Transits are the current positions of planets and their aspects to your natal planets — the "astrological climate" governing your life right now. Active transits for the selected date are calculated, with the most important ones identified (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto transits are most significant) and provides a detailed interpretation of each. The analysis covers transit duration, intensity, affected life area and optimal strategies for that period.
Where it comes from
Transits are the oldest predictive technique in astrology and the most direct: they simply compare where the planets are now with where they were at your birth. Babylonian records tracked planetary positions for exactly this purpose, and every subsequent tradition kept the method. It survived the shift from ancient to modern astrology better than most techniques because it requires no additional theory — only an ephemeris and a birth chart.
How the method works
The weight of a transit comes from the speed of the planet. The Moon transits everything in a month and is read for the day. The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars matter for weeks. The significant transits are the slow ones: Jupiter takes about twelve years to circle the chart, Saturn twenty-nine and a half, Uranus eighty-four, Neptune a hundred and sixty-five, Pluto around two hundred and forty-eight. A Saturn return at twenty-nine and again at fifty-eight, and the Uranus opposition around forty-two, are the transits most often described as marking a change of life stage.
What a reading covers
A reading gives the slow transits currently active with the dates they begin, peak and end, which natal planets and houses they touch, what each combination traditionally indicates, and the faster transits for the weeks ahead.
Common questions
- Why does a transit repeat three times?
- Because outer planets turn retrograde. A slow planet often crosses the same point, backs over it, then crosses again — three passes over roughly a year, which is read as three stages of one process.
- Does everyone get the same transits?
- Everyone experiences the same sky, but it lands on different natal charts. A Saturn transit through the seventh house is a different matter from one through the tenth.
- Is the Saturn return really significant?
- It is the most widely reported transit, falling around twenty-nine and again around fifty-eight. Whether the pattern is astrological or simply the age at which people take stock, the period itself is real enough.