Understanding the Part of Sudden Advancement through Sabians

[David_Mastrogiovanni]

...a re-post of a thread I've started at another forum...I believe many of you will find this of great interest.



" Greetings. Figure out your Part of Sudden Advancemnt [Asc. + Part of Fortune - Saturn]...Please. Only use the Day formula regardless. [Those of you that do not wish to do so...please don't participate in this exercise. Thank you].

For my proposed birth chart for Jesus/Yeshua it comes to 10* Gemini 34' i.e. the 11th degree of Gemini...this Part is symbolically the attitude or action that one wants to assume and employ to get a "Sudden 'Big Leg Up'"!
...here's an excerpt from what Rudhyar wrote about this degree:

" (GEMINI 11°): NEWLY OPENED LANDS OFFER THE PIONEER NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPERIENCE.

KEYNOTE: The power and joy of new beginnings.

These "newly opened lands" can refer to any as yet unexperienced field of potential activity at any level — material, emotional, mental or supermental. We are now dealing with the third level of experience, at which individuality — or at least the ego character — operates more definitely. While in the preceding phases much was said concerning the powers of the mind, this mind was essentially based on the collective patterns of a culture and a society. Now, at this third level, we find the human being essentially engaged in his personal and particular struggle for full and effective individualization. And the initial realization he has to experience is that he has reached a potentially virgin field of consciousness and activity. He is facing the unfamiliar. Anything could happen...
... Having conquered, at least to some extent, the collective and material energies of nature and society, man has become relatively "separate" from the past. He faces the future. Every step ahead should show him RISING TO THE OCCASION. "

...anyone familiar with Edgar Cayces' account of Jesus' Lost Years...or the Aquarian Bibles' account...or any of the other numerous theories about Jesus' travels during that period to Egypt, Persia, India and God only knows where else...should appreciate this...where does your Part lie?

...mine is at 19* Virgo 52'...i.e the 20th degree of Virgo...from Rudhyar we get...

" A CARAVAN OF CARS HEADED TO THE WEST COAST.

KEYNOTE: The need of cooperative effort in reaching any "New World" of experience.

It is difficult to know, from the original formulation of the clairvoyant's vision, the type of caravan of cars that was visualized; what seems to be clearly implied is a process in which a group of persons are journeying together — thus linking their consciousnesses and energies (the "car" symbol) — in order to safely reach the goal of destiny. Here there is no longer any sense of competition, but an ordered and structured endeavor.

At this last stage of the five-fold sequence the past is entirely left behind; men cooperate in the great "adventure in consciousness" in a TOTALIZATION OF PURPOSE AND EFFORT.

...now, maybe you see why I put such effort and commitment into what I do...{?} [...this is also an annotated excerpt from my book...note to the mods.] "

ps.....I would also like to add and point out that Saturn conjuncted my Part of Sudden Advancement, thrice, from Nov 08 to July 09...
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[David_Mastrogiovanni]

Interestingly it has been pointed out to me that this same formula is what is used to calculate the 'Hermetic Lot of Nemesis'...now this is news to me...I only just recently became aware of the so called Hermetic Lots and that this formula should be known as the Lot or Part of Nemesis is indeed confusing.
I am aware of 5 web sites and a number of books that call this "The Part of Sudden Advancement"...and the symbolism that accompanies every chart I've analyzed for the Part says so too. I have found it to be the natives 'Leg Up' and not some retributive act of punishment that a 'Lot of Nemesis' would suggest.
Again, I must say I do not trust a number of the ancient texts and authors that wrote on this subject....I, in fact feel a great deal of the knowledge was lost long before the 'Common Era' began...when these authors wrote and many of these authors contradict one another.
I will stand by 'The Part of Sudden Advancement' for this formula...either the suspect author was much mistaken or inadvertantly gave the wrong formula for a 'Part of Nemesis'...if such a Part/Lot actually exists.

[David_Mastrogiovanni]

...more thoughts...
If by the term 'Nemesis' what was intended to be conveyed was that it represents ones' greatest challenge and by virtue of it being the 'Greatest Challenge' it thus offers the most immediate and substantial reward insofar as assisting oneself in accomplishing ones' life mission...hmmmmm, ...now that IS a possibility... as I reason it...anyone with any observations/comments/suggestions?

[David_Mastrogiovanni]

The latest development is that the reason being for the dichotomy in the appellation for this Part is due to whether it is applied to either an 'Involutionary' or and 'Evolutionary' chart system analysis. The two terms 'Involutionary' and 'Evolutionary' being descriptive terms for a technique of of the 'Esoteric' school of Astrology ...specifically that which is derived from "Theosophist' philosophy.
As there are two formulas for this Part that consist of the same components but are reversed according to day of night birth, by a theory of some consensus that has not been indicated to be of any consensus or even of singular opinion of anyone that actually utilizes or knows of the facts pertaining to what is employed in 'Esoteric' astrological practice.
The implications are that each formula does produce symbolically what one should do [employ, or attitude to assume] to achieve a 'Sudden Advance' in ones spiritual dharma or ordained goal but if applied to the opposite system it then becomes ones Nemesis.