Volume VII Number 2 of the magazine "Considerations" published the preliminary research of astrologer Ross Harvey, who contends he has discovered a fundamental mechanism that will invariably reveal anyone's age at death within a few months (although, under certain conditions, it may be incorrect by a year or two). His key points:
- Death is pre-programmed at birth without regard to cause. We each burn personal time at a different rate, each having a different "metaphysical metabolism".
- To figure out this "burn rate", anchor each person's life to one full revolution of the earth after birth. Death occurs when all angles return to their original positions. This is true whether the angles are progressed directly or conversely, going backwards in the chart.
For each chart, the objective is to find the personal rate of directed motion which will have the angles always aspecting a symbolically appropriate natal planet at major life events. Gillman does this initial fitting by a hit-and-miss procedure, starting the search using the average lifespan rate for the average life span (if the average lifespan was 72 years, then the average annual rate allocation would be 5 degrees). Ultimately he averages out the true hit rate. Then he merely divides it into 360 to get the life span.
What needs to be known, obviously, is a reasonable number of important events in the person's life since these are the keys to figuring out the personal rate of progression. Since these events must have already occurred, the system isn't very useful until about age 30 unless the early period was both significantly eventful and documented...."
A final note -
This is far more than merely a technique to determine the lifespan - it is a fully functional progression system, perhaps THE most useful of all. In this system, all the angles make all possible aspects to all planets exactly ONCE during the whole life. Using the rate of progression as a "solar arc progression" rate, all the planets also make all possible aspects to all other points making each aspect exactly ONCE over the course of the life.
Once the "unique progression rate" is discovered, progressing the angles works stunningly well, both to natal planets and to natal midpoints. Likewise, using the rate as a "solar arc rate" to progress natal planets works well also, but more so for hard aspects to natal planets and angles than to midpoints or the soft angles.
- Paraphrased excerpts from pps. 120-122 of Richard Houck's book "The Astrology of Death"
Comments
For the last two weeks, I have been absolutely dumbfounded, having discovered, in the writings of Richard Houck, a previously unfamiliar progression method that makes Secondary progressions, tertiary progressions, and all other progression methods I'd ever run across seem weak by comparison. This is, with the possible exception of the Dasa system of Jyotish, the most powerful predictive technique I've ever run across.
I am as excited as the day, 20 years ago, I first realized there really "was something to astrology".
This is unlike any other progression method I know of - it assumes that, in addition to all the other cycles of progression operating in the chart, each person's chart progresses by a completely personal and unique rate (mine is 5.45 degrees of Midheaven movement per year). Each person's chart will move at a rate unique to that person. The details of how to determine a chart's unique rate is in the article paraphrased below.
But I want to tell you that after you discover this "unique progression rate", you can use it not only to progress the angles (as explained below) to aspect natal planets, but they also work quite well in their conjunctions and oppositions to natal midpoints. And the "unique progression rate" can also be used as a sort of "Solar Arc Progression", adding it to the positions of the natal planets to progress them.
I tell you, I have never seen any chart progression technique work this well before, this thoroughly, this clearly. This is absolutely amazing. Try it.
- Peter Novak