Lottery-Winning Solar Arc Directions

Hopefully, if you’re reading this, you already know the basics of astrology. If not, then take a look at a directed chart next to a natal chart so you can see that the directed planets and angles have maintained the exact same distances from each other that they held in the natal chart. The difference is that they have moved through the signs of the zodiac. We do not read the aspects of planets and points to each other in the directed chart since they are the same as in the natal, but we do compare the directed chart to the natal chart because having moved through signs, the planets and points form aspects to the stationary natal chart. These aspects indicate events we can expect to occur in the year of life we choose to examine.

Solar arc directions move everything in the natal chart forward by the exact same rate—the rate that the secondary progressed Sun moves in twenty-four hours. Confused now? The rate of the secondary progressed Sun is the distance in degrees, minutes and seconds that the Sun moves in one day. There are many ways to find this distance, but they are beyond the scope of this chapter. This distance is usually just less than one degree. For instance, the Sun at the time of birth for Subject A was 03 degrees, 15 minutes, and 06 seconds into Taurus. Twenty-four hours later, the Sun was 04 degrees, 13 minutes, and 32 seconds into Taurus, a distance of 58 minutes and 26 seconds. We then take that rate, the one of 58’ and 26”, and use it to progress everything in the chart. But every day has its own rate, and we want to use the distance not of the date of birth, but instead for the day that represents the number of years in age for the future time we wish to see. Subject A was 46 years and some months of age when she won the lottery. So we would find her birth date in the ephemeris, count down 46 days (which corresponds to June 9, 1950 in this case) and find the distance the Sun moved between that day and the next. Fortunately, we can use astrology software, which is so much faster and easier, but it’s important to understand the principle behind the process. One degree rises on the natal Ascendant every four minutes, and in any study of solar arc directions, we are warned that one degree on the directed Ascendant or Midheaven = one year. That’s how far off predictions can be for just four minutes of inaccuracy in birth time, and in more than 35 years of practicing astrology, I have always prescribed to that theory. However, in lottery astrology, we’ll see again and again that both applying and separating aspects with orbs of up to four degrees or so are still valid. Don’t take my word for it; see for yourself. The planets are neutral and without personal opinion; they are constant and consistent, and neither lie nor cheat. It is we who make the mistake of limiting ourselves with rules.

The solar arc directions as stand-alone charts are provided for those who may be inexperienced with reading concentric rings, or who may need larger fonts.