Also, a variety of conditions may influence the harmony or discord of stellar (astral) thought-cells. The normal feelings of the thought-cells receiving increased stimulation must be estimated. Then one must gauge how much a new influx of energy will affect this normal feeling.

Mental attitude too can affect the fortune or misfortune of an event.

If, in spite of a particular progressed aspect, the individual keeps consciousness tuned in on some other type of feelings, this will modify the increased thought activity to attract fortune or misfortune, accordingly.

The reason progressed aspects usually work out in their own terms.

Progressed aspects usually work out in terms of their own harmony or discord because few people offer any resistance to thoughts and feelings that have just received increased energy.

Often those who hold strong religious convictions, or a belief that encourages maintaining a cheerful forward-looking attitude despite adversity, markedly modify the effect of an otherwise severe progressed aspect.

Anything that changes thought-cell activity, from whatever source it comes, or initiates changes in the physical environment to offer resistance to the desires of the thought-cells, also changes the fortune.