Progressions

By Robert P. Blaschke

With an updated and expanded ephemeris (1920-2120), Robert Blaschke's classic Progressions is an essential fixture on any serious astrologer's bookshelf. Blaschke takes you well beyond secondary progressions and demonstrates how the time keys of tertiary and minor progressions interface with the secondary progressed time scale. In addition, you will learn about converse progressions, progressions and synastry, as well as a thorough check-list to help you apply this material in a consultation setting.

From the foreword to the first edition, by Rob Hand:

"This book by Robert Blaschke on progressions is quite accessible to astrological readers of many levels, but it is not a beginner's book. It does not just give the basics of progressions. It goes beyond that to provide a practical and theoretical foundation for integrating the various methods of progression into a single body of method in which each method has its place and there is as little overlap as possible. ...] this book should advance the study of progressions in astrology on both the practical and theoretical level and for this we owe Robert Blaschke a vote of thanks."

From the foreword to the second edition by Jenn Zahrt:

"Twenty-six years after its first publication, Robert Blaschke's Progressions remains a definitive work on the theory and application of progressing natal charts. It was in this book that I first came across the concepts of tertiary and minor progressed time scales, converse progressions, and progressed time twins. These techniques grip me, and I see them coming to life all around me through my relationships. I happen to know an uncanny amount of people born within a month of me, and the secondary direct and converse progressions unfurl in a symphony of synastry. Astrology chooses you, and chooses you to transmit its living wisdom. It clearly chose Robert, and his work has been a major inspiration for my own, and that of so many astrologers in our community.

"Progressions is the first book in his five-volume Astrology: A Language of Life series. Robert had two more books planned before cancer took him from this world far too soon. As his great friend Mary Plumb wrote in a blog post for The Mountain Astrologer, "he passed away peacefully on January 18, 2011." He was 57.

"Through his Earthwalk School of Astrology, Robert proudly bootstrapped his own publications. This means he had to maximize every millimeter of the page to squeeze the most value out of the print run. Thanks to the generous permission of Carol Cilliers Blaschke, Robert's books will be re-typeset and updated in second editions through Revelore Press to allow ample breathing room for his magnificent ideas to shine through. As pertains to Progressions, the ephemeris in the first edition provided data from 1920-2010; the second edition expands the ephemeris by another century to make this book a complete resource for decades to come.

"At the 2012 United Astrology Conference in New Orleans, Robert was posthumously nominated for-and won-the Marion D. March Regulus Award for Discovery, Innovation, and Research. When you read his volumes of Astrology: A Language of Life, you will know why."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194754473X
• ISBN13: 9781947544734
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Revelore Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great for Advanced Astrology Students

The forward by Rob Hand says it best when he mentions the over-abundance of beginner astrology books,this book starts to fill the void on the other end of the spectrum. Book I in Blaschke's series is a must-have for any advanced student of astrology wishing to dive into the world of progressions and Blaschke's complex view of their relationship with spirit-matter. Aside from that, this book is a treasure chest of fine tuned, detail-oriented astrological method. I would not reccomend this book for beginning or intermediate astrology enthusiasts, but it is a must have for advanced students.

This is the one I recommend

... for a thorough grounding in the interpretation of the various forms of progressions. Blaschke keeps his eye on the ball of the fundamentals (what progressions are formally) while elaborating techniques that are consistent and detailed. This book shows what can be done from an interpretive perspective when methods are well-founded in the structure of the astrological symbols/grammar being used. The subject needs more books like this one, even if the wealth of methods presented is more than an astrologer is likely to use in normal practice.

An innovative look at progressions

This is a very needed and profound book that looks at the technique of progressions with new eyes. The author advocates that the three main astrological progressions types are not three interchangeably useable techniques, but aspects of the same experience unfolding in different times in the mental, astral and physical planes of manifestation, the physical being the latter in time.From this he states that all the events that can occur in the life span of an 84 year old, have already occurred in the progressions in the first 6 and 1/2 years of life, highlighting an equivalent to Childhood Development Theory in traditional Psychology within the astrological framework. He also writes about triggers that activate progressions into being, reminding astrologers of the work of CEO Carter, retrieving some fundamental laws delineated by this great astrologer. Many other aspects of progressions are covered ( there is an excellent section on retrogradation of progressed planets) and the book , probabily not suited for the beginner, is refreshing in its insight and spark. My feeling is the Blaschke might well be the "Steven Arroyo" of the 21st century, combining impeccable technique with penetrating insight into human nature. I am anxious to read his next book.

Thorough

Robert Blaschke has done a very good job on giving us a very detailed overview of all different sorts of progressions and their connections. His book makes it clear that astrology is a very complex art indeed and I doubt if any astrologer will find the time to try to unfold the progressions for every client in such a thorough way as is explained in this book. Nevertheless Robert Blaschke has done it and with the help of the computer one can gain time. Sometimes I find this book too thorough, too detailed, combining too much sorts of progressions (secondary, tertiary, minor). Delineating gets difficult (you know the proverb about the wood and the trees...). Anyway if you look for a book about progressions read this one !

A thorough and innovative work!

Robert Blaschke has begun his Astrology: A Language of Life book series with a well-written exploration of an area that once considered, becomes a fascinating adventure. By providing a straightforward way of intrepreting (and predicting) the birthchart over time, Robert opened a new world for me. Progressions covers the subject in a way that captured my imagination and led me into a new interpretative world.