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Transits in Astrology

What each planet does when it moves, how long it takes, and how to read it against a natal chart.

A transit is simply a planet's current position making an aspect to a placement in your birth chart. The natal chart is fixed; the sky is not. Everything astrology says about timing comes from that difference.

How much a transit matters depends mostly on speed. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days and describes the mood of an afternoon. Pluto can spend two or three years crossing a single degree, and what it touches does not go back to how it was. Reading transits well is largely a matter of matching the weight of your interpretation to the speed of the planet — which is why each of these pages leads with how the planet moves.

The ten planets

☉ Sun Identity, vitality, and the thing you are actually here to do. ☽ Moon What you need, how you react, and who you are when you are tired. ☿ Mercury How you think, how you say it, and what happens to information on the way. ♀ Venus What you want, what you find beautiful, and what you think things are worth. ♂ Mars How you go after what you want, and what you do when blocked. ♃ Jupiter Where things expand, and where expansion becomes excess. ♄ Saturn Where the work is, where the limit is, and what has to be earned. ♅ Uranus Where the break happens, and what will not stay in place. ♆ Neptune Where the edges go soft, and what you are willing not to see. ♇ Pluto What gets destroyed, what survives it, and where the power actually sits.

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Transits in Astrology

The ten planets

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