Transitor. A slow-moving major planet whose lingering aspect to a birth planet produces a
displacement of equilibrium, which is then activated by an additional aspect from a
Culminator, a faster-moving body such as the Sun or Moon, to the same or another planet,
thereby precipitating the externalization.
Translation of Light. The conveyance of influence which occurs when a transiting planet,
while separating from an aspect to one planet is found to be applying to an aspect to another,
in which event some of the influence of the first aspected planet is imparted to the second
aspected planet by a translation of light. For example, assume an Horary Figure in which
Jupiter or Saturn, the Significators of the parties to the negotiation of an agreement, are in no
aspect to each other; but Venus while separating from Jupiter is applying to an aspect of
Saturn. There results a translation of light from Jupiter to Saturn, which is a powerful
testimony that Venus represents a person or an idea that will bring about a settlement. The
nature of the aspect, and of the aspecting and aspected planets through which the translation
is accomplished, determines whether the outcome will be fortuitous.
Transmutation. The advantageous utilization, on the part of a controlled and developed
character, of an astrological influence which otherwise might exert a destructive and
disruptive force. It is a term borrowed from the alchemists who sought to transmute baser
metals into gold, whereby to suggest a process of spiritual alchemy through which a baser
emotion is dedicated to a noble purpose.
Trigon. A term applied to the three signs of the same triplicity.
Trigonocrators. Rulers of Trigons
................Ancient.............Modern
FIRE:........Sun, Jupiter......Sun, Jupiter, Mars
EARTH:.......Venus, Moon.......Venus, Mercury, Saturn
AIR:.........Saturn, Mercury...Venus, Saturn
WATER:.......Mars..............Moon, Mars, Mercury
Some modern authorities confine the Moon and Mars to a Nocturnal Figure, substituting
Venus and Mars if a Day Figure.