Transits
how to best use transits—how to get the most possible
use from them.
As mentioned earlier, the natal chart is a snapshot
frozen in time. Around this timeframe we put the
transiting planets to see how they relate—by aspects,
house and sign positions—to the birth chart. We can
watch the transiting planets move through the natal
houses and through the zodiac signs. The standard way
to do this is to show the natal chart in the familiar wheel
of 12 houses, but with the zodiac signs shown also, as
in the above diagram.
As you can see with this chart form, we can see the
transiting planets in the zodiac signs—we can see
where they are at present. By placing the wheel of the
zodiac alongside the twelve natal house cusps, both the
houses and the signs are as they were in the birth chart,
and the positions of the transiting planets appear in
contrast to the natal signs and houses. We can see at a
glance, in the natal chart, what sign and what house the
current (transiting) planets are in. In the example above,
transiting Mars is near the end of the sign Gemini, in the
seventh house, soon to conjunct the natal Mercury. I
trust this is clear.