Phase-angle return charts – show when free-will (spatial hologram) re-syncs with fate

(time-cycle).

• the celestial conditions at the time of a phase-angle return show how free will has
aligned with Higher Self, and what the soul must do to receive its restoration
through the divine rays of the Sun. the returns are “an opportunity for aligning
one’s soul with Higher Self through the mechanism of free will,” contrasting them
with ordinary transits, which “show how fate is administered.”

• When the Sun-planet distance in the sky exactly matches the natal distance-arc, the
hologram (your built-in Sun–planet pattern) is re-imprinted. Blaschke likens it to a
laser restoring a 3-D image: the pattern is briefly coherent again, so you can rewrite
or refine it before it fragments into daily living.

• Free will isn’t absent the rest of the time—it’s just louder and clearer here. Think of it
as perfect reception on a radio: your personal signal isn’t drowned out by static, so
it’s easier to set intentions, break habits, or make decisions that stick.

• Length of the “window”: He works with the exact hit plus a few hours on either
side (for inner planets he sometimes extends it to a full day; for outer-planet
returns, practitioners often use a 24- to 48-hour orb). You can feel a build-up
beforehand, but the snap of clarity usually comes within minutes of the exact aspect.

• Blaschke encourages clients to meditate, journal, pray, set goals, initiate rituals, or
simply choose differently during the return. Because fate-driven transits are still
operating, aligning your will at the phase-angle moment can modulate how those
fated circumstances play out.

• The new pattern crystallises over the remainder of the planet’s synodic cycle (e.g., a
Sun-Mars choice plays out over ~25 months). Checking the next return chart shows
whether you’ve used the window well—Saturn and Pluto returns are especially
revealing of the karmic result

Soul-Group purpose – Read Sabian or La Volasfera symbols for the conjunction degrees
above; they describe the soul-group project you incarnated into.

Pre-natal synodic-cycle chart:

Blaschke treats the houses of the pre-natal synodic-cycle chart as a second layer of
meaning, and he singles out any natal planet (especially the Sun) that falls into one of
those houses as a personal conduit for the group hologram.

When a natal body is found in an angular house of the synodic chart it becomes a primary
actor in implementing that hologram; in a succedent house it stabilises and resources the
mission; in a cadent house it serves an educational or distributing role.

• Look at which of the four house types your natal planet occupies to see how you’ll
express the pattern

The natal Sun in the synodic chart shows the area of life where one’s conscious will and
identity become the torch-bearer for that collective purpose.

• Wherever your Sun lands, you personally spotlight and energise the quest that the
conjunction represents.

Cadent placements act as the schoolroom for the hologram, requiring constant learning,
travel or dissemination of information.

• A cadent-house Sun means ‘learn, teach, translate, publish’ is your way of carrying
the flame.

Blaschke treats two separate Sun placements in every pre-natal synodic-cycle chart, and
he considers both of them significant but for different reasons:

• The house of the Sun in the prenatal conjunction chart (sits in the same house
as the planet it conjoins) is the workshop where the collective hologram must find
tangible expression.”

• Your own natal Sun, plotted inside that same chart (overlay of your natal planets
on the pre-natal chart) - house it falls in shows the arena in which the individual self
becomes the torch-bearer for that hologram—angular to drive it, succedent to
resource it, cadent to teach or distribute it.

Chart you’re Why the Ascendant Where he says it

looking at matters

Phase-angle The rising degree describes “The rising degree in the phase-
return chart (the “the conditions of that angle return chart, cast for one’s
chart you cast for particular personal synodic place of residence, provides insight
the exact moment cycle” and colours how you into the conditions of that particular
the Sun–planet arc will live the choices you personal synodic cycle.”
repeats) make during that cycle.
 Pre-natal Plotting the conjunction “The astrologer wishing to
synodic-cycle chart for your birthplace personalize the collective influence
chart (the Sun– personalizes an otherwise of the pre-natal synodic cycle’s
planet conjunction collective imprint; its conjunction… need only cast the
just before birth) Ascendant gives symbolic chart for the location of birth. In this
clues to how that soul-group way, the personal symbolism for the
purpose will play out for degree of the Ascendant can be
you. shared with the client.”

Putting it together for your work

1. When you study a phase-angle return, read its Ascendant first: it sets the “mood”
and house emphasis for that ~year-long cycle.

2. When you explore each pre-natal conjunction (your nine holograms), cast those
conjunction charts for Manhattan. The rising symbols there show your personal
doorway into the broader soul-group mission attached to each hologram.

“must-see data” in a phase-angle-return chart, after you’ve clocked the Ascendant:

What to check Why it matters Where he says it

Degree of the Gives “the keynote of the “Pay special attention to the
Midheaven (MC) and entire synodic year,” degree of the MC and its
its degree symbol especially for outer-planet symbols.”
returns. He reads the Sabian /
La Volasfera image for
guidance.

House placement of Shows the life-areas where Same line as above

the Sun and the the free-will choice will unfold.
hologram planet

Planets or Nodes on A planet hitting an angle (or “An angle in a degree of an

angles, especially if an angle sitting on an upcoming station, or a
they’re stationary or upcoming station degree) acts stationary planet in the chart
about to station like a klaxon: “critical turning- are also critical factors.”
point incoming.”
Tight aspects or They describe the inner Example analysis of a Mars T-
configurations inside “pressure system” that your Cross
the return (T-squares, free-will decision has to
Yods, Grand Crosses, navigate. Blaschke
etc.) demonstrates by dissecting
the exact T-Cross in his own
Sun-Mars return.

Synastry links Exact contacts show how the “Overlaying these holographic
between the return universal force of the transits into the houses of the
and your natal / hologram “plugs into” your nativity … some very exact
progressed charts existing soul structure. aspects are formed.”

Synastry to charts of Reveals which relationships “The synastry between these

key people (partners, will carry (or test) the lesson phase angle return charts and
children, business, during the cycle. the important people in one’s
nation, etc.) life reveals the contribution of
others to one’s soul growth.”

Degree of the Acts like a “thought-seed” for “The Zodiac degree of Mercury
hologram planet the whole cycle; he always at the time of the phase angle
itself (especially reads its symbol aloud to return is highly significant.”
Mercury in Sun-Mercury clients.
returns)

Lunar Nodes’ Nodes in the return often form Cardinal Grand Cross example
positions and exact crosses or conjunctions with Nodes
contacts to natal axes—Blaschke treats
these as karmic traffic-lights.

Supporting Moon- These “digest” the larger Sun- “This supporting role of the
planet phase-angle planet decision and give Moon gives the astrologer
returns (monthly) interim checkpoints; he incremental dates … lunar
calculates them for every long holograms that occur on a
cycle. monthly basis will show when
that particular holographic
cycle will be digested.”