Checking an ephemeris (Prompt # 7)

TRY THIS:

List your planets and their degree and sign.
Relist, in ascending order, by degrees: 0, 1, 2, 3... and so on.
Online, find an ephemeris, such as:

http://www.khaldea.com/ephemcenter.shtml

http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swepha_e.htm

http://ephemeris.com/ephemeris.php

Print the ephemeris for the current month. Find the current day. List the planets, degrees and signs. Reorganize according to degrees.

Find aspects from the transiting planets to the natal planets.

If a natal planet, telling part of your story is at 5 degrees of a sign, and a transiting planet in the epehemeris is at 5 degrees (or 4 - 6 degree) of a sign, see what kind of aspect the two are making. Reread: http://storyspin.blogspot.com/2011/03/three-aspects-from-last-post.html

Major story threads are found when the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto make aspects with your personal planets or each other. The slower moving planet will influence the swifter moving planet. If Saturn conjuncts your Mercury, your thought patterns (Mercury) will slow down (Saturn). This can be a good thing, (if you usually take off all directions, you might be able to focus on one thing), or it can be difficult (your thinking gets bogged down in analytical Saturn tendencies). If the aspect is a square, the more difficult outcome is probably true, though you can often make this work for you if you know about what is going on. With the opposition, you may find this limitation (Saturn) to your thinking or movement or socialization (Mercury) coming from an outside source.

Keep practising with the three major storyfinding aspects. Eventually, you will add others, such as the trine, sextile, and inconjunct.  For storyfinding though, the action lies with the three already discussed.

Imagine the two characters involved in the aspect. Write the story. Rewrite with the best case scenerio. Now, watch and journal what actually happens.