Astrological Transits
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Astrological Transits: The Complete Guide
What Is a Transit in Astrology? An astrological transit is the current position of a planet measured against the positions of planets in a natal chart.
2026-08-23How to make an astrolabe?
A 10th-century astronomer in Baghdad holds a brass disk the size of a dinner plate.
2026-08-23Tetrabiblos by Ptolemy: the classic astrological text
We once watched a student open a 1553 Latin edition of the Tetrabiblos in our library.
2026-08-23The astrolabe: inventors and history
A metal disk with a web of lines could tell you the time at night, find a star invisible below the horizon, and predict the moment Mars would vanish behind
2026-08-23Transiting aspects: how to interpret them
A woman in Alexandria, around 150 CE, watched the Moon slide across the face of Jupiter in the night sky.
2026-08-23Transits to natal planets: a practical guide
Once a month we pencil the current positions of the slow planets onto a print of our birth chart.
2026-08-23Comparing different transit calendars: Which one suits you?
A parchment ephemeris from 1493 sits open on the desk, its columns of numbers barely legible.
2026-08-20Comparing Pluto transits: effects of Pluto square Venus vs. Pluto square Sun
You are six months into a Pluto square Venus.
2026-08-20Comparing Solar Arc Predictions to Traditional Astrology
A London astrologer sat at his desk in 1973, comparing a client's progressed chart to the actual events of the past decade.
2026-08-20Comparing Venus transit effects in different houses
A medieval astrologer once told his student that Venus in the 12th house could be more painful than Saturn in the 7th.
2026-08-20Exploring the relationship between transit dates and personal astrology
An astrologer in 2nd-century Alexandria would have consulted the same tool we do: an ephemeris.
2026-08-20Grand trine vs kite: what's the difference?
Picture a natal chart: three planets spaced exactly 120 degrees apart, forming an equilateral triangle.
2026-08-20How does a Mercury transit relate to solar eclipses?
Photo : Mohammed Brzan · Pexels (libre d'utilisation) In November 1639, two young English astronomers — Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree — watched a
2026-08-20Lilith transit conjunct your natal North Node: what it means
A woman sits alone in a room she has been told she cannot enter.
2026-08-20Natal Chart vs Birth Chart: What's the Difference?
A natal chart and a birth chart are identical: a calculated map of the planets, signs, and houses at the exact moment of a person's first breath.
2026-08-20Neptune transit conjunct Venus: dreamy love or deception?
A Neptune transit conjunct Venus is a seven-month passage during which the planet of illusion, transcendence, and dissolution meets the planet of love, bea
2026-08-20Pluto Transit Timeline: Key Dates to Remember
In February 1930, Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory compared two photographic plates of the Gemini region.
2026-08-20Prograde vs retrograde motion: what's the difference?
A Babylonian astronomer in the seventh century BCE pressed his stylus into a clay tablet, recording that Jupiter had stopped moving eastward against the fi
2026-08-20Saturn return in Pisces: unique challenges and lessons
The native says they feel like they are trying to build a wall out of water.
2026-08-20Saturn return vs. solar return: key differences
A client once called us in late November, voice tight.
2026-08-20Secondary Progressions vs. Primary Progressions: Key Differences
A Roman astrologer in the second century CE would have called them aphesis — the releasing of time through the degrees of the zodiac.
2026-08-20Solar Arc vs Progressions: Understanding Their Relationship
A chart can be read as a still photograph, but it was never meant to stay still.
2026-08-20Solar Arc vs Secondary Progression: Key Differences Explained
Same birth data, same question about a career change.
2026-08-20South node transit conjunct natal Chiron: what it means
A woman in 1980s London walked into astrologer Liz Greene's consultation room complaining that every seven years, the same pattern of betrayal repeated.
2026-08-20The differences between Saturn return and Sade Sati
A client once sat in our reading room with a printed transit chart, two ink circles around the same decade of her life.
2026-08-20The Relationship Between Mars Transit and the South Node
A man we know once lost two jobs in three years to the same argument.
2026-08-20The relationship between Pluto transits and personal power
The astrologer traces a line from Pluto in Capricorn to the natal Sun in Aries.
2026-08-20The relationship between Saturn return and retrograde periods
An astrologer once compared Saturn to a teacher who never raises his voice.
2026-08-20The relationship between Uranus and Pluto transits
In 1965, a young astrologer in Berkeley watched the sky.
2026-08-20Transit chart vs solar return: key differences explained
An astrologer once watched a client’s face shift from confusion to relief after explaining why her Saturn return had nothing to do with her solar return.
2026-08-20Understanding Jupiter return ages: what to expect
A child born under a waxing Jupiter watches that same planet return to its natal place at age twelve.
2026-08-20Understanding the difference between Jupiter return and Saturn return
A Roman priest once told a Greek colleague that his gods had no myths, only rituals.
2026-08-20Understanding the relationship between Jupiter and Venus transits
A medieval astrologer once refused to cast a chart unless Jupiter was dignified, muttering that without the greater benefic, the reading was "a ship withou
2026-08-20Understanding the relationship between Uranus and Neptune transits
We once found a margin note in a 1993 ephemeris, written in pencil: "The structure dissolves into a dream.
2026-08-20Uranus transit dates: when to expect changes
In March 1781, William Herschel pointed his telescope at a faint object he thought was a comet.
2026-08-20Venus opposite Midheaven transit: relationship vs reputation
The astrologer who first mapped this transit in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemy, called it a "malefic aspect of the lesser benefic.
2026-08-20What Are Secondary Progressions in Astrology?
A client sits across the table with a chart that shows no major transits.
2026-08-20What are the differences between harmonic charts and natal charts?
A practitioner once spent three years studying a single natal chart.
2026-08-20What is a Chiron return and how does it affect you
A client once sat across from us with her chart spread open, asking why the same pattern kept surfacing.
2026-08-20What is a grand trine in astrology?
Set a compass on its rim and step around the edge: the third stop falls 120 degrees from the start.
2026-08-20What is a Mars transit and how does it affect us?
A runner pushes past pain into a new personal record.
2026-08-20What is a Mercury transit and its historical significance?
On November 7, 1631, Pierre Gassendi pointed his telescope at the Sun from the Parisian church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie.
2026-08-20What is a sidereal solar return chart and how does it differ?
A sidereal solar return chart maps the sky at the exact moment the Sun returns to its natal position against the fixed stars, not the seasonal equinoxes.
2026-08-20What is a solar return chart and how does it differ from a lunar return?
The astrologer sets down the ephemeris and draws a circle on a blank sheet of paper.
2026-08-20What is a transit calendar in astrology?
An astrologer sits at a desk under a north-facing window, a printed calendar open beside a hand-drawn chart.
2026-08-20What Is a Transiting Ascendant in Astrology?
A Roman astrologer named Vettius Valens once watched a client’s life shift direction between morning and noon.
2026-08-20What is Astrology for the Soul by Jan Spiller?
A woman once walked into a bookstore in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1997, carrying a manuscript that would quietly change how Western astrologers understood t
2026-08-20What is retrograde motion of the planets?
A Roman astrologer named Vettius Valens, writing in the second century CE, noted that a planet moving backward through the zodiac was not broken.
2026-08-20What is the difference between Astrology for the Soul and Astrology from the Soul?
Two books rest on a table in our reading room: Jan Spiller's Astrology for the Soul and a worn copy of Dane Rudhyar's The Astrology of Personality.
2026-08-20What Is the Difference Between Transiting Ascendant and Natal Ascendant?
A Roman astrologer once told his student that the chart is a house, but the sky is the weather.
2026-08-20What is the relationship between Jupiter return and marriage?
Ptolemy, writing in the Tetrabiblos around 150 CE, considered the Great Year of Jupiter to be the most favorable time for renewing one’s life direction.
2026-08-20What is Yod in Hebrew and its spiritual meaning?
A kabbalist in 13th-century Spain, copying the Zohar, stops at the first letter of the Tetragrammaton.
2026-08-20Yod vs grand trine: key differences in astrology
It speaks in angles, and two configurations answer back more loudly than the rest: the yod and the grand trine.
2026-08-20Comparing Saturn Square Mars Transit and Uranus Square Mars Transit
An astrologer in 17th-century London once noted that when Saturn squared Mars, his client’s inheritance was locked in litigation for seven years.
2026-08-18Horary Astrology by John Frawley: an overview
A 17th-century printer’s apprentice walks into a London bookshop, buys Christian Astrology by William Lilly, and spends the next year learning to read the
2026-08-18How to find your Midheaven in your birth chart
An astrologer in 2nd century Alexandria, working by lamplight, traces a line from the rising degree to the meridian.
2026-08-18How to interpret a free synastry chart?
A 2nd-century astrologer in Alexandria placed two birth charts side by side, looking for the angle between Venus and Mars.
2026-08-18How to read horary astrology example charts
In 1647, a London woman asked William Lilly whether her missing silver spoons would be recovered.
2026-08-18How to Read Your Transit Chart Effectively
A client once brought us a transit chart covered in red ink.
2026-08-18How to use transits for timing events
What Are Transits in Astrology? Transits are the ongoing positions of the planets in the sky measured against the positions they held at your birth, and th
2026-08-18The influence of a Pluto square North Node transit
What is a Pluto Square North Node Transit? A woman in 1960s New York walked into an astrologer's office convinced her life was falling apart.
2026-08-18The Twelve Houses by Howard Sasportas: an overview
A student once told us that before reading The Twelve Houses, the houses in her chart felt like empty boxes.
2026-08-18Transiting Midheaven: what it means in astrology
What Is the Midheaven in Astrology The Midheaven is not a planet.
2026-08-18Transits in synastry: timing relationship events
A couple sits at a kitchen table, their birth charts spread between coffee mugs.
2026-08-18Transits to the natal chart: how to read them
Transits to the natal chart are the current positions of the planets as they move through the sky, measured against the fixed positions of the planets in a
2026-08-18What Are Solar Arc Directions and Why Are They Important?
The sky never stays still, and neither do we.
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