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TERTIARY PROGRESSIONS P3

ertiary progressions are a western astrology technique, which was written about in
1952 by German astrologer E.H.Troinski, in his book Lehrbuch der Tertirdirektionen,
eine Methode. In a more recent work, Richard Houck describes the use of tertiary
progressions in his book The Astrology of Death (1994). Houck uses tertiary progressions
with Vedic Astrology, along with Dasas and Kakshyas. I shall refer to tertiary progression
by term P3.
The concept of P3 can be explained simply thus: each 24-hour day from birth, corresponds to one
lunar month in the life of the individual (27.321582 days). By the time you live to be around 84
years of age, you have progressed through about 1100 lines of ephemeris days since your
birth, which is about 3 years. According to traditional European psychology of the early
development stages of children, a childs capacity to consciously remember life events
matures around 3 years of age, when their nervous system undergoes specific developmental
changes.
Consider this: the 3 first years of life, is a time when most deeply embedded subconscious
conditioning occurs in childs early development. During this time we go through a fastrewind preview of potential upcoming occurrences of our Life Script. After this initial preflight checkup of basic settings, all the potential is left in a dormant state, with contents of
each P3-day ready to project onto the corresponding lunar month later in life. Each sensitized
potential is waiting for the arrival of suitable transiting planetary influence onto that point,
to manifest as a concrete event.
Planetary station is a point where planet stops while changing direction, either from directto-retrograde or from retrograde-to-direct motion. For example: in the example I show you
later, Venus remained stationary in place before changing from direct-to-retrograde, on the
date 8.1.1958. This is an astronomical event you can see in ephemeris. Within the P3-count of
my own birthchart, this projects onto a strongly sensitized potential ready and waiting to
manifest, in my life, during the lunar month which occurred in early summer of 2014. A
planetary station from P3-daychart will project a strongly magnetized point into a future
date, and transiting planets making contact with that point will have trigger concrete events.
Houck writes: There will often be appropriate correlation between current Bhukti (or Dasa)
planet and corresponding progressed planetary station, particularly at death. Houcks book
uses numerous example charts to illustrate this. Houck also writes: At major life events
you can routinely expect tertiary angles and planets to be in perfect 4 th harmonic aspect
(conjunction, square and opposition) to relevant natal factors.

At the end of this article you find short chapter where I discuss the specifics of ayanamsa
and chart calculation.
2. PREPARATION OF P3 DATA
To get P3, you need following listings from your astrology software.
Examples are for my own chart; date format is European (dd.mm.yyyy) and time format is
24-hour clock.
Image 1: Lunar cycles from birth
(my birth was 16.11.1955 time 15:15)

Image 2: Planetary stations from birth

(for 3,5 years to be sure; include 3 outer planets )

Each lunar cycle will correspond to a day in ephemeris: 1 st lunar cycle of 16.11.1955/15:15
13.12.1955/21:40 corresponds to 1st P3-day of 16.11.1955/15:15 17.11.1955/15:15. I calculate my
correspondences on an Excel spreadsheet. Once I determine what is the corresponding P3day and time, I check second listing see if the date includes a planetary station, then calculate
a transit chart for the P3-date and time - which is called the P3 chart.