According to Tripp, you can search at an ephemeris, or a table documenting all of the planets’ movements in the following months and years, to learn about transits in advance. If so, you can simply hold off until your astrologer next discusses a significant transit in the future.
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What do a birth chart’s transits mean?
“The term “transits” in astrology refers to the planets’ present-day motion, as opposed to their locations at your birth or at other significant moments in your life. Transits reflect our shared reality, the world we are all living in together, because they are tied to the present. The way we play the cards we are dealt by the worldthe transitsis what transforms us and shapes the direction of our destiny.”
How is a transit to be read?
- Track down the eyepiece. The crosshairs can be focused by turning this.
- The leveling vial is located over the level’s range.
- The focusing knob is located at the end of the scope.
- The circular ruler marked with degrees that is used to read horizontal angles is known as the horizontal graduated circle.
- Just above the horizontal graded circle is the horizontal tangent knob, which is used to make left- and right-hand adjustments.
- On the near side of the scope, to the right, is a vertical tangent knob that can be turned to adjust up and down.
- The knob that locks the vertical direction in place is just past.
- Just below the horizontal graduated circle are the leveling screws. To maintain the object level, these can be modified.
- A detachable sunshade is available on some levels to shield the lens from sunlight.
How is a transit chart cast?
Casting a Transit, Return, or Ingress Chart
- Make sure the natal type chart for which you desire the return has already been computed.
- From the Chart menu, select the Return option.
- From the Chart Type to Generate list box, choose the necessary chart type.
- From the Base Chart list box, choose a chart.
What transits are crucial?
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto transits, which can span months or even years, are the most important transits for making future plans.
Transits of Jupiter and Saturn can also be highly significant, but as they only occur for a few weeks at a time, they are more helpful for planning (or avoiding) specific actions in the future.
Unless you’re looking for very specific timing of activity, like an open cart, it is more effective to look at which houses Venus, Mars, and Mercury are currently transiting over rather than the aspects they are making to the natal chart. Venus, Mars, and Mercury move quite quickly around our chart and only transit our natal planets for a few days.
However, if you tried to keep track of all of your Venus, Mars, and Mercury transits annually, you would go insane!
Finally, because the moon and sun move so quickly, it is not very useful to think about transits involving them because they only last for a few hours or days. However, it is useful to think about which area of our charts the moon and sun are bringing energy to each day, week, and month, and I teach students how to do this in my program Your Soulful Year.
I will individually examine the area of my horoscope that the sun is bringing life and energy to each month, as well as the area that each new and full moon activates.
How long do astrological transits last?
Is it possible to sense a transit, eclipse, or moon before they occur?
Sources cite a three-month lead time. I’ll say up to one month, but it will probably be closer to one or two weeks. Please take note that this pertains to the initial trigger of eclipse events. Depending on what’s been activated in your chart, the influence (after the fact) can be felt for months or even years.
Refer to the section on eclipses above, but make the timeframe more specific (definitely no more than 2 weeks before). Events will be triggered further in advance during eclipses since they are stronger.
Before the slower-moving planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) make an exact aspect to your planet or angle, you may feel their transits for anywhere between 1 day and 1 year (approximately). Depending on the planet’s slowness and the severity of the aspect, the amount of time it takes to feel it in advance will lengthen. Pluto is the slowest, whereas Jupiter is the quickest. The following aspects are listed in order of strength: conjunction/opposition (equal strength), square, inconjunct, trine, and sextile.
The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are the faster moving planets, and their transits are typically felt 1-2 days before they make an exact aspect. When Mercury, Venus, or Mars are retrograde, the rule does not apply (especially if they move back and forth over a natal planet or angle). The influence may be felt roughly a week in advance, and occurrences may continue to be triggered for the duration of the retrograde.
In my experience, there is no sense of dividing components. It’s over when the aspect is precise. However, according to some astrologers, you can still feel a transit’s waning effects up to 2 degrees after it is exact (while separating). For the planets that move more slowly, this would be more likely.
Yes. The influence may not cause your chart to be activated (no natal planets or angles are aspected). However, there is still energy available. Even if you don’t feel anything, something can still be going on. Check the natal house that the influence is activating if you wish to make changes.
There is no stone carving of an orb. Although these can serve as broad recommendations, they may vary by a few degrees based on the circumstance and the individual using them.
Transits (including new and full moons) to natal planets, angles, and nodes: For conjunctions, oppositions, squares, and trines, 3 degrees are in effect. applying for sextiles are 1-2 degrees. Maximum 4 degrees are applicable for eclipses.
No matter what the aspect or planet, transits to advanced planets, angles, Nodes, and asteroids (including new and full moons) are subject to a 2 degree rule. No more than 3 degrees maximum for eclipses.
No matter what the aspect or planet, 2 degrees apply when progressed planets or angles are in aspect with natal planets or angles, Nodes, or asteroids.
1-2 degrees for an inconjunct, 6 degrees for a conjunction, opposition, or square, 5 degrees for a trine, 3 degrees for a sextile. The maximum angle to the Nodes is 5 degrees. For each aspect of the asteroids, no more than 2-3 degrees.
Synastry and composite aspects: maximum 5 degrees for conjunctions or oppositions, maximum 34 degrees for squares, maximum 3 degrees for trine, minimum 2 degrees for sextile, and minimum 12 degrees for inconjunctions. The maximum angle to the Nodes is 5 degrees. For each aspect of the asteroids, no more than 2-3 degrees.
When reading the weekly horoscopes, should I use my rising sign or sun sign as a guide?
The “sunrise charts” and Whole sign houses are used in the weekly writing. The remaining signs are arranged around the chart in sequence, with the Sun sign in the first House (at 0 degrees). For instance, the Taurus horoscope chart shows Gemini at 0 degrees Taurus on the verge of the 2nd House, Cancer at 0 degrees Taurus on the cusp of the 3rd House, and so on. You can combine the two meanings by reading the predictions for both your rising and sun signs. Some people believe the horoscope that corresponds to their rising sign is more accurate (especially if they are familiar with their chart). Only generic forecasts, these horoscopes give you an idea of the general “weather” for your sign.
Which planets are capable of transits?
Every now and again, Earth and one of our neighbor planets align so precisely that, using a solar-safe telescope, we can see the planet move across the face of the Sun.
The rarity of these kinds of heavenly phenomena is even more astounding. Only Mercury and Venus are visible as planet transits from Earth. This is due to the fact that they are the only two planets between our planet and the Sun in our inner solar system.
Venus transits are extremely uncommon, occurring only twice every 108 years. Venus underwent its most recent transit in 2012. The following one won’t happen until December 2117.
Mercury transits occur more frequentlyroughly 13 times every century. The following one takes place on November 11, 2019! The next Mercury transit won’t be visible in Chicago until 2049, after which we’ll have to wait 30 years.
Why Do Planet Transits Matter?
Two Englishmen named Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree observed the transit of Venus in 1639, almost a hundred years after people realized that the Earth was not the center of the universe, that planets actually orbited the Sun, and that the Earth was a component of a huge Solar System.
The first transit of Venus to ever be seen with the naked eye. Horrocks and Crabtree took this action because they had projected that they would be able to determine the separation between the Sun and Earth by utilizing simple geometry. They were aware that if they knew one side and one angle of a triangle, they could figure out all the other portions thanks to the law of cosines. With a 2/3 accuracy, they were able to calculate the separation between the Sun and the Earth.
Astronomers would continue to watch each Venus transit over the following years, improving their calculations, and finally agreeing on the present separation of roughly 150,000,000 km (93,000,000 miles).
A turning moment in the transition “from the classical astronomy of recording and tabulation to the contemporary idea of observation, prediction, and comprehension” was the work of Horrocks and Crabtree on planet transit calculations.
Planet Transits Beyond Our Solar System
It’s not merely possible to determine the geometry of our own Solar System by using planet transits. Another method by which astronomers find and determine exoplanets in distant regions of the galaxy is by observing planet transits. This procedure is aided by space observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope because it is challenging to see planets that are hundreds of light-years away from our own. They are far less luminous than stars.
Kepler allows researchers to access regions of our galaxy that are otherwise inaccessible from Earth. To gauge the little dimming of a star as an orbiting planet passes in front of Earth, scientists employ transit photometry. It can be determined that a planet is likely orbiting the star if the dimming happens at predictable intervals.
The frequency of planet transits.
More rarely than eclipses, transits. On average, a Mercury transit takes place once every seven years. Venus transits, though, are a little more challenging. A second Venus transit happens eight years after the first one.
How is a transit calibrated?
- Place the transport and tripod in the garage.
- Set the telescope’s position to “0.”
- To get the top bubble nearly level, adjust the screws.
- Turn the scope around by 180 degrees.
- return the angle to 0
- Return to a 180 degree turn.
- Place the bubble in the center by rotating the device 90 degrees and adjusting the bottom two screws.
What does a rod read?
a length measurement of 5 1/2 yards (16 1/2 feet) or rod1. 2 The square measurement that corresponds; perch, pole. 3Any thin bar, whether made of metal or wood. specifically a measuring staff or bar.
rod-foot-meter
a stadia rod that is labelled on one side in feet and tenths and on the other in rotten and hundredths; it is used to measure distances and elevations in one unit of measurement and to cross-check those measurements using readings in a different unit.
A rod person is in charge of moving a leveling rod from one location to another during leveling, making sure the rod is held upright while being observed, and performing other related tasks including shifting the leveling rod’s target, if one is present.
reading a rod
the number on the rod that is parallel to the height of the die observation tool. The elevation difference between the instrument’s location and the observation point where the rod is placed can be determined by comparing the instrument height and the rod reading. Taken only when the rod is plumb. The vertical angle and slope distance are also included for rod readings taken when the rod is not parallel to the device. See also waving the rod; rod person.
Used with permission from the NSPS’s “Definitions of Surveying and Associated Terms.”
