Astrology as a Business
geographic places and world events) and what I call the
Local Space Chart—a snapshot that combines the earth
and the planets in a very local sense, in the space
surrounding your birth.
Transits, Directions, and Progressions
Our natal chart is a snapshot of ourselves at birth, at the
beginning. Once we learn something about our natal
chart, we want to keep it updated. The planets keep
moving after our birth, and astrologers like to know how
this onward movement relates to the natal chart. How
does astrology affect us today? To do this, astrologers
employ a variety of techniques (chiefly transits,
directions, and progressions) to chart what is happening
in the sky now (at this time) and compare it to our natal
positions.
There are many other astrological techniques, and
these will be detailed in another section, but the natal
charts, and some form of ongoing analysis of planetary
movement, are the two major techniques that almost all
astrologers use on a regular basis.