Annual Profections
Annual profections is the name given to the most widespread 'time-lord' technique that was used by almost every major astrologer in the Hellenistic tradition.
The premise of the Hellenistic time-lord techniques is that not all planets and placements in a given natal chart are operating at their fullest potential at any given moment in time, but rather, there are specific periods in a native's life when certain planets or points in the chart become 'awakened' or 'activated', thus drawing out the full potential of those natal placements. From a Hellenistic perspective this is the reason why sometimes astrologers will see an important looking transit coming up in the future, but then the date will go by without anything major happening, or with the event happening in a way that is much different than what was anticipated. In order for a transiting planet to produce a specific event or occurence in a person's life, it must be activated as a time-lord at the time of the transit.
The annual profections time-lord technique is used in order to determine exactly when certain planets will be activated in a native's life in a given year, thus allowing the astrologer to pinpoint the most important transits that will actually coincide with an event. Annual profections also provide the context for interpreting transits, in order to determine which area of the native's life a specific transit will be relevant towards (i.e. finances, children, career, relationships, etc.). For example, with this information the astrologer is more fully equipped to be able to say whether an upcoming Venus retrograde period will coincide with a major transition in the native's life with respect to relationships, or if instead they will simply change careers. The ability to study transits contextually is an improtant overall feature of any transit analysis, and without it the study of transits is significantly hindered.
In the workshop we will explore one of the more advanced approaches to annual profections that did not survive into the Medieval and Modern traditions of astrology, so as to provide each attendee with a more systematic and accurate method for predicting precise events about the future.
Zodiacal Releasing
One of the major draws for western astrologers who have been studying Indian astrology over the past few decades are the 'dasha' systems, which are employed by Indian astrologers in order to divide a native's life into broad periods of time. Over the past 15 years, as a result of recent translations, a whole set of different 'dasha' systems or 'time-lord' systems have been uncovered in the early western tradition, having been lost for centuries as a result of the sporatic transmission of horoscopic astrology over the past 2,000 years. In this workshop we will delve into a specific time-lord system called Zodiacal Releasing, which is one of the most powerful and accurate time-lord systems that has been recovered to date.
Zodiacal Releasing is used in order to divide the native's life into broad spans of time or chapters, with each chapter being ruled by a specific sign of the zodiac and a specific planet. In the workshop attendees will learn how the technique is used primarily in order to study 'peak periods' in a native's life with respect to certain topics, and it can be used in order to determine some of the most important times in a person's life with respect to things such as their career and love life.
When used in coordination with annual profections and transits, Zodiacal Releasing provides astrologers with a powerful system for determining information about the course of a native's life, and in this way astrology once again becomes a reliable tool for predicting the future.