UNDERSTANDING TRANSITS

The natal chart is a snapshot of the heavens at birth. The planets are frozen in time and this picture creates the natal chart, but the transit chart is the planets continuing their course immediately after your birth. These transiting planets never stop moving.

 

As these transits continue their path, mostly clockwise through your natal chart, they make aspects or angles to the natal chart. Imagine laying a picture of the transiting planets over a picture of the natal chart.  There are several major aspects as well as several minor aspects that these transits will make to locations in your birth chart. Depending on the type of aspect and planets involved, you will experience challenging or easy flow events in your life. Some aspects are event-oriented, while others are on a deep but usually conscious level, where information gathered stimulates mental activity and your thought process and reasoning ability come into play. Some of the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) have profound effects on our overall development and instigate transformations that may at first be subtle but intensify as we become aware of the energies that are present in our lives.

 

There are time frames that affect us all at the same time through life, and we have touched on some of these in previous posts.

 

Each of our natal charts are unique. Transiting planets are all in the same location for each of us but how they make connection to our birth chart is different. Let’s say you have your Moon in Scorpio at 11 degrees. The planets currently transiting between 8-14 degrees of any sign would be impacting your Moon. Most transiting planets, particularly outer planets, begin to affect us when they are five degrees to becoming exact. An exact aspect when referring to the Moon at 11 degrees would be a planet at 11 degrees. This is when the influence is the strongest.

 

As these transits move around our chart, they can make aspects at any time and will have impacts on our lives when they become activated. We can forecast probable events by utilizing these aspects as they become active in your chart. We can also ascertain potentials and time frames when these activities will be in force, how intense they will be, and what can be gained through the energy.

 

Astrology is an amazing tool and offers insights into energies. Due to the varied nature of the planets and angles, these assist in providing some knowledge so that you can understand these events. Astrology has proven over many centuries its accuracy and our predecessors through experience have outlined how the planets influence us. Our ancestors have provided the modern Astrologer with proven insights into Astrology’s workings. Thanks to their diligent work and through many years of study, we have concise mathematical equations and formulas that assist us to understand our charts.

 

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