Ingress Charts
An ingress chart is cast for a body’s exact entry into a sign and relocated to a declared place; its traditional period and scope depend on the chosen rules.
Overview
Separate the global astronomical ingress from location-dependent angles, houses, jurisdictions, periods, and prospectively chosen indicators.
At a glance
- Scope
- Planetary sign-entry charts
- Method family
- Global instant versus local houses
- Evidence basis
- Dated examples are method records only
- Observed example
- Two capitals with three indicators each
- Exclusion condition
- Location switching after events fails review
- Product boundary
- No national-outcome forecast
Definition and Scope
This guide covers charts cast for a planet’s entry into a zodiacal sign, especially seasonal ingresses used in traditional mundane practice. The audit distinguishes a global astronomical ingress from the location-dependent angles and houses of a chosen jurisdiction. It records coordinates, time zone, calculation version, ingress degree, planetary positions, house cusps, and the exact period claimed. Skyscript’s dated examples and the NCGR curriculum document the method; they do not prove that an ingress causes or forecasts public events.
Evidence and Repeatable Method
Record ephemeris, exact ingress instant, time scale, location, house system, angle quality, period rule, comparison charts, and the indicators selected before observation.
Worked Example and Near Miss
An Aries ingress is calculated once for London and once for Tokyo; identical planetary longitudes but different angles and houses are shown before any interpretation.
Two analysts use the same astronomical Aries ingress but cast location-dependent houses for two declared capitals. Each publishes coordinates, time standard, house system, seasonal window, and three public indicators before the quarter starts. Results are reviewed separately; a pattern in one jurisdiction cannot be transferred to the other, and changing the capital produces a new model rather than a correction.
The location is omitted, the ingress time is rounded across an angle boundary, or duration rules are selected after seeing later events.
Schools and Method Variants
Authors differ on Aries-only versus quarterly ingresses, cardinal/fixed/mutable duration rules, house systems, and whether national radix charts should be overlaid.
Limits, Product Boundary, and Safe Use
An ingress chart cannot by itself predict an election, market, storm, conflict, disease, or national outcome. Predeclare the jurisdiction, capital or reference location, zodiac and ephemeris, exact ingress time, time standard, house system, seasonal period, comparison chart, and public indicators. Archive the interpretation before the period begins and score both matches and misses. If the location or house mapping changes, publish a separate model rather than adjusting it after events. Official data and safety guidance always override the symbolic reading.
Sources and editorial basis
- Skyscript: Ingresses, an Introduction to Mundane AstrologyIntroduction paragraphs beginning “Mundane astrology” through “As in all mundane work”: Aries ingress definition and cardinal, mutable, and fixed Ascendant duration rules; “Sample Ingress Charts: Aries 2004” country sectionsA public traditional-practice introduction covering ingress charts, national adaptations of planetary and house significations, and dated sample judgments. Samples are historical examples, not verified forecasts.
- NCGR Online Education Level III CurriculumLevel III Curriculum, “Mundane”, PDF pp. 4–5: scope, history, inception charts, events, ingresses, eclipses, lunations, cycles, houses, sources, and paper assignmentA public advanced practitioner syllabus that enumerates the working vocabulary of horary, electional, and mundane astrology. It documents what a training program teaches; it is not scientific validation of its judgments.