The transit method is used to predict future events in human life, natural disasters, etc. In order to use it, complex calculations are not needed. It is enough to have a natal horoscope, tables that are compiled during its delineation, and ephemerides, in which the position of transit planets is found for any day. The transit chart for a certain moment of time is calculated in exactly the same way as the natal chart.

The Natal Horoscope is a special case of the general transit of planets across the sky. At the time of birth, the location of the planets is photographed, and this “snapshot” remains with a person for life. The points recorded at the time of birth in the natal horoscope (Radix) are called natal planets. The planets themselves continue their movement along the Zodiacal Circle, they are called transit planets or emitter planets.

Each planet in the natal horoscope has its own place, called the constellation of the planet, and has a definite influence on other planets, as well as it itself experiences the influence of other planets. Transit planet during its movement on the celestial sphere at a certain moment has an effect, favorable or unfavorable, on some transit planets, as well as on planets and other elements of the natal horoscope. At such moments, the probability of manifestation of an event occurs. This, in fact, is the method of transit, which takes into account the natural motion of the planets. For more correctness it should be noted that not only planets, but other elements of the horoscope are transit: cusps of houses, Moon nodes, asteroids, etc., but in this text, only the transit of planets and Moon nodes as the most significant will be considered.

Planets and horoscope elements, with which transitory aspects make aspects, are called receptors, sometimes promissors.

The method of transit can be applied not only to the natal chart, but also to other charts – progressive, solar, lunar, etc.

Transit analysis is carried out by comparing the relative location of the transit planets themselves, and transit planets with natal (progressive, solar, etc.) planets. On this basis, it is concluded whether the event will occur and how soon it can be expected.

So, transit is an important and quite effective method for predicting the fate of a person, developing his relationships with the outside world and helping to understand what is happening to a person at any given moment. Transits stimulate the hidden psychological tendencies of the individual and play an important role during decision-making, especially during crisis periods. They point to something that a person will have to face. Through transit, it is easy to determine the person’s own psychic reactions to the impact of the environment and the possible reactions of others to his own actions, as well as the time when all this manifests itself to a greater extent.

Here, it should be recalled once again that the planets themselves and their location on the horizon are not the cause of the events, they only point to the trends that affect a person at any given moment in accordance with the law of similarity. During transit, a person feels an inner motivation for something and most often succumbs to this attraction, but this does not mean that the planets forced him to do something. Transits only help to see and understand what is happening. What a person will do, largely depends on his will.

The transit method, as mentioned above, is considered the simplest prognostic method. Moreover, events predicted by other methods should receive confirmation in transit. But what exact event will happen, only with one method of transit can not be determined. Transit shows only a general external situation and how much a person fits into it. For example, every two years Mars goes through the VIIIth house, but this does not mean that every two years you are waiting for a trauma or a strong mental shock. For such an event to occur, it is necessary that its probability be indicated in the natal chart and that the corresponding indicators appear in other methods (progressions, directions, Solar, etc.) and prepared by the transit of slowly moving planets.

Planets in transit analysis

The influence of the emitter transit planet always corresponds to the properties and qualities that it possesses in Radix (Natal Chart). The planet in transit analysis is always considered from at least two positions. First, from the position of the properties of the planet (for example, Mercury is always responsible for contacts, interrelationships, information, Mars – for physical activity and potency, etc.). Secondly, almost any planet controls some sphere of activity, depending on its location in one or another horoscope house (in other words, it is a significator of something). For example, if in Radix Saturn is the significator of the disease, then the transit Saturn concerns questions of disease. That is, if he moves through the natal positions of the Sun or the Moon or passes through the Ist or VIth house, he can greatly affect the health, causing certain diseases that are appropriate to his nature. Or if for example, Jupiter in Radix signifies financial affairs, then this will affect the influence of transit Jupiter.

The planets never change their properties, qualities, and signification in each individual horoscope. They remain unchanged until the end of a person’s life. If, as we have already said, Jupiter signifies financial affairs, it is like his appointment, and the essential nature of Jupiter is his character, which can not be changed by anyone and anything. Thus, the emitter planet “brings” with itself the theme of the house in which it is in the natal horoscope and over which it dominates, and “behaves” accordingly to its essential nature.

For a correct interpretation, it is important to consider the house on which the transiting planet is moving, which houses does it aspect. It is not superfluous to take into account the signs of domicile, exaltation, exile, and fall. Exaltation, for example, along with domicile, will show where the forces are coming from to solve the problem and complete the event or action indicated by this transit. For example, if the transit Venus passes through the Vth natal field, the individual will experience a strong craving for romantic adventures and entertainment of the aesthetic plane. To determine the source of these motivations, we should consider those horoscope houses in which the signs of Libra, Taurus, and Pisces are located. If the transiting planet is Mars, then you should pay attention to the house in which Mars is in Radix, and on the houses where the signs of Aries, Scorpio, and Capricorn are.

It is clear that when the transiting planet passes through the house, over which it rules in Radix, the theme of this house is most clearly manifested.

Author: Astrologer Sergey Vronsky

Translation from Russian: Alexander Demin