Kent - Astrological transits : the beginners guide to using planetary cycles to plan and predict your day, week, year (or destiny)

In astrology, the term transits refers to the ongoing movement of the planets, in contrast to their positions at your birth or when some other notable event occurred. Because they are connected to current reality, transits reflect our collective reality, the world were all living in together. Transits are like cards that the world deals us, and what we do with themhow we play the handis what changes us and determines the course of our destiny.

Your birth chart is a snapshot of the sky at the moment you were born. But what happened in the next moment? The planets continued to move, thats what happened. Some of them move quickly, and others at the pace of drying paint. Take a snapshot of that same sky from the same place just twenty-four hours later, and youd see some changes, but not many.

Some slightly different stars would be rising on the horizon and culminating overhead. Most noticeably, the Moon would be in another part of the sky. The Moon is our fastest-moving celestial companion: In just twenty-eight days, it makes a complete lap of the ecliptic, covering 360 degrees and every zodiac sign.

But everything else on that next day will most likely be just about where you left it. Youd have to come back in a month to see much movement from Mercury, the Sun, Venus, or Mars. Jupiter occupies the same, narrow 30-degree span of sky for an entire year, and Saturn for about two and a half years. As for Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto well, you wouldnt see them at all, but rest assured, theyll have hardly budged.

We live in an orderly universe, and nowhere is this more evident than in our solar system. The planets move in predictable cycles, revisiting the same points in the zodiac at regular intervals. For instance, each year, within a day on either side of your birthday, the Sun returns to the same point in the sky that it occupied at your birth. Many happy returns indeed!