Your transits, dated: twelve months from your own chart
For anyone who wants to know what's actually happening in their chart, with dates, and to put those dates in their calendar.
A transit is a planet in today's sky making a meaningful angle to a planet in your birth chart. Transits are the working tool of astrological timing, and they're personal: the same Saturn that squares one person's Moon this month is nowhere near another person's chart. A horoscope for your sign can't know which ones are yours.
This reading lists them. Your chart is cast, the slow planets are followed across the next twelve months, and every contact to your Sun, Moon and personal planets - and to your rising sign and Midheaven, if you know your birth time - is dated: when it comes into range, when it's exact and when it leaves.
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What gets dated
The calendar follows the planets whose contacts last long enough to matter.
- Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacting your Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
- Your rising sign and Midheaven, when your birth time is known.
- The next ninety days of faster contacts from the Sun, Mercury and Venus to your Sun, Moon and angles.
- Mercury, Venus and Mars turning retrograde or direct, and New Moons, Full Moons and eclipses that land close to your planets.
Exact dates, and why some transits have three
Each transit comes into range, peaks on its exact date and fades. Slow planets often go retrograde partway through, crossing the same point in your chart two or three times, and each pass is dated separately. For most people the weeks around an exact date are when a theme is loudest.
The dates are astronomy, so they don't move. What changes is which ones matter most to you, and that's the part to ask about.
Put your dates in your calendar
Your dates can be added to the calendar on your phone or computer as a subscription that keeps itself up to date as the year rolls forward. Each entry names the transit in plain words and links back to your chart, so when a date arrives you can ask what it means while it's happening.
The calendar carries your first name and the transits - no birth date, time or place - and you can switch it off whenever you like. A free sitting shows your next few dates and how many more are coming; a paid sitting opens the rest.
An example of how Vera answers
What are my biggest transits over the next year?
Two stand out, and they overlap. Saturn squares your Sun three times: exact on 3 March, again on 18 August as it moves backwards, and a final time on 9 January. Saturn square the Sun is a test of stamina and direction - the months when you find out which of your commitments are load-bearing. Alongside it, Jupiter trines your Moon on 30 May, which is the relief valve: a stretch of feeling supported, often by the people closest to you. Everything else this year is weather by comparison. If you add the dates to your calendar, the ones worth marking are the three Saturn passes, because the weeks around each are when the pressure peaks - and the Jupiter trine sits usefully between the first two.
Written as an example, not taken from anyone's sitting.
Things worth asking
- What are my biggest transits in the next twelve months?
- Which transit is exact next, and what does it mean?
- Is anything crossing my rising sign or Midheaven this year?
- Why does this month feel so heavy?
- Which dates should I mark in my calendar?
- What's the easiest stretch of my year?
Common questions
What is a transit in astrology?
A transit is a planet in today's sky making a significant angle - a conjunction, square, trine, opposition or sextile - to a planet or point in your birth chart. Transits are how astrologers read timing, and they're different for everyone.
How is this different from a yearly horoscope?
A yearly horoscope is written for a sign. This lists the transits forming against your own chart, with the date each one comes into range, becomes exact and ends.
Can I add my transits to my calendar?
Yes. Your dates can be added to your phone or computer calendar as a subscription that updates itself. It shows your first name and the transits only - no birth details - and you can switch it off whenever you like.
Do I need my birth time?
Not for most of the calendar. Transits to your planets hold at any birth time. The rising sign, Midheaven and houses need a time, and without one they're left out rather than guessed.
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