Reinhold Ebertin - Transits: What Days Favor You?

Transits: What Days Favor You?

Reinhold Ebertin

Copyright 1991 by Reinhold Ebertin

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Cover design: Jack Cipolla

Translation: Linda Kratzsch

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Contents

Preface

In the preface to the first edition in 1928 it was pointed out that the transits, i.e. the passage of the progressing stellar bodies over the interpretive factors of the basic horoscope, provide the best and most easily understood introduction to astrology or cosmobiology. Those who have comprehended this method of work can also quickly master the more difficult sectors of astrological research into character and fate. The examples given in this book have been taken from real life and show to what extent prognostications based on the transits do indeed agree with fact.

At the time of publication of this book in 1928, documentation on Neptune was still new, hardly being included in other textbooks. Now the effects of Pluto are to be added. Although only twenty years knowledge has been gained on this planet, so much material is available that a well-founded documentation on this ``outsider among the stellar bodies can be presented.

To differentiate between the positive and negative inclinations, the signs + and - have been chosen; the conjunctions have been designated by (C), as it is not always possible to derive the favorable or unfavorable trends form the aspects alone.

This book of transits has become the steady companion of many thousands of people. Many readers have had to acquire a second or even third copy because the pages of the first not only were too worn from frequent reading, but had been literally read to pieces. I trust and hope that this new, completely revised edition will gain just as many true friends.

Reinhold Ebertin

Chapter 1: The Cosmogram

The term cosmogram designates the notation of a cosmic constellation. The word horoscope has been avoided in this book; the popularization of astrology through newspapers and magazines has changed the meaning of this word completely. Originally, it meant hourly view, i.e. the heavenly constellations as observed and recorded for a particular hour. In the press, horoscope is given to mean a statement based on the position of the Sun in the various signs of the zodiac without regard to the hour of birth or correlation to the other stellar bodies.

The use of the term stellar bodies in this book is deliberate, so as to include Sun, Moon, and the planets as well. The Sun and Moon are not planets and therefore cannot be so designated, as is, unfortunately, often the case in many books on astrology.

The foundation for casting the cosmogram is the zodiac, which the Sun moves through in one year, as below:

It is advisable to memorize the signs of the zodiac using this illustration, if they have not already been learned from the calendars. Each of these signs supplies the name for thirty smaller divisions which we call degrees. Accordingly, the whole circle contains 360 degrees.

To locate the positions of the stellar bodies in the zodiac more exactly, one degree is divided into sixty minutes and every minute is again divided into sixty seconds. This subdivision is so fine that it cannot be portrayed in a zodiacal chart. Therefore, the position of each stellar body is written in degrees, minutes, and, sometimes, in seconds. When talking of minutes and seconds as designations of a stars position we do not mean minutes and seconds in terms of space. For this reason, when talking of time, we use the symbols h for hour, m for minute, and s for second.

In addition to the stellar bodies, we compute in reference to time that point of the zodiac which is highest at the time of birth, i.e. culminates (Midheaven or medium coeli) and that point of the zodiac which is just rising in the eastthe point of ascent or Ascendant. Drawing a straight line from the Ascendant through the center of the zodiac, we can consider the upper half to represent the visible part and the lower half the invisible part of the firmament. If a straight line is drawn from Midheaven through the center of the zodiacal circle, the left hand side is that part of the sky where the stars are on the Ascendant, and the right hand side is where those stars are recorded which have crossed the Midheaven and descend opposite the Ascendant.

The space within the zodiac is usually divided into twelve sectors or houses, the first of which begins at the Ascendant. These sectors or houses are supposed to represent certain facets of life. The first house is said to characterize the personality of an individual, the second house refers to money matters, the third house shows relations to brothers and sisters and to neighbors, and also to correspondence, etc.

These days, we are all accustomed to a critical view of traditional science, and this division into houses after the manner of a fortune teller is no longer acceptable, and not only that, there are also various systems of house division, none of which agrees with the other, thus perforce leading to varying results. The author has thoroughly covered this topic in his book Charakter and Schicksal in Kosmogramm so that it only need be said here that the lower portion of the cosmogram represents, as it were, the subconscious, and the upper portion ego-consciousness; and the Ascendant or horizontal line represents the sphere of experience where the individual can develop his inborn potentiality and achieve his lifes goals. In short, the following equivalents can be given:

This spatial representation does not renounce completely its connection to the old form of house interpretation, but rather, presents it in a form clear even to the critical man of our present day.