
A transit is an aspect between a planet moving through the sky right now and a fixed position in your birth chart. Where a natal chart describes a starting condition, transits are the part of astrology that has dates attached: transiting Jupiter reaching a trine to your natal Venus is a specific event on a specific day, and it is what almost every "what does this month hold" reading is actually built on. A transit calendar plots those events across a window so you can see the shape of the next few months rather than one day at a time.
The engineering decision that makes such a calendar useful rather than useless is what to leave out. The Moon aspects every natal point in your chart every single month, so a calendar that includes it marks every day and therefore says nothing at all. This one scans the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - fast enough to produce dated events, slow enough that those events mean something. And each transit appears only on the day it is closest to exact, not on every day it happens to be within orb: a Saturn contact sits in range for weeks, and listing all of them would bury the days that matter.
Days are coloured by what they carry. Trines and sextiles are read as supportive, squares and oppositions as frictional, and a day with both is mixed - which is the ordinary case and not a failure of the method. It is worth being clear that supportive does not mean good and frictional does not mean bad: the hard aspects are the ones astrology associates with effort, change and growth, which is why the tradition treats them as necessary rather than unfortunate. Everything is computed in your browser from positions checked against JPL Horizons, and nothing you enter is uploaded.
A date is enough for transits to your planets. Add a time and place and transits to your ascendant and midheaven join in, which are among the most-felt contacts.
Thirty days for the near term, six months to see a slow Saturn or Jupiter contact coming. Longer windows show fewer events per day, not more noise.
Colour tells you the tone of each day at a glance and the number tells you how much is happening. Long quiet runs are normal and meaningful in themselves.
Every peak is listed with which body is transiting, which natal point it contacts, and how that aspect is traditionally read.
Each transit appears on the day it is closest to exact, not on the twenty days it happens to be within orb
It aspects every natal point every month, so including it would mark every day and make the calendar meaningless
Days are coloured supportive, frictional, mixed or quiet, with the count of contacts on each
A transit that peaks, stations and peaks again shows up as separate dated events, because positions are computed rather than assumed to advance
Cast a full natal chart from your birth date, time and place - ten bodies, house cusps in three systems, every aspect with its orb, and a chart wheel
Score two birth charts for romantic compatibility, with the supportive and frictional contacts listed and the weighting shown rather than hidden
Find your Sun, Moon and rising sign from your birth date, time and place, with exact degrees, whole-sign houses, element balance and a reading for each placement
Compare two birth charts and see every aspect between them, in both directions, with the orb each was found at
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