What is a transit in astrology?
The planets keep moving after you are born, and a transit is one of them passing over or making an angle to a point in your birth chart. Transits are how astrology talks about timing: the chart is fixed, the sky moves across it. The slow planets, Saturn outwards, make transits that last weeks or months; the Moon crosses your whole chart every month and is barely counted.
In the reference library: Transits: how a planet’s current position meets your chart
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Draw your own chart and this definition stops being abstract: the same term, with your numbers in it. Every placement, house and aspect, with the engine, the house system and the exact universal time printed underneath. No account, no email address, and nothing you type is kept.
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The sky moving
Everything that happens after you are born, which is where dates come from.