What does advancement mean?

Transits are more like how the external sky triggers you, and progressions are more like where your own internal clock is. It is not telling you what will happen today, but it is explaining what inner stage your personality, emotions, desires, sense of meaning, and life focus are at.

Therefore, advancements are particularly suitable for answering questions such as "Why am I so different lately?"

The natal chart is like the map of life, and advancements make this map start to move. It will not create a completely unrelated new proposition out of thin air, but will gradually mature, turn, manifest or retire certain lines in your life. Your original emotional structure, relationship patterns, and expression methods will take on different aspects as the progression stage changes.

Therefore progresses are more like the time unfolding of the natal chart rather than another independent natal chart.

The reason why advancements are easy for people to resonate with is that they often change people's inner experience before the event occurs. You may not have changed your job yet, but you already clearly feel that the old direction is wrong; the relationship hasn't ended yet, but the internal cycle no longer stays at the original position. It is the inner season that drives movement first, and then reality slowly catches up.

Its accuracy is often based on the sense of stage, rather than on a single event.

The worst thing about advancements is that they will be read as technical demonstrations. The truly useful way to read is to understand whether you are beginning, accumulating, unfolding, manifesting, concluding or reorganizing. As long as the language of the stages is clear, progress will change from a mysterious tool to a time frame that is extremely close to self-experience.

Once a person knows which inner season he is living in, many worries will immediately be reduced by half.