Solstaria

What is touching your chart

A transit is the plainest fact in astrology: a planet that is up there now arrives at an exact angle to a degree fixed at your birth. The degree does not move. The planet does. Here is every time they agree between today and three months from now.

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How to read this without being fooled by it

An exact date is a real thing — the angle really is exact at that hour — but it is not the shape of the experience. A slow planet is within a degree of the aspect for weeks either side, and a fast one is only doing what it does every year. The date is the middle of a window, and the window is what anybody actually notices, if they notice anything.

The readings are composed from three short lists: what the arriving planet brings, what kind of contact the angle is, and what part of the chart it lands on. Nine planets, five aspects, twelve points in your chart — five hundred and forty combinations that nobody wrote out one by one, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. The tradition is built that way too.

What you will not find is a claim about what will happen. Nothing here predicts an event, a person or an outcome. A transit is a fact about two angles; what you do inside it is not in the arithmetic.