★ Part 3 - How a Chart Moves

• Primary motion Sun Rises in East, Ascendant Moves to Midheaven at Noon, MC Sun Sets in West, DSCAnti culminates at Midnight, IC

• This is Known as Primum Mobile - Primary MotionThe movement created by the Earth turning on its own axis, creating day and nightThis is done in a clockwise direction around the chart. Planets rise in the East and set in the West. The Earth is turning into the East.Note difference for Northern and Southern Hemisphere

★ Primary Motion

• Primary motion Sun Rises in East, Ascendant Moves to Midheaven at Noon, MC Sun Sets in West, DSCAnti culminates at Midnight, IC

• This is Known as Primum Mobile - Primary MotionThe movement created by the Earth turning on its own axis, creating day and nightThis is done in a clockwise direction around the chart. Planets rise in the East and set in the West. The Earth is turning into the East.Note difference for Northern and Southern Hemisphere

★ Secondary Motion

• Secondary motionThe movement of the earth and planets around the Sun, through the signs of the zodiac (the celestial houses),

• This is known as secondary motion.All Planets move forward IN THE Zodiac, (unless retrograde).Moon and Sun always forward in zodiac (an anti-clockwise direction around the chart) The same direction of the houses. NB: Houses don’t move, only cusps change.

The Local Prime Meridian

The Horizon Line

The Ascendant

The Descendant

The MC - Midheaven /Medium Coeli

The IC - Bottom of Sky /Immum Coeli

The Prime VerticalZenith

Nadir

The Great Circles in astrology chartsThe Ecliptic, The Horizon, The Local Meridian, The Prime Vertical

The Ascendant The DescendantThe EAST The West

The AscendantThe DescendantThe EASTThe West

In Northern Hemisphere look South. align East and West

The AscendantThe DescendantThe EASTThe West

In Southern Hemisphere look North, and flip chart, as though you are looking at it from behind

★ Exercises Animate a chart.

• Most Astro Software has animate feature. Or CLOCK, NOW feature.

• See what signs will rise at the ASC, one after the other. The 1st degree rises first.

• See the Moon, the fastest moving object, move forward in the Zodiac, as it moves backwards through the houses. (Anticlockwise in Chart) Use one hour increments. Use one minute increments. Use one day increments.

• Watch the MC change position during the a day, season.

• Watch how houses, remain in tact in the circle. eg 1st house at ASC, 10th at MC, 7th on DSC

As the Earth turns into the East, the sky rises, as the planets move forward in the zodiac.