Holographic Transits

Foreword to the Second Edition (2025)

by Rick Levine

Astrology transforms and evolves along with culture and consciousness. Although many fundamental techniques in the modern astrologer’s toolbox originated centuries or even millennia ago, new ones are championed by astrological researchers and pioneers. Although many continue to be presented to the community at large, some actually find their way into widespread use.

One of the great shifts in astrological practice over the last century is the movement away from concrete prediction and toward archetypal description. However, this development is part of a larger transformation that has been powered by breakthroughs in depth psychology and quantum physics. Modern astrology focuses on cycles rather than points, orbital phases rather than isolated moments, and repeating patterns rather than single transits. From Grant Lewi’s Saturn cycles to Dane Rudhyar’s lunar phases, from Cosmobiology’s 90-degree wheels to John Addey’s harmonics, the obvious path of modern astrology continues to acknowledge the rising importance of planet waves as a counterbalance to the location of a planet by point on the zodiac.

Johannes Kepler may have been the first astrologer to suggest that the zodiac is not of primary importance but he is surely not the last. He argued that the geometric relationships between the planets were more significant than their zodiacal positions. Furthermore, Kepler was intrigued by the recurrent angular relationships between pairs of planets. Robert Blaschke’s Holographic Transits pushes Kepler’s thinking a giant step ahead, setting the stage for a new generation of astrologers to work with transits in an entirely new manner.

A hologram is a recording of electromagnetic interference patterns that can be brought back to life; it’s a three-dimensional image that is created by the interference of light waves, making a realistic, visually immersive experience. The resultant lifelike image is essentially a 3D photograph that captures and recreates an object’s appearance in depth. Blaschke makes the case that a natal horoscope is the captured interference patterns of the planetary energy at play at someone’s birth moment. The Sun, like a laser used to activate a holographic image, acts as the reference beam in a hologram. However, a second laser is necessary to produce a hologram. A transiting planet can act as the holographic catalyst.

In its simplest form, when the Sun’s natal angle of separation to another planet is repeated in the heavens, these so-called “holographic transits” resonate the natal chart regardless of the degree location of the transiting planets. For example, someone born with the Sun at 3° Taurus 22′ and Jupiter at 7°
Taurus 35′ has 4° 13′ of angular separation between these two planets. Every year when the Sun and Jupiter are separated by exactly 4° 13′, this holographic transit catalyzes the hologram of Jupiter, activating the potential for the expression of free will around Jupiterian issues.

Robert Blaschke takes this simple concept of vibrational reactivation to an extraordinary place, revealing through concrete chart examples how the Sun’s natal relationship with each of the other planets can be used to unfold a whole new way to understand timing. This basic concept is the jumping off point to a series of specific analytical tools that would be advantageous for all astrologers to have at their disposal.

Rick Levine
April 2025
Redmond, Washington