Transiting configurations and their applications
Introduction to Predictive Astrology - 1
Written by Philip Graves Feb 03 2003
Transits both to single points in the birth chart and to houses in it should be considered not only in isolation, but in the context of aspects between the transiting body and other real-time bodies. For example, a transit made by Saturn to a particular house will take on an altered, more awkward and conflicting feel while real-time Mars forms a square to real-time (transiting) Saturn, although real-time Mars is not transiting the same house or necessarily aspecting any planet within it. Transits operate both in isolation (where the transiting planets are not in aspect to any other real-time planets) and as configurations.
3. A particular case of transiting configurations that is very well known is that of transiting New and Full Moons. When a New Moon forms a transit to any point or house in the birth chart, the real-time Sun is in conjunction with it and forming exactly the same type of transit. The transit will be experienced as the combined effects of the solar and lunar principles synergically activating whichever house they are transiting or point in the natal chart they are aspecting. An extreme case of this is a transiting solar eclipse, whereby the Moon partially or completely obscures the Sun, blocking the path of its radiation to part or all of the Earth. This will be felt as a dimunition of the energy of the solar principle in application to whichever house and / or single points in the birth chart are being transited by the eclipse.
When a Full Moon forms a transit to any point or house in the birth chart, the real-time Sun is in opposition to it and simultaneously forming the opposite aspect from any aspect made to a point in the birth chart by the real-time Moon (trine instead of sextile and vice versa, conjunction instead of opposition and vice versa, waxing square instead of waning square and vice versa). Whatever the nature of the transits formed by the Moon and Sun to points in the birth chart, they will be conditioned by the clashing energy of the Sun's real-time opposition to the Moon. Full Moons which tie in by aspect (especially conjunction, opposition and square) to the luminaries and personal planets in the birth chart are felt particularly acutely by those subjected to them. An extreme case of a Full Moon is a lunar eclipse, whereby the Earth partially or completely obscures the Moon, blocking the path of the Sun's radiation to all or part of the Moon. This will be felt as a lessening of the lunar pull and of the application of the lunar principle to whichever pair of opposite houses are being transited by the lunar eclipse and to whichever bodies and single points in the birth chart are being aspected by the real-time Sun and Moon.
Robert Hand states that eclipses transiting luminaries and personal planets by conjunction or opposition store up a powerful energy which is released the next time that the natal luminary or planet affected is in receipt of a major aspect over the coming months, usually from the Sun or Mars - and only at this time is the energy of the eclipse felt.
4. Perhaps the best known application of transiting configurations is Sun Sign Forecasting, as used by media astrologers all over the western world.
Armed only with the zodiac sign occupied by the Sun, as far as birth chart information is concerned, Sun Sign Forecasters have to draw as many predictive inferences as possible with very little knowledge of the specific conditions of the birth chart to aid them. Their foremost tool is the consideration of transits to the whole-sign solar houses. Strictly speaking, the true solar houses begin with the degree of each sign occupied by the Sun in its sign, since the solar houses are calculated on an equal 30š house division basis, with the first commencing at the degree and sign occupied by the Sun at birth, and so on around the zodiac in the usual direction. However, Sun sign forecasters do not have this degree-specific information related to the birth charts for which they are forecasting, and they therefore have to recourse to considering transits to any degree of the sign in which the true cusp of a particular solar house is found as falling within the solar house concerned. Of course, if an individual's Sun is at 27š of Aries for example, this will result in transits made by a planet through the first 26 degrees of each sign being interpreted by the forecaster as falling within the solar house after the true solar house for the individual affected. On average, the solar house placements presumed by the forecaster will be accurate for only 50% of the population of each sign. This technical inaccuracy in relation to true solar houses notwithstanding, the method of whole-sign solar houses is in itself the most ancient of all the methods for house division with the possible exception of houses based on parts or lots, so it can reasonably be presumed to have some meaningfully applicable merit in itself.
Since the transits of the Sun, Moon and Planets through each whole-sign solar house in isolation provide only a limited amount of changing information for Sun Sign Forecasters to use when composing their forecasts for the different Sun signs, it is essential for them to also take into account the colorations introduced to each of these house transits by the configurations of transiting planets. In other words, they look at the aspects formed between the different real-time planets, and interpret them as modifying influences upon the impact of each planet transiting each whole-sign solar house.
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01.10.2006.