Astrology Transits: How Today’s Planets Affect Your Chart

Transits are the current positions of the planets as they move through the sky. When a moving planet forms an angle to a planet in your birth chart, astrologers say it is “transiting” that point, and you feel its effect in your life.

Fast and slow transits

The Moon changes signs every couple of days and shapes your daily mood. Mercury, Venus and Mars move faster and bring weeks-long themes. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move slowly, and their transits mark the major chapters of your life, like your Saturn Return.

Reading a transit

Which planet is moving: the kind of energy arriving
Which natal planet it touches: the part of you being activated
The aspect: harmonious (trine, sextile) or challenging (square, opposition), or a powerful conjunction
The house: the area of life where you’ll feel it

Retrogrades

When a planet appears to move backward from Earth’s point of view, it is retrograde. Retrograde periods are a time to review, revisit and reflect. The best known is Mercury retrograde.

Frequently asked questions

How can I see my transits?

Soul Energy Insight shows today’s planets laid over your birth chart, with a reading of each active aspect and what the sky is activating in you.

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