Reference · Transits
When the sky moves.
Your natal chart is the sky at your birth. Transits are what the sky does today — planets moving across your chart, activating houses and placements in their own timing. Here are the major ones, read with practitioner care, not clickbait.
Today in the sky
Waxing Crescent · 12% illuminated
Monday, April 20, 2026
“Something small is beginning. Tend it before you broadcast it.”
Mercury · Venus · Mars
Retrogrades
The Backward Glance
Mercury Retrograde
Mercury moves backward through the sky. The cultural panic has it wrong — it’s a review season, not a disaster zone.
3 times per year · ~3 weeks (plus shadow periods)
The Reappraisal
Venus Retrograde
Venus walks back through her sign. What you value, what you love, what you’re owed — all up for honest re-examination.
~every 18 months · ~40 days
The Hold
Mars Retrograde
Mars pulls in. The push you were running on has to regroup before it can push outward again — force through it and you break something.
~every 2 years · ~2.5 months
Solar · Lunar
Eclipses
The Reset
Solar Eclipse
A new moon on steroids. What begins here tends to arrive sideways — doors open you didn’t know you were knocking on.
2-5 per year · Echoes for ~6 months
The Revelation
Lunar Eclipse
A full moon with the edges turned up. What’s been buried tends to come into view — ready or not.
2-5 per year · Echoes for ~6 months
Saturn return · Jupiter return (soon)
Returns
Common questions
About transits
What's the difference between a natal placement and a transit?
A natal placement is where a planet was at your birth — it stays fixed for life. A transit is where a planet is now, today, moving through the sky. When a transiting planet lines up with a natal placement, it activates it. Your Saturn return, for instance, is transiting Saturn returning to where natal Saturn was.
Does Mercury retrograde actually affect my life?
Less dramatically than pop astrology suggests — but yes, the pattern is observable. It's a review period, not a disaster zone. Use it for revision, not big launches: edit the manuscript, not ship the feature. The panic comes from treating it as a month of cosmic sabotage; the practice treats it as a wind that blows backward for a bit.
How do eclipses differ from ordinary new and full moons?
An eclipse happens only when a new or full moon lines up close enough to the lunar nodes that the Sun, Moon, and Earth briefly align. The symbolism amplifies the lunation — new-moon eclipses often bring sudden beginnings, full-moon eclipses bring surprising culminations. Their effects echo for around six months.
Reference library
The five chambers of the chart.
12 signs
Zodiac Signs
Element, modality, ruler, and a practitioner read per sign.
14 bodies
Planets
Every planet and point — rulership, dignity, rhythm.
12 rooms
Houses
Life areas, axis pairs, natural rulers.
5 aspects
Aspects
Angles, orbs, the conversation between planets.
6 transits
Transits
Retrogrades, eclipses, Saturn return — how the sky moves.
You’re hereLive transit forecasts — personalised to your birth chart — are on the roadmap as a paid Chamber. These reference pages are the evergreen material: what each transit is, independent of when it’s happening.