Hello,
When I found out that PlanetDance has a built-in programming language, I knew I wanted to create something for it, so here's my humble attempt at making something useful.
In the first chapters of her book "Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark" Bernadette Brady offers a system to help with delineating a given transit. Since we all probably have some transits going on in our charts at all times, accounting for each of them by hand quickly turns into some hassle, especially for a beginner like myself. I don't know if anybody even needs this, but when I tried to apply her framework to people I know personally, I had some interesting positive results, so naturally, I decided to automate this.
In short, Brady suggests that for each significant transit you make a grid like this:
| -- Transit -- | -- Natal -- |
| Planet | Pluto | sq Mercury |
| Natal house | 1 | 1 |
| Transit house | 4 | |
| Natal house(s) ruled by planet | 1 | 8, 11 |
To delineate a transit by her method, you not only consider the aspect and planets involved, but also houses that they occupy, rule over or transit through. Brady says "top/middle/bottom row" referring to the rows with houses only. So to use her teminology,
- Top row of the grid means the houses (areas of life) that would be sources of event triggered by transit;
- The main action unfolds in the middle row, the natal house that a transiting planet is moving through;
- The bottom row describes the houses that will have the outcome of event(s) described in the rest of the grid.
How to use it: put the script into your
%Planetdance%/ab folder, open a transit to some radix and launch the program. Press
Escape key to close the program window.
For example, the output that this program would produce for Arnold Schwarzenegger, should he be so inclined to sit in Los Angeles, open PlanetDance and run this script for himself approximately at the time of this post:
What I've done here is I pivoted the grids. Instead of rows, the houses are in columns, for ease of readability. Snd means "sender", Rcv means "receiver", and "src/act/out" captions mean "source/action/outcome" respectively.
As we can see, at the moment Mr. Schwarzenegger has Neptune sextile his North Node within 1 degree, with events that would (sextile) create an opportunity in 4th House, and if taken on, would make some action in 10th house with results that he would see in his 9th and 11th houses and whatever matters that are governed by Venus within context of his chart. (And he also has a bunch of other transits not included in the screenshot.)
For specific interpretations I'm afraid I will have to refer you to the book itself because it's copyrighted material that cannot be freely quoted (but I've made an extended version with her interpretations for private use, that I could probably privately share with anybody interested
strictly for education purposes if that's even a thing).
The script follows rules outlined by Brady, meaning that if an aspect is formed to an angle, the source house of the angle is not mentioned in the grid, and in the outcome is included the planet that rules over the sign that captures the angle (both traditional and modern rulers are included).
The script only includes aspects formed by Mars-Pluto (sorted down from Pluto) to personal planets and Saturn. Quintile-related aspects are not included because they are not mentioned in the book. Vertex is not included because, unlike Asc or Mc, it is not a "first-class" citizen of the AB framework, and I couldn't make it work immediately. But I'll try to cover it in the next versions someday.
The script doesn't enforce orbs so it's up to you to choose orbs before running the script. I've made a couple of 1-2-3 degrees presets myself for ease of use, and you can do the same easily in
Options - Orbs - Bi-wheel of PlanetDance, just don't forget to include the minor aspects too. Brady recommends that only 1 degree orbs are used, or even smaller, but so far I've found that using wider orbs (2-3 degrees) for trans-Saturnians can also yield some results.
The script was done with whole sign houses in mind, because that's what Brady used throughout the book. The script doesn't account for house interceptions or any non-whole-sign issues that may arise from that.
Upcoming features: by Brady's recommendations, treat oppositions to nodes as conjunctions of opposing nodes; include South Node accordingly if an aspect is formed to North Node; and whatever else comes to mind in the future.
Edits: typos and some wording.
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07 50' 21" 
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11 30' 38" 
19 08' 32" 
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