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Vertex in Predictive Astrology

Hand finds the Vertex to be active in dramatic situations that are 'not characteristic of one's ordinary life'. John Townley found transits of outer planets to the Vertex to bring turning points in life whose significance may not be registered by the individual affected at the time, but will be in retrospect. Henson comments that the aspect type will describe the influence of the transiting planet on the individual, with conjunctions being most powerful. She also notes that transiting eclipses that activate (by conjunction or opposition to within a three-degree orb) the natal Vertex will stimulate the individual to activity of the nature of the natal Vertex by its sign and house placement.

Henson comments that whenever the Vertex is 'activated' by aspects (this may apply to those involved in transits or progressions), or by its own progression into a new sign, the individual is obliged to display and grow in its particular qualities (as shown by natal or progressed sign placement), and will tend to take actions of their nature, in response to whatever situation has occurred.

Where aspects are involved, this situation ('how we are apt to be compelled' to express the Vertex qualities, as Henson puts it) will be described by the nature and placement of the aspecting planet (or point), considered together with the houses over which this aspecting planet is the Lord, and any other aspects received by this aspecting planet. The overall significance of the situation, the difficulty level (harmony or disharmony) involved in resolving the situation through the expression of the Vertex qualities, and the conequences of the situation to the individual, correlate primarily with the type of aspect thrown to the Vertex by the activating point or planet, with conjunctions and parallels being strong influences in the nature of the aspecting planet or point, while oppositions, squares and quincunxes are generally negative but present great opportunities for growth.

The manner in which the natal (or progressive) sign qualities of the Vertex are put to use in response to the situation will be shown by the nature of all relevant aspects (natal and transiting or progressive) to the Vertex itself. The house placement of the Vertex natally and by progression can show the areas of life over which any situations involving the Vertex being activated have the greatest effect.

In solar return figures, Henson has found that aspects, but most especially conjunctions, of the Vertex to both solar return and natal planets will frequently bring, in the year to follow, significant 'life-altering' events of the nature of the planets involved, often as expressed through their solar return houses.

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