Transit Calendar for Your Natal Chart

Exact dates of transiting planets' aspects to your natal chart for the selected period.

How the calendar differs from transits on a date

The transit page shows a snapshot: which aspects are to the natal chart on a specific day. The calendar answers a different question: when an aspect will become exact. Instead of a list of orbs you get a list of dates, each of which has a transiting planet, an aspect, and the natal planet it applies to.

How dates are calculated

Positions of transiting planets are calculated for each day of the period, and when the orb of an aspect changes sign, the moment of the exact aspect is refined by dividing the interval. Therefore the date in the list is not the day when the aspect is “approximately present”, but the day on which it reaches the point of exactness. The Swiss Ephemeris calculation is performed in your browser.

Why the Moon is not in the list

The Moon moves 13 degrees per day and with a daily step its aspects cannot be captured: between two consecutive days it manages to form and break an aspect. Lunar transits make sense with an hourly step, and there is a separate tool for them - the lunar calendar.

How to read the list

Transits of slow planets carry more weight than fast ones: a Saturn aspect lasts months, a Mercury aspect a day. The ℞ mark next to a planet indicates that the aspect is formed in retrograde motion, and therefore will repeat: a retrograde planet passes the same degree three times.

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Questions and Answers

Which period to choose?
A quarter is the practical choice: the list stays short enough to read every line. A full year gives about two hundred rows and is worth taking when you need to see the transits of the slow planets end to end.
Which aspects are included?
The major ones: conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition. Transit planets from the Sun to Pluto, without the Moon.
Do I need an exact birth time?
Not for transits to the planets: they move little in a day, so the dates barely depend on the hour. Birth time is critical for aspects to the chart angles, which is why the cusps are left out of the calculation when the time is unknown.
Why does the same aspect appear three times?
That is the retrograde loop. The planet passes the degree in direct motion, comes back to it while retrograde, and crosses it a third time after the station, so the exact aspect happens three times within a few months.
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