Lanny Logan
Lanny Logan is a fellow astrologer specialised in studying outer planet transits. He has a club of his own where he posts articles about outer planet transits from time to time.
Logan's Club
Jupiter's Transits
Saturn's Transits
Uranus' Transits
Neptune's Transits
Pluto's Transits
Transiting Planets
Transits as a field of study, takes off where natal charts end. The natal chart, cast for the moment of birth, illustrates an energy pattern using the positions of the planets in a twelve-house wheel structure at the exact moment that the baby drew his or her first breath as a unique individual.
The natal chart shows the newly born child�s birth potential, both positive and negative. The chart doesn�t cause the potentials, it just mirrors the universe�s energy pattern at the moment that the child was born. By understanding the meanings of the Planets, the houses which the various planets are located within, and the angular relationship between the planets the energy pattern can be interrupted. Each house is held to govern an area of our life, and planets that fall within them take on a meaning colored by that house�s area of influence.
The natal chart however is a static chart, never changing as the child grows. It only represents the energy pattern, as it existed, at the moment of birth.
Obviously, the planets continue to move through the heavens, moving in and out of the houses set up at birth in the natal chart. This continuing movement of the planets through the natal chart�s houses, creates a dynamic energy pattern called transits that can be evaluated by house location and transit planets angular relationships to natal planets to see what experiences that the child will be encountering as they grow.
Life from the point of birth on is a series of growth potentials, whereby the individual has the opportunity to grow in the area govern by the house energy being transited by the planets.
If you read about transits, most books tend to label them good or some bad, or easy and difficult. To do so, I think, misses the central point of what transits are all about. What makes a transit easier or more difficult is how you as an individual react to it. If for example, you have Uranus transiting a house, it usually brings sudden disruptions of the status quo. How easily you accept disruptions or surprises in your life, determines how you experience the transits effects. If you tend to fight changes, this could be seen as a difficult time for you. If on the other hand, you welcome change as a way to grow and develop your skills and abilities, this would could be viewed as a positive or easy transit.
Many manifestations of transits, particularly when I deny or fight the changes, become projections of our unconscious minds. For example, If I have a transit requiring that I evaluate and remove relationships from my life that are unhealthy for me or that I have outgrown, I will have two choices. I have the choice to do so consciously, or if I won�t do that, the transit will cause me to project situations into my life to bring about the same result. Either way, to some degree, the results will be the same. The difficulty that I will experience will in direct relationship to my willingness or ability to handle the task consciously.
You may hear some people say that they are controlled by their fate, that they have no choice. To some extent that statement is true, but not in the way that they mean it. A person born at anytime has a specific beginning natal pattern. During his or her lifetime, only some of their natal houses will be transited by their outer planets. Only some aspects will ever occur between transiting planets and natal planets. Therefore, individuals will vary from year to year on the path that their chart will follow. Our choice in life isn�t what path to follow, our choice is how willingly we will adapt and change and grow.
Let me say up front, that I hold the view that our souls reincarnate many times into this plane of existence, and each time our souls pick the exact time and place of birth in order to have the opportunity to experience a specified path for further spiritual growth. And since we pick our natal chart and resulting transits to fulfill our spiritual destiny, our job here and now in this life is to know what we need to work on, and when we need to work on it. And that is illustrated by our transits through our natal chart.
In the following weeks I will be posting articles on the meanings of the transits through various houses. I concern myself primarily with the outer planets of Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn and Jupiter. That is because they have the most important and long lasting effect on our lives. The inner planets, Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury, and Mars have only short periods of aspects and house placements. While these are important in the daily effects of transits, I feel that the outer planets impact our lives more, over the long haul.
I will rely heavily upon Robert Hand�s book, �Planets in Transit�, published by Para Research. His is the best book on the effects of the aspects that I have ever found. Anyone interested in transits should have this book in their library, at a minimum.
I also use a tool that I developed called an Astrotemplate. This tool makes it easier to see the transiting plants relationships to the various natal planets, as well as why certain times in our life, we experience more effects from our transits. I will be happy to send a sample to anyone that desires it.
To understand the significance of transits in your or someone else�s life, you must first understand the following;
1. the qualities or overall effects of the planets in any house
2. the energies of the planet in a specific house
3. the effects of the aspects between transiting and natal planets.