My pre­vi­ous post exam­ined the gen­er­al prac­tice of deter­min­ing the Astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions that are cre­at­ed by plan­ets as they form angu­lar rela­tion­ships, what we call aspects, to one anoth­er. These aspects are the ones that are con­sid­ered gen­er­al, that is, they hold for every­one equal­ly since they are formed by the plan­ets mov­ing in rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er with­in the Solar Sys­tem. They are what astrologers call “Tran­sits to Tran­sits”, that is the var­i­ous bod­ies form­ing aspects to one anoth­er as they move through their orbits. By exam­in­ing these var­i­ous aspects astrologers can make fore­casts that are true for everyone.

But there is a whole oth­er class of aspect rela­tion­ships that are formed and fol­lowed in Astrol­o­gy, the aspects that are cre­at­ed by those same tran­sit­ing plan­ets to any par­tic­u­lar astro­log­i­cal chart. This is what astrologers call “Tran­sits to Natal”. These are the aspects formed between the bod­ies mov­ing through the Solar Sys­tem and cal­cu­lat­ing the angu­lar sep­a­ra­tions that are formed between those bod­ies and the natal or birth posi­tions of those bod­ies in an astro­log­i­cal chart. In this case the tran­sit­ing bod­ies are mov­ing, the birth or natal place­ments are fixed or unchanging.

In fact, it is these align­ments or aspects which are of most con­cern to astrologers and their clients. That is because it is these per­son­al aspects that are most tru­ly indica­tive of what any one per­son, or orga­ni­za­tion is expe­ri­enc­ing. Rather than being a gen­er­al “weath­er” fore­cast, these tran­sits to natal posi­tions reveal the most inti­mate details of the influ­ences affect­ing the per­son or enti­ty in question.