Prog lunar return

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Thanks Bob,

What could be simpler? ;-) I'm looking forward to seeing more of your

best examples. This could indeed be a useful tool in our box of

techniques. Leave them in the sidereal zodiac for us though, OK?

Wayne

, " jan61108 " <jan61108> wrote:

> , Juan Oliver <jivio> wrote:

> > Bob..

> >

> > ...

> > > >

> > > I use the Fagan-Bradley references.

> >

> > I'm glad all of their methods aren't discarded...

> >

> > >...

>

> While searching for information regarding a question posed in

another

> club to which I belong I came across the following in the reprint

of

> the Solunars series by Cyril Fagan. It is on page 27 in the April

> 1979 issue of American Astrology magazine.

>

> " If the solar and lunar returns could be

> progressed then it would be possible to

> foretell events, not only for every day in

> the year, but in the case of the lunar

> return for every hour of the day. But

> unfortunately the astronomical problems

> nvolved are of such a technical nature as

> to be beyond the ken of most students of

> astrology, involving as they do--in the

> case of the lunar return--practical know-

> ledge of the Lunar Therom and necessitating

> the use of cumbersome tables, only within

> reach of computative astronomers.

>

> ...But until this is achieved, I CANNOT DO

> BETTER than to introduce a makeshift method,

> HAVING NO PRETENSE TO ASTRONOMICAL JUSTIFI-

> CATION, invented by Donald A Bradley, a

> mathematical expert on positional astronomy.

>

> Bradley's method, which is extremely simple,

> may be expressed as follows: ADD THE DIFFERENCE

> IN RIGHT ASCENSION BETWEEN THE TRANSITTING AND

> RADICAL MOON TO THE RIGHT ASCENSION OF THE

> MIDHEAVEN OF THE LUNAR RETURN AND THE SUM WILL

> BE THE RIGHT ASCENSION OF THE PROGRESSED LUNAR

> RETURN. "

>

> My collection of American Astrology began in 1972, nowhere else did

I

> see reference to, or ever use of, this method regarding progressing

> the lunar return, not even in Bradley's own " Solar and Lunar

Returns " .

> I have been using the method since 1975. Call it what you will, I

> call it independent discovery on my part, and am indeed proud to

have

> had this train of thought in line with someone of the stature of

Mr.

> Bradley.

>

> Bob