Secondary Progressed Chart Calculator

A secondary progressed chart advances your birth chart by the day for a year method: each day after you were born stands for one year of life. It tracks the slow inner shifts your natal chart only hints at, the progressed Moon, Sun, and Ascendant, and the tight aspects those progressed points make back to your natal placements as you age.

That last part is where most calculators stop short. Plenty of sites hand you a wheel of progressed positions and leave you there. The positions on their own are the easy half. The half that times something is the contact between a progressed planet and a natal one, and the year it perfects. This calculator runs both, and surfaces which natal points each progressed planet is touching now, how tight the orb is, and whether the aspect is still applying.

The rule is genuinely simple: count forward one day in the ephemeris for every year you have been alive. Born June 1, 1990, and want your chart at age 35? Read the sky on roughly July 6, 1990, thirty five days later, same birth time and place. Read as a chart, that sky is your progressed chart for 2025.

Augurine computes this on the same JPL grade ephemeris that drives every natal and transit calculation on the site, so the degrees here match the degrees everywhere else. Because each body moves at its own speed, secondary progressions are mostly a Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars technique. The outer planets barely move across a lifetime, so this tool keeps the inner planets in the foreground.

If you only ever track one progressed body, track the Moon. It moves about twelve to thirteen degrees a year, roughly two and a half years in each sign, a full lap of the zodiac in about twenty seven to twenty eight years. Each sign reorganizes what feeds you emotionally. Sitting on top of the sign changes is the progressed lunation cycle, which runs new to new in about twenty nine to thirty years, so your first progressed New Moon lands near the Saturn return. For the sign by sign read, the dedicated progressed Moon calculator goes deeper.

The progressed Sun is the slow one that still matters. It moves just under a degree a year, so where you were born inside your Sun sign decides its timing. Born late in a sign, the progressed Sun changes sign in early childhood; born early, not until near thirty. It does not overwrite your natal Sun. It shifts the register you express it in. This calculator gives you the exact ingress dates instead of a vague window.

The progressed planets need only a date. The progressed Ascendant, Midheaven, and houses need an exact birth time, so this tool shows them only when you provide one and hides them honestly when you do not. If your time is uncertain, start with the birth time rectification tool. The angles also do not move by the day for a year rule the way planets do, so you can pick solar arc, Naibod, or daily houses, the same choice you make in the progressed Ascendant calculator and in solar arc directions.

We hold progressed aspects to a one degree orb, far tighter than a transit. A progressed planet sits inside that orb for roughly two years, applying then separating, so an applying contact tells you the window is open now. Only the inner planets act as the progressed body, because only they move fast enough to form and dissolve an aspect in a meaningful span. Read these as slow, formative pressure, not calendar day events.

Transits are the real sky right now touching your fixed natal chart. Progressions are a symbolic clock, the sky of your first months of life replayed at a year per day. Progressions tell you which chapter you are in; transits tell you the day a door opens. Practitioners run them together.

To pair this with the transit side against your age, use the transits by age calculator, and the solar return calculator for the year ahead. For the traditional year ruler layer, progressions sit alongside annual profections.