Synastry 101: Where to Get + How to Read a Synastry Chart (but, like, not well, ok?)

If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been learning all about Eclipses and the Vertex point in astrology. ☺️✨

But to really get that snap-crackle-pop epiphany from analyzing the Vertex, you might need to do a little SYNASTRY > combining your and someone else’s chart (or the chart of an event or place) to see how fate, or all the rest of the solar system, intersects with your relationship. 👐🏻✨

And to cast someone else’s chart, you need their birth date, time, and location. 💫

This can get weird if you don’t know the person.

Like—you can’t do a proper synastry reading unless you know the person enough-ish to guess-timate their birth data, based on about two years’ worth of idle coffeeshop chitchat.

(And eavesdropping. 💁🏻‍♀️) 

lemme guide you through my synastry discovery process ✨, deployed to explain and further interiorize my weird eclipse moment where my vertex was activated at the exact second i was looking into someone’s eyes 🌗⚡️, and then basically the next day he yelled me out of the cafe…

…but like Lorelei and Luke in Gilmore Girls, I will not quit getting my coffee there until either the barista admits he’s an asshole or Rory graduates from Yale. 🦋✨

Just FYI > synastry is basically reading a natal chart x 2, then adding up the math the two charts make together. 

In other words, it takes a crazy fucking long time to accomplish, so tip your astrologer. 💸

ALSO, and this might just be me > most of the reference material on synastry feels hella dubious, and therefore very frustrating to apply—like, oversimplified, piecemeal, cookbook interpretations for “Venus in Libra” and “Your Mars is too confrontational if it shows up in any of these Houses on your partner’s chart”, and it’s basically impossible trying to combine all of that nonsense into a cohesive picture.

Which might actually indicate that I am definitely am amateur at synastry (+ human relating in general).

My main reference on what I’m about to pass off as synastry comes from Stephen Arroyo’s Person to Person Astrology, which is about 400 pages, and gets hella dramatic trying to emphasize having a strong understanding of the elements and modes in astrology, because the knowing the energy signatures of all the Sign-House-Aspect combinations helps you build the ability to visualize or intuit the true dynamic of a relationship (I guess). 

SO, FULL DISCLOSURE > what I’m about to teach you… is mostly garbage. 💫

but, i will show you (some semblance of) a step-by-step guide to synastry, regardless of my qualifications to do so…

…and i will mostly be focusing on karmic and erotic points between mine + the barista’s (hypothetical) synastry chart…

…and mostly in reference to my own morbid curiosity about the eclipse. 👻🔎

I’m mostly after his Vertex (+ Uranus 😉).

And maybe he’s after my Chiron (+ Neptune-Moon). 🤔☺️

And PERHAPS, all the intel I learn from his transit chart (+ after calibrating for the incompatibilities in our synastry), I will be able to finally ask him, “Hey man, did you see a blue flash in my eyes hella days ago, back in June, an Eclipse might’ve tripped your Nodes…?”

Annnnnd maybe by September the little dog that lives in his car will finally get walked! 🤩🙌🏻💫

THINGS… 

ARE… 

HAPPENING!

(Until December 4th when the Eclipse set closes out > have you been following along?? 😬)

WHAT IS A SYNASTRY CHART?

…OR BASICALLY, HOW DO WE “DO” RELATIONSHIP ASTROLOGY?

“The truth is that having a partner is, more often than not, going to bring up your problems and ‘issues’ as they have never been brought up before. Polarities force us to articulate in the outer world what may have been, previously, merely internal conflict, conscious or unconscious. The ‘two’ moves out from the ‘one.’ Partnerships are a natural mirror to our inner selves. On the whole, those inner selves are not balanced. That’s what the struggle of partnership is for.”

(Source)

A synastry chart is where one natal chart overlays another, lining up the Signs, so that we can read for the Houses and Planets between two people.

Or basically, where and how two people will influence each other, and the roles they’ll take on.

So, basically, to make a synastry chart > we’d combine our natal charts by aligning our Aries ♈️, Taurus ♉️, Gemini ♊️, et. al., and then we’d “read” the points of contact between the two charts, or basically wherever a planet or point or angle touches (or comes within close orbit of) a planet, point, or angle in the other chart. 💫

Having an understanding of each natal chart on its own is helpful, because you understand where each chart holder is at on their astrological cycles (see Barbara Hand Clow), as well as their personal needs and desires.

Then, with the synastry chart, you’d be reading to see how foreign elements from another chart intermix with that individual chart.

Because you’ve aligned the charts according to Signs, you can see how you both use and exchange this type of energy (the Sign’s vibe).

To understand where this energy (+ dynamic) plays out, you’d compare the Houses, which most often, won’t be the same.

Whose planets land in which Houses explains the type of dynamic you’ll have, and the kind of contexts / environments it’ll play out it >

“House overlays go two ways. If my Sun overlays your sixth house, for example, you will view me as useful. If my Sun interacts with your planets in a generally challenging way, you may ultimately consider me to be counter-productive or meddling. I awaken sixth house issues in you. You may feel somewhat dependent on me in the areas of routines, work, and everyday issues, especially since the Sun is a positive, yang energy, and the sixth house has a yin, receptive energy. You receive, and I give, which can set up a co-dependent relationship if other factors in the synastry between us support this.”

(Source)

Obviously, you’re going to need a working understanding of the Planets, Signs, + Houses, even if all the details and possible combos still elude you, just to be able to visualize or intuit how all these different players and elements will interact in the contexts indicated.

HEADS UP > this post helps you learn to read a natal chart, and also links you everywhere you can go to learn more.

Obviously, the amount of intel that might be gathered between two charts can be a lot, and, like—which info actually matters? 😬

Welp, that depends on the questions you’ve brought to the synastry chart, or the type of information you’re hoping to glean about your relationship potential, or about the quality of condition of a relationship you’re already in.

some questions you can ask in a synastry reading…

• Where + how are we “compatible”? Sex, domestic, business or parenting? How might it feel, what can I expect? Where might we harmonize, and aggravate?

• What are some red flags? Better said, are there any contact points or markers that might explain an intense erotic thrill (Lilith? 🐍) and also kind of not seeing the world the same way (Mercury ☿)?

• Why does this relationship feel so important, or meaningful? Do we have “contact points” between the Nodes, Chiron, or the Vertex, for example? How does this relationship align with who I am + where I’m at?

• If there aren’t any red flags per se, but agitating aspects between charts > what am I supposed to be learning from this relationship? How can the astrology re-frame the challenges, or help explain what I’m struggling with about this person? Can aspects between our charts explain this tension? Which aspects might be useful for mitigating the more challenging ones?

this post will guide you through some kind of step-by-step process for finding + interpreting a synastry chart, though it turns out, there can be a lot to scope out. 😳

There are other ways of doing relationship astrology (composite charts, or the Davison method), but a synastry chart is how I’m stalking baristas / learning to read the astrology of relationships, so that’s what I’ll be covering here. ✨

Btw—you can do a synastry reading with anyone’s chart—friends, family, coworkers, even events or locations. It’s just comparing two sets of time, dates, and locations…

HOWEVS, if you’re not already familiar with your own chart, it might be wonky trying to combine it with someone else’s. This post helps you get the jumpstart on interpreting a natal chart, which you can do for your own, then the same for the other person’s.

Once you have a grasp of each chart on its own, hit up the how-to below and cast a synastry chart. ✌🏻

ALSO, LAST THING—because the whole thing is kind of tricky, allow me to enhance the learning experience by supplying you with a convenient worksheet, so that you can draw and explore the concepts I’m about to trot out by hand!

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WHERE + HOW TO GET A SYNASTRY CHART

There are a couple places you can get one (including Astro.com, which I use for casting natal charts), but I prefer Astro Seek for synastry, because it also supplies autogenerated descriptions of the contact points between the charts, to measure against my own crap-ass amateur interpretations. 💕 

FIRST, VISIT ASTRO-SEEK.COM, HOVER OVER “FREE CHARTS”, AND SELECT SYNASTRY

CLICK “SYNASTRY” AGAIN FROM THE MENU IT JUMPS TO.

AT THE CALCULATOR, TYPE YOUR BIRTH DATA INTO PERSON A. DO THE SAME FOR PERSON B, WHO IS YOUR PARTNER-IN-SYNASTRY.

Okay, you’ll get a big chart graphic, and if you scroll down, there will be summary-descriptions for all your synastry aspects. There’s also an “aspects” table you can glance at, just click the gray hyperlink below the chart graphic itself.

HINT > take a screenshot or copy + paste the whole thing into a document to peruse at your leisure, or to pull out for especially emotional Mercury Retrogrades (in the Water Signs ♋️♏️♓️).

REMEMBER, THO > you have to request the Astro-Seek software also show the “quincunx” a.k.a. the most karmic aspect, which is considered a “minor” aspect (idk why, that’s for the grown-up astrologers to answer).

To get the quincunx aspects to show > Click the gray “Extended settings” hyperlink, just under the button that says CALCULATE SYNASTRY, and select “quincunx” from the aspects list. ✅

How much stock should I put into the auto-generated interpretations? > they lack voice and perspective, but don’t knock the auto-descriptions, they’re invaluable for comparing / contrasting your actual experience, and you kinda just need something to start with, even if it reads a little like a robo-cook book… with astrology recipes. 🤔😳✨

Plus, if you already know a bit about the Signs, Houses, and other placements, you can weigh in your own interpretations against the autogenerated ones, and hyper synthesize, we’re getting better all the time. 🙌🏻💫

HOW TO READ A SYNASTRY CHART…

…EVEN A HYPOTHETICAL ONE. 💁🏻‍♀️✨

This is mine + the barista’s (hypothetical) synastry chart highlighting our crazy-cute-karmic Ascendent action >

You can see the Astro-Seek synastry chart calculator lined up the Signs of our charts. Aries alongside Aries, Taurus alongside Taurus, etc.

All we have to do is circle up the “contact points,” or wherever one planet or angle or other marker connects with another in the other chart. We’d also look at the relationship Houses, and do a jaunt around the whole chart looking for other relationship indicators.

ALSO, click the tab labelled “Aspect Tables” in order to see all the aspects between your charts gridded out for you. Partner A will be in Blue and on the left hand vertical column, while Partner B will be Orange and on the upper horizontal column…

Remember, my main reference on this process has been Stephen Arroyo’s Person to Person Astrology, but at the bottom I’ll link to other references to help broaden / deepen your synastry studies (you’ll need ‘em, and there’s plenty, just keep scrollin’, just keep scrollin’ 🐟).

I also added what anonymous Internet witches suggest you look for in synastry, so you might have a lot to pick through + Google about, and therefore much to self-synthesize (instead of parenting or planning for grad school or getting off Unemployment or whatever it is you’re supposed to be doing instead of this right now, #notjudging, thx for being here 🙌🏻💫).

🌟first, get a grasp of each BIRTH chart all on its own >

This post gives you a quick how-to for parsing out birth charts, and this CafeAstrology article helps you read a nata; chart for “relationship potential,” just because.

And YA, it might take hella days reading each chart on its own. 💁🏻‍♀️

(And each, every one is worth it! 🌟)

🌟 next, make sure you have a place to store all the quotes + links you pull up >

You might be starting this project during a rained out weekend, but it might be six months before everything gels and you suddenly start feeling like a love psychic on Hinge. 💕

Also, I’ve found that I can spot + interpret charts faster if I print them out onto scratch paper, so I can circle up and draw criss-crosses, and jot down keywords—just tossin’ that out there. 💫

🌟 WHAT TO FOCUS IN ON IN YOUR SYNASTRY CHART…

EXAMINE YOUR MOONS. 🌙

Our Moons (Sign, House, + aspects) describe our temperament and inner personality—the part that seeps out when we’re sleepy or hangry or need personal time. Moons in synastry describe your potential for domestic harmony.

EXAMINE YOUR PERSONAL PLANETS. 🌸🔥

Particularly Venus + Mars, but looking at aspects between your Mercurys might be useful in understanding communication style.

CHECK YOUR “FUN”, “SIGNIFICANT OTHERS”, + “INTIMACY” HOUSES.

Which of your planets show up in each other’s Fifth (“fun”), Seventh (“significance”), OR Eighth (“intimacy”) Houses? You might show up in different Houses, or not in many of these ones, but that’s cool—aspects and other chart indicators can overrule.

FOR SERIOUSNESS, LOOK FOR CONTACTS BETWEEN-AMONGST YOUR SATURNS.

Saturn is how we build our lives, where we get our reality checks. Which House does Saturn show up in on the other person’s chart? Does your or their Saturn aspect your other planets?

LOOK FOR CONTACT BETWEEN THE CHART ANGLES (ASC, IC, DSC, MC).

The angles reveal the “directions” we’re evolving in, and are also the “antennae”. Planets beside our angles show what we “pick up” about each other.

LOOK FOR CONTACT BETWEEN THE “KARMIC” AND “DESTINY” POINTS.

Or basically, contact between each other’s Lunar Nodes and / or Vertex. Also, look for any “inconjunct” or “quincunx” aspects, a.k.a. the “growth” aspects, telling you where you will feel the most flex-release in your dynamic.

AND FOR GLITTER, LOOK FOR WHERE THE “LOVE ASTEROIDS” SHOW UP.

The main Love asteroids are Psyche (16), Eros (433), and Amor (1221), but there are more. These don’t necessarily reveal much, but it adds sheen + emphasis to wherever they’re sprinkled. You have to manually type these into the chart calculator at Astro.com, but you can click a hyperlink labelled “show love asteroids” on the chart itself to reveal the asteroids on Astro-Seek. (This article has a complete list of the Love Asteroid numbers.)

FOR SEX + LUST…

…along with Mars-Venus, look to Black Moon Lilith, the Fifth + Eighth Houses, contacts between-amongst Eros, and maybe peek at the House cusped by Scorpio, as well as other points described on this page over here. ✨…

🌟 HINT 1 > Gather all the information first, then trying to feel or visualize or intuit how all the information interacts together (a.k.a. synthesize). 💫

🌟 HINT 2 > And remember, you can also score this super convenient worksheet to help you parse out ‘n recombine your birth charts by hand (and accelerate your astro’ learning process, yo’)…!

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Even with all this information, you might only be able to catch glimpses—like glancing into and noticing some fully decorated rooms in a house, where certain people have gathered and are interacting in whatever fashion the synastry aspects would suggest, dressed for and speaking in tones of voices commensurate with the zodiac sign of the room, while other rooms you might glance into can be totally lifeless.

Like, maybe the Venus-Mars contacts, your Moons, and even the Love Asteroids make total sense 👌🏻, but the descriptions for the karmic stuff and angles feel way too woo, or irrelevant to your realm of interests (as fair as they pertain to your partner-in-charts).

That’s fine—most of the karmic stuff and angles require you to think abstract, to think about the charts and their meanings with as little personal reference as possible. You legit have to picture the earth floating in space, or basically each chart representing how the earth looks in the Night Sky app, except two-fold, and that the symbols represent subconscious drives transcendent of our personalities that are interacting with each other through time, space, and corporeality, regardless of our preferences. 😳🤩

And there just might be no freaking way to articulate or visualize how that interaction would actually play out in any REAL LIFE scenario, as you’re actually able to articulate or visualize it. 

You also have to be willing to see yourself as an “archetype,” or taking on a role and possessing qualities you might not prefer, but might just be the case when you’re interacting with that person, and that’s un-romantic as hell. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Skip all the confusing stuff, and take this general advice for chart interpretation (from Arroyo’s other book) > “Even if you feel that you understand only a small part of a chart, follow what you do understand and it will lead you into the structure and major themes of the rest of the chart. And don't worry about doing a 'complete chart interpretation,' for it is impossible. Instead of getting lost in the endless details of a chart, it is better to focus on what is important in the person's nature and life and on what kind of person he or she is.”

OKAY, SO > focus on what makes sense, and realize you’ll never get to the “end” of the chart.

(Trust me, the Eclipse triggering this whole project happened in June and I’m only just posting it to the secret page in August. 🙌🏻✨)

OKAY, let’s go step-by-step and pretend we’re doing synastry! 😎

✨ For Stephen Arroyo, the elements (🜂🜃🜁🜄 ) give you the most info in terms of compatibility….

“The four elements in a birth chart reveal the ability to participate in certain realms of being and to tune in to specific fields of life experience. These elements have nothing to do with the elements of chemistry and in fact transcend them completely. The astrological birth chart is drawn for the exact moment of the first breath, that instant when we immediately establish an attunement and a rhythm with the cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals our individual energy pattern, our attunement to the four elements.”

If you cast your birth chart through Astro.com or CafeAstrology (not Astro-Seek, as I have demonstrated in this post), the chart includes an “elements” graphic showing at-a-glance where the planets are distributed amongst the elements. 💫

For me, pour moi > I’ve got that Fire 🔥+ Earth 🪨, and I’m Scorpio forward. ♏️💧

The barista’s hypothetical chart ✨> murky Water vibes 💧where his Sun, Moon, and Saturn dwell, with asteroids and math points speckling Fire and Air, and Earth almost totally deserted but for Mars.

I’m not totally sure what this means, but only because all of my questions aren’t really asking after compatibility (I want significance! I want meaning!), but typically, we’re attracted to people with charts emphasizing the element we lack most in our own charts.

So, I might be achey for his Air vibes (Gemini Rising means that he leads with Air 🜁), while he might (if at all) be elementally attracted by my gravity, a.k.a. my earthy Moon and Mars, et. al. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This article offers an intro-tutorial on elemental compatibility in synastry, this CafeAstrology article provides a “score guide to  “synastry points” 🤣, and this might be totally random, but I love it > Are You Attracted to the Element You Lack? ( 🙋🏻‍♀️🜁 )

✨ ALSO FOR arroyo, the moons are paramount 🌙 … 

“First of all, the Moon has much to do with the non-intellectual, non-rational mental functioning—influencing our thinking fear more than many would like to admit. When we say, ‘I feel that…,’ we are speaking from our Moon’s attunement and acknowledging that, although what we are saying is not necessarily provable or logical, we are comfortable with that viewpoint. The Moon likewise reveals much about how at home one is with oneself—how inwardly secure one is. The Moon’s location and element are intimately related to what one needs in order to feel right about oneself. In addition, the Moon especially refers to the feelings or instinctive heavier we are most comfortable expressing in a social situation.”

(Stephen Arroyo, Person to Person Astrology)

What matters to Stephen Arroyo is compatibility between both Moons’ elements > traditionally, Fire-Air 🔥💨 and Earth-Water 🪨💦 are considered harmonious, while Water-Water 💦, Earth-Earth 🪨, et al, are consider most “compatible.”

Also remember, you’re probably not gonna tick all the boxes for mega astro compatibility, even if your Moons suggest otherwise, simply because “chilling at home together” might not be what your goal or preferred relationship style (Venus placement will tell you more).

SO > make note + take screenshots of your Moons in synastry, and remember they represent your core temperaments, a.k.a. the version of yourself that emerges when you’re craving your mother or a friendly therapy dog, not necessarily when you’re craving satiation for your sexual angst. (Right? Right. 👌🏻)

Remember, you can also read for aspects, or the “interaction” between your Moons, if the elemental compatibility leaves you thirsty—easily provided by the Astro-Seek autogenerated synastry software (thank god).

Here’s what’s up for mine + the barista’s (hypothetical) Moons in aspect compatibility, which doesn’t look great, but I don’t hate (#wealth #powersagas #plutonian) 🤷🏻‍♀️ …

So, our Moons in synastry do not paint a picture of domestic harmony. 🌙❎

Remember though, we’re not just accounting for the Moons in themselves, but also how the Moons interact amongst other planets between charts.

PAR EXEMPLE > here’s what I liked from a different astrologer found via Google (about my Mars squaring his Moon) 😘 >

“Moon/Mars contacts can be very hot, sometimes too hot, because the Mars person’s sexuality penetrates (um…no other word I can use here) the other person’s psyche. The Moon rules the soma, the physical body as it relates to the psyche, so when Mars is interacting with the Moon, there are both physical and psychological stirrings that can be very intense. Mars is being turned on by the Moon person’s entire being. There can be an almost ferocious bonding, and issues surrounding nurturing can come up for both people. Anger, too. Sometimes Mars cuts deep, and the sexual relationship can make the Moon person aware of unconscious issues from the past. The Moon can feel uncomfortable because it feels too exposed. Mars will sense the withdrawal, and either retreat or pursue. This contact is intense, but not easy to live with unless there are other, calming factors between them.”

OKAY SO > account for aspects between not just your Moons, but between your Moons and other planets / angles / other curious markers! ☝🏻

Start here > this blog has a great database on Moon aspects in synastry.

Okay, but what kind of aspects (or “interactions”) should I be looking for, though? 🤔> trines ( 🜂 ) + sextiles ( ✱ ) are more appreciative aspects, meaning you can facilitate those planet-qualities in each other, whereas squares ( ▫️) + quincunxes ( ><) are the “lesson oriented” interactions, meaning you might frustrate each other here.

And one of the special opportunities provided by a synastry reading is being able to hone in on and decide whether those “lesson oriented” aspects are worth the frustration. 💁🏻‍♀️☺️

Also, this is a good argument for cross-layering your references on interpretation. 🙌🏻

✨ …and what about compatibility between mars + venus? ⚤

Venus + Mars are considered the magic attractor-factors in synastry, though the explanations and interpretations skew towards the astrologer’s point of view on sexual orientation and gender roles, and that can get kind of complicated and frustrating.

SUPPOSEDLY, Mars operates differently in a man’s chart versus a woman’s, and there are many opinions and schools of thought for how you might read for one in one chart versus another.

Here’s the deal > Venus represents our parasympathetic attractiveness, or basically, how we attract automatically, without having to think about it at all, whereas Mars represents our sympathetic force, or how we compose ourselves to achieve, secure, or win over.

According to astrology lore, you want aspects (or interactions) between your Venus-Mars where they can operate by design, as in, this chart’s Mars finds a perfect target in this chart’s Venus. 🎯

Generally, the idea is that your Venus-Mars won’t compete, but collaborate. 👐🏻✨

“More than any other factor in astrology, Venus reveals one’s tastes—be they aesthetic, romantic, or sensual—as well as the resulting modes of sharing one’s finer feelings and affections. Mars, I should add, also symbolizes a component of one’s erotic tastes, specifically one’s sexual tastes and the quality of energy that motivates sexual desire. Together Venus and Mars represent the energy attunement of one’s erotic nature and each individual’s more intense personal and passionate feelings. Whereas Venus shows most specifically the relationship needs and mode of sharing (giving and receiving) with others, Mars reveals the energy level of the sey drive and the modus operandi of going after what or whom one desires, as well as how the sexual energy is the most naturally expressed.”

(Also Stephen Arroyo)

But what if there isn’t much contact between the obvious hot buttons in a chart? > even if your Moons or Venus-Mars are incompatible, or you don’t have any planets showing up in their Fifth or Seventh Houses, or you suspect someone else in closer proximity to your crush might actually have a cuter Venus (and that feels like fucking hell 🔥), you have to take the whole synastry chart into account.

In fact, some of the sexiest synastry might not have any actual “relationship” potential (like—can’t even picture them making chitchat while waiting for a train), and some of the cutest-couple synastry might not have anything hot about them at all (like—they’re definitely having “fur babies”).

Basically, reading for Venus-Mars in synastry speaks to platonic, give-take qualities, your chemistry and common ground, but doesn’t speak to the potential, purpose, or meaning of the relationship. ☝🏻

But remember, not every romantic or sexual relationship you enter will be able to hit all the hot buttons or “longterm relationship” markers in a synastry chart, so stay open to the markers that are there, and what they tell you, versus obsessing about what could have been there. 😳

“There is, undoubtedly, a nice give and take between these two planets, but they don’t, in and of themselves, offer intimacy, openness, or emotional bonding. They are, purely and simply, about attraction, and desire, and they can grow cold very easily without the rest of the charts to buoy them up.”

(Source)

For me, pour moi, I appreciate the Venus-Venus in our (hypothetical) synastry for what it reveals about sexual style + compatibility (via Plutonic Desire) > Mars in Earth Signs (♉️♑️) needs and delivers stamina, a slow approach, sensuousness, plays to a “Mommy / Daddy” or “Master / Mistress” dynamic, and tends to incorporate bondage and power play. ☺️🕊✨

I went through this a few times with charts from my ex-husband, ex-lovers, and friends-I-want-to-fuck, and it was either generally accurate, or felt promising (read as: validates my erotic intuitions ✨).

(I say more in the upcoming secret post about Black Moon Lilith attractions and synastry, so, stick around. 👍🏻)

And that concludes what I think it most useful about the Venus-Mars in synastry. 👐🏻

To help you research your Venus-Mars contact points > how to read YOUR Venus in THEIR Houses, YOUR Mars in THEIR Houses (my Mars♂ in his Twelfth House makes me either the barista’s “Spiritual Catalyst” or “Total Un-Doing”, well well well... ☺️), and Venus-Mars aspects in SYNASTRY (aspects between your / their Mars-Venus).

✨ also, ‘inconjunct’ or quincunx aspects are key, a.k.a. karmic…

“Hard aspects between charts provide the stimulus for growth between two people. They cause us to challenge our assumptions, and see the world (and our planets) in new ways. When we’re younger, we assume that everyone is like us (or our families); once we get into our mid- to late-twenties, we learn that isn’t true and we want to see what else is out there. Hard aspects between charts push us to open our eyes and our heart. Hard aspects from another’s chart to Mercury will shake up our assumptions and thought patterns. Hard aspects to Venus teach us lessons about how we express love and whether or not that love is communicated in a way the other person understands. This stimulation might be uncomfortable, but it’s always compelling.”

(Source)

Aspects basically describe the “relationship” between the planets (+ angles, + other markers) in a chart, or between two charts.

Trines and sextiles between charts are considered “soft” or “easy”, meaning you might appreciate + facilitate these qualities in each other.

Squares, oppositions, and quincunxes, on the other hand, feel frustrating—sometimes in a very appealing way, because it feels like a force-flex, tense-release dynamic. 😉

Also, challenging aspects are considered a bit karmic. You’re working through soul-level tensions, perhaps erotically, the way nature intended? 🌺🌟

Conjunctions, or planets side-by-side in a synastry chart, indicate the intensity + accessibility of those two energies in your relationship—not necessarily that those two players are collaborating well.

Which is funny (kinda), just because you can feel the enthusiasm in so many online astrology articles about finding conjunctions in a chart (I “whoop” out loud every time I find one), but this astrologer muses that Romeo and Juliet might have had tons of conjunctions in their synastry, so, there ya go 😳🥀 >

“A conjunction can behave as if it’s complete within itself. But within the conjunction itself, all is not peaceful. Each of the planets will fight for supremacy; they will tussle with one another over who has the purest expression.”

SO, if you have any aspects between “relationship” planets in your synastry, those planets and their themes are probably what you’re feeling in this relationship, and if you have challenging aspects, those energies are probably what you’re working out together. 💫

HINT 1 for interpreting aspects in synastry > use the handy graphic that Astro Seek provides, so you can spot your meaningful aspects at-a-glance (versus trying to figure them out from the knot of lines in the middle of the chart).

HINT 2 for interpreting aspects in synastry > you actually must select for the chart calculator to show ‘quincunx’ aspects (considered a “minor” aspect), on the same page where you enter the birth data on Astro-Seek. Before clicking “show chart”, click the gray-colored hyperlink inviting you to adjust for aspects. I didn’t know or care about this until reading that the quincunx aspect is considered the most useful, “mega-karmic” aspect, and now it’s the main aspect I look for. 💁🏻‍♀️

Read more about the types of aspects to focus on in synastry, and read here for more about the Quincunx. 💫✨

Also, this article offers some interpretations for inconjunct or quincunx planets! Make a list of all your inconjunct planets, then hit it up > that’s a dossier on all you + your crush’s “karmic” dynamic! 🤩

✨ reading for the relationship houses in synastry…

“I have found it easiest to think about it this way: When somebody’s Sun or Moon (or other planet) falls in a particular house in my natal chart, it is much like that person has the effect of a permanent transit to that house in my natal chart! If your Sun falls in my eighth house, for example, when I interact with you, it is somewhat like the Sun is transiting my eighth house, highlighting and illuminating 8th house issues for me. Similarly, if my Sun falls in your third house, I have a similar effect on your life as the Sun transiting your third house.”

(Source)

When we look at the First, Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Houses in a natal chart, we learn your relationship POTENTIAL, whereas in synastry, which of your planets shows up in each other’s relationship houses says something about the type of relationship you’ll have. ✨ 

Here are the Mad Libs-style keywords I’d use to describe the “meaning” of the relationship houses >

First House = “presentation”, Fifth House = “play”, Seventh House = “relate”, Eighth House = “merge”. 💫

For instance, as far as interpreting “relationship potential” > Aries on my Fifth House of Self-Love + Fruition housing my Sun (persona) + Jupiter (hype) indicates… my personality is basically sex play. (Jk)

Aries is assertive (Cardinal) Fire 🔥, and wants to play, tussle, explore, and do new things together, fast, and soon. Usually whether a relationship forms afterward or not depends on how well we play together, and whatever we designate the relationship as depends on our play style.

For the barista ✨> Libra, assertive Air 🌬on the Fifth House indicates a need for social compatibility, and to relate through shared interests and mutual self-expression, and that (contrary to his atrocious Lilith placement, see more under stalking with synastry below 💕), dating itself is a critical prelude to sex…

BUT… having Pluto (in retrograde) here might also suggest shady dating history > the “shadow side” of Libra, such as dating with artifice (lies) and mental manipulation, i.e. love bombing. 

(Pluto shows where our secrets sleep. 🤫)

Okay, so that’s how you would read for the Fifth House in terms of dating preference…

But what if you don’t show up in each other’s relationship houses? Or in the “wrong” Houses, the ones you don’t want to show up in? 🤔> focus on where you do show up, and whether the action happening in there speaks to your astro queries (and what you want out of that attraction). 🌟

Like—the barista and mine’s Fifth Houses don’t speak to much dating compatibility ❎, my Saturn shows up in his Seventh House (partnerships, so, great for marriage and business ✅), his Ascendent lands in my Eighth House (sex), straddled by my Chiron (wound) and Vertex (destiny), and my Moon-Neptune land in his Eighth House, which I love the description of to the point where I want someone’s Moon-Neptune in mine 😩)

Also, just a bit of trivia > planets in your relationships houses are “predictors” for the type of people you’d most like to heavy pet (5th), have a long affair with (8th), or marry for god and country (7th).

FOR EXAMPLE, the Sign on or planets in your Seventh House tend to show up in the First House of the person you first marry, or consider your first “significant other.” I have Mars in my Seventh House and my first husband has Mars in his First House. 😳

ALSO—the Sign / planets in your Ninth House hint at your next significant relationship > I have Lilith in the Ninth, while the barista has Lilith close hovering by his Midheaven, or the apex of the chart, it’s like astrology is a wise old auntie who knows the real scoop behind everything… 🤯😅

(ALSO also, I notice the barista has no planets in his Seventh House, but Neptune almost conjunct his Descendent, indicating he might be permanently waiting on the One to come into his life, but like—an impossible One. (Intrigued? Love this article on natal Neptune and our “divine discontent.” 👌🏻)

ALSO, REAL FAST, YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS > the Sign on your Eighth House might say something about your favorite type of sex. (Gemini on the Eighth ♊️> I have a proclivity for menage á trois involving twins and double penetration that’s real AF—Idc, know it, tell the world, come find me! 🎉✨)

Reading for Planets in each other’s “relationship houses” > The First, Fifth, Seventh, + Eighth Houses, and what they mean in synastry. 

✨ reading for saturn in synastry… 🪐💕

“Everyone knows the short answer to this question: for an important, long term relationship, we need Saturn contacts (any and many) combined with Sun/Moon in any array of combinations.”

(Source) 

If longterm means anything to you, or you’re looking at how or where or why to build someone or a relationship with them into your life, then Saturn contacts are where to look.

For me, the barista’s crazy-aspected Saturn lands in my Ninth House of Higher Pursuits (where my Lilith is currently stalking him ☺️), while my Saturn-Uranus lands in his Seventh House of Relationships.

Who “feels” the other—does the planet person feel the House person, or vice versa? > many astrologers suggest that the barista would feel my Saturn in his “relationship zone,” and I’d feel his in my “going the distance” zone.

When are you feeling it? > supposedly with synastry, it’s like you’re being “transited” by that person, so you might feel it best and most in each other’s company, and I expect when thinking about or reflecting about the areas of your life where they impact you, indicated by the House overlays.

What would “Saturn” feel like, exactly? > Saturn feels solid, like the real world. In my Ninth House of Higher Pursuits, it feels like someone getting into the car that everyone else in the car isn’t totally sure about—I guess this Lilith picks up hitchhikers, does he know what he’s in for, does she??

From Detroit Rock City (watching this trailer won’t make you better, it’s basically just so you understand I’m referencing a 90s teen movie right now) > “They make scary movies that start out like that!” “But dude, pornos also start out like that!” 🤩🤣

(Btw—Natasha Lyonne is obviously my true-life Lilith. 🐯🐍)

ANYWAY, My Saturn in the barista’s hypothetical Seventh House of Partnerships + Enemies > which might feel either hella reassuring, or disgusting—depends on how much “solidity” and “security” factor into his relationship / sex needs.

I’m guessing that for someone not stalking the other with astrology apps, my Saturn might register for him as > “I get a vibe that I could trust her with my PIN number.”

ALSO, what I know for sure from deep-researching a potentially wrong natal chart for the stranger I’m fascinated with > his Saturn aspects ev-vur-ree-thenggg.

Saturn is runnin’ his chart. 🥺

Like—”uh oh, dad’s home” all day, every day.

Basically, my Saturn would feel too heavy no matter which House it showed up in his chart, and goes for everyone (o snap).

HOWEVER… my chart has a Joker up its sleeve (or something) > my Lilith (taboo, erotic thrills) on his Saturn in his Second House of Self-Worth and Personal Value. 😍

Also having Saturn in my own Second House (cuuute), I can sympathize that feeling anybody’s Lilith in this place (self-worth / value) would trigger most if not all of my most ruthless self-protection strategies.

But also—I wonder, would the Lilith vibe actually help me lower those defenses? 🤔✨

…through the erotic supplication of bygone insecurity dramas…?

“Lilith conjunct Saturn: Patriarchy, structure and order meet non-conformism in the most dramatic manner. The Saturn person, unable to impose anything on Lilith, experiences a shock in their system as they descend into a vortex of hidden fears, leading to a de-programming of their karmic habits. It is one of the most dangerous and karmic interactions, it can lead to brutality. Sexuality is dark and powerful, obsessions can become serious. Karma is very heavy and carries the hardness of Saturn, extremely compelling. People may not be separated from each other.”

(Source)

I’m gonna dig deeper into the barista’s Lilith in the next section, which seems dead-on for his hypothetical chart (if nothing else does 👌🏻)…

Meanwhile, go here to learn more about Saturn aspects in synastry, and here for descriptions of Saturn in each other’s Houses, and how that might add commitment or structure to your hypothetical relationship. 💕

✨ reading for the angles in synastry…

The angles in a chart, starting on the left-hand side and moving down and to the right, are the Ascendent, IC, Descendent, and MC a.k.a. Midheaven.

(Psst—if the chart were a compass, it would read > Asc = west, IC = south, Dsc = east, + MC = north. 💫)

I’m brushing over the angles, because they tie into the “karmic points” section immediately following, but they need to get mentioned, because the angles describe where we feel each other >

“The angles act as a kind of magnetic antennae; we not only sense the world (and others) through them, but they act as a gateway for the evolution of our consciousness. No wonder they play a key role in drawing potential partners to us.”

(Source)

What am I looking for on the angles? > first, just note if there are any contacts between your planets or other markers on the angles.

On any angle (ASC, IC, DSC, MC) > the Sun feels warm, accepting, and celebratory (this angle celebrates who you are), the Moon brings feelings of intimacy and understanding, Mercury means you get each other and each other’s POV, Venus contacts to any of the angles bring beauty, loveliness, and pleasure to the area the angle regulates, and Mars activates whatever angle it lands near.

“On the whole, inner planets to angles are a positive thing, unless the planet is very troubled in the other chart. We get to know that planet intimately through another being. The planet person feels that planet enhanced and made stronger and louder through the contact. All aspects matter, but mainly we should be paying attention to the conjunction (and, by natural course, the opposition) and the square. These connections get even juicier if the planet involved is also an angle ruler, particularly of the Ascendant or Descendant.”

(Read more about and get linked to more resources about planets on the angles in synastry over here. 💕)

Both the barista and I (hypothetically) share a “double-whammy” of Vertex-Ascendent placements (fate 💫)—but literally every bit of astrological lore offered on Vertex relationships caution against leaping into them as though they might become a Disney princess movie.

Though, in general, you want aspects between your Ascendents in synastry (especially double-whammies—where your charts flip flop or reciprocate aspects!), but the Vertex in particular signals a destined attraction, not necessarily a relationship.

Having the Vertex or Point of Destiny on the Ascendent specifically  >

“Vertex activation by transit or synastry heralds the entrance of a person or event that is karmically pointed. Something or someone enters our lives in order to steer us in the direction of our own greater good, something to keep us on task or put us back on track if we’re straying. This can be a positive epiphany, a stressful can of worms, or anything in between. The timing of such encounters is indicated by the activation of the vertex. A contact transit to the vertex, a conjunction, or to its opposite point, the anti-vertex, is the key that opens this gate. This timing can be observed in the natal chart as a transit. It could be seen in the progressed chart as a transit to the progressed vertex, or it can be a progressed planet activating the natal vertex.”

(Source)

✨ reading for the karmic stuff in synastry…

“Karmic” stuff focuses on the woo markers, like the Vertex, or Chiron and the Outer Planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), because these hint at fatefulness, either because of timing, or because they set the background tone for hella years of your life, or because the transits coincide with chronological age (such as Chiron Return).

So basically, karmic stuff is where you look for the “why” or “meta” to an attraction or relationship. ✨

In the Astro-Seek chart calculator, it codes karmic contact points as “key,” and provides an auto-interpretation of your general compatibility, based on Planets, Aspects, and Signs.

Our relationship was coded “key” in the synastry chart with my ex-husband, because our overlapping Chirons were co-triggered by the 2011 Eclipse 🌗...

...but when you look at for compatibility in the rest of the chart. 👎🏻

Actually—the auto generated interpretation on Astro-Seek does a great job summarizing the synastry placements in a way that validates much of my experience IN my last relationship, so, that’s cool. 💁🏻‍♀️

Astro-Seek also coded mine + the barista’s (pretend ✨) synastry as “key,” because of my Vertex on his Ascendent and HIS Vertex on MY Ascendent (oh my gaaawd 💕)…

Also because of the timing of his Chiron Return + oncoming Renaissance Decade (more below ✨)…

PLUS the hyper-fateful Eclipse trigger. 🙀🌗🌀

“In synastry, Chiron contacts indicate that healing can be achieved through your union. The planet person may (inadvertently) push Chiron’s buttons, or vice-versa, reminding him of past hurts he has been carrying throughout his life. Indeed, Chiron’s energy is both healing, and painful. The Chiron person has the ability to cleanse the planet person’s wound and guide them away from what has been hurting them.”

(Source)

SO THEN, who represents Chiron and who’s the “planet person”? 🤔> I’ve been wondering after this question, because MY Chiron was triggered (with my Destiny Point 💫), so this attraction ought to be striated with painful remembering…

I don’t have any upcoming Chiron transits (see Chiron for your dates), although transiting Chiron tripped my North Node (higher purpose) simultaneous to the Eclipse trigger on my actual Chiron. 🤯

Meaning, there’s Chiron vibes for me in here, so there might be some kind of thematic crossovers in our soul-wound experiences.

BECAUSE the barista definitely has a Chiron transit coming 💫, and the emergence of my shy and weird focused attention might be a catalyst and emulsifier to what is sure to be a shit-on-your-heart corridor of experience. ❤️‍🩹

But also, he’s on the threshold of (mebbe) tapping into personal peace, fruition, and truth—of re-shifting the weight of his private suffering.

And I am involved ✨ to a still unknown degree, perhaps as some kind of metaphorical (and erotic) bloodletting…?

SO BASICALLY, based on the wonky synastry our (weird) relationship (if one happened) would be > (1) linked during a key passage or life corridor, (2) tender-possessive with a Repressed Pater-Bratty Lolita vibe (explaining why the attraction feels compulsory + scary—like walking through the hospital entrance for scheduled surgery), and (3) thwarted by our separate heavy loads of emotional baggage, control dramas, and intimacy issues… 😔😫

(…some of which will be indicated in my next secret tutorial about Chiron. 🤩✨)

Obviously, the karmic-astro stuff is hyper-woo, but if you’re feelin’ it, these have been the most useful articles > The Vertex versus (or in combination with) the Nodes in SYNASTRY 🌟Chiron in synastry, because my Vertex point is codependent on my Chiron 🌟also, contact points to look for in SIGNIFICANT (tho not necessarily long term) relationships.

…okay, wait, what part of the synastry explains the blue flash tho?? 🌗⚡️

Perhaps the flash I saw was Uranus (because his is so close to my Asc? 🤔), or it was the Eclipse “passing over us” and triggering his South Node + my Vertex-Chiron, because of this quote >

“Often, Vertex contacts come into our lives, deliver their message, and then disappear just as quickly as they came, leaving us altered in a profound way, but a bit shattered. Can’t get more Uranian than that–Uranus of the higher mind, beyond mere mortality/physicality. The lover or friend who comes ‘out of the blue’ and happens to put us on our path, who helps us know who are we when we are not our earth-created ego, we when we are not our ‘stuff.’ Like the Nodes, the Vertex reveals the soul’s intent, but it is confined to “Who am I?” Who is the inner Watcher, the one who knows? What happens when we discover that the guide to whom we attribute our luck and our grace and our inner wisdom is truly ourselves? This is the Vertex as the deepest part of “I.” When someone’s planet falls on either end of this axis, we cannot remain unaware of this Soul-Self. We are stricken to the core, so that even the core is newly altered.

In contrast, the Nodes are all about our interaction with the world ‘out there.’ Because they consist of the relationship of the Sun and the Moon from the point of view of the Earth, they are about the way our spiritual intent unfolds within material reality. They mark how we process our experience, and what we learn from it. The South Node describes our orientation to life, which is ingrained in us. It’s our habitual way of acting in the world, interacting with it, understanding it. It is the result of lifetimes of negotiating the ‘I’ with the ‘not I,’ the ego with the other. The South Node tells us which colour and pattern we use to filter our experience. The South Node says to us, this is they way the world works, and this is what I know”–only it doesn’t do it consciously. Most often we’re not aware of the way we filter experience, and we assume that others process the world the same way we do–their experience is our experience. And then one day (usually around the time of the first nodal return at age 19) we realize that isn’t really true. We begin to see differences in perception–and this is the beginning of the road towards the North Node.”

(Source)

SO, calibrating expectations. 💫

As is the case with karmic or fateful attractions, the “success” or meaning of it depends on specific, worldly circumstances conspiring to make the relationship happen…

BUT > even comparing only your natal synastry (birth charts), you’d only see a static idea about the relationship potential, and mostly decrypted based on your own unconscious projections (as the astrologer) on the the potential.

So, a PROGRESSED synastry chart ✨would help you look for “fateful” triggers that switched the relationship on (or off), or striated the mood or feeling of the attraction.

My Eclipse Moment is basically a story about fateful astrology triggers, and we’ll probably know by the end of the Eclipse series, December 2021, if a “relationship” was what was triggered, or just a shit-ton of funky research. 💫)

At the time of writing this, I’ve barely waded into chart progressions, and ya, the barista + mine’s progressed synastry chart reads like an epic poem on spiritual healing, erotic splendor, and maybe something secret-taboo whirling like eels around the ankles of the barista’s inner Patriarch, and I cannot wait to dig into it (next week / two months from now). 😜👻🐍

WHY THIS IS “STALKING” WITH SYNASTRY

OKAY, SO > barista hollered at me. 😳💁🏻‍♀️

Dude, he yelled at me like I represented every asshole in the world, the IRS combined with the boogey man come for his little dog, or as if I’d just rolled up like >

My gut was telling me (this is a skateboarding analogy, sorry) > he is feeling the way I feel when I’ve set off down a steep hill and going so fast I won’t be able to stop without biffing it on the pavement, so I have to dive sideways off the board onto the dirt patch on the side of the street, bc we live in a municipality and there aren’t any sidewalks in the residential zones… 💫

I THINK… he panicked.

I don’t think he actually felt offended, criticized, or even believed I was judging him when I asked about his little dog.

I don’t think his anger or sense of danger was real, or like—activated.

I think… he was actually elated—literally thinking “hooray! sex trap! 🎉” for about three seconds.

Until his dilapidated psyche hooked in. 👻❌

Because after he shout-lectured at me > landing on “AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO COME HERE…” I interrupted, “…that’s true,” and he deflated, and his mouth turned downward like he was gonna cry or puke or both, idk, he basically looked like someone just handed him his draft notice (something my uncles say).

AND MAYBE THIS IS ONLY BECAUSE OF MY LILITH (see below), but instead of becoming a “Karen” / Volcano Monster from the end of Fantasia and threatening to report him to a coffeeshop embassy (that may or may not exist ✨), I inwardly collapsed and also tried not to puke or cry.

Because… I got yelled at?

Alone! 😩

By a stranger I offered a good deed towards, and idk, I thought he liked me, wtf…?

now we have to talk about nessus, a.k.a. the “abuse” asteroid… 😔

OKAY, so this is why it’s stalking with synastry > I went to pull up the transit chart for that day (when the barista yelled), and because I had just started getting into asteroids, I had thrown a bunch of random “asteroid numbers” for the software to calculate.

Well, the software cast the barista’s transits for that day, but with “extra” letters in one of the angular Houses, indicating an asteroid I wouldn’t have seen the previous times I’d casted his chart.

And here’s what I saw > on the day he yelled me out of the store, the Sun was conjunct his Nessus. 😳

Simultaneously, transiting Nessus (the asteroid in the sky presently) was within a 4° orb of his own Sun*.

(*On this hypothetical birth chart.)

OMG! …what does that mean? 🤔> when transiting planets (or asteroids, etc.) connect with our charts (especially a conjunction a.k.a. coming side-by-side), we usually experience coincidental events that bring memories and lessons of that body top of mind. 🌀

And when there is a simultaneous trigger, like with the asteroid Nessus coincidentally transiting the same Planet as it is transiting the natal asteroid, you can safely assume synchronicity is afoot. ✨✨✨

SO, BASICALLY > we might guess that on this day he yelled at me, the barista also become totally conscious of whatever is represented by Nessus. 

Btw, Nessus is the “abuse” asteroid. 🤭

This post is definitely not about Googling for abuse asteroids (but stay subscribed)…

But because Nessus in in an angular House (= a “strong push” in our chart), and also in Gemini ♊️(a big theme in my personal Eclipse Story [also his Eclipse Story I guess? 🤔])…

I went to Google to find a description of Nessus in Gemini ♊️, and what I found fits him like a slipper 🩰>

“Nessus in Gemini: Can be obsessed with winning arguments and debates, getting their way via persuasion, and overall being heard. This is the person in love with their own voice. Control usually is obtained over others with verbal abuse and trickery. Cycles of abuse/control are broken when they speak up for themselves, get help from a support network, and when they share their story. There is an association with ‘exposing the truth’ or at least their side of a situation/story. Trust issues revolve around lies and infidelity.”

(Source)

[Side note > I hella love his voice, it sounds like the human version of a pan flute band multiplied by Jumanji, whatever that means for you. 💫]

[UGH STOP TALKING ABOUT HIS VOICE > it sounds like river rocks tumbling against each other in a chamois lined bag… 💕

and when he’s yelling at you… being throttled with that bag. ❌]

[Without the astrology, how would we be able to appreciate the irony? 💕]

Anyway, everyone has a Nessus, okay? > when I looked up mine, I realized my Nessus placement describes something totally done to me while at my most vulnerable, while also being something I might totally do in self-defense. 🤭

Like—my Nessus placement rhymes with specific abusive behaviors I recognize being done to me, and that I might do to others if I felt defenseless against them > the abused wielding the abuser’s weapons. 

What’s useful about the “abuse” asteroid is that it becomes an analogy for noticing + becoming aware about the ways we try to self-protect, and are totally unaware that we’re being abusive, or outright aggressive.

Just sayin’.

Basically, we can talk about Nessus to become enlightened about this particular sort of blind spot in our psyches (thx again, astrology). 

To re-equalize things, here’s my own Nessus description, NESSUS in VIRGO ♍️> “Here we see someone obsessed with organization, neatness, routine, health, work, or overall perfection. This Nessus is associated with abuse in health or service.They control others with doubt, unhelpful criticism, playing off insecurities, and relentless nit-picking. Cycles of abuse are broken by concentrating on healing, maybe physical, emotional, spiritual, or all of the above. Standing up for themselves may be needed, but finding the inner healer, other healers, and an atmosphere of “health” is needed. Trust issues revolve around “being good enough”. They fear showing their flaws to loved ones or being called out or unloved due to their imperfections or flaws.” (Source)

(This page shows you how to find your own Nessus, but maybe don’t, it won’t be on the test.  ✌🏻)

OKAY, SO THEN > if the Eclipse really did trip the barista’ South Node (as his hypothetical chart suggests) > these Sun-Nessus transits would coincide with the awareness of + beginning process for closing out old behavior, perhaps inspired by shitty childhood treatment interlaced with his Chiron wounding, accounting for his sudden alertness for my Chiron-Vertex emerging onto the scene of his weird life…. 🤔✨

Perfect. This is all totally on-theme.  🌗

But obviously, then, the barista is working out some of his own janky karma. 🌀

BECAUSE from the barista’s POV (since he is NOT stalking me with astrology apps, + therefore has no frame of reference for this miraculous woo that’s unfolding) > his hollering at me fucking thwarted an opportunistic moment alone with a single MILF who eye-fucked his tattoos—

meaning he was already at the finish line, all he had to do was show up + be game… ⚾️ (taunting “daddy issues” reference… Saturn drama… 🐍🐍🐍)

…but instead, he panicked and threatened me, then immediately regretted his choice, because he hid his car and changed his schedule to trick me into returning to the store….

Whereupon… nothing happened. ❌

Opportunities to clear the air or re-approach our weird stand off are submerged in these “stage-y” conversations with his coworkers, where I think he’s hoping I’ll catch hints he’s dropping (maybe?), but are mostly lost in the din + clatter of the busy cafe environment (+ bc my kid keeps bashing her head into furniture there, so, I’m not catching all of the performance 🤷🏻‍♀️). 

YET, instead of in any way clearing the air LIKE AN ADULT (says the one blogging about the incident 👩🏻‍💻) > he went about triangulating me against a coworker he was having casual sex with, who might have intended to leverage their coupling so she could move out of her housing situation with her ex-partner / current roommate, and I have an ookey-feeling the barista wedged my awkward haunting of the cafe between him and his coworker to evade these consequences, although that exact scenario might actually suit the rest of his chart (which we can’t dig into, it’ll take me hella weeks to get through), and my obsession with the blue flash might have actually thwarted an otherwise very useful situation…. ?

But what if that’s what Fate tripping his South Node might be about?? > quitting a “sex with benefits” routine that helps everybody get some version of what they want, but only breathes toxic fumes onto the secret underground fires of our collective intimacy issues (just thoughts)? 🤔

From Stephen Arroyo >

“In the West today, ‘intimacy’ of one kind of another is promoted by many forces (mass media, academic fads, music videos, coed dorms, and so forth), which make unformed youth erect barriers and images and pretenses to protect the fledgling self from in-depth threatening interactions. The mass media sells ‘intimacy’ and portrays it as quickly and cheaply achievable (ignoring the effort, emotional risk-taking, and self-revelation required); yet, at the same time an idealized image of marriage is often also promoted (because it hits certain emotional ‘buttons’ and also generates multiple streams of commercial profit)… all of which often leads to shattering disillusionment when reality hits.”

[REAL QUICK > notice when he says “make unformed youth ERECT barriers…”? 🤣]

So. I might have become a lightening rod—a moving target—bringing some sort of darkened personality issue in the barista to light. (Pluto ☌ my ASC, so. 🤷🏻‍♀️)

(Sorry, I know I keep dropping the “Plutonian” reference as tho that explains everything, but I haven’t finished that post yet, hang tight—just assume Plutonian = damaged, compelling, + manipulative, sometimes in useful ways. 👻)

And here’s the thing > without my rad occult powers (a.k.a. astrology apps ✨), from my POV, his outburst would just look like abusive, erratic, boundary-busting behavior…

…suggesting that without the apps + my curiosity after a weird light (which I probably would’ve forgotten about if not for astrology newsletters ✅)…

…and because he’s aggro about the overheated dog in his car, and because his nuts haven’t dropped yet nor has he found a way to countenance me…

…BASICALLY, without the apps, I might’ve decided to give up playing this stupid game and start stalking baristas at Starbucks… 🤔

AND THAT. WOULD BE. SO DISAPPOINTING. 😫🥀

But, CONFIRMED VIA OUR (hypothetical) SYNASTRY CHART 🙌🏻> the barista is Plutonian comme moi 👻✨, according to a big planetary stellium in Scorpio ♏️, including a Scorpio Moon hovering a handful of degrees from my Ascendent.  ☺️🦋

(Stellium = lots of planets there . ✨)

And remember what Arroyo said > we like “harmonious” Moon aspects, such as Moon-Ascendent contacts, but this particular Moon can be strange-volatile, in general. 😳

Having a Moon in Scorpio ♏️🌙 alone might qualify you as Plutonian, because a Scorpio Moon attaches to whatever force most compels or fascinates it (usually at a super-sublime, gooey, nonverbal level), and then basically wrestles itself into the other’s soma…

And pretty much all the rest of the Scorpio Moon’s life coalescences upon that compulsive ebbing and flowing for which the object of desire and fascination has now been totally submerged within.

Trust me on this > Pluto hovering within 3° of my Ascendent in Scorpio ♏️ (its domicile). 😘💋

Uh-kay, and what does that mean? > Basically, whenever a Scorpio Moon gets lost, it finds its way to my house. 💁🏻‍♀️

Last thing I’ll say will be excerpt from Octavio Paz’s My Life with the Wave, which is basically a surrealistic poem-story about romancing + cohabitating with a Scorpio Moon ♏️🌙>

“Stretched out side by side, we exchanged confidences, whispers, smiles. Curled up, she fell on my chest and unfolded there like a vegetation of murmurs. She sang in my ear, a little seashell. She became humble and transparent, clutching my feet like a small animal, calm water. She was so clear I could read all of her thoughts. On certain nights her skin was covered with phosphorescence and to embrace her was to embrace a piece of night tattooed with fire. But she also became black and bitter. At unexpected hours she roared, moaned, twisted. Her groans woke the neighbors. Upon hearing her, the sea wind would scratch at the door of the house or rave in a loud voice on the roof. Cloudy days irritated her; she broke furniture, said foul words, covered me with insults and gray and greenish foam. She spat, cried, swore, prophesied. Subject to the moon, the stars, the influence of the light of other worlds, she changed her moods and appearance in a way that I thought fantastic, but was a fatal as the tide.”

#IMHO, on the inside, SCORPIO MOONS ♏️🌙 are basically Girl, Interrupted. 😳

(#endrant)

Also, reading a bit deeper into the barista having Scorpio on the Sixth House (Virgo territory) ♏️♍️> obsession + control (♏️) might be the primary moods and motivators for his daily rhythm + process (= sixth house), especially so with all the planet-play here, and compounded by Lilith hovering close-at-hand to his Midheaven (angle at the top of the chart), plus having these other natal chart markers indicating sex addiction > Pluto in the 5th ✨ Lilith in Pisces ✨Neptune in aspect to North Node ✨ Gemini ASC… 😳🤭

So, calibrating expectations (and judging strangers), another win for astrology. 💫

also, if i’m accurate about birth year, and the barista’s chiron return is imminent >

I guess-timate the barista is at the starting line of his Chiron Return, or where the asteroid Chiron (our “soul wound”) returns to its natal position, thus kickstarting a major healing passage and era of personal actualization. ✨

What’s Chiron Return? > When a comet-asteroid in the sky right now pulls up side-by-side the Chiron in our charts, forcing a dead-on confrontation with the memories, players, and even lingering malfeasance from our deepest wound—the way the pain and trying to manage or minimize it might be knocking you off your true love + grind. 

How can a comet-asteroid help us with a fuckin’ SOUL-LEVEL wound? >  WELP, by helping you (a) recognize a wound is actually there, and (b) that everyone has this wound (in different places), and that (c) this wound never heals, but by our Chiron Return (age 50ish), we have an opportunity to make beautiful purpose + medicine from the pain. 🕊✨

Barbara Hand Clow’s Chiron + Kundalini Rising have tables that show you where your Chiron wounding passages will occur / have occurred, and knowing about natal Chiron (in your chart) can help you understand and learn to cope with deep wounds (yay). 

But even without knowing the astrology, when Chiron returns, circumstances arise helping / forcing us to confront that dross, so we can (hopefully) move into our Renaissance Decade 🌟> a personal era of healing catharsis, creative fellowship, and enthusiastic sharing one’s true gifts and talents. (Read more about Chiron and the Renaissance Decade here.) 

And if the barista was born the year I suspect (+ also at the birth time I’ve guess-timated), then his Gemini-Ascendant ♊️totally would be feelin’ up on my Chiron, and thank his lucky stars, because it’s also humping my Point of Destiny in my Eighth House, so his personal Renaissance is about to become my personal sex business (lol jk he threatened me + won’t apologize ☺️✨).

I’ll be digging into Chiron (natal, transit, synastry) SOON, but for now, I think this asteroid on my Vertex is what’s beckoning. 🌺

also, more about black moon lilith (b.m.l.) in the natal chart, for judging strangers ✨ >

Lilith in a natal chart is our most resented and resentful astro-erogenous zone 💕✨> Lilith (BML) represents our “taboo,” and Lilith contacts in synastry charges a relationship with broody erotic obsessiveness—hankering for the same kind of relief as when you make it to the bathroom in time, but felt with your genitals. 🐯

“In a man’s chart, Lilith represents how he deals with female power. Some sources have suggested that his Lilith describes the type of woman (by sign and planetary aspects) that he fears and desires the most. I would say that his Lilith shows the type of woman who makes him intensely uncomfortable, and how he deals with that is a reflection of how he handles power dynamics with the opposite sex.”

(Source)

Lilith attractions don’t necessarily become relationships, and if they do, the relationships aren’t necessarily long term or emotional or significant (read as: prime for “domestic harmony”, see Arroyo 🌙).

HOWEVER, Lilith in synastry might explain a sense of inappropriate or “doomed” attraction or you feel towards someone, even just an acquaintance, and even according to potentially skewed-inaccurate birth data.

SO, I have communicated how much I appreciate his Lilith (+ my own upon his Saturn), but reading about someone else’s natal Lilith should immediately qualify as stalking, particularly if the Lilith-person is being judged for it. ✨

Because I’ve basically used the scratch on his (hypothetical) Black Moon Lilith to deduce why the barista seems compelled, but totally avoidant of me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

“BML can sexualize whatever it touches. It is intimately connected to the archetype of ‘the femme fatale,’ and men with BML prominent may be attracted to relationships which cause them to give up their power and surrender to the feminine. They may also be terrified of doing such a thing, and avoid women altogether. Or they may like being surrounded by very powerful women (or a combination of all these things).”

(Source)

If your Lilith is strong (emphasized in your chart, such as the barista ✨), and you haven’t woke to her yet, then you might project all your Lilith power (+ angst) onto people around you—oftentimes onto women with strong placements in the same Sign as your (denied, taboo, unnoticed) Lilith. 🤯

SO, having natal Lilith in Pisces ♓️in his Tenth House of Career + Reputation, close-at-hand to his MC with a couple goddess asteroids as well as his hypothetical Sun strewn about ( 😳) > indicates the barista might tend to capitulate towards passive-aggressive women (Lilith in ♓️and the Tenth House, ruled by Saturn / ♑️), and is more comfortable incorporating my clumsy fascination into a public performance as part of his own heroic work narrative to soothe the feminine angst and resentment around him that he already tends to stay hyper-vigilent of…

…even while rebuffing the new, cute attention he (unconsciously) craves and vies for (based on current midlife transits)? 😤🤮

WHOA BITCH ✋🏻, how do you even know your attraction is reciprocal, since he hasn’t confirmed if he also noticed any natural phenomena on your face on Eclipse Day? 🤔> because one afternoon I walked into the cafe when he was alone behind the espresso bar, and as I approached the register, he hovered in one spot (he moves erratically a lot) and smiled all the way to his eyes which got bedroomy and hazy with pinkish light while reminding me he can’t fucking hear me since I’ve started whispering my coffee order in a breathy Jennifer Tilly voice…

(Only because I’m being strangled by invisible angels when I go into the cafe, possibly because his Lilith is on my Mercury 👼🏻> “Lilith conjunct Mercury synastry aspect means that one person typically feels shame about how the other partner thinks or communicates,” see more here.)

Anyway > I leaned forward like I was going to start climbing onto him, and he squared up as though to suggest “Ya, do it!”, but a couple moments later the L.O.T.R.-Elf lookin’ femme-barista came back onto the floor 🧝🏻‍♀️, and he leapt two and a half feet away towards the espresso machine. 🙄

And as I was walking out the exit, I realized… maybe he was only luring me in exactly so the other barista 🧝🏻‍♀️would find it? 🙈😔

So that she might report back to the other baby-baristas and reinforce the janky barista’s heroic work narrative and public performance?

…at least that’s the vibe I get upon first entering the cafe when the other baby-baristas sly-eye-smile at each other like a geisha girl gang, sending each another telepathic inside jokes about the horny-housewife-psychopath that just entered their midst. ✨ ✨ ✨

via GIPHY

FULL CONFESSION > I don’t hate a strong Lilith placement, not on anyone. 💕

Unfortunately…

I may be aloof AF (Venus in Aquarius ♒️, holla 🎉)…

But I am not passive aggressive, or validation-seeking, in deploying my feminine wiles.

Like—I won’t be able to help him further or more deeply repress his Lilith, especially not with my Mercury conjunct her, whispering dirty jokes and gossip about other people in the room (for some reason I’m picturing our Mercury-Lilith as two of the evil trick-or-treaters from Nightmare Before Christmas… confusing, but I don’t hate it 🤔😍)

I guess, from my interpretation, I don’t express Lilith-angst in the style or direction he’s sensitive to? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Like—literally, the only Lilith-angst he’s ever seen on my face is a delicate, anxious expression as I struggle not to ask, “Excuse me, could you help me parallel park my car…?”

(Or some other sex trap. 🎉)

Thx astrology, for once again deepening my self-understanding! 🧘🏻‍♀️

Anyway, according to the (janky) synastry report I’ve just delivered > this is a Lilith-driven attraction, with our Lilith-Saturn and Lilith-Mercury linkages luring us (or each other) towards the edge of our private boundary issues.

And I think the barista feels the attraction, and might be hella spooked, and is basically “Lilithing” out.

here's why transiting lilith, in the sky right now, is about to shake it up…

Ceres and Lilith are currently conjunct in Gemini ♊️ (read more here), meaning that for the barista ✨> Lilith-Ceres are moving over his First House of Identity, Persona, + Appearance, so he might be considering trade-offs between what is provisional, but solid (like Ceres) and what is taboo, but true (like Lilith). 

For me, Ceres and Lilith are moving through my Eighth House of Sex, Death, and Estate Planning (cute), so the vibes I’m getting is as though I’m taking a longview on a weekend getaway with both my BFF and closest frenemy, both of whom I want to seduce without the other’s knowledge—an expectation guaranteed to get my feelings hurt and mean I’ll end up Ubering home alone.

(Read more about Ceres-Lilith in Gemini here, and visualize the Houses aligned with Gemini on your chart to guess-timate the influence in your own weird life. ✨)

I’m interpreting any and all Eighth House transits as prep work for my Pluto Square (IT’S COMING > see more), and other midlife transits (more about these in a future post, revisit Kundalini Rising in the meantime ✌🏻). 

SO > for the barista, I am the TABOO!

But, I guess, not like… FUN taboo? 💁🏻‍♀️

Healing taboo.

That’s cool, I guess.

SYNASTRY TRIVIA + RESOURCES…

…(FOR IMPROVING / CORRECTING WHAT I’VE JUST TAUGHT YOU ☺️)

Like I said, synastry is basically reading a natal chart x 2, plus adding them up together, and it takes hella days to process + synthesize, or basically, fit together into a useful, meaningful whole.

At least for me, a strong challenger of interpersonal relating, in general. ☺️

It’s basically like asking me to paint a picture of a mathematical concept that I might have seen a documentary about, but like—what, what IS relating, tho…? 🤔😳

SO, here are more hints, clues, and resources for helping you make sense of your synastry chart!

💖 Mystic’s 3 core factors in Love + Relationship astrology > 1. Natal chart energy (placements), 2. Timing (transits), 3. Compatibility (aspects).✨

💖 Houses in Synastry > where to look up the significance of your “relationship houses” in a synastry chart, and also, types of relationship based on House (if you’re canvassing your whole synastry chart, and notice most of the planet play isn’t happening in any relationship houses 😬—starts with the 4th-9th Houses)

💖 Elements in synastry > an intro-tutorial on elemental compatibility in synastry, a “score guide to  “synastry points” 🤣, and this might be totally random, but I love it > Are You Attracted to the Element You Lack? ( 🙋🏻‍♀️🜁 )

💖ALSO, descriptions of the Eighth House + sex style, and descriptions of Signs, Planets, + the psycho-sexuality of the Eighth House. Barista + I have complementary elements on the Eighth House (Taurus-Capricorn), and I don’t hate that his Mars is at an anarectic degree here (mounting tension…?). 💁🏻‍♀️💫

💖Studying your Moons? > the Moon in the Signs + Houses, and this blog has a great database on Moon aspects in synastry. (Psst—this Synastry Q&A is where I got the cute little insight about Mars-Moon oppositions, holla 😉🎉)

💖Descriptions for all the planets in synastry, to cover all the variables in your chart.

💖Because both my ex-husband + mine’s Chirons were activated by the 2011 Gemini Eclipse, as well as my Chiron getting co-triggered by this year’s Eclipse > Chiron in Synastry! Also, all the other asteroids in synastry, including Lilith. 🐍

💖Must-read series if your own Eclipse Story with the Lunar Nodes or Destiny Point is unfolding > The Vertex versus the Nodes in Synastry, and if you want to deep-dive > check out this Plutonic Desire article, which walks you through the frustrations + usefulness found in certain Nodal aspects in synastry 🌗

💖For your self-efficacy ✨> The Astrology of Relationships: Chemistry versus Compatibility, PLUS Five Common Misconceptions in Synastry, and Five Things Astrologers Look for in Relationship Compatibility.

💖ALSO > Red flags in synastry. 😳🚩

💖ALSO, the other ways of doing relationship astrology > composite charts + the Davison method, PLUS, how to find the “theme” of your relationship in a synastry or composite chart.

💖Outer Planets contacts in synastry, part 1 > Pluto + Uranus might play out in the barista + mine’s thing, and I love that about us. 💕(Also check out this article for specific aspects between Outer + Personal Planets, and the type of influence they bear on the relationship, plus this article about Outer Planet contacts on the angles.)

💖Read Mystic delineate (“break down” or deconstruct) the astrology of one of Aubrey Hepburn’s love affairs, and basically explain Outer Planets in synastry. 💕

💖Okay, there’s a possibility, because of the Eclipse trippin’ his Node, I might be the barista’s “Destiny Muse,” exacerbated by the astro-fact that I am an Outer Planet person. 😳> “If you were to run first-meeting charts for every significant person in your life, especially those who changed the course of it, you’d find Moon’s Node Destiny Muse aspects all over it. There would be strong synastry between your Nodes and at the time of the initial encounter. And, there would be an element of synchronicity to that meeting. You followed a hunch. They missed a plane. If it were ten minutes later, they would not have been there.”

💖OMG, Neptunian suffering in synastry 😳> "I have to admit that in all my years of doing synastries, I’ve seen Neptune cause the most outright suffering. Now, this could be because of resonance. I believe we attract clients whose issues match our knowledge and experience. So I attract more Neptune-oriented folks than most. Neptune has a dangerous proclivity to urge us to lose ourselves in a well of grief for the unattainable, making life itself seem futile. I don’t know what’s worse, having the dream and then losing it, or having the dream of a dream." (Source)

💖MORE SPECIAL READING ABOUT NEPTUNE > an astrological point of view on codependency (I just shuddered), starring Neptune > “The Neptune/Pisces individual’s sense of boundaries tend to be rather fluid. Since we feel the emotions of others, we tend to think that others do the same. It is often a shock for us to realize that most people do not. It is as hard for us to fathom that notion as it is for others to understand that there are people that have Neptunian abilities. Clinicians call Neptunian emotional fluidity “hyperawareness of other’s emotions” and considers this a symptom of codependency.”

💖Juno, the “wife” or consort asteroid, which kind of fascinates me? (Maybe bc barista’s Chiron is near-conjunct Juno…? Someone help me read deeper into this…!)

💖Want more insight about NATAL Mars? > this Mystic post deep-dives in Mars aspects, and here’s intel on Mars-Saturn and the Male Psyche... part ONE! ✅

💖Some hints > Magnetism and Sex Appeal in the Birth Chart, also, sex style according to Mars, Lilith, + Eros placements, plus the chart signatures of sex addicts. 💁🏻‍♀️

💖Also, this isn’t our case (my “skipped step” would be Moon-Neptune/Capricorn ♑️ vibes), but it’s hella fascinating > “It’s always tricky when a romantic partner triggers your skipped step. There is a powerful draw, with an equally powerful frustration, or even repulsion. The details of your unresolved story can be found in the house positions of the skipped step planet and the North and South Nodes. Your skipped step partner is more than just a painful reminder of your past life failings; they are your key to evolving in this life. But as always, it’s up to you and your partner, if you want to work through the story together and start a new chapter. Or, you may decide to leave this one for the next life.” Read more and find out about your “skipped step” in synastry. 😉✨

💖 Great, and where should I look for astro-insight on my intimacy issues? 🤔> “The second/eighth house polarity becomes vastly important in synastry, because without an easy flow between these houses we are incapable of the kind of intimacy that sustains relationship. The secret of Pluto, and the gift of most successful long-term relationships, is that they have the ability to continually renew themselves.” (Source)

💖 What else can you look for in a synastry chart? > this Plutonic Desire database shows you what to look for, including the Darakaraka (personal planet at the lowest degree in the chart about “the spouse,” still super fun 👍🏻 )

💖 Interpreting long term vs short term relationships depends on reading for PROGRESSIONS, which I know nothing about, and basically means everything I’ve just taught you is useless > “The truth is that you can see the advent of a significant relationship, but this can only be done by a proper reading of progressions. The progressed chart is the only way we know if something serious is occurring between two people, and it will show up in both charts. Progressions signify long-term development and significant times/events, and a number of things need to be in place for an important relationship to show itself. Progressions show our readiness for a relationship to enter our lives, a time where we are ripe to join with another. We like to think that we’re ready for a serious relationship all the time, but the truth is that we aren’t. A lot of times, we’re meant to go it alone for a while.” (Source) 

💖 Finally, don’t forget your deceptively-simple-but-super-handy, synastry chart worksheet…! 🤩

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as you await for me to live, research, and churn out these articles, here is my amateur interpretation of mine + the barista’s (hypothetical) synastry…

I am the Doom-Lilith on his inner Patriarch 🐍, our Moons 🌙 are cloying but unstable, our Ascendents are straddled by each other’s Destiny Points 🌀, and I remember nothing about the hypothetical compatibility of our aesthetic preferences ⚤, except that my Mars wants to storm his Moon, and to the tempo of an Octavio Paz poem. 💕✨

but where does the story go from here…?

IDK, DUDE! Because this obviously isn’t just my Eclipse Story…

But here’s what the (maybe pretend ✨) synastry has revealed > this is a LILITH-driven attraction, her taboo rising to the semi-surface between us after the Eclipse tripped my Vertex-Chiron and possibly lit upon the barista’s South Node, when the barista is astrologically on-ramping for his Chiron Return (I’m approximating 2024)...

Even without knowing the astrology, he might be feelin’ a little pained and pressured by larger extenuating circumstances in his broader life, all colluding to de-stabilize his inner rhythm, making it feel extra important to totally avoid (or holler about 💁🏻‍♀️) my weird, shy attention on him at work…

...because HOW CAN HE EVEN DO ANYTHING without betraying his persona, embarrassing his scruples, eating crow, and without having to change his usual approach and rules of engagement?!

...all of which are there to specifically protect his deepest insecurities (Saturn) as well as his nougat-y, tender soul-wound (Chiron)? 🧁

IN WHICH CASE > yes, my deranged Lilith 🐍might be siren-calling him into the path of Chironic healing just in time to unleash his Renaissance Decade... 💫

BUT ALSO, as he inches toward the call (not that he will actually heed it 💥), the wound referred to by his Chiron is probably being picked at by his inner demons as they turn their attention onto everything that isn’t “working” in our brief, erratic, but somatically intense encounters in the coffee shop…

Which means that I am basically a lightening rod, bringing the barista’s repressed issues more into the light (related to his achey Chiron), every time I enter. 🙈

Because… DOES HE EVEN KNOW ABOUT ECLIPSES OR CHIRON RETURNING OR THAT LILITH IS RUNNING HIS SHIT??? 🙀

And the only way he could find out would be if I ambushed him alone while he’s making a wellness check on his little dog, maybe leaping out from the trunk of his sedan and screaming, “ECLIPSES, FUCKER!” 🌗👻

Idk what I’d do after that, though.

also—our progressions are interfering with the astro-potential (as much as our dilapidated psyches 👁)…

“Progressions” are a predictive tool in astrology, where the chart is “sped up” in time.

And I was tricked into learning them (and recasting the barista and mine’s still hypothetical synastry), because all the astrologers were suggesting I’d do just that to find out answers about what’s happening (or not happening, or basically just unfolding in an slow, alienating way) in real time…

And what has been revealed feels like stumbling by accident upon the final clue to a mystery game that everyone else already gave up on hours ago and instead went to watch Great British Baking Show (that’s fine).

BASICALLY > I learned something about the barista’s progressed Moon that sympathized me to a (potential) emotional condition that seems accurate (from a hovering bystander’s point of view), and which harmonizes much of the bizarre synastry data I’ve sputtered out for you here. 💞

My Lilith will definitely get rough ‘n tumble on his Moon-goo, though it might also be soothed over by my horny Chiron and its erotic fascination with Uranus in his eyes (mebbe). ☺️✨

Our Progressed Synastry basically explains why the Eclipse only triggered this whole process—whatever this process is…. whatever this wonderful miracle becomes. 💩

And we’re just going to have to keep studying astrology apps and following the Internet witches advice for a little while longer, until the Eclipse set closes out (December 2021 ✨) or until I find a babysitter.

also, thanks for your saint-like patience as i research, learn, and experiment with deploying all the astro-lore…

Do you love the idea that I’m psychoanalyzing this person, watching him trying to steam milk and banter with his coworkers, pretending to not be fine-tune focused on my dead-fish eyes staring over my phone, where I am hyper-comparing everything he says to what’s suggested in my Time Passages app, and like, the whole room of people seem aware of the current of energy between us, and I truly hope someone glances at my phone and guesses what’s up and calls me out, it would be such a relief. 👍🏻

Stay tuned. ✨

Also… this is very important…

Somebody should probably re-read this tutorial, and let me know if I’m doing this right? 😳😬😅

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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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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?! 😳🤩