Primary Directions: Originally, a mathematically complicated system of progressing a horoscope based upon the diurnal rotation of the Earth. The term is now loosely applied to any method of advancing house cusp . . . View Full Definition ...
Primary Directions - Method of directing based on a degree for a year.
Primary Directions. Any method, for determining the changing influences of the altered relationship between the cuspal and the planets' places on successive days or years after birth, ...
Primary directions are formed between the progressed planets and their positions at birth.
Primary Directions are based on the "first motion," the Primum Mobile of Aristotle, the apparent nightly trek of the planets across the sky from East to West.
Ptolemy, in his primary directions, directed the MC by 1° of right ascension for each year. Renaissance astrologers, seeing how the midheaven and Sun appear to have the same daily motion, replaced Ptolemy's measure by the motion of the Sun.
The best books on Primary Directions:
Primary Directions I , Rumen Kolev, Astro-Research
Primary Directions II , Rumen Kolev, Astro-Research ...
circumambulation: A form of progression known as primary directions. See "ascensional times".
combust: A form of debility that befalls a planet because it is "burned" by the Sun. Technically, within 8 degrees either side.
house cusps, based upon the Earth's rotation, in which one year of life corresponds to the passage of 1° right ascension over the meridian, approximately four minutes of time. This method, little used in modern times, is called primary directions ...
Country Astrology also provides useful instruction in delineating natal timing techniques, including primary directions, the use of triplicity lords, solar revolutions, firdaria profections, eclipses, ...
 See also: Directions, Direction, Primary direction, House, Astrology
  
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