Transits
Transits refer to the planets currently moving through the sky. As they form aspects to the planets and points in your birth chart, they activate new beginnings, endings, turning points, opportunities, periods of growth, and transformation.
“People are permanent transits”
The inner planets (fast moving)
Sun : Stays in a sign for a month
Moon : Changes sign every ½ days
Mercury : Stays in a sign for 15-60 days. (Retrograde)
Venus : 1 month in each sign. Always within 40-45 degrees from the Sun
Mars : 2 months in each sign up to 7 months. (Retrograde)
The outer planets (slow moving)
Jupiter : 1 year in every sign. Jupiter return every 12 years
Saturn : 2 and a half years in each sign. Saturn return every 29-30 years
Uranus : 7 years in each sign. 84 years to go through all the zodiac signs.
Neptune : 14 years in each sign. 164 years to go through all the zodiac signs.
Pluto : 10-20 years in each sign. 248 years to go through all the zodiac signs
Transits in the houses show which area of life is being activated by the current movement of the planets. As transiting planets move through each house in your birth chart, they highlight specific themes, such as relationships (7th house), career (10th house), or home life (4th house). The nature of the planet shows how the energy plays out as defined by the sign it’s transiting, while the house shows where in your life it unfolds.
A house is always activated first, before our behavioral response emerges through the sign. This means that circumstances are initiated through the house, while the sign shapes how we respond. The planet acts as the agent of change, carrying the expression of both house and sign into action.
As a transiting planet moves through a house in your chart, it may form aspects to your natal planets. These moments of contact are when the energies become more visible, tangible, or emotionally felt, often manifesting as internal shifts, relationship dynamics, or external events.
- The house shows where in your life the transit is taking place (e.g., home, work, identity, relationships).
- The planet brings a specific type of energy or theme (e.g., Saturn brings structure, Venus brings harmony, Uranus brings disruption).
- The aspects (such as conjunction, square, trine) to a natal planet creates a dynamic interaction, this is usually when we feel or notice the transit more strongly.
Planets their influence in aspect
| Sun | It illuminates and directs a lot of attention and focus, where you want to be recognized and appreciated • Hard aspect : Egoism, conflict, dominating, highlighting, overdoing, feeling ‘threatened’ • Soft aspect : Stamina, optimism, strong, creative, vitality, creativity, positivity |
| Moon | It brings about emotional involvement, ups and downs, instinctive reactions • Hard aspect : Events trigger, fluctuations, mood-swings, missing, emotional impact • Soft aspect : Secure, attachment, positive feelings, security, nourishment • Read more about lunar events |
| Mercury | It brings exchange and news, increased curiosity and changing interest or mental focus • Hard aspect : Nervous thoughts, technical problems, mental friction, meetings • Soft aspect : Mental stimulation, contracts, social contact, understanding • Rx : evaluation of your communicative style, purging old thought patterns |
| Venus | It highlights social matters and people, the relationships and ability to cooperate or compromise • Hard aspect : Laziness, disappointment, insecurity, criticism, weakened self-esteem • Soft aspect : Financial gains, artistic, attraction, harmony, creativity, beautify • Rx : past relationships & issues, healing co-dependent patterns |
| Mars | It highlights action or the need to initiate, impulses and primal reactions • Hard aspect : Energetic, impatience, accidents, quarrels, dominant, fights • Soft aspect : Energetic, courage, attraction, initiating, action, sexual desire • Rx : confront yourself with personal issues, take it slow, self-nourishment, take care of the body |
| Jupiter | It increases consciousness and experience, to gain better understanding and awareness • Hard aspect : Over indulgence, exaggerating, stand-still, opportunity, big actions • Soft aspect : Expansion, support, optimism, luck, education, opportunity • Rx : do the work to achieve your dreams, re-align with purpose and authenticity |
| Saturn | It gives limitations and the necessity to put in more effort, to built and solidify • Hard aspect : Breaking-points, testing structures, hardship, depression, loss • Soft aspect : Constructive stamina, realistic approach, determination • Rx : evaluate self-discipline, uncovering the structure of something, what something is made of |
| Uranus | It brings about sudden changes and events of an unexpecting or surprising flavor • Hard aspect : Unexpected change, rebellion, unconventional behavior, (abrupt) breakings • Soft aspect : Brings opportunity for freedom, new perspectives, innovation • Rx : re-evaluation of your approach and intentions, creative thinking |
| Neptune | It weakens the boundaries and tend to bring in confusions, increasing intuition and spiritual growth • Hard aspect : Delusion, addiction, health problems, sleeplessness, confusion • Soft aspect : Romantic, artistic, psychic, dreamy, spiritual development • Rx : breaking illusions, seeing things more clearly, unveiling, getting out of comfort zone |
| Pluto | It brings about transformation and necessary change. The need to realize and break with destructive and karmic patterns • Hard aspect : Brutal breakings, painful transformation, fear, crisis, deep desires, destruct • Soft aspect : Courage, rebirth, going inwards, research, growth, constructiveness • Rx : evaluate your relationship to power/control, use your influence constructively, purging, unveiling the true faces and uncovering secrets |
Which areas of life are affected
When analyzing transits, it’s essential to consider which house that planet rules in your birth chart. Most people simply search for something like ‘Transit Saturn square Venus’ and receive a general explanation of how Saturn and Venus interact in that aspect. But this only provides the surface-level dynamic, without linking it to your personal chart.
The real meaning of a transit emerges when you ask: What areas of my life does this planet rule for me? For example, if transiting Saturn rules your natal 4th house and it’s squaring your natal Venus in the 7th house, the tension between these two planets links your private life to your relationships. This dynamic between Saturn-Venus can create emotional distance, test commitment, or demand clearer boundaries in partnerships. The house Saturn rules reveals where the pressure originates while the house Venus occupies shows where the impact is felt.
Because planetary rulerships differ from person to person depending on rising sign, transits play out in unique ways. Understanding the house rulerships allows you to trace which life themes are being activated or challenged through interconnection, making your interpretation more precise, personal, and grounded.
Example :
Transit Saturn square Venus
Saturn (as 6th house ruler) means obstacles, challenges, difficulties (Saturn) in matters related to the health, daily routines, pets,.. (6th house)
Square means tension, conflict, action
Venus (as 10th house ruler) means it affects the matters of career, reputation, authority figures,…
The next step in analyzing a transit is to look at which house the transiting planet is currently moving through. For example, if the planet is transiting your 12th house, it may trigger themes of loss, confusion, isolation, introspection, retreat, or subconscious overwhelm. This placement can also affect your sleep, emotional regulation, or connection to the unseen. Suppose Saturn, ruler of your 6th house of health, work, and daily routines, is transiting your 12th house and forming a square to natal Venus, ruler of your 10th house of career. This creates a complex dynamic: difficulties with sleep or hidden stress (12th house) may begin to affect your physical well-being (6th house), which in turn creates strain in your professional life (10th house).
Since Venus also symbolizes beauty, love, and finances, additional layers could emerge, perhaps a partner is experiencing financial trouble that indirectly affects you, or emotional concerns in the relationship are disturbing your sleep. A square indicates internal or external conflict, a buildup of tension that must eventually be addressed. You may feel pushed to take action, or your behavior may provoke a response from others that forces change. In either case, squares highlight where pressure must be metabolized and restructured.
Life changing or Temporary
Fast moving planetary transits
Such as Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars
These will manifest more directly or as daily events.
Slow moving planetary transits
Transit Pluto square Venus can last up to five years, depending on Pluto’s retrograde cycles. With Pluto involved, profound change is inevitable, this planet governs transformation, endings, and rebirth. However, its influence tends to manifest gradually, through a buildup of subtle shifts and internal pressure. Outer planet transits often operate first on a psychological level, quietly reshaping perception, desire, and emotional patterns. Still, it is safe to say that by the end of such a Pluto transit, the native’s life will have undergone a complete transformation in the area ruled by Venus and the houses involved.
Whatever Pluto touches (especially by conjunction, square or opposition) marks a turning point. It signals a fated rupture, an irreversible event or psychological shift. For example, when transiting Pluto conjuncts natal Uranus, it often brings the most radical change of a lifetime. Life before and after this transit may feel unrecognizable. Similarly, when transit Pluto trines Venus, it can bring the ‘lover of destiny.’ This doesn’t necessarily mean a soulmate or future spouse, but someone you are meant to meet, someone whose presence catalyzes profound emotional or relational upheaval. Even with harmonious aspects, Pluto can create drastic change.
Retrograde transits
Retrogrades create periods of delay, confusion, obstacles, and deep introspection. The most well-known is Mercury retrograde, which symbolizes a time to turn inward mentally to re-think, re-evaluate, re-communicate, and re-align. A helpful way to understand any retrograde transit is through the theme of ‘RE’ : re-doing, re-visiting, re-membering, and re-turning to something that needs revision or deeper understanding.
Retrograde outer planets operate differently :
| • First retrograde motion aspect : bringing the issue to the surface • First direct motion aspect : acting upon the issues or continue to buildup, repress • Second retrograde motion aspect : Final conclusion and result of the issue • Stationary : Tends to manifest events |
For example, when transiting Saturn was square my natal Venus, I went through four breakups with my partner during that period. But it wasn’t final until the last breakup, which happened under the final retrograde pass of Saturn to my natal Venus. That’s when the outcome became definitive.
When a retrograde planet turns direct, it enters what’s called the shadow period. This is the time it takes for the planet to return to the degree where it originally went retrograde. For example, if transit Venus goes retrograde at 20° Leo and moves backward to 0° Leo, she will then station direct and begin moving forward again. Venus will remain in her shadow phase until she passes 20° Leo, only fully exiting once she reaches 21°. This principle applies to any planet that turns direct.
During the shadow period, similar themes or issues from the retrograde phase may resurface, but your mindset, awareness, or approach may now be more conscious. It can feel like a ‘testing ground’, a time to see whether the inner work, reflection, or release from the retrograde phase has truly taken root.
Remember :
Transits from outer planets to your 7th house ruler or Venus often test the foundation of your relationship. When Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto are involved, the pressure can reveal cracks in the structure. If a relationship ends under these influences, it’s often because the connection couldn’t sustain the weight of deeper growth or truth. But if the relationship survives, it tends to emerge stronger, more authentic, and more deeply bonded.
Romantic
Predicting a Romantic Meeting with Transits
Favorable aspects: trine, sextile, and sometimes conjunctions
- Transit Uranus through the 5th or 7th house
- Transit Uranus aspecting Venus, Mars, Sun, Moon, or the ruler of the 7th house
- Transit Saturn through the 7th house
- Transit Saturn aspecting the Sun (can indicate commitment-oriented encounters)
- Transit Jupiter through or aspecting the 5th or 7th house
- Transit Jupiter aspecting Venus (expansion of love, joy, or attraction)
- Transit Venus through the 5th or 7th house
- Transit Venus aspecting the Ascendant or Ascendant ruler
- Transit Venus aspecting the Sun, Moon, Mars, Saturn
- Transit Venus aspecting the North Node or South Node (karmic meetings)
- Transit Sun aspecting Venus, Uranus
- Transit Chiron aspecting Venus (wounded healer meets love, can be transformative or bittersweet)
- Transit Chiron through the 5th or 7th house
- Transit Juno aspecting Venus
- Transit Juno through the 5th or 7th house
- Transit Pluto aspecting Venus, Jupiter, Sun, or the ruler of the 5th or 7th house (deep, transformative romantic shifts)
Predicting the Start of a New Relationship with Transits
Favorable aspects: trine, sextile, and some conjunctions
- Transit Juno through the 1st or 7th house
- Transit Venus through the 1st, 5th, or 7th house
- Transit Venus aspecting the Moon or 7th house ruler
- Transit Uranus through the 1st house or conjunct the Ascendant (sudden meetings)
- Transit Jupiter through the 1st or 7th house
- Transit Jupiter aspecting the 7th house cusp
- Transit Moon through the 7th house (short-term relational opportunities, emotional openings)
- Transit Uranus trine Moon (emotional awakening through unexpected contact)
- Transit Uranus aspecting Midheaven, Saturn, Venus, or 7th house ruler
- Transit Uranus aspecting North Node, Pluto, Mars
- Transit Juno aspecting Moon, Sun, Ceres, Ascendant
- Transit Juno aspecting Uranus or the 7th house ruler
- Transit Juno conjunct Vertex (fated meetings)
- Transit Venus aspecting Sun, Venus, Juno, Vertex
- Transit Ceres conjunct Moon (nurturing love dynamic)
- Transit Saturn aspecting the Moon (stability, commitment potential)
- Transit South Node conjunct natal South Node (re-encounter of karmic lovers or emotional cycles)
- Transit Chiron aspecting the Ascendant
General Principles:
- Any time the transit ruler of your natal 7th house makes a positive aspect to your Ascendant, a significant relational encounter may occur.
- Positive transits through the 5th and 7th houses, or positive aspects to the rulers of those houses, often indicate opportunities for connection, romance, or relationship development.
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