Western
Current planetary transits in Western (tropical) astrology and how they touch your chart. Tropical positions are clearly labelled.
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Western transits
Western transits compare today's planets in the tropical zodiac with your natal chart. They highlight returns, such as your Saturn return around age twenty-nine, and the slow outer-planet aspects that mark turning points, with the dates they begin, become exact and end.
A return happens when a planet comes back to its birth position. The solar return is your birthday; the lunar return is monthly; the Jupiter return comes about every twelve years and often opens new growth; the Saturn return around ages twenty-nine and fifty-eight is a classic time of taking stock and building structure.
Uranus brings change and freedom, Neptune dissolves old forms and asks for faith, and Pluto brings deep transformation. Their transits last a year or more. The Uranus opposition around age forty-two and the Neptune square around forty are known mid-life markers.
Slow planets often make an aspect three times as they go retrograde and direct again. Each pass is listed, with the first contact, the exact dates and the final separation, so you can follow the theme as it develops.
The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars move quickly and colour days and weeks. Mars crossing your Ascendant brings energy; Venus crossing your Moon brings ease; Mercury retrograde over your third house asks for care with messages and travel.
Vedic Gochara counts transits by sidereal sign from the Moon. Western transits use tropical aspects to natal points. The same Saturn can be read both ways; together they often point to the same months.
Transits are sorted by importance and date. Each has a short note on what to expect and how to work with it.
Alongside transits, western astrologers use secondary progressions, where each day after birth stands for one year of life. The progressed Moon moves about one sign every two and a half years and describes the changing emotional focus of each chapter. The progressed Sun changes sign roughly every thirty years. The page lists your progressed Moon sign and the date it next changes, so you can read it with the transits of the same period.
A challenging transit, such as Saturn square your Sun, is best met with planning, patience and realistic goals. Treat it as a season for structure rather than expansion.
Saturn coming back to its birth position, around ages twenty-nine and fifty-eight.
Retrograde motion carries the planet back and forth over the same degree.
The Sun returning to its birth position, your birthday chart for the year.
A period of about three weeks for review and care with communication.
For transits to the angles and houses, yes.
Often a year or more, with several exact passes.
The tropical zodiac.
Yes. Turn on reminders for exact dates.
Jupiter returning to its birth position about every twelve years.
Yes, when they fall near your natal planets.
It uses tropical aspects to natal points rather than sidereal signs from the Moon.
Yes. Pick any date range.