What to Do if You Get Hit By an Eclipse! 😱💫💥

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What is the astrology of eclipses? Like—what do they mean, what can they do? This post shows you where + how to find info about your personal Eclipse Cycles, plus includes a ton of astro-inspired speculation about what happened when the Gemini Solar Eclipse in June 2021 tripped my Vertex-Chiron in my 8th House (bc no one had educated me about eclipses, damn it). 🙈

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If you “felt” something totally woo in May-June 2021, you might’ve been hit by the Eclipses. 🤩💫

For me, pour moi > the June 2021 Eclipse grazed my Chiron-Vertex in Gemini ♊️, simultaneous to Chiron transiting over my North Node in Aries ♈️, possibly at the exact moment I was looking into and saw a blue light flash in a barista’s eyes. 😳🙈

Like—literally the worst barista. 

Not in terms of quality or standards.

But. Like. Attitude.

The cascade of spooky-cute synchronicities has set fire to my own bad-intimacy issues, which I didn’t really know about, wouldn’t have been able to even conceive of, until researching the area of my chart activated by the Eclipse, so I’m learning extra about my own human condition, yay astrology. 💫

Are you also having an Eclipse moment? > You might be, if your Nodes land in Gemini-Sagittarius. ♊️♐️, or if the Node of Fate drifted upon any object in your chart, not necessarily your own Fate marker. The Nodes interact with the very matrix of circumstances, so usually, whatever planet, point, or angle they touch will become super-activated in your consciousness.

Enter > synchronicity. 🧁✨

With the Eclipse involved, the transit will help crystallize brand-new awareness, catalyze soul-level intentions, and realign us with our ultimate project.

What I myself have learned > you can basically use Eclipse astrology to explore any troubling ennui or feelings of aimlessness in your goals and dreams, while also probing your darkest personal pain as it commingles with your ultimate destiny and fruition. 💁🏻‍♀️

And also use it to autopsy your failed marriage, initiated during the last Eclipse set in 2011. 😅

SO, LET’S EXPLORE ECLIPSE CYCLES! > This exercise might be for JV baby-astrologers who are already familiar with their natal chart, and know where to go to get more info (Internet witches, etc.).

Don’t worry—I’ll link you everywhere you need to go to get charts and intel, all you need is a grasp of the lingo and familiarity with charts in themselves…

Without at least that much, the woo level here is equivalent to me asking you to maintain eye contact with me as we walk off a ledge into floating space. 😳

This is a very Looney Tunes approach to astrology, btw. 💁🏻‍♀️

OKAY, I’m about to supply hella research clues to guide your Eclipse interpretation, and hopefully re-inspire your true destiny. 🙌🏻

And perhaps in a few weeks, we’ll find out I was able to use this astro-awareness to prevent myself from making really embarrassing public mistakes and maybe jumpstart a repressed healing crisis, idk, let’s see how it goes! 💫

WHAT IS AN ECLIPSE? LIKE—ASTROLOGICALLY?

An eclipse happens when a new or full moon comes within 20 degrees of either the transiting North or South Node. These aren’t planets, but where the Sun and Moon intersect along their orbits. 

Thus, when it grazes the ecliptic, the new or full moon activates its own pathway. The ecliptic becomes illuminated by the condition of the moon, as well as by the melange of the other transiting planets’ energies. 

Your own planets, angles, or points will also become illuminated (or, more accurately, thrown into hyper-karmic flux😵‍💫 ), if any happen to be in the line of fire.

FYI: The North and South Nodes on your chart represent where eclipses were sparking during your birth year. Astrologers use the Nodes to describe your “karmic path”: the South Node representing past conditions you’re moving away from, and the North Node representing the conditions aligned with your ultimate purpose. (Read more about the Nodes here. 🐉)

Your North and South Nodes always carry a bit of karma-drama, and if you have any near-by planets.

So, when an eclipse comes upon any marker in your chart, it’s like astrology-fairies tearing down the curtains. 🧚🏻‍♀️

You suddenly “remember” the original project, or become lucid of a deeper intrinsic motivation you’ve always carried with you, like soul-tension that occasionally creeps into ordinary awareness. 

Through snap-crackle-pop synchronistic circumstances, you become well-notified about hidden possibilities, often coinciding with the appearance of fateful relationships, strange guides, and hella magnanimous omens.

Eclipses bring about karmic plot twists, and point to tension between our karmic project, and the circumstances, situations, and relationships we’ve engineered for ourselves.

There are two types of eclipses…

🌟 Solar Eclipses happen during the new moon, when the Sun and Moon are exact, in the same degree in the same zodiac sign. You might feel off-kilter for about 3-5 days before or after the eclipse, as though you’re walking at a tilted angle (but also thinking crystal clear 👌🏻). Solar Eclipses also tend to herald bright, shiny, new beginnings, and sometimes coincide with mega-new realizations or unexpected good news.

🌟 Lunar Eclipses happen with the full moon, and the Moon glows a tan-red hue, known as the Earth’s shadow, or umbra. This is also known as the “Blood Moon,” and, fine okay, the color does resemble a used maxi-pad, but that’s life, weirdo. Lunar Eclipses tend to be accompanied by more sentimental-nostalgic feelings, and their circumstances have more of an emotional finality or rounding-off. Buried memories or dreams also begin to surface around the time of a Lunar Eclipse, particularly in the 3-5 days before + after eclipse day.

What exactly do eclipses trigger…?

Epiphanies. Catharsis. Changes of heart. Dates with destiny. Pennies from heaven. Walk ins. Last glances. Final follow-ups. New faces, new vistas. Situations, even long withstanding ones, will either coalesce or fall like like water.

The somatic depth and clarity we experience when struck by an eclipse is powerful enough to demand a response. An eclipse sparkles and glows in our soma (which is tied to the Moon), more intensely and specifically according to the point in our chart being activated.

And everyone is experiencing the eclipse, even if not everyone is having a specific point triggered… (maybe this is what co-creates the percolating effect that seems to happen on the periphery during the eclipse portal… 🧐).

And all we can we can do is notice the signs, and allow the circumstances that unfold to inspire our next steps.

WHAT CAN WE “DO” WITH ECLIPSES?

…AS LITTLE BABY ASTROLOGERS?

Not everyone experiences an intense effect from an eclipse. Only in the years and seasons where there’s an eclipse that strikes close-by (within 0-5°) a planet, angle, or point in your chart.

So, you might not have had a recent Eclipse Moment, but perhaps you’ve had one in the past, or will have one in the future. 

Finding out if you’re having an Eclipse Moment depends on…

1. Knowing your birth chart very well (do you know all the planets you have in Gemini - Sagittarius? how about the degree number?),

2. Knowing how to look up + interpret the influence of other transiting planets during the eclipse (what other planets are interacting with your chart right now? what kind of influence might they have on your unfolding eclipse story…?), and…

3. Knowing your personal Eclipse Cycles. 💫

If you know (like, utterly) that you had one, you can use Eclipse moments to get back on track—however that looks. Depends on your chart, the Signs of the Eclipse, and other transits happening, because those describe other major awareness that might factor in.

Also, any super-conscious action you take.

Because… free will, hopefully? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Basically, knowing your Eclipse Cycles and their astrology might help you articulate the ineffable—an unfollowed calling or dilapidated relationship—so that you might reframe the woe, guilt, and suck, and start moving forward. ✊🏻

Also, this is kind of critical > Eclipses are cyclical. 😳

So, whatever you’ve let pass by, whatever you decided was over or not quite ready, it’s coming back atcha.

We can start using Eclipses by revisiting the passages of our lives coinciding with Eclipse dates. If you’re someone who diaries, vlogs, records music, or in any way documents their life, you’ll have an advantage. 👍🏻

Start hauling out your diaries and agendas from those years, it’s time for a life reappraisal! 🤩✨

for me, in particular, i became urgently concerned with eclipse lore after seeing a metallic blue flash in a barista’s eyes, starting as tiny pricks of light and swelling into blue-silver orbs. ⚡️

(Email me right fucking now if this has happened to you, ever 😳😱)

When I try parsing out the days leading up to this flash, it’s like describing what I forgot to notice while hurtling up a freeway onramp—it’s this thundering stream of details I wasn’t tuning into, just accelerating until I was going the velocity.

And if you asked me, “How did you get here?” I’d say, “I took the freeway.”

But it’s all these details that… when I reflect back on when they were happening, as I was entering the freeway, those details might actually have been hyper-crazy, or almost carnival-like… 🎠

Because all of these circumstances were extraordinary. This is not one of the baristas I chitchat with. This is the barista that, upon spotting at the register from the street side window, I might keep walking further down the street… to hit up Sbux. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why? > Because this fucker uses every conversation ventured as an opportunity to grandstand—most often, TO MY AND MY THEN-HUSBAND’S PERPLEXITY, to judge our life choices, which we never even volunteered as topics of conversation. 😡

SAMPLE > “Hey guys, welcome in. Out enjoying the day as a family?” “Sure are!” “How old is this little guy, again?” “Five years old!” “Wow, that’s great to hear. Must be hard getting anything done for yourself, right?”

Well. Ya, I guess—anything not related to the life cycle….?

….idk, what am I supposed to say? 🤨

ANOTHER EXAMPLE (in response to me walking in with my baby in the stroller + five year old in tow) > “(after a long pause, no greeting) Hey, look—this is cute ‘n all, but I’m not buying it, alright?” “Haha, okay? We make it look cute, but it’s not for sale…” “I know, I just mean—I see your rig (the stroller), I see you doin’ it, and I think it’s great, but it’s not for me.” “Okay. Haha. That makes sense, because it’s our’s, haha. Ya, we sure are cute… thx guys, have a good one!” 💃🏻(Haha = my codependent laughter.)

Just.. what??

Do you get why I’d just keep rollin’?

ANYWAY, between May-June (when the Eclipses struck) > I launched an Internet-based business while simultaneously divorcing my husband, requiring me to stay out of the house, so I was spending hella time at the neighborhood cafe around, dressed like a homeless pervert (“Spice Girl Unabomber” = my 2021 style direction ✨), and pretty much melting all of the collagen out of my body with espresso and premium chocolate.

Basically, leaning hard into my codependency patterns. 👍🏻

and during the eclipses when i was haunting the cafe, the barista caught me eyeing his forearm tattoos >

…dousing gasoline on his flaming-toxic-ego, and permanently rendering me into a horny-housewife joke for the amusement of his baby barista-harem.

(The baby barista-harem = who I am actually very emotionally codependent on, so, ya, lots of issues stirred up here. ☕️)

Scopin’ his tattoos look was not a special occurrence or out-of-the-blue thing > I will draw you a map right now of Gen X-age baristas / weed tenders with forearm tattoos across south San Luis Obispo county (where I live) and days of week / times of day you might chance upon them, because I literally have a circuit of cafes-restaurants-boutiques I patron especially to be serviced by men resembling Art Alexakis (of the band Everclear, here is the “Heroin Girl” video), and in fact this is such a quirky truism about my erotic proclivities that upon our first cafe visit after relocating to our new neighborhood, when exiting our first (awkward) interaction with this barista, my then-husband murmured “That looks like trouble.” 😕

I totally forgot about all this until writing this up > I had not even picked up on the Eclipse barista as one of my targets / prey / types, though I remember searching his face and clothes as we inched forward in the queue, trying to decide if I recognized him or not (not).

(This is actually a hallmark of first encounters with people who later become linked via Vertex activations—I say more in my tutorial on the Vertex a.k.a. Destiny Point next week. ☺️)

ANYWAY > this boring exposition is meant to orient you to the key details that (1) my antipathy with the barista was established, and (2) I glanced at him in a way that made his nuts ache, because he changed his work schedule to coincide with my visits and started dressing like my ex, and Idk if these details are relevant, but they are the details on-ramping us to the actual Eclipse weirdness—

The blue light (which I might now worship) > and I can’t just ask, “Hey dude, did you see a blue light on me a couple of weeks ago? It might be hella occult…” ⚡️

Because the following day, I offered to walk the little dog that lives in his car while the barista is working (it was 87°, yo), but he said no, then YELLED AT ME to not come back to the store. 🔥🔥🔥

But I did—on his days off.

So, he changed them.

Then hid his car in a different parking lot.

What?? Thuh?? Fuck??

SO.

Now we are gossiping about it…

With astrology. ✨✨✨

anyway, how eclipses work >

Eclipses happen in “seasons,” starting in a Sign and its opposite Sign (like Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️) and lasting two-ish years. They also “live” for about nine years.

So, the 2021 Eclipses in Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️that just occurred also happened 2001-2003, again 2010-2013, and now from 2020-2023. This 2020-2023 window is the timeframe for the current Eclipse Story.

If you can read transit charts (this article explains how to do your own transits) and want to get adept with the Astro.com chart calculator, you can totally cast transit charts for May-June of those years.

SO, every nine years, as the Nodes drift through Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️, you might become reborn to the “big purpose” issues symbolized by any planets or points hanging out in those Signs, especially if the Eclipses happen to land on them.

For me in particular, the Gem-Sag Eclipse ♊️♐️triggered my Chiron ☌ Vertex > These aren’t Nodes or even planets in my chart, but one gimpy asteroid that happens to be leading a very codependent Point of Destiny. (Read more about Chiron over here, and more about the Vertex or Point of Destiny in your chart over here. ✨)

translation > the eclipse-fates tickled my deepest childhood pain, while simultaneously bringing my most secret-dream-destiny to climax. 🐵💦

When I look at those sets of years corresponding with the Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses ♊️♐️ (2001-3 and 2010-3), I recognize harsh territory—the Elephant Graveyard of my life. ❌

When I hold that up alongside to my current life experience, and I can sense those old chaos-hyenas lurking in the shadows. 👻💀

Eclipses trigger re-awakenings to our ultimate path and purpose—the project concerning our most precious inner spirit and its potential for transcendence. 💞

When it happens, you might fall into a limbo state, reconsidering your habits, priorities, and relationships from the meta-picture, or a “higher” perspective accounting for not just where you struggle, but where you also shine—where you have gifts, talents, and (perhaps secret) ambitions.

Because… we forget. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank god we have each other (and transits) to help us remember. ☺️

HOW TO FIND OUT HOW THE 2021 GEMINI - SAGITTARIUS ECLIPSES AFFECTED YOU…

…(IF AT ALL, MEBBE NOT, IDK, THIS IS HOW YOU FIND OUT) ♊️♐️

First, pull up a copy of your natal chart > This post shows you where/how to get a copy. If you’re a total noob (s’cool if you are), this post shows you how to read it.

Hint > in this article, I might use intermediate-advanced astrology terms in this article not covered in those posts, but I link to a bunch of articles at the bottom to guide you through the whole story on all the lingo I’m throwin’ around, for you to work through at your own pace. ✌🏻

Next, look to the House(s) the Eclipse falls in your natal chart > Find Gemini ♊️- Sagittarius ♐️on your chart, then look to the numbers between the spokes (a.k.a. the Houses / angles).

Also inventory those Houses for your Nodes, planets, or other points. Did the Eclipse graze anything? You can tell by looking for the exact degree of the Eclipse > the June 10, 2021 Eclipse was at 19° Gemini. ♊️💫

Just look to the Gemini quadrant in your chart to see if anything was in the line of fire, and if so, double-check the degree number of it.

What happens if the Eclipse touched one of my objects?  😳Like—what gets “activated”?? > Miracles. Epiphanies. News from out-of-the-blue. Turning points, new circumstances in general.

What was triggered, along with the rest of the chart, tells you everything > the object (planet, asteroid, orbital point) describes the concern, the Sign describes the type of experience, the House suggests the arena it’ll unfold in, and aspects to the activated objects all describe the “meaning” behind the Eclipse. ✨✨✨

With Eclipses, because they activate both halves of the chart (there’s a North and South Node), the themes between Houses are blended, so that you learn through an uncomfortably paradoxical real-time experience the internal and external halves of a karmic issue, and their thoroughfare through your whole life.

In the above example image, the Node (fate) is transiting my Vertex-Chiron (destiny-wound) in Gemini (understanding) in the Eighth House (power), while Chiron (wound) also transits my personal Node (fate) in my Fifth (self-fruition), while natal Saturn (structure) and Uranus (individuality) are chillin’ in the Second House (value) opposite my destiny-wound (out of frame).

(Astrology is basically like Mad Libs. 💁🏻‍♀️)

Astrologers and Internet witches available via Google can help you flesh it out, and the dates I popped in near the bottom (provided by CafeAstrology) can help you think back to Eclipses of yore, to help you build a narrative to describe and analyze your own sleeping or forgotten life purpose.

By now, you might be feeling a little hot and tingling in your ears, perhaps making hyper-synaptic connections between weird thoughts, feelings, and events from May-June. 🤯

IF YOU ARE—like… I know, right??

It’s crazy!

Just crazy!! 🤪

reading for the eclipse in the signs gemini-sagittarius ♊️♐️ >

🌟 Gemini ♊️is a mutable (“changeable”) Air Sign (think iridescence versus a breeze), native to the Third House of Kindred, Perception, and Self-Understanding. Gemini exalts the neighborhood, your childhood buds, cousins, and early caregivers and educators, all of which collude to help you integrate into the world. Gemini is ruled by magician-psychopomp Mercury who knows what he’s working with, what you’re workin’ with, as well as the lay of the land, and is willing to collaborate and befriend to make up for what’s missing.

🌟 Sagittarius ♐️ is a changeable Fire Sign (think rainbow light versus wildfire), native to the Ninth House of Philosophy, Truth, and Going the Distance. Sagittarius loves far-seeking, far-reaching, far-flung places, the higher road, the path that gets you where you’re going while making you into who you are meant to be, thus revering mentors and higher education. Sag is ruled by jolly Jupiter, the social magnate, the Santa Claus of the solar system, who would rather target for positions of influence, and have everything he might need within easy reach.

Check out this article for more of a description of the Gemini-Sagittarius axis specific to the Eclipse.

Remember, the Signs tell you the theme behind the Eclipse, and how it might express itself, whereas the Houses that Gem-Sag line up with indicate where you’ll be working out these themes.

if you’re like me, and gemini-sag falls on between the second-eighth houses >

In general, the Second-Eighth Houses blend themes between Value-Resource, Cash-Debt, Cultivating-Multiplying, Masturbation-Sex, Pleasure-Pregnancy. 💫

“If this eclipse stimulates your 2nd-8th house axis, you will be called upon to strike a balance between your own needs for security and comfort and the same needs of other people, likely those of a significant other. If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the second house, personal finances will come into strong focus. How well have you taken care of your finances? More importantly, have you taken charge of your personal sense of security? If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the eighth house, issues of sexuality and spirituality may be a stronger focus. In either case, issues of shared resources, sexuality, and possessions are featured. With this eclipse, it’s time to start fresh with regards to how you go about satisfying your needs for security and comfort.If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the second house, take charge of your life by taking the necessary steps to make yourself feel good and secure. You are called upon to make a stand and to tend to your comfort levels. If you do so, the positive effects will ricochet back into your intimate life. If you continue to tend to your partner’s comfort levels while ignoring your own, feelings of resentment and neglect can infect your relationships. Get in touch with what feels most comfortable for you, and the intimacy level in your relationship will step up a notch. If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the eighth house, you are learning about the comfort levels of others. Essentially, you are learning to share and to surrender yourself (in a balanced manner!) to intimacy.”

(Source)

Is all this TMI? Or you just can’t make heads or tails of it? > This section references where/what the Eclipse activated in my own chart, and might not pertain to you at all.

The only way to know is to pull up your chart, look for Gemini and Sagittarius, and then Google about the Houses (a.k.a. the “area of life”) they express themselves in. 💫

To kick you off, visit this article (where I extracted the above summary), and scroll to your Eclipse Houses (for me, the Second-Eighth).

Here’s the lay of the land as the Node of Fate crossed Chiron-Vertex in my Eighth House > divorce, estate-planning, intimacy dramas, codependency issues. (Trés Eighth House, btw.)

Intrinsic is also a Second House concern > reclaiming sense of personal value after a long, strange trip threading through my Saturn Return, and integrating a new chapter into a bad-intimacy saga stretching all the back into preschool. 😔

All colliding with my obsession to pursue and write about the occult. 💀💕

And perhaps thrown into the mix a Gemini-forward cafe employee realizing their own erratic boundary issues. 🤨

So, if you’re also having an Eclipse moment, take every little astro-hint as a context clue, and hold it up to the look and feel of your life right now.

And also diary the shit out of it. ✍🏻

ALONG WITH YOUR REFLECTIONS OF THE MOST RECENT ECLIPSE > start looking into your deeper past and future Eclipses! You can use the calculator and process I’m about to guide you through to craft a narrative tracing the whole of your personal Eclipse Cycles—wherever the Node of Fate tripped your chart, and sent you careening into destiny with renewed purpose!

HOW TO FIND (+ TIME) YOUR PERSONAL ECLIPSE CYCLES

Good to know for planning extraordinarily synchronicity!

And also for “walking the cat back” on new and just-ending Eclipse stories, such as I.

HERE’S HOW > VISIT THE ASTRO-SEEK.COM ECLIPSE CALCULATOR…

ENTER YOUR BIRTH INFO INTO THE CALCULATOR (birth date, time, place).

Also select the span of years you’re interested in seeing eclipses. You can select going backwards or forwards (in 5 year increments). Include the city you’re currently (or will be) residing in.

Also select the types of aspects you’re interested in—”conjunctions”, “oppositions”, and “squares” from eclipses to your chart will interest you most. 👍🏻

AND IT WILL SPIT OUT A HANDY GRAPHIC + SUMMARIES OF WHERE THE FUTURE ECLIPSES WILL AFFECT YOUR CHART! 🤩

Scroll below the chart to see the actual calendar dates, the signs of the eclipses, the houses + points of your chart they’re “doomed” to strike, and a link to see to the chart of the day!

What to do with the information? >>>> First, note the Eclipses happening in Houses with objects such as your Nodes, planets, and other points. Notice the column that actually gives you a heads-up of what the Eclipses are aspecting!

If you’re astro-nerdy, click “transit chart” on the far right to see a more complete picture of what’s goin’ down during that Eclipse activation. 🪐

OR, you can idle in the astrologers’ forums for a few days discerning the in-depth metaphors for each Eclipse, House, and astrological point it contacts in your chart. ✨

For what purpose? >>>> Re-exploring the secret territory of your hopes, dreams, fantasies, and most cherished goals. What future dates might you target for? What do the metaphors and similes in the astrology signal to you?

Note: you can actually change the dates shown for the Eclipses as well, going deeper or further in time. 🐇🌀

GEMINI-SAGITTARIUS ECLIPSE DATES! ♊️♐️💫

Once you unpack the present transit (where/how this Eclipse just hit you), and where Eclipses will hit you in the future, remember to review past Eclipse transits. Knowing can help us become crystal-clear on our hidden cycles, all those sneaky patterns that might have thrown us off our true grind.

AS YOU READ ABOUT PAST ECLIPSE DATES > What was up? What was the haps? Who were the key players, what was the scene, the location, the mood, the hopes, pains, and promises du jour?

Where do you store your memories, dreams, goals, and frustrations? Even if it’s in your iCloud photo albums, your Twitter and Instagram, your secret slam poetry scribbled onto loose pieces of waterlogged stationery you couldn’t bear to trash, as long as you have a repository of observed reality to reference, it feels less insane trying to comb through the remembered details (because you don’t really know what you’re just conferring spooky-vibes onto).

Remember that the June 10, 2021 Eclipse I’ve been talking about is one of several in a set, running from June 2020 to December 2021. 🗓

Every Eclipse “set” lasts about two years, and is called an Eclipse Story, and leads into the next seven years, or rest of the Eclipse Cycle. 💫

Want more intel (and dates)? Get the full scoop at Cafe Astrology. 🤙🏻

gemini-sagittarius eclipse dates 2021 >

• Wednesday, May 26 >.Total Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius

• Thursday, June 10 > Annular Solar Eclipse in Gemini

• Friday, November 19 > Partial Lunar Eclipse in Taurus

• Saturday, December 4 > Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius

gemini-sagittarius eclipse sets (recent, upcoming, current) >

• June 2029 to June 2031

• June 2020 to December 2021

• December 2010 to May 2013

• December 2001 to November 2003

• December 1991 to May 1994

  June 1982 to November 1984

This is the fifth eclipse in a series falling along the gemini-sagittarius axis ♊️♐️💫, and here are those dates >

• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse June 5th, 2020 at 15:12:15 at 15° Sagittarius 34′

• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse November 30th, 2020 at 4:29:32 at 8° Gemini 38′

• Total SOLAR Eclipse December 14th, 2020 at 11:16:26 at 23° Sagittarius 08′

• Total LUNAR Eclipse May 26th, 2021 at 7:13:43 at 5° Sagittarius 26′

• Annular SOLAR Eclipse June 10th, 2021 at 6:52:29 at 19° Gemini 47′

• Total SOLAR Eclipse December 4th, 2021 at 2:42:51 at 12° Sagittarius 22′

some other astro-specifics to focus your personal eclipse appraisal >>>>

These are some notes on the June 10, 2021 Solar Eclipse from Cafe Astrology, mentioning astro specifics, for your special consideration. ✨

🌗“The Solar Eclipse occurs close to the inferior conjunction of the Sun and Mercury, which marks the middle of the Mercury retrograde cycle. We’re looking back before moving forward. It’s also square Neptune, pointing to some unclear thinking and certain things left up in the air. We can be wrestling with perceptions and expectations. It’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings.”

🌗“The last time we had a set of Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses was December 2010 to May 2013” > what were you up to? How much of it rhymes with your life these days?

🌗“Even more relevant is the set of Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses from December 2001 to November 2003 because the North Node was in Gemini then, as it is now.”

🌗“This phase of the Moon occurs at 19 degrees and 47 minutes of Gemini, affecting people with personal planets and points at approximately 15 to 25 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) most significantly.”

SO—WHAT’S YOUR ECLIPSE STORY? 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

When an Eclipse impacts a chart, it’s called an Eclipse Story. An Eclipse Story unfolds within and lasts about two years, coinciding with the Eclipse series that started it. You could say the two-year Eclipse Story stages the next 7-year karmic passage until the next set Eclipse set.

So… like, it doesn’t stop. 😵‍💫

But it does evolve!

this eclipse set started june 5, 2020 with the sagittarius lunar eclipse ♐️, and will close out this year on december 4th with the sagittarius solar eclipse ♐️.

Circa June 2020 (last year), in my world, I was initiating a divorce.

Basically, from the man I had met nine years ago, at the start of my last Eclipse Story. 🙊

(CAN YOU BELIEVE)

For me, the flash in the barista’s eyes kickstarted research into a magical realm of occult understanding that is the morphic field of how I think, feel, and feel into the world.

First of all, I recognize > a “relationship project” is not in order.

But the strange experience might link us both to more integrated versions of ourselves.

More intel is needed.

Are you also having an Eclipse moment? >>>> Remember, if your Nodes land in Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️, this is your story. ✨

Scroll back up and take note of all the dates involved in the Gemini-Sagittarius Cycle (reaching back to 2011), then give yourself time and space to think about it. All of it.

Also, maybe revisit your archived playlists and albums from 2011. (For me: lots of Kanye, Katy Perry, and DeadMau5. That explains a lot. 🤔)

Also consider and celebrate > you’ve breeched a new chapter!

Welcome to integrating the shocking new awareness that your deepest intimacy issues are tied to destined-healing crises with your erratic neighbors!

And by 2023, everything will be different. 🤢🤩

But what has the eclipse triggered, exactly? > 

…An existential plot twist ✨

Speaking only for myself, the Eclipse triggered crystalline new awareness about hidden psychological patterns in my life—

…like noticing a brand new spiderweb glinting in a sunrise…

…and now deciding whether or not to dust it away. 💫

“Here is another way to think about the way eclipses work: Imagine that a puzzle piece fell out of the sky into your hands. This new piece offers information, and when added to the overall picture of your puzzle will change the complexion of the situation and bring you a flash of insight. You may say, ‘For the first time, I understand!’ Now you have a full picture of the situation and can make a fuller, more realistic appraisal of what it means to you. You will also know what you must do next. This is the experience of an eclipse!”

(Source)

Here’s what I’ll admit > some of the Eclipse lore I’ve found might pertain to the barista, who may have had a Node triggered by the Eclipse, and I am currently stalking the issue with synastry (astrology chart comparison), based on (potentially wrong) birth data gathered via eavesdropping and past awkward getting-to-know-and-dislike-you conversations. 💫

I’m presuming his Nodes were grazed, while the Node of Fate and wandering Chiron simultaneously triggered a healing passage in my own chart, perhaps linking us through astrological transits.

Per much of the astrological lore (via LOLcats / Internet witches), the Eclipse activating my Eighth House would trigger deep psych work, particularly in the area of mine, your’s, our’s.

The little dog is definitely not my issue—that’s his weirdness.

But, like—this makes me feel ookey asking (so it’s probably true) > was his reaction also indicative of some raging codependency issues? 🤔

We’ll just have to wait to see how that checks out, once we’ve integrated the shock and prowled the astrology forums a few days longer. ✨

I’m literally sick to my stomach about it, but happily obsessed, thank you for joining me. 💕

In the meantime, I’m soothing myself with deep research into Chiron-Vertex-Eclipse activations while avoiding eye contact with salty Gen X baristas who might be trying to apologize for telling me to stop coming into the shop by making extremely creamy-delicious foam, and that’s really what this is about > the amount of money I’m spending on foam-sugar-stimulants instead of hustling for copywriting gigs. 🤭

So, my Eclipse Story is about my bad-intimacy saga, codependency issues, as well as financial and psychological shadow work.

Welcome to me. 💁🏻‍♀️🦋

“SHOULD I BE WORRIED THOUGH? ABOUT MY OWN ECLIPSE STORY?” 🤔😳 >

If you are also having an Eclipse moment, you can totally relax. 💖

FIRST OF ALL, you have stumbled into this weird portal with its very idiosyncratic, but reassuring secondary references, so… miracles happening. 👐🏻✨

Second, I’m in the Eclipse portal with you. I’m affirming this weird thing. This weird thing is life. 🌀

Maybe this is also what movies like The Matrix and Cloud Atlas are actually about, and we’re currently living into the plots of stories not-yet-penned.

Maybe our Eclipse Stories will become new archetypal story lines in the Age of “Aquarius” cultural reboot? 🤔🤩

Just keep your eyes peeled. Count omens. Revisit playlists and diaries of yore.

Document everything.

i also pulled a card from my threads of fate oracle deck, this is what came up >

“The Observer indicates a time where you being encouraged to suspend judgment or conclusions and simply witness. Humans are always trying to sort their external world - we want to process it, make sense of it, and figure out our place within it. It is our way of trying to feel secure and comfortable within our environment. However, this can also reach extremes where we are automatically forming opinions without gathering enough information.The Observer asks you to pause and simply pay attention. This may feel passive, but in observing we are already cultivating change.”

— Threads of Fate Oracle Deck (Rose Gold Edition, mm’hmm ☺️)

This felt like an extra spooky omen, because of this quote I found connected to Vertex points…

“The point of all Vertex contacts is to reveal ourselves from a perspective that is higher and deeper than ordinary conscious awareness. In a way, the Vertex is beyond the Nodes, which are all about the development of consciousness. The Vertex unveils the ‘Watcher,’ in us. The one who knows. The one who is beyond the conscious Self.”

(( **Runs screaming from the room** 😱))

MORE ECLIPSE RESOURCES! 🤩

• Here’s the 2021 Eclipse Calculator > plug in your birth data (time, date, location you were born) and see! Note: definitely save a copy of the chart as well as a link back to the page—it’s gonna take some time reading through. 🗓

• Want an Eclipse horoscope for your Sign? > What to expect with the Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses, plus a full run down on each one.  Here’s another from Dark Star to compare and contrast. 👌🏻

• Or, if you want to guess, here’s a table of the 2021 Solar and Lunar Eclipses. Compare the column with the Signs + degree numbers to the Signs + degrees in your chart. (For nerds, click “view chart” to see the transit chart for that day!)

• LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2021 LUNAR ECLIPSES, plus a summary of the Eclipse in your Houses. Also, for further reference > learn about eclipse transits on your natal chart.

• What New Moons and Eclipses mean as they travel through your Houses. This is basically how you start creating personalized lunar horoscopes!

• An astrologer’s insider tips + advice for coping with Eclipses! If you’re DIY’ing your own transit chart from the Eclipse dates, that post has the inside scoop on what to look for.

• From Mystic > How Eclipses Affect Your Relationships, and also, Eclipse rituals that work.

• Looking up Eclipses for historic family events or on behalf of your aunties? Eclipse dates from 1994-2030.

• This Mystic Medusa blog post explains the nerdy-cool facts of Eclipse Cycles, a.k.a. Saros Cycles, and I think I understand it. 👍🏻

• For varsity astrology students > this write-up about eclipse families, spanning millennia, and their historical coincidences! I love the part about Prince William being born on an eclipse cycle 🙀> “To have Prince William involved in this series implies quite strongly that he is going to change the face of the monarchy or walk away from it, as his great uncle did. What lends further weight to this unfolding drama is that this Series started in the same period of history as the British monarchy itself. The first recognised King of England who could truly claim that title was the Anglo Saxon Ecgberht and he came to power in 802 ce. The series ends in 2036 with the heir containing this eclipse in his natal chart. I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.”

Still have questions or confusions about eclipses? >

Check out my (way more recent) post: A User's Guide to 2022 - 2023 Taurus - Scorpio Eclipses 🌻🌙💫…

…which also features a very cool printable worksheet for helping you decipher your own magi-radical eclipse moments with astrology! 🤩

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and if you’re still at a loss about your astro-magical eclipse moment… 😫

Drop me an email, and I’ll help out as best I can! ✌🏻

(Heads up, tho: I will not reply in a timely manner, and when I finally do, it might be very cryptic, but that’s only to draw you in closer, so that I might pre-abandon you before you seduce and abandon me, intimacy issues unfolding before your eyes... 👐🏻✨)

And if you also had an ecstatic-astrological moment of any kind…

Email me about your story immediately, in whatever form (text, audio, song, vlog) makes sense.

DO IT.

DO IT NOW. 🙀

How to Track Your Astrology Transits + Why You Must (Hint: Idea Fairies 🧚🏻‍♂️💡)

“Cycles of light and dark, of heat and cold, of magnetism, radioactivity, and gravity all provide vital guides—and life learns to respond to even their most subtle signs. The emergence of a fruitfly is tuned by a spark lasting one thousandth of a second; the breeding of a bristle worm is coordinated on the ocean floor by a glimmer of light reflected from the moon…

Nothing happens in isolation.

We breathe and bleed, we laugh and cry, we crash and die in time with cosmic cues. ”

— LYALL WATSON

This post shows you where to get a transit chart for free, then how to delineate or “break it down,” and apply it to your weird life.

OR, BASICALLY > everything you need to know in order to look up what’s going down in your stars, right now, while hellfire and microbial murderers swarm the earth.*

(*Drafted from the California Central Coast during the COVID “lockdown” and “super wildfire moment” circa September 2020.)

OBVIOUSLY > this is astrological self-study, and totally extracurricular.

I mean—since we’re not running for the hills (which are on FUCKING FIRE 🔥🔥🔥), we might as well stargaze through computer screens and try to come up with new fantasy lives based on sliding door moments we might glimpse in our crude interpretations of what’s transiting… 

…and that’s basically my coping strategy. 👍🏻

Anyway…

Transit basically means crossing, passage, transition from one state to another. You’re getting “transited” by a planet when a planet in orbit moves upon one of the planets in your natal chart.

And, like—your natal chart is mostly unrealized potential until activated by transits. 

In other words, we need transits in order to unlock the potential, aptitudes, qualities, and experiences indicated by our natal charts. ✅

astrological transits describe what in your chart is “happening” ✨>

PAR EXEMPLE > if Venus was in Aquarius when you were born, and Jupiter and Saturn are both transiting Aquarius right now, they’ll eventually come upon your Venus, maybe even retrograde back over your Venus, then cross again.

If you didn’t know such a thing was happening, you might overlook, misinterpret, or turn away from significant omens regarding your attraction factors. 😨😩

Reading transit charts might also help you realize patterns coinciding with meaningful moments, such as my research-binge on the 2021 Gemini Eclipse leading me to realize my chart has been triggered by Eclipses previously. 😳🤭

So, transits matter. ✅

if you can figure out how to cast your natal chart, you can definitely cast it again with transits 💫, and i’ll explain what’s worth tracking (and how to plan for it) >

I’ll explain the difference between astrology charts (what is a “natal” versus a “transit” chart, anyway? 🤔), where you can get one (or many), and how you can begin forecasting your life according to planetary currents. ✨

You’ll learn how to calculate a transit chart, and also get an epheremis (hint > Astro-seek.com), the main tools in transit tracking.

I’m also going to link to sundry transit apps and websites for scoring this precious intel, including some that will store and do it for you (if robotically). 

mostly, i’ll show you a couple techniques for reading transit charts yourself, and you might be able to master it (and plug everything into your planner) just in time for lockdown to be over. 🤩✨

HINT 1 > Do already have your natal chart? Click that link to get started on your astrology self-study! This is your birth chart, the astrology of you ma cherie, and the primal compass of your psyche. I’ve lit-er-al-lee been decoding mine for 3 years, always finding more. ✅

HINT 2 > Are you familiar with basic terminology? Planets, Signs, Houses, Aspects…? No need to be an expert, or even an intermediate-level astro student. Just be curious, you’ll learn as you go. This post walks you through the 1-2-3s DIY reading your own natal chart.

We can’t predict what might happen during a transit, it’s all based on probabilities and what’s happening in the rest of the chart 💫, but knowing the transits are coming might help you anticipate a certain mood and dress code.

Once we master this… we will be invulnerable. ✊🏻

“OKAY, SO… WHAT’S THE DIFF BETWEEN MY BIRTH CHART AND A TRANSIT CHART, IN ASTROLOGY?” >

Your natal chart (or birth chart) stays the same all your life, while a transit chart changes (almost) every day as the planets orbit. Your natal chart hints at your ultimate potential, deep epigenetic past, and describes your innate disposition towards experiences. This is, like, looking at the HTML code for your psyche, a topographical map of your soul as it will unfold through time and space. Your natal chart is about you, beneath all the bullshit cultural messaging and shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Who am I?

Why am I like this?

What’s my special gift?

What is my real potential?

How do I manage this karma?

Which karma is even mine??

How can I make better mistakes?

…Natal charts. 👐🏻✨

BY CONTRAST > a transit chart shows where the planets are currently hangin’ out. Your natal chart represents the default code, whereas the transit chart describes what’s coding the current moment. Transits might explain the how + what of your experiences, while your natal chart describes the ways you might unconsciously attract or defer experiences.

Most online calculators will display a transit chart overlaying your natal chart, so you can compare how the planets’ current coordinates might be activating different energies, “triggering” zones of your chart, and bringing correlating themes and activities into focus.

“Transits represent the actual, physical motion of the planets and the relationship between the actual current position of the planets and the location they were at your birth. So ultimately the planets are always “transiting” as they are always moving. So you might hear someone say “Mars is transiting Aries and my 8th House” or you might hear them say “Mars is in Transit with my natal Mercury”. Ultimately what they are referring to is the way that the movement of the planets activates their natal astrology chart.”

(Source)

BASICALLY, a natal chart shows all the planets frozen at your birth, whereas a transit chart shows where the planets are right now in the present. 💁🏻‍♀️

“okay, so, why should we track our transits?” 🤨 >

Because transiting planets…. witness us. 👐🏻✨

No one actually shows up (hopefully 🤔), but once you start observing transits, you might notice a certain mood shift, the lowering of the barometric pressure, a change in tempo.

You might cast a transit chart for one of your monthly Lunar Returns, or for the date and location where you’re spending your next birthday (a.k.a. a Solar Return chart). 💫

OR… you can cast a transit chart for one of your major astrological cycles, like your Jupiter or Saturn Returns, or even an Eclipse. 🐇🌀

Depending on your worldview, you might use the intel gleaned from transits to study your dreams or intuition, your mood cycles, relationship drama, waves of inspiration or foreboding….

…and perhaps gain insight. 🕯

TRACKING YOUR TRANSITS, therefore, might help you receive these visiting energies with grace and panache, or very specific boundaries in place.

You might better acquiesce to the situation that has presented, or better understand (and feel ripe and ready for) an opportunity.

“In studying Hellenistic Traditional Astrology, the ancients often viewed the planets as bearing witness to each other. The Latin term aspectus, root word for English word aspect, means sight. When you understand this, it helps to visualize the planets as looking at each other and bearing witness to your chart and therefore influencing you.”

— A useful way of think about aspects and transits

FOR MYSELF 💫, I combined this idea about the transiting planets “witnessing” us to this rad metaphor made by a literary goddess in a self-help manual about developing a creative practice (Liz Gilbert, Big Magic ✨) >

“I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas.

Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us—albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.

And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual.”

SO… idea fairies. 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

Here’s my thesis about planetary transits…. 🌟

what if… all the planet transits were showing up in our lived experiences…

…showing up as muses, geniuses, daimons, and guides?

Like—if you knew the muse was on her way, what container would you create, what would you clear out, how would you lean into or abate or otherwise prepare for your encounter with her? 🤔🧚🏻‍♀️✨

Like—Venus might be the idea-fairy of beautiful mood-making, fashionable lugubriousness, and wherever she’s transiting on your chart might become a hotbed for fun, flirtation, and leisure activity, especially once a year during your Venus Return. 🤩

depending on your lifestyle and creative practice(s), you might be able to use the intel gathered from transit charts to better understand the world, your personality, other people, god, the universe… 💡

REMEMBER > Your natal chart stays the same your whole life long, and comprises the background settings on your psyche and preferences and temperament, whereas transiting planets (where the planets are hanging out right now) can roll up on planets in your natal chart, prompting new players and events to erupt. 🎆

When transiting planets come within range of the same degree° in the same sign as any of your natal planets, it can “trigger” natal energies in your chart.

SO, if you visit Planet Watcher and notice transiting Mercury is about to conjunct (pull up side-by-side) transiting Uranus, you’d just have to look on your natal chart at the house aligned with the zodiac sign where the two planets are transiting, as that will reveal where the circumstances of their conjunct-transiting might impact you in your own weird life. 💕

ALSO, a transit chart will clue you into the future or imminent transits that will trip your chart in a palpable way, especially if there’s something like an Eclipse or an Outer Planet about to transit on an angle or planet in your own chart.

knowing this, you can journal or otherwise document their transit through that area of your chart (and coincidentally, your life), and decide if their influence had the kind of impact you expected.

So, basically, transit charts can guide your activities and process. ✨

If you’re someone who likes pattern recognition, this might make you feel like a little kid again…. you’ll definitely become addicted to people watching (which is why all my neighbors’ birth data is in my phone*).

(*Also because I’m a low-key psychopath, hi. 💁🏻‍♀️☺️)

WHERE TO GET (+ HOW TO READ) A TRANSIT CHART…

…SO YOU CAN START PLANNING 2022, AND BECOME INVULNERABLE THROUGH ASTROLOGY 🌟

1. HIT UP THE ASTRO-SEEK TRANSIT CALCULATOR > type in your birth data, or the date, time, and location you were born.

2. ALSO select a date (today, in the past, in the future 🌀), and type in the location where you’ll be transited.

3. Finally, click ‘calculate chart.’

4. HINT > hit the gray hyperlink labelled “Extended Settings” and customize your display aspects. I check everything except “display aspects for the Lunar Nodes + the AC-MC”. 💫

5. Ta da! Your transits x birth chart, yayyy! 💫

FOR ME 💕> this works best by printing the transit chart onto scratch paper, so I can trace by hand the chain(s) of influence from the transits.

After scoring up the chart in gel and highlighter ink ✨, I write a summary of the mood (the signs) and potential key events, and where they might happen (the houses). I hole-punch and insert the chart into a binder where I keep such rad information, for random future review.

HINT > Try to think of these less in concrete details, more as an aesthetic, or party vibe.

“wait, do i need to type in my current location (versus my birth location) to get an accurate transit chart?” >

WELP, Astro-Seek asks for current location, but Astro Dienst (astro.com) does not, so… idk. 😳✨

HOWEVER, most astrologers and astrology calculators require your current location, or the location where the transit is taking place.

JUST WANT TO SEE THE CURRENT TRANSITS? > Hit up Planet Watcher, and visualize what you see overlaying your natal chart (Libra on Libra, Gemini on Gemini, etc.).

You can click through the coming weeks on the calendar (righthand column) and study how the aspects change between transiting planets, and that’s actually pretty cool for tracking the “mood” and “vibes” of the day. ✅

This won’t be much different than delineating your own natal chart, and it might even help you hone in on a pattern or theme of experience, certain archetypes that tend to drift in or out, and the same ol’ omens.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A TRANSIT CHART 💫✨ >

SOME GENERAL GUIDELINES… not really step-by-steps, but “hot spots” to pay attention to in your transits charts.

HINT 1 > If you’re following along with Astro Seek, your natal planets are blue and inside the zodiac belt, while your transiting planets are orange and outside the zodiac belt. ✅

HINT 2 > You might want to print your transit chart off onto scratch paper, so you can circle and trace where the planet-play is actually happening.

HINT 3 > Revisit my post about DIY interpreting your own natal chart for more reference sites and resources. ✌🏻

I link to some helpful articles to get you going, but remember, the a-ha’s won’t come until you’re actually delineating the chart, and also documenting the activities, to-do lists, new meetings, etc., coinciding with your transits!

• CIRCLE THE PLANETS or ANGLES GETTING TRANSITED > Note any transiting planets about to graze your natal planets, points, or angles, OR on the verge of tipping into new signs / houses. 0-2° orbs have the strongest influence. (“Orbs” = the distance by degrees between two objects on the chart.) Transits to your “personal” or inner planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars) might have the most palpable, resounding effect, especially if getting transited by Jupiter or Saturn, or the Outer Planets. 😬 You’ll feel transits somewhere in your morphic field ✨, or find the transiting personal planets personified in your live, in-person, human interactions. Transits to your chart angles might coincide with turn-around moments, or events that remind you that life just keeps on turning. Go here for more info about transits to your personal planets, and go here for more insight about transits to the angles of your birth chart. 💫

• CHECK UP ON THE “DISPOSITORS” > Look up the rulers of the sign(s) on your chart getting transited. Wherever the planetary ruler is hanging out hints where events, circumstances, or “types” of people might show up, like special little synchronistic Scooby Snax. 😋 Read more about dispositors / rulers over here. ✨

• NOTE WHERE THE OUTER PLANETS ARE TRANSITING YOU > Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. 💫 Which signs, houses? Are they aspecting any planets? …are any of those planets getting transited? Where are the dispositors of the signs/houses getting transited by Outer Planets?

• RETROGRADES > Note any planets about to retrograde, and where. Retrograde means the planet crosses then scoots backwards the point it just crossed, before going direct and crossing again. Not our favorite, especially for planets involving tough lesson-learning, such as Saturn. Read more about the effect of planet retrogrades here, and get a full list of planet retrogrades in 2022 over here. ✨

• TRANSITING PLANETS @ 27-29° CRITICAL OR “ANARETIC” DEGREE OF ANY SIGN > These planets are about to burst forth into a new sign, so they’re kind of taxiing, kind of revving in place, pacing and muttering to themselves… PAR EXEMPLE, Pluto is in the very late degrees of Capricorn, preparing to push into Aquarius on March 23, 2023, so we’re all feeling a bit of an intense “purge moment” on the darker qualities of Capricorn. Read more about Pluto in Capricorn over here, and more about anaretic planets over here. ✨

• FINALLY, NOTE OVERALL PATTERNS + ASPECTS > Which signs / houses have the most transits happening? What “vibes” are the planets throwing at each other? Jo Tracey has great advice about looking for patterns in your current + upcoming transits.

here’s how to draw an “astro t account” pattern  💫✨ >

1. NOTE THE TRANSITING PLANET.

2. NOTE WHERE THE PLANET STARTED TRANSITING. What planets are getting transited?

3. NOTE WHERE THE ACTION IS HAPPENING NOW. Which house is being transited? (Houses = areas or categories of life.)

4. NOTE WHERE THE OUCOME WILL PLAY OUT. Which house(s) are ruled by the planets getting transited? (Might be more than one house, such as transiting Venus ruling Taurus + Libra… see Jo Tracey’s demo ✨)

“what about transits to progressed planets?” 🤔 ⏰ > 

Ooh, you’re a Hermione. 😉🦉⚡️

Transit charts show where the planets are currently transiting, or where they were transiting, or will transit at a future date. 

Secondary progressions show your natal chart sometime in the past… but sped up in time. Progressions are your most abstract, inner, personal transits, happening on some other plane of consciousness closer to your soul-core, and the linchpin factor for much of our personal timing. ✨💫

HERE’S THE EFFECT > if you are 34 years old comme moi 💕, your chart is progressed 34 days past your birthdate, changing a few of the signs / houses of your faster-moving natal planets.

This nudging of those planets ever so slightly re-contours the topography of your soul-map (a.k.a. natal chart ✨), describing a deeper inner mood, a secret, subjective, purely-personal inner landscape with its own time-keeping. Astrologers often check up on your Progressed Moon and Sun to intuit the timing of relationships and opportunities, and to basically gauge your existential mood.

Go here to learn about finding secondary progressions ✨, though you really need to check on where your Progressed Moon and Sun are currently lingering. Your Moon progresses about 12-14° per year (about half a zodiac sign in one year), while your Sun progresses about 1° per year (taking 30 years to start, transit through, and enter a new zodiac sign). Note if either your Progressed Moon or Sun have moved upon one of your natal planets (heightening that planet’s native energy in the matrix of your psyche 👁) OR are currently being transited by another planet in the sky right now.

If you’re already on the Astro-Seek transit chart calculator, and want to see what’s transiting your progressed planets ✨ as well as your natal planets, look at the sidebar (labelled “current horoscopes”), then click “transits and progressions.”

AND JUST FYI > this Astro-Seek calculator actually lets you cast charts where you can see your natal, transits, and progressions all at once. 🤩🙌🏻✨

WHICH TRANSITS TO START TRACKING >

Many astrologers (and astrology apps ✨) typically divide transits into two categories > short term vs. long term transits.

🌟 SHORT TERM TRANSITS > The daily, on-the-go, swifter-orbiting “inner” planets, concerning the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars. The Sun and Moon are considered the most personal “lights,” whatever angles or planets they alight upon brings those sign energies into immediate focus, even without any actual events occurring. These planets’ transits set the ambiance. 💫

🌟 LONG TERM TRANSITS > The slower-orbiting, mass-impact “social” or “outer planets,” Jupiter and Saturn, and then also Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. You’ll definitely want to peek at the social planets (Jupiter, Saturn) for any longterm planning (especially where these transits meet you on your broader cycles). We grow and build according to Jupiter and Saturn transits, while Outer Planet transits describe the zeitgeist or background conditions.

IN GENERAL,  the transits that matter are the ones that actually impact your natal chart, or whether you happen to have a planet, angle, or other special point getting transited. 💫

if you’re just beginning to work transit-tracking into your life, start with this list, and the swiftest-moving planets at the top >

• THE MOON 🌙 > The Moon moves about 12-14° per day, stays in a sign for about 2.5 days, making the Moon the fasting transiting planet. When the transiting Moon alights upon one of our natal planets, it brings energies of that planet into our “mood awareness”. Any natal planet The Deluxe Moon app can help you stay aware of when the Moon enters a new sign, as well as its current phase, which tells you something about the strength of inner awareness it might bring to any natal planets sharing the same sign. HINT > Do you know about your monthly Lunar Returns, when the Moon transits back upon your own Moon, kickstarting a whole new interior cycle encapsulated in the transit chart for that month? Get on it. ✅

• YOUR PROGRESSED MOON ⏰🌙✨ > Your “secret” Moon from your progressed chart (your birth chart somewhere in the past), whose sign and house set the mood for about two-three years of your life at a time, correlating with your Saturn cycle. Note when your “secret” Moon progresses into a new sign, house, or upon one of your natal chart planets, and track where in your life you feel the effects, and whether they correlate with the astrology lore. Read more about your Progressed Moon here. ✨

• YOUR ANNUAL PERSONAL (OR “INNER”) PLANET RETURNS ⚤ > Our personal planets personalize, and make palpable the more abstract transits, especially with the Outer Planets or Nodes or other special transiting “bodies.” Venus and Mercury “return” every year, and Mars every two years, correlating with specific, immediately-felt experiences correlating with the energy of those planets, in the activities represented by the sign and house they occupy. Read more about your Mars Cycle here, and I have a tutorial about casting Venus Return chart, which can be applied to your Mercury Return as well. 💫

• RETURNS OF / ASPECTS FROM THE SOCIAL PLANETS 🕊🪐> By moving in / out of signs or aspecting other planets, Jupiter and Saturn, the Social Planets, shape the social container, and basically frame your public experience. Jupiter changes signs every year, and Saturn every 2 1/2 years. You get a Jupiter Return every twelve years (your “joy-luck” cycle 🕊), and a Saturn Return every twenty seven years (“hard knocks” cycle 🪐). Go here for more intel on tracking the “social” planet transits, not related to your own Jupiter / Saturn cycles. 🌀

• CHIRON PASSAGES / TRANSITS OF OTHER POINTS IN OUR CHARTS > Chiron corresponds with our “soul-wound.” Chiron is an asteroid-comet located smack-dab between Saturn (last of the visible planets) and Uranus (first of the invisible, “meta” planets), symbolizing the bridge between our personal and “meta” experiences. Chiron has a wonky orbit, and doesn’t stay in any sign for a consistent amount of time. Thus, depending on birth year (+ our Chiron sign), we all experience our Chiron passages at different ages, though Chiron in-the-sky will also prompt a “healing attack” on whatever point of our charts it transits. We get 3 major “wounding passages” before our Chiron Return (age 50ish, more below ✨), you’ll need an ephermeris to know the dates of your own passages, or this book.

• SIGN CHANGES OF + TRANSITS TO OUR CHARTS FROM THE OUTER PLANETS 👻 > Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Slow-movers with inter-generational impact. Outer Planet transits might not happen a whole bunch in your lifetime, but when they do, it’s remarkable. 😳 Uranus moves into Gemini in 2027, juuust about when Neptune will also move into Aries, while Pluto enters Aquarius in 2023. If you’ve got planets or angles in any of these signs (or the ones before them), then you might be having (or due for) an Outer Planet moment. 😳😳 Learn more about Outer Planet transits in general over here, and remember that an astrologer or Mystic Medusa’s Seven Years Ahead Transit Report can help you plan. ✅

• TRANSITS TO YOUR MIDPOINTS > This might be “extra,” but you might also benefit from tracking transits to your favorite Midpoints, a.k.a. the hidden “hot spots” in your chart where two planet energies might be co-triggered. Kind of my favorite astrological superstition everrr. Most astrologers want you to pay attention to transits to your Sun-Moon Midpoint, or the midpoint of any two planets with a heavy influence on your natal chart. Keep yourself aware of any current transits that might come within range of your midpoint(s), and when. Learn more about Midpoints here. ✨

• UPCOMING TRANSITS OVER YOUR ANGLES, NODES, OR OTHER SPECIAL POINTS > You might need an astrologer to check your work on this, but you can use the Astro-Seek transit calculator to “plan” for when the heavy-hitters (such as the Outer Planets) or any of your progressed planets are about to change signs, houses, or transit a piece of the chart itself, such over the angles (the Ascendant or Midheaven, for example). Outer Planets transit very slow, and sometimes even retrograde or move backwards over a planet, angle, or your Prog’d Moon, opening corridors of our lives and triggering momentous experiences, sometimes requiring  existential triage. This article can tell you more about the most impactful transits to watch out for, and this article has great advice for gauging the vibe of Outer Planet transits. ✨

Below, I’m gonna share some ideas and insights about calendaring and documenting what exactly is happening during your short-term transits in order to validate your experience of them (or maybe disprove astrology 😜).

I also outline the momentous long-term transits we’re all on-schedule to experience, so you can anticipate coming down the pipeline. ✅

HOW TO CALENDAR YOUR YOUR SHORT-TERM TRANSITS…

…+ BECOME BULLET-PROOF, UNSTOPPABLE, A QUEEN OF THE HUMAN CONDITION (LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN BEYONCÉ + NEO FROM THE MATRIX 🙌🏻✨)

Our “personal” planets (the faster moving inner planets) canvas all the signs and houses of our charts in about 1 -2 years. Venus transits on your planets are considered sweet, cool, and more or less welcome, while Mars is worth tracking for energy and initiative. Mercury Returns can bring snap-crackle-pop moments of inspo, and usually coincide with a trés cool learning moment, or special message delivered through unusual means. If you’re someone who feels acutely affected by Mercury Retrograde, you might want to start tracking it in particular.

When the inner planets make a return, or transit another planet / point in our charts, we might not experience a triggering event, but instead a certain quality of subjective experience. Sometimes an actual person shows up matching the planetary archetype, and actually “midwife” a certain transit or situation.

When Jupiter, Saturn, or Chiron transits us, it’ll take a minute, and have an alchemical effect on the planet (or other point) getting transited, so… we want to know about that. 💁🏻‍♀️

PRO TIP > You’ll basically need both a calendar system as well as a journal, or someplace where you’re able to document the activities and moods du jour, for later reference when the transiting planets have moved on, and the air has cleared. ✅

For me, I like plugging transit dates and hyperlinking to the charts on Astro-Seek in a Google spreadsheet. Aside from having a place to store the dates, links to the charts themselves, there’s space for recording any other transit moments expected for the year, a column for quoting the Astro-Seek robo-summaries, as well as a column for recording your experiences during those particular transits.

I know, dude—you’re probably not a “spreadsheet” person, so it might sound like I’m hustling you to purchase snow tires while you’re vacationing in Tampa, but I decided to try this after Jo touted its efficacy >

“On their own, the transits were like individual trees – only part of the story, but when I plotted them all on a spreadsheet, I could see the forest. The big picture came into view. By looking at them in isolation, I lost perspective. By plotting it all, I could see the big picture. Now it’s become part of my annual planning session. In fact these days I rarely look at individual transits – I’m more interested in what it means as a whole.”

You can visit this link to see how Jo Tracey spreadsheets her own transits, and it’s very similar to the visuals provided in Mystic Medusa’s 7-year transit report! 🤩

For beginners, I’d say begin with just tracking your monthly Lunar Returns (more info about this in a minute). Astro Seek makes it easy to get all the dates and charts for your monthly Lunar Returns, so you can just copy ‘n paste them into the spreadsheet.

Use the other columns on your spreadsheet to store quotes from Astro-Seek about each month’s Lunar Return chart (scroll down the page), as well as to document your own activities and experiences.

You can totally add more columns to also document other coinciding transits, and here is a tutorial on using Google Sheets to get you there.

ALSO, this post explains how to translate your Lunar Returns into monthly self-care briefs! 🤩🥰

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O, BUT, Hay—

if you’re not into spreadsheets (😜), consider this transit grid worksheet I put together, to help you parse out your transits!

I'D LOVE A FREE ASTROLOGY WORKSHEET, THX!

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here’s what i’m tracking in the astrology spreadsheets, and where i get that information 💫 >

• MONTHLY LUNAR RETURNS 🌙 > The Moon speaks to your immediate emotional reality, so tracking your monthly Lunar Returns might be useful. Go here to find out the dates and get the charts to your monthly Lunar Returns.

• PROGRESSED MOON MOMENTS ⏰🌙 > I typically like to know (for myself + others ✨) the sign, house, and phase of their Progressed Moon, and when the next transitions are due. Usually, as the Progressed Moon changes conditions, our inner mood also shifts. This Astro Seek calculator can help you determine when / if your Progressed Moon will change signs or houses or phases during this year. Just input your birth data, select which progressed planet you want to track (“Moon”), then from the dropdown menu labelled “Ingresses / Lunation Cycle / Conjunctions”, select “Into Natal Signs & Zodiac Signs.” NOTE > You can also select “8-Fold Lunation Cycle” to see when (+ where) the Progressed Moon will change phases, as well as look for when / if the Progressed Moon (or any planet) will graze one of your other planets or points. ✅

• ANNUAL SOLAR RETURN 🌻 > The Sun speaks to your “light of awareness.” Most people visit astrologers to get their birthday charts cast, a.k.a. their Solar Return chart, which can be compared to your natal chart. HINT > You can cast a Solar Return chart for yourself from any astrology calculator, just change your birth year to the current year. (EXAMPLE: March 22, 1987 > March 22, 2022.) Use the Astro-Seek Solar Return calculator to cast your Solar Return chart and get a lay of the land (and scroll down to read the Astro-Seek robo-summaries for yours). Read more about Solar Returns here.

• ANNUAL VENUS + MERCURY RETURNS 🐚💡 > Venus Returns are essentially the best times for throwing a party (unless you’ve got some afflictions… either pre-existing in your natal chart, or due to some current wonky transits. Use the Astro-Seek Planet Return calculator to find out the return dates your Personal Planets and cast those charts, just select Venus or Mercury from the dropdown menu. 💫

• BI-ANNUAL MARS RETURNS 💥 > Mars correlates with our “take-down” urge, our personal drive, the energy of our desire. Mars returns to natal position every two years, instigating a new two year period of oomph, where we’re driven to make something happen. ✨ Mars is considered a “malefic,” and also the lower octave of Pluto, harbinger of crisis / Awakening moments. Thus, each Mars Return represents a new threshold or evolved chapter in our “will to power” cycle, and casting a chart for start of your Mars Return might yield insight into where this oomph will want to direct itself. Read more about Mars Returns here (including how to delineate your Mars Return chart ✨), and use Astro-Seek planet return calculator to find out when your next one will happen! 💫
  

FYI, Jupiter and Saturn are considered heavy-hitting, long-term transits, but if you cast any transit chart for a random day, and happen to notice either of those planets sidling up on one of your natal planets, pay attention. ✅✅✅

Jupiter and Saturn transits to one of your personal planets can take a minute (or over a year 😬), and might even reverse back over the point it’s transiting (called retrograding). These aspects might not bring as much BOOM or OOF as a full-tilt Jupiter or Saturn Return 💫, but you’ll definitely notice ‘em, and probably receive inspiration or instruction at this time, usually in the themes of the zodiac sign(s) they’re traveling through, with some kind of influence to the planet, angle, or other point they’re aspecting.

These articles explain how different aspects from Jupiter to your personal planets or Saturn to your personal planets (conjunction, sextile, square, trine, or opposition ✨) might impact your life, and what you might expect. ✅

If you’re not sure how to interpret the information or situations described through these Personal Planet returns, you might want to read up on your bigger, more maj’ planetary cycles, a.k.a. the transits your life is waiting on.

And that’s just what we’re about to do, right now… 🤩🥰

THE BIG TRANSITS, A.K.A. THE TRANSIT MOMENTS YOUR LIFE IS WAITING ON 😳💫✨

ALRIGHT, let’s talk about the larger planet transits you’re on-schedule to experience (…or endure 😳).

In fact, these cycles are the context or frame of reference for what’s really going on during your Personal Planet returns, or whenever one of your planets are getting transited.

All your other transits (your ever-changing monthly Lunar Returns, annual returns of Venus and Mercury, all the way to your bi-annual Mars Return 💫✨) can be understood in relationship to your bigger, scheduled planetary cycles.

OBVIOUSLY, these transits are worth asking an astrologer about, because these are the transits that rumble with your heart, mind, and ultimately reconfigure your soul.

Here is that list. ✨

• NODAL RETURN (life purpose), AGES 18 - 19 > You’re confronted with the reality of your potential, where external circumstances force encounters with our personal limitations and family karma. This is when you become aware of your options in life, and begin exploring purposefulness. Mystic describes > “The North Node of the Moon goes back to where it was when you were born so you’re highly conscious of your destiny. You get a calling! You meet people who, one way or another, are Destiny Muses. It’s also the zone of your Uranus square Uranus, a feisty phase of individuation.” (Read more about Destiny Muses, and more about the Lunar Nodes in your chart, including the full schedule of when Nodal “returns” will hit your chart. ✅✨

• PROGRESSED LUNAR RETURN (emotional coming of age), AGES 26 - 27 > Your “progressed” Moon is actually totally secret, and takes about 26-7 years to return to natal position. By this point, it has canvassed every sign, house, and planet in your chart, and you now have an intuition about each of these energies, where they’re located, and how they do what they do, even if it’s just a “working” knowledge. This is the time of our lives when we start thinking about commitment, or tuning into the real story our hearts are telling us about what we’re meant for, in terms of partnership, work, and general life contentment. Happens moments before our Saturn Return, when we start thinking about what we’re actually making of our lives. Read more about your Progressed Moon over here. ✨

• SATURN RETURN (life structure), AGES 27 - 30 >  Everything hurts. 😓 Arrives hot on the heels of your Progressed Lunar Return, when your “emotional matrix” has just started flickering on, and can offer guiding advice for how to structure your life, especially in a way that meets your heart-felt needs and commitments. Learn more about Saturn Return over here. ✨

• PLUTO SQUARE (shadow work, whether you want to admit it or not), AGES 36 - 38* > When transiting Pluto forms a 90° angle with Pluto in our chart, creating circumstances forcing us to detox on our “personality strategies,” a.k.a. the manipulations we’ve been relying on to get things done, while maintaining our persona, personality, or whatever we have conceived of as our “self.” Circumstances force us to review the power dynamics in our relationships (working and otherwise), any psychological tit for tat we’ve been engaged in, and the expectations (or goals) we’ve been manipulating others towards. Check your Pluto placement for hints about where (+ how) you deploy personality strategies, then count 90° from natal Pluto for hints about where and what type of circumstances might crop up to force this detox. (Each zodiac sign on your chart is only 30° wide.)  *Age of onset might vary, because Pluto orbits hella slow and sometimes wonky. Go here to learn more about Pluto Squares. ✌🏻

• NEPTUNE SQUARE NEPTUNE (the “fog of life”), AGES 40 - 42 > “Right on the heels of Pluto’s ‘upheaving’, and sometimes overlapping, depending on your chart and the movement of the points after your birth, Neptune will also square itself. Neptune is the point associated with surrender, spirituality, and mystery. Like Pluto, its long cycle makes the first square the most important for us. I describe it as the Fog of Life because it can be a time of confusion, unclear direction, and dissolving leading to a spiritual awareness of your life purpose.” (Source)

• URANUS OPPOSES URANUS (crisis of individuality), AGES 44 - 44 > Pretty much all of your “dirty 30s” transits are about clearing the psycho-somatic gangway for your Uranus Opposition, and ensuing spiritual coming of age. Mystic describes > “Fuq the steady job, fuq the bourgeois relationship conventions, fuq the linear time crap, fuq whatever is in the way of realness. Note also, it is another Node cycle so similar to age 20. But your ability to slither out at midnight in barely any clothes to some cool venue and still feel welcome is significantly impaired. But you probably have more budget to fund the revolution.” Philip adds > “As the final part of the Kundalini Rising work between 36 and 44 (Clow, Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini), the Uranus opposition is designed to ‘shock’ us into awakening and embracing our authentic selves. This period of life can be, and is supposed to be, intensely disruptive, both internally and, if necessary, externally. While you may find yourself swimming in the Fog of Life with no shore in sight, the Uranus opposition is like a lightning strike that instantly burns away the fog so you can see clearly where you are and where you need to go!” If you’re coming up on this transit, this is your homework > Kundalini Rising. 👐🏻✨

• INVERTED (or “reverse”) NODAL RETURN (“life purpose” redux moment), AGES 46.5 > Particular circumstances turn themselves on their head in order to force an assessment of your purpose. Are you living your true calling, or is it echoing through your empty heart in the wee morning hours when you’re awake and alone in your wakefulness, wondering after your secret hopes, dreams, goals, and expectations (including the ones you forgot to mention)? This is a time of personal inventory, and maybe a little recovery work, even if you can’t articulate what exactly you’re “recovering” from. Read more about the Nodal Returns over here. (Here’s my post on the Nodes again as well.) 👍🏻

• CHIRON RETURN (“healing crisis” moment), AGES 49 - 51 > Time of middle-age when we “change our medicine,” so to speak, and begin integrating deepest wounds from childhood and adolescence into our “adult” psyche. Sets the stage for your ensuing Renaissance Decade. 🎉 Learn more about Chiron Return here, and for the full scratch on Chiron (including dates for your personal “wounding” passages and Return), check out Barbara Hand Clow’s Chiron. ✌🏻

• SECOND PROGRESSED LUNAR RETURN, AGES 53 - 54 > …it’s literally been thirty years since you were in your 20s, here’s a reminder of that. ☺️✨ALSO, this is a time when we re-commit, either to an entirely new heart of hearts, or as a reaffirmation of our original heart, now evolved and twice informed of the entire emotional landscape symbolized by our natal chart. ♥️🌀Go here for advice about how to use your Second Progressed Lunar Return.

• SECOND SATURN RETURN (revisiting the bare bones + brass tacks of your life), AGES 55 - 58 > Mystic describes > “Yes, honest-to-Hecate, Saturn Returns just keep on a happening. [ 😩 ] This is when the classic Saturn themes of teeth-taxes-bones would really start to bite if you did not honor Saturn earlier. Saturn is the Time God and his second return is when you really benefit from the sort of wisdom that can only be attained with the years. You feel your joints and your accrued knowledge.” Read more about your Second Saturn Return here.

• SECOND URANUS RETURN (revisiting your sense of individuality), AGE 84 > Revisiting the same line of self-reflection regarding your sense of self in the wider collective. Carl Jung wrote Memories, Dreams, and Reflections during his Uranus Return, wherein he also describes having used astrology as part of his psychotherapy practice, so, my true-life advice > make sure your doctors, financial advisors, and most of all therapists are also tracking transits. ✅👍🏻

Read more about the 6 Great Transits here, and also Mystic’s explainer on astrological transits during rites of passage. ✨✨✨

RESOURCES FOR TRACKING YOUR TRANSITS (+ BECOMING MORE WONDERFUL 🥰)

• The Astro-Seek monthly transit calendar, along with other tools you can use for planning transits, including the personal transit calendar and a monthly ephemeris. ✅

• Want a Mad Libs-style cheat sheet for deciphering the difference between a planet’s energy in your natal chart vs. in your transits? Go here. 👍🏻

• Want free, low key transit updates delivered to you? 💌📱> my favorite astrologer newsletters over here, plus the Time Nomad and Deluxe Moon apps.

• ALSO, for investment-level astrology news > Rachel’s patrons-only Weekly Forecast voicemails, and Mystic Medusa’s members-only Daily Mystic Email. 💕

• AND JUST FYI > AstroGraph “Archetypal Astrology” has a monthly graphic report and description of your transits available by subscription, as well as a dashboard where you can view / customize a pre-designed color-coded calendar for all your transits (short and long term) for about $13 a month (well well well…)

• What types of transits might you cast a chart for? 💕> I’m casting a transit chart for my upcoming Resurrection Day, a random astrological trivium I mentioned in my post about finding your chart ruler. ☺️✨FYI > a “resurrection day” coincides when the transiting Sun (in the sky right now) crosses over the exact degree of your Ascendent, a.k.a. the “starting line” of your chart. (Natalie @ Soul Shine Astrology also talks about it in this podcast. ✌🏻)

• How to map your transits with an Excel spreadsheet! 🤩

• How to track transits with an ephemeris, and also How to Use An Ephemeris, Why You’d Want To ✅

• Have a powerful desire to track the planets to the hour (for strange personal rituals, obviously)? Check out the planetary hours section.

• SATURN 🪐> Mystic musing on a poetic coming-of-age moment timed with a true-life Saturn transit (not what you’re expecting), plus Nine Vital Truths for Saturn Transits. 🙏🏻💫

• How to get a transit chart from Astro.com 💫

• What are some “new relationship” transits (juss wonderin’)? > From the Lipstick Alley archives > “Jupiter and Venus transiting the relationship houses 5th, 7th, 8th especially 7th house for marriage. Mine will be in my 7th house later this year and Marriage maybe around 2023-2024. I would think those planets in the 5th house would be the courtship phase.” Scroll to the comment below to see more about Mercury and Venus retrogrades’ coincidences in your relationships as well. 💕

a pro astrologer can also translate the transits and straight-away answer any qs, and help smooth out any confusing omens you’ve stumbled on. 😅✌🏻

ALSO, even though you’re now an expert at tracking your own transits ✨, you might want to schedule a reading with an astrologer, just to double-check which upcoming transits might wallop your chart (so you’re not blind-sided by a Pluto-Moon transit, or an Eclipse… ⚡️)

You also get the added benefit of vetting your transit chart interpretation with someone else less likely to try rationalizing the planet glyphs into the same hopes, wishful thinking, insecurities, and excuses, amiright…?

OMG, what if you’re having a “transit moment” right now?! 😳🤩

What to Do While Venus Transits Pisces: A Venus Magic Primer for Beautiful Dreamers 🌸♓️✨

Welcome to your Venus in Pisces transit… also known as, the season of the Mystic Swoon!

Every year, roughly starting around when the Sun enters Pisces (February 19th), Venus—the planetary agent of attraction ‘n aesthetic—will also enter and transit Pisces, the Sign of imagination & misty dreamscapes. ☁️✨

While Venus is cruising Pisces, the world tends to take on a dew-glimmery-dream gloss….

…and I thought this would be an excellent excuse for flexing our astrological magic, a.k.a. planetary-zodiac-based personal rituals. 🌙🔮✨

OR BASICALLY, Venus in Pisces is the perfect time of year for waking up your senses & beautifying your inner universe!

In fact, that’s what Venus Magic is all about ~ working with desire & the sublime to make beautiful things happen; for healing emotional wounds holding you back from loving yourself; for melting into someone else's gaze; for spiritual rapture through the senses.

For YEARS, Venus in Pisces transits have been my favorite time of year for meditative afternoon walks for & middle-of-the-night bubble-bath prayer sessions… for casually assembling the ingredients, circumstances, and people who are able to help me reach out and touch surfaces of reality that ordinarily only twinkle or glimmer on the periphery of my waking life.

So, that’s what this post is going to help you do: show you how to discover your astrological Venus, and use the details as inspo for your astrologically-magical rituals du jour! 🤩

This is going to be useful not just for weird occult reasons, but also because analyzing your Venus can help you explore your personal taste, flirt style, pleasures—all the Venusian delights that are particular to us, but possibly out of sync with what the rest of the world delights in (says Venus in Aquarius over here, holla ✨).

…so, if you also struggle to feel good generally, let me tell you how your Venus Sign (found on your birth chart ✨) can point you towards the aesthetics that are actually medicine for your soul!

OKAY, BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO IT… let’s set the mood. 🎧

VENUS MAGIC: WHAT’S IT GOOD FOR?

Venus Magic helps us manifest our Ideals about Love, Beauty, & Desire. Ideals, like dreams, are ethereal. We have a sense about them, but putting them into words never captures the whole picture. This ethereal realm corresponds with the Outer Planets, like Neptune, which overlords Pisces. 

And Pisces exalts Venus! Each Sign showcases Venus in a special way (some ways debilitating her natural powers), & Venus will transit them all in about 225 days, but Pisces is her favorite part of the voyage, where she can surrender to soul-gasmic splendor. 

In Pisces, Venus energy has a quality of being both super blown out, like light rays dissolving in a watery atmosphere. Memory overlaps imagination, & you can’t tell whether you’re on the inside or the outside of experience.

For a gal coming into this with a huge mind-body disconnect, imagistic, interdimensional Pisces was the perfect entry-point to working magically with the Morningstar Goddess, & bridging the gap between what I think should be happening compared to what is happening. 

So, obviously, Venus transiting Pisces is the perfect occasion for using the Imaginal Realm to create space, relationships, & perceptions for satisfying your heart’s desires. Venus Magic for Pisces season is all about stirring up the very waters of imagination, where you put together your intentions, emphasizing playtime, whimsy, & gaining new perspective, more than trying to make an intention work. 

Before I link to you references for building a Venus ritual (which you don’t even need--you can freeplay any ritual, but having certain materials helps me trust the process more), let me describe the principles (my principles) that I’ve picked up along the way!

In Venus Magic, feeling good is your modus operandi. The “work” is about subtracting the noise throwing static on good vibes, which are natural & easy come, easy go. To start, you have to start with taking responsibility for your experience, which means getting out of your head--abandoning your shoulds. 

This should feel like this… It ought to go like this… 

Fuck that noise. 

💠 first principle of venus magic: pleasure is power.

In Venus Magic, your sweet spot is your power position. That state where you feel most at ease, in your element, in your domain. Venus Magic helps you charm yourself into feeling good; for fully engaging with your senses, thoughts, & feelings. 

But you have to know what feels good, for you, mind, body, & soul. 

Do you know what feels good to you? 

While Venus transits Pisces, we have the opportunity for getting to the hot, glow-y core of our pleasure power. And once you know that power, you are responsible for it. You can’t unknow what makes you feel good, dreamy, & cool.

💠 second principle of venus magic (these are make believe, btw): sensation is the root of spiritual rapture. 

Totally not the prevailing dogma, right? 

Oh, but girls, we already knew this. The dogma is in your mind, which keeps your mind from fully collaborating, reaching into, & fully connecting with your body.

Your pleasure-power is knitted to your immediate environment, which is what your 5 senses are accessing right this moment. Sense awareness is an aspect of human intelligence, devalued because awareness doesn’t produce. Awareness is the access point to higher dimensions.

What are you sensing? 

The neighbor’s kids giggling; flowers sweating their fragrance through the open window; candle wax pooling on your altar. Maybe it’s the cathedral-like silence of the library’s quiet-study area. Maybe it’s overhearing your adored roommate gabbing on the phone, the glitter in her voice as she talks about her favorite class, or it’s the memory of your sunrise run on the beach, the creamsicle colors of the sky & the zen-like emptiness of breaking through exhaustion. 

All of this, this delicious sensory samsara, is the stuff of spiritual ecstasy. Imagine if you were dying, slowly, in this moment. (You are. Actually.) These sense details… they envelope you. Without a raging river of thoughts keeping all that data at bay, those smells, sounds, visuals, etc., would eventually melt all the way through your skin, each & every one of your cells sipping at the world’s sensational noise. 

What knocks us off the route: should, could, would. Any & every urgent abstract thought. 

Venus will transit Pisces from February 10th to March 6th, & the first quarter or full moon are perfect occasions for a little Venusian magic-making! If you're totally new to magic, read this post first, which describes the tools I use, why I use them, & when they come into play.

Remember, it's actually all play. You don't need to follow any procedure to a T--not unless you need to feel technically on-point before you start improvising. 

Also, here’s a complete list of Venus correspondences, with more info about the Venus archetype. You’ll find everything you need to craft a ritual that rings true for the Goddess Venus. 

And if you need a ritual outline, check out my post about creating new moon rituals, which includes a printable roadmap. Use it as a template!

But if you want a star-studded intuitive quest into the poet’s heart of Venus in Pisces, let me tell you about using your Venus sign for decoding the keys to pleasure-power, so you create a truly glimmering world of Beauty & Truth for yourself to live it.

YOUR VENUS SIGN: THE PLEASURE, DESIRE, & STYLE AESTHETIC MARKER OF YOUR BIRTH CHART

Your Venus sign is the short code to your tastes, pleasures, & flirt style. Your Venus sign can help you alight on the feelings & sensations that can transport you to your sweet spot in a snap. You can use this info to prime yourself for any situation, not just a ritual: job interviews, first dates, rainy Sunday afternoons. 

Last year, I wrote a post about discovering my Venus sign, which I used to help create the most sublime Aquarian full moon ritual. I used the info to trick out my ritual surroundings, which seeped into how I deck my space, spend my time, & respond to basic urges for food, water, & comfort.

According to the Astro Twins, with a Venus in Aquarius, I am sapiosexual: turned on by beautiful minds. 

TRUTH. Hellaaa truth. Elon Musk is my celebrity crush. I fantasize about our pillow talk: that I would inspire him to reinvest into the Earth, instead of colonizing dead planets. 

Also, I take great pleasure in speculation: I love people-watching. I love guessing at people’s thoughts & feelings in the fleeting moments I catch them.

Overall, my Venus sign gave me insight for up-leveling my life’s pleasure quotient, which has become core to what I’m doing with Venus Magic. If you want to deliberately practice shifting your mood into “sudden bliss” a.k.a. your sweet spot, your Venus sign is the keyhole you should be peeking through!

HOW TO FIND ‘N INTERPRET YOUR VENUS

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JUST FYI, BEAUTIFUL DREAMER…. 💕✨

I actually have a whole tutorial on full-tilt finding ‘n interpreting your astrological Venus, go here to read it (as well to up-level your astrology skillz). ✨

Also, if you’re kind of new to transit astrology—the kind of astrology where we track the current planets’ movements in relation to our birth charts—check out this tutorial, ‘n be on your way to becoming your own master personal astrologer (you’re welcome). ✨

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1. Get a copy of your natal chart in front of you. You can get one for free at astro.com or by signing up for the Astro Twins’ newsletter. You could also check where your birth date falls on this chart over at Star Sign Astrology.

2. When you have your chart, look for this symbol: ♀

3. Now look to the outer rim of the wheel. What’s Sign does your natal Venus fall in?  

4. When you know, Google “Venus + [its Sign]” to open up a treasure trove of info-tainment!

5. To jumpstart: read more about the Astro Twins’ Venus sign summaries, which are pithy, but speak volumes. 

Of course, you would get a much more cohesive, spooky-specific Venus sign interpretation from an astrologer. Here are my favorites, but just to summarize: Bess Matassa of The Star Parlor (formerly Mojave Rising) specializes in sense-specific natal chart readings (✨), while Kimberly at Star Sign Style focuses on natal chart-inspired style & beauty advice (✨✨). 

You could spend all 3 weeks of Venus’ transit through Pisces just learning about your natal Venus, which might awaken you to so much more about your connection to the world (& it’s delights!). 

But there’s plenty of general pleasures to drip into your life—as well as other magically-astrological micro-rituals / mini-ecstasies to deepen, widen your sense-awareness, so that maybe you can edge on rapture!

SWOONY THINGS TO DO WHILE VENUS TRANSITS PISCES

In her virtual workshop on Venus’s annual transit through Pisces, SUBLIME, Rachel explains how we can use ritual to align with this ethereal time of the year, for inspiration, healing, & (of course) decoding what makes us feel good. I planned a whole ritual & plugged reminders into my schedule during the workshop, so when it ended, I felt like I’d just worked out a problem I hadn’t even realized I was stuck on!

Btw, I fully endorse enrolling in workshops while you’re still saving up for a personal astrology consult. In a workshop, you’re basically given an actionable horoscope, which might not decode everything that’s going on with you personally, but still gives you enough material to figure stuff out on your own. Workshops are spaces to test your intention-setting & self-awareness. 

All of which brings my inner mystic minx to an edge. I mean, why not while away an afternoon wondering deeply about making my life feel better?

So, here are a few activities to help you get swept up in what Venus → Pisces is all about! 

💠 beautify your mind

“[Waits] told me, ‘I realized that, as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people’s minds.’ Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination. That’s all it is. That realization, Waits said, seemed to open things up for him. Songwriting became less painful after that.”

-- Liz Gilbert, Big Magic (based on a past interview)

Decorate your imagination. Re-read your favorite stories & poems. Create playlists of all the music that transports you to other places. Visit art museums, set up your kid’s mini-planetarium in the living room, & pretty much cram your imagination with sparkling, glowy artifacts. 

This is also a great time to binge on astrology, the Tarot, & other symbolic languages… your dreamer-subsconscious loves symbolism & reading up on it can also help you decode & create with your dreams! 

If you’re already pretty aware of what’s in your chart & also pretty adept at the Tarot, consider enrolling in a class to uplevel your symbolic language I can’t fudging wait for DISCOVERY to open up--the astrology course offered by Rachel @ Aeolian Heart (can you tell I’ve got star fever…? 🥵🌟).

You could also consider Venus in Pisces the perfect occasion for a “thought-form makeover.” Do you have any habitual thoughts that make you feel shitty? How about any thoughts promoting beautiful words & actions…?

If you want to replace a few shitty thoughtforms, I love these Venus teachings I found on Universe of Symbolism: 

“Young girls, you are magic, born to experience something magical. Love every moment of being a girl. You make the stars laugh. 

Young women, you are Divine, born to manifest the Divine Feminine on earth. You are the magic of procreation. You make the stars shine.

Grown women, be beautiful, gentle, wise, elegant, & supportive. Remind every woman who she is with your smile & loving presence. You excite the stars & make them dance.”

💠 detox your senses

Venus in Pisces is the season for poets & mystics--aesthetes, in general. According to Evelyn Underhill in Practical Mysticism: A Little Book For Normal People, aesthetes are practical mystics. We are designed to live in a state of peak sense-awareness. 

Living as a true aesthete prioritizes self-purification. Regularly & vigorously cleansing the faculties of perception--the very fabric of our perception itself! 

The core of practical mysticism, according to Miss Evelyn: being immaculate in body & mind, so that the Truth may clearly impress itself upon your soul. 

Well, why not. I don’t agree with Miss Evelyn on all points, but I totally believe she was a swoon-y mystic. And she’s not wrong about our senses needing regular flushing to keep us sensitive to the exquisiteness of direct experience. 

Sensitivity & awareness are part-in-parcel to having penetrative, mystical insight into reality. Sense sensitivity is an ability; it means you naturally tune into the connective tissues beneath superficial reality, stuff most people block out. 

I know that if I want to get to level of practical mysticism, I’ve gotta clean up my act. I’ve got to get intentionally sensitive & learn how to protect that sensitivity. Quite frankly, my senses are pretty blunt.

Be an aesthete. Merge with the moment. Dissolve into the world around you.

Do it. Do it do it do it.

💠 start dream journaling

A dream journal gives an eagle-eye view on an epic conversation you pick back up with the World Soul every night while you sleep. Dreams are a resource, a treasure trove, an elevated perspective on the content of your psyche. In a dream, new sensations storm your nervous system, remixing the levels, reshaping the topography of your soul, subliminally seeping into your waking mind.

If you can manage 3 keywords every day about your dreams for 2 weeks, your dreams will start noticeably amping up. If you focus on keywords (instead of trying to write out the whole dream as you remember it), you’ll be able to track the sun & moon easily.

For dream-journaling experts: document the positions of the sun & moon, which I track with the Deluxe Moon & Time Passages apps. 

What if you have trouble remembering your dreams? Start treating sleep like it’s basic hygiene. In fact, create a brand new, therapeutic bedtime routine. Go ahead, upgrade your bedsheets. Institute the bedroom as a no-phone zone. Drink a mugful of mugwort tea a couple hours before bed. (I’ve tried & liked this brand.)

💠 go to desire rehab

Venus Magic concentrates on manifesting essential power. This is power you don’t create, but create with. It’s power accessed when you’re plugged into your heart’s desire. When desire is thrown in, your instincts dial way up. You’ll be able to sniff out the right people, experiences, & products to make the journey truly your own.

But there’s a ton of social programming to break through before you can make the journey your’s.

If that’s the case for you: it’s time for desire rehab. Recommended reading: Danielle LaPorte’s The Desire Map. Last year, I wrote about my Desire Map experience, & I still go by the core desires unearthed in that process. 

Because of how grand a role desire plays in magic, you can’t afford to ignore it. 

💠 find communion

“Start seeing everything as God,

But keep it a secret.”

— HAFIZ

Go to a natural spot, like the mountains or the coast. Wear feathers in your hair & meditate on a giant rock. Carry your kicks in a bag & kiss the ground with your feet. Say a prayer & leave a feather with a piece of rose quartz somewhere in the wild. Even if nothing particularly thrilling happens while you’re in the great outdoors, keep the excursion secret. Don’t breathe a word about it.

If the idea of going out into nature makes you want to barf, steal away for a day in the city. Go window shopping & cafe crawling, take selfies & buy postcards. Find ways to document the city’s splendors: a camera phone, a journal, your Voice Memo app. Bring homemade jewelry or goody-bags to pass out to strangers.

Whether out in nature or in the city, find or invent an entry-point to merge with what’s happening around you. 

💠 explore the occult side of self-care

Venus in Pisces is the perfect occasion for booking an appointment with a masseuse or holistic esthetician; for splurging on a spa pedicure; for learning to meditate in the bathtub. It’s also a good time for experimenting with some whimsical magical effort, like drinking water infused with gemstones or carving glyphs onto your make-up brushes. 

Every mystic minx should have her own self-love ritual bath recipe--an elixir of fresh herbs, fruit juices, cream, & oils--with a tailored procedural to boot. I show you how to invent your own self-love bath ritual here!

💠 beautify your life

We talked about beautifying your inner life, but what about the outside?

This is the most obvious way to apply your Venus sign. But there’s still so much inspiration to take from other sublime-y places. I love everything Bess Matassa writes about star-inspired home design over at Apartment Therapy. 

And here are the Astro Twins’ home decor horoscopes as well, which points you towards star-satisfying design trends vibing with your own taste! 

In general, without knowing a thing about astrology, you could channel Venus into your home by filling it with squeezable textures, fragrant soy candles, fresh cut pink or peach roses, seashells, jade, quartz, & copper. And getting into the habit of playing ocean sounds on Spotify. Or buying a tiny plug-in water fountain. All of this stuff corresponds with Venus. Hella Venusian vibes. 

Also consider upgrading your wardrobe or getting a makeover. I’m forever indebted to Kimberly @ Star Sign Style for introducing me to the Aquarian Venus power of turquoise.

Visit this page to find Venus sign-inspired style & beauty advice! 

💠 build a venus altar

Place it in the eastern quadrant of your house (or wherever you want), on a vanity table (or whatever you want), then shower it with symbols, minerals, herbs, metals, & colors corresponding with Venus (or however you want to do it up). 

On Friday (Venus Day 🌸), leave a mug of deluxe hot cocoa as an offering. Set an intention while lighting a candle on your altar & journal about it. Write down the sun, moon, & date. Over time, you’ll gather enough data to help you set smarter intentions for bigger results. You’ll build rapport with Venus. 

Every morning, tidy your altar up & light incense. Meditate, draw Tarot cards, sing hymnals, or finger yourself. Whatever you do at your altar should be self-satisfying. Make your altar feed your particular need for Beauty, Love, & Desire. 

Whenever you notice your altar, you should wonder, What have I done today to make myself feel beautiful? What can I still do?

If the amount of stuff you could put on your altar is overwhelming, start with what you have & looks / feels good to you. Again, let your Venus sign guide you! 

However, regardless of your Venus sign’s bearing, your Venus altar definitely needs these LDR prayer candles.  ✨

To learn more about building a Goddess altar, visit this post. ✨

And to you in this season--I wish you plenty of sparkle & vertigo!

May you swoon your longings away & may your dreams froth over into your waking life! 

And may you find all the aesthetic-specific intel to help you finally become the flirt ‘n style supernova you’ve always known you were…

…and waiting for the right time to debut!!

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