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🪐 Astrology Transits & Forecast

Retrogrades, Saturn returns, eclipses: the sky's weather.

Your birth chart is a snapshot. Transits are the movie: the planets keep moving, and where they are now, and how they line up with your chart, sets the weather of each season.

The fast planets (the Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars) shape the feel of a day, week or month. The slow ones (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) mark the big chapters of a life. Transits show the weather; you still choose what to wear and where to go.

The transits people ask about most

Mercury retrogradeReview, revise, reconnectThree times a year, for about three weeks, Mercury appears to move backward. Communication, tech and travel get glitchy, so it's a time to review…Read more →Venus retrogradeLove and values, revisitedEvery 18 months or so, Venus turns retrograde for about six weeks, bringing old relationships, old patterns and questions about what you truly value.Read more →Mars retrogradeSlow down, rethink the planAbout every two years, Mars turns retrograde for two months or more. Energy and drive dip, so it's a time to reassess strategy rather than charge…Read more →Saturn returnThe cosmic coming of ageAround ages 28 to 30, and again at 57 to 60, Saturn returns to where it was when you were born. It's a big life audit, and real adulthood arrives.Read more →Jupiter returnA year of growthEvery 12 years, Jupiter returns to its birth position, opening a year of expansion, opportunity and good fortune.Read more →Uranus oppositionThe midlife awakeningAround ages 40 to 42, Uranus sits opposite its birth position, shaking loose whatever no longer fits. Astrology's version of the midlife awakening.Read more →Neptune transitsDreams, inspiration and fogSlow-moving Neptune blurs the line between real and imagined, bringing inspiration and spiritual awakening, and sometimes confusion.Read more →Pluto transitsDeep transformationPluto moves slowest of all and brings the deepest change: endings and rebirths that transform whatever they touch.Read more →EclipsesSupercharged new and full moonsEclipses are extra-powerful new and full moons that open sudden new chapters or bring hidden things to light. Their effects can last months.Read more →Sun and Moon transitsThe month's season and the week's moodThe Sun spends about a month in each sign, setting the season everyone feels. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, coloring the mood.Read more →

What retrograde actually means

No planet really moves backward. Retrograde is an optical illusion: as Earth and another planet orbit at different speeds, the other planet appears to slide backward against the stars for a while. Astrologically, it's a time for that planet's themes to be reviewed, revisited and redone.

Reading transits for yourself

To see how a transit touches you personally, you need your birth chart. Astrologers look at three things: which house (area of life) the planet is moving through, which of your birth planets it's lining up with, and how it lines up (a smooth trine or sextile, or a push-you-to-grow square or opposition).

If you add your birth time and place under Settings in the app, the Transits guide can do this with you.

Transits describe cycles and themes, not fixed outcomes. No planet makes you do anything; you always have a choice.

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