Timing Techniques

Timing techniques in natal astrology are such a fascinating bit of magic.

Rationally, a natal chart may seem arbitrary, but as a katarchic moment of examining the omen that is a person’s life, it’s a sensible choice.

Timing techniques are even more abstract, though.

The various timing techniques employ internally consistent methods of moving the chart to compare some future position to the original, or to see how the original changes over time.

You use these to find out what happens later, or how the native should face later developments.

The methods are sensible to someone comfortable doing astrology, because that gets you used to doing such things.

They’re also easy ENOUGH to explain to a client, because it’s not helpful to them if they can’t grasp what the astrologer is doing.

But they aren’t OBVIOUS.

It’s not like they follow laws of PHYSICS of how TIME works. They are mechanical innovations based on the abstractions imposed by astrology.

[To me, the most “real”-feeling one is secondary progression, which treats the days after birth like a fractal preview of the life.]

So how do timing techniques work?

[And they DO WORK. Of all the freakydeaky things you can do with astrology, this is the freakydeakiest part.]

I figure it’s the same as the birth chart itself. The divinatory technique provides the diviner the CONFIDENCE to call in the omen.

Timing techniques, their internal consistency, and their deep integration with root significations of the nativity, allow the astrologer to CONFIDENTLY MANEUVER the astrological omen through time.

With this confidence, the astrologer can just report what they see, as always.