Climacterial Periods

Years in life, which are multiples of seven or nine based on the Moon’s progressed and Saturn s transiting cycles. The progressed Moon squares its natal position approximately every seven years and trines it every nine. Transiting Saturn follows a similar cycle relative to its natal position. Thus, climacterial periods are ages seven, nine, fourteen, eighteen, etc. Primary climacterial periods are the forty-ninth, sixty-third and eighty-first years (doubly climacterial; 7 X 7, 7 X 9, 9 X 9). The sixty-third year is known as the Grand Climacteric and, if aspects in the natal horoscope confirm, is considered a year when life may be endangered.