| As the planets slowly move along the zodiac each | | | | transits an inner planet, it may trigger a dormant |
| day, they pass through the different houses of | | | | aspect between that inner planet and a slower |
| your natal horoscope and make different aspects | | | | moving outer planet. If a planet is being transited |
| with the positions of your natal planets. These | | | | by another planet when it is being transited by |
| transiting planets energize the latent potentials | | | | the Sun, the effect of the transit is strengthened. |
| promised by your natal horoscope, and trigger the | | | | Transits of the Moon: |
| behavior and events which then become a part | | | | The Moon spends only about two and a half days |
| of your daily experience. | | | | in a natal house. This means that its effects occur |
| The effect of a transiting planet depends on | | | | so quickly that you feel them more as |
| where it is, with respect to the planets andhouses | | | | unconscious urges and impulses than conscious |
| of your natal horoscope. The day-to-day changes | | | | reactions to situations. For more information logon |
| in your life depend on the transits of the Sun, | | | | to .The effects of the transiting Moon, as it |
| Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars. their transits | | | | makes aspects with your natal planet positions, |
| throughout the aspects are measured in days and | | | | are often felt for only a matter of hours. |
| weeks. For more details visit to . | | | | Regardless of whether you are consciously aware |
| The outer planets--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, | | | | of them, you will feel the effects of the Moon. |
| Neptune, and Pluto--are important for the long | | | | Transits of the Planet Mercury: |
| term effects on your life, measured in years and | | | | Mercury spends about a week in each natal |
| decades. The duration of a transit effect also | | | | house. During that time it affects your mental |
| depends on whether the transiting planet is in | | | | outlook, communications with others, and urges to |
| retrograde motion on your date of interest. | | | | take trips. When Mercury is in retrograde motion |
| Retrograde planets may remain in retrograde | | | | during its transit it may introduce delays in the |
| from twenty-one days to five months (for | | | | affairs under its influence. |
| Mercury and Pluto respectively). The effect of a | | | | Transits of the Planet Venus: |
| planet’s transit throughout a natal house is | | | | Venus spends about three weeks in each natal |
| felt over the duration of its stay in that house. | | | | house. Venus is the planet of love and material |
| However the duration of the effect of a transiting | | | | pleasures, so that its transits bring different |
| aspect may be somewhat shorter that the | | | | degrees of enjoyment. The effects are felt as |
| duration of the planet's stay in each sky position | | | | subjective experiences rather than as urges to |
| (1/3 sign). For example the effect of a transiting | | | | action. Transiting Venus is retrograde for about |
| sun is most strongly felt over a three-day period | | | | one and a half months each year. During that |
| within its ten-day stay in one sky position. The | | | | time the affairs affected by Venus may be |
| effect will be felt to a lesser extent on the other | | | | slowed down or delayed. |
| days of that sky position. It all depends on how | | | | Transits of the Planet Mars: |
| closely the aspect falls within its orb during the | | | | Mars spends about two months in each natal |
| time it is in each sky position. | | | | house. Mars provides you with the energies |
| Transits of the Sun: | | | | needed to assert yourself in the pursuit of your |
| The Sun is the source of all energies. These | | | | needs and desires. Transiting Mars is retrograde |
| energies stimulate the activities of the houses | | | | for about three months each year. During that |
| occupied by the transiting Sun and reinforce or | | | | time you may experience reversals or delays in |
| weaken the planetary effects, depending on the | | | | the affairs affected by Mars at that time. |
| Sun's aspect to the natal planet. When the Sun | | | | |