Advanced Astrology
Transits 12 lessons
Lay today's sky over a natal chart, from the fast planets to the outer planets, to time life events and long cycles.
Transit Chart Basics: Today's Sky and Your Natal Chart
Learn how current planetary positions overlay your natal chart, how fast and slow transits differ, and why transits describe timing rather than fate.
Transit Aspects: Applying and Separating
Learn how transit aspects form, distinguish applying from separating, and understand why themes may build before exactness or repeat through retrogrades.
Transit Orbs and Event Time Windows
Learn astro.how's transit orb settings, estimate time windows from planetary speed, and use an ephemeris to mark entry, exact hits, and final exit.
Fast-Planet Transits: Everyday Triggers and Short-Term Rhythms
Use Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars transits to understand everyday rhythms, while separating short-term triggers from lasting planetary themes.
Jupiter Transits: Expansion, Opportunity, and Belief
Explore Jupiter's 11.86-year cycle and how its transits amplify options, confidence, and beliefs, while distinguishing opportunity from overexpansion.
Saturn Transits: Responsibility, Limits, and Maturity
Understand Saturn's 29.5-year cycle, house transits, retrograde contacts, and returns, using responsibility and structure as a practical reading framework.
Uranus Transits: Change and Breakthrough
Explore Uranus's 84-year cycle and midlife turning points, distinguishing freedom and renewal from real losses, unexpected events, and uncontrollable factors.
Neptune Transits: Ideals, Uncertainty, and Dissolution
Explore Neptune's 165-year cycle and themes of ideals, boundaries, and uncertainty, using fact-checking, trusted support, and review dates to stay grounded.
Pluto Transits: Power, Crisis, and Transformation
Understand Pluto's long cycle and explore power, attachment, loss of control, and restructuring through close aspects, natal points, houses, and real evidence.
Transits Through the Twelve Houses and Four Angles
Read transiting planets through houses, separate sign speed from house duration, compare house systems, and interpret conjunctions to the four angles carefully.
Combining Multiple Transits and Long and Short Cycles
Use a three-layer filter and four weighting factors to combine multiple transits, treating thematic resonance as a working model for prioritizing attention.
Transit Timelines and Case Practice
Build a repeatable transit timeline with two fictional teaching cases, recording dates, degrees, house systems, orbs, time windows, and practical limits.