“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.”
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The meaning of a transit chart
Astrology can be intimidating and muddled. The term “transitastrologers tend to use this term a lot because it is a highly important astrological term, and it is especially important in predictive astrology, so you may or may not be familiar with it.
The words “Jupiter moves into Scorpio” or “Venus switches signs and is now in Virgo” may not be recognizable to you, but they do refer to planetary transits.
You want to know how a transit will affect you most of all. What does Jupiter’s upcoming transit through Scorpio signify for you? What does Venus entering Virgo signify for you personally?
Let’s first define a transit to help you comprehend how planetary transits will impact you.
Astrology refers to the movements of the planets in relation to the Earth as “Transits.”
A transit occurs when the Sun moves across the sky and rises slightly to the east or west of where it did the day before. the Sun’s passage through.
A transit occurs when the moon is waxing or when it is a tiny sliver of a crescent moon when it is full and shining brightly in the night sky. Moon transits the Sun.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all rise and set in various locations in the sky each day. These are transits as well.
The act or event of travelling across or through; a passage from one place to another is what the word “transit” is defined as.
A transit is only related to something, as we now know. You actually look at your natal chart in relation to the movement of the planets at a certain time when you want to know how a planetary transit will affect you.
The sky at the time of your birth and the sky at a specific time are constantly compared in a transit chart.
Suppose that you were born on January 1st, 1970. This is a static representation of your natal chart. A transit, however, can occur at any time. You can search for transits on any date, past or present, including June 5, 1998 and October 10, 2017.
To Read Your Transits, Follow This Process:
1. You click on the link on the astro.com landing page “Free natal charts
2. A prompt will then direct you to the page below. Click here “Additional chart options
4. To produce your natal chart, you will now create your guest profile. Please enter your name and the following information about your birth: birthday, time of birth, country, and place of birth.
5. Nearly there! You now select “Chart type” and get to “Natal chart with transits” by scrolling down. then you choose “the transits and natal chart.
Next, you head to “Start date for charts marked with an asterisk (*), and you enter the date of the desired transit. The current date is set by default, so if you’re interested in the transits for today, leave it there.
Example: Suppose you want to look for your transits on the day Jupiter entered Scorpio (October 10, 2017), so you choose this day “10 Oct 2017.
6. Your chart is generated, along with the planetary transits for October 10, 2017!
The location of the planets at the moment of your birth is represented by all the black planets inside the wheel. This is a chart of your birth. The planets outside the circle, which are colored green, stand for the planets’ transits, or their positions in the sky on October 10.
When reading transits, you essentially compare the planetary positions for the date you want a forecast for with the planetary positions at the time of your birth.
Now that you are aware of “In astrology, a transit is a comparison of the sky at the time of your birth with the sky on a specific day. Consider a comparison between a photograph of the sky taken before you were born and one taken presently.
You can observe where the planets are in the sky now in relation to where they were when you were born by comparing the two images. A transit is exactly like this.
Let’s use an example where you want to know how Jupiter’s entry into Scorpio will affect you.
You search for this where Jupiter is outside of the circle (if you want to see where Jupiter was positioned at the time of your birth, you would look inside the circle remember inside the circle is your natal chart, outside the circle, is the transit)
Jupiter’s location is marked in red.
Can you make it out? This is the transit of Jupiter.
You now want to find out how the passage of Jupiter will affect you. Find the corresponding number inside the circle by looking inside (from 1 to 12). Houses are the numbers from 1 to 12. A planet’s placement in a house at birth is known as the natal house placement. A transit occurs when a planet is outside the circle.
Your 12th house is in Jupiter inside the circle, you claim “Jupiter is in my 12th house by natal position. You say Jupiter is in your 12th house if it is outside the circle “Jupiter is presently moving through my 12th house.
Inside the circle, the planets remain constant. Your natal chart doesn’t alter. Though the planets outside the circle are constantly in flux.
This is how a transit is interpreted. You take note of the planets outside the sphere and the homes they travel through. Jupiter will make its way through your 12th house in the illustration below.
7. Consider one more instance. You wish to check the Moon in the same chart right now. You’re interested in learning which house in your natal chart the Moon is currently transiting.
8. Let’s look at a new, slightly trickier case now. Consider a scenario in which you read about the Leo solar eclipse at 28 Leo and are interested in learning which area of your horoscope will be impacted.
The ninth house is occupied by 28 Leo in the example below. The zodiac sign of Leo is divided into 30 little lines, each one denoting one zodiacal degree, even though you cannot see the 28. Therefore, the 28th line inside the sign of Leo is where you start counting.
You now know that from October 10th, when Jupiter enters Scorpio, until November 9th, 2018, Jupiter will be transiting the 12th house for someone born on January 1st, 1970 at 5:32 AM in LA, California. This means that issues pertaining to the 12th house will be in focus during this time.
PS: Please remember that there are various methods for calculating the houses (you may be more familiar with Placidus house system for example).
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.
What impact do transits have on your birth chart?
Transit interpretation is typically somewhat similar to progression interpretation. However, transits typically focus on changes in a person’s external circumstances, whereas progressions tend to focus on changes in a person’s internal psychological state.
The most crucial thing to keep in mind about transits is that their significance is always determined by the natal chart’s pattern. Therefore, a favorable or easy aspect between transiting Jupiter and the natal sun will not result in the same expected benefit, for instance, if the sun and Jupiter are in a difficult aspect in the natal chart. Additionally, transiting aspects won’t often have the same impact on planets if they are not aspected in the natal chart. In other words, a person’s natal chart pattern follows them throughout their entire lifetimes, and the planets’ advanced and transiting motions show when that potential will have chances to manifest.
Because the personal planets move so fast through the zodiac, such as the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, their transits are typically not given much weight. The slower-moving planets’ transitsJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Plutoare stronger and more pronounced, particularly when they strike a person’s planet or a cardinal point.
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.
Transit: What does that mean?
1: the process by which the signals from a satellite flow through or across one another. 2: the process of moving objects from one location to another The shipment of the products was missing. 3. Local passenger transportation using a public vehicle. 4: a tool used by surveyors to measure angles.
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.
What does a planet transit mean?
The transit technique has been used to find the majority of known exoplanets. When a planet passes in front of an observer and a star, it is said to be transiting. When Venus or Mercury pass in front of Earth and the Sun, transits inside our solar system can be seen from the planet.
Transits identify extrasolar planets by dimming their star’s light as the planet passes in front of it, rather than by directly observing them from a great distance away. Light curve graphs that display the amount of light received over time illustrate this dimming. The brightness of the light curve will decrease as the exoplanet approaches the star.
This information contributes to the usefulness of transits. Exoplanet properties can be determined by transits in a number of different ways. The time it takes the exoplanet to complete one orbit (the period) can be used to determine the size of the planet’s orbit, and the brightness of the star can be used to determine the size of the planet itself.
During a transit, we can discover more about an exoplanet’s atmosphere. Some light will pass through its atmosphere as it travels, and this light can be examined to ascertain what specific atmospheric components caused its unique dispersion. The ability to sustain life depends on the makeup of the atmosphere. Orbital size and stellar temperature can also demonstrate habitability. These assist in determining the planet’s overall temperature, letting us know if the planet’s surface is habitable or inhospitable to life.
What makes transits significant?
Transits essentially affect who you meet and what you attract. Tripp adds that it’s crucial to remember that planets in transit behave differently. The transits and effects of the “inner planets” (the moon, sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars) are generally brief because of how swiftly they pass through the signs.
What transit of a planet is significant?
When Saturn transits to the following sign, the effect is different. The most significant planetary transit is the transit of Saturn, one of the slowest transits in astrology. This is due to the fact that, regardless of the effects, they last for 2.5 years. It is therefore wise to speak with a competent astrologer to determine how the Saturn transit will effect you and adjust your karmas accordingly.