondary MC. The sun’s position is
calculated for the progressed date using one-day-equals 365.25 days,
then the solar arc is calculated from that position and that arc is
added to the natal MC and the houses derived. But instead of using
the arc along the ecliptic as in the solar arc method, it is added along
the equator since that more closely approximates the Midheaven
that our customers were used to using, and, of course, the right
ascension of the Midheaven is the basis of any house system.” See
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ascension of the Midheaven is the basis of any house system. See
below for some definitions.

Astrology, as we
practice it, is based on
the familiar Ecliptic—
the twelve signs,
defined by the
Equinoxes and the
Solstices. You can also
project earth’s Equator
out onto space, and
derive the Celestial
Equator that way.
Declination then
corresponds to latitude
on Earth and Right Ascension (to which Stephen referred) to
longitude. As we calculate longitude on earth based on the
Greenwich meridian near London, we call the point of the Vernal
Equinox  0° of Right Ascension.

Progressing the four Angles is obviously fairly technical territory. 

Further complicating the picture, some astrologers progress the MC
by Naibod or by Solar Arc, but along the axis of Right Ascension
rather than along the Ecliptic. There are, in other words, a great
variety of methods for progressings the four Angles. As with all things
in astrology, the proof of the pudding is the correspondence of any of
these techniques with your own experience.

HOW TO CALCULATE THE PROGRESSED

ANGLES
WINSTAR
In Winstar extended options, click the drop down arrow next to the
second chart field. Then select Secondary Charts > Progressed Chart.
Under progression method select "Secondary." Under Progressed
Angles select "Secondary MC."

SOLAR FIRE
Go to Preferences > Edit Settings. Select the Progs/Dirns tab. Under
Chart Angle Progression select SA in Long.

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Manoff Rick
Progressing the MC by solar arc can be done by solar longitude OR by
declination (the later is less popular but liked by many siderealists)
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Laura Stanasila
Solar Fire also offers the option Mean Quotidian, what is this?
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Tony Howard
Hi Laura. Steven uses the Tropical Zodiac exclusively. Here's a
description from the Winstar help files (you might search for
something similar in Solar Fire):

Quotidians are sidereal techniques and require that the natal f

which they are ordered has been calculated in the sidereal zod
Quotidian #1 is a secondary progressed chart calculated for th
sidereal day (366.242 days per year) in the sidereal zodiac.
Quotidian #2 differs in that the chart is computed using a tropic
day (365.242 days per year) in the sidereal zodiac.
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Laura Stanasila
Does astro.com have a different calculation method? Thier results don'
match Solar fire's, neither SA in longitude nor SA in RA
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Tony Howard
Hi Laura. I'm afraid we don't use Astro.com so can't speak to t
differences. You might send them an email with your question
see if they get back to you. My guess is that their default settin
different than your Solar Fire preferences.
Like · Reply · 2y

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