A new approach to interpreting transits

[Jim Eshelman]

I want to experiment with the (1) accuracy and (2) teaching value of a different way of interpreting transits. It's a pretty simple (probably obvious) approach that we more or less use a lot with calling it out as a particular method.

In HOSNI (Handbook of Sidereal Natal Interpretations) and in the new book being written, for each planet I give a statement of what it Signifies and another of how it acts As a modifier. Despite all the other mind tricks we play, basically transits work with the transiting planet a modifier to what the natal planet signifies. (It's so basic to what we do in practice that you may wonder why I make any deal about it at all.)

If formulations of transit meanings really come together from this simple approach, the boon to teaching transits - as to practical interpretation - is normal.

Therefore, I want to work these out formulaically, tighten the language bit, and then eventually compare them to what we have historically used based on observation (which sometimes seems a little like a hodge-podge of this-and-that). Then I'll see how these highly structured theoretical formulations fit in with our standing interpretations of transits.

As I work up each of the 110 individual transits, I'll delete the separate Modifier and Signifier lines. Only a (probably crude and forced) theoretical description will remain. As I fully complete each one, I will cross it out (but leave it in the thread), transferring the derived "principle" text to the primary Transit interpretation threads: All future editing will be done there (I won't keep maintaining it separately in the present thread as language improves).

• Transiting PLUTO. Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
• Transiting NEPTUNE. Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
• Transiting URANUS. Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
• Transiting SATURN. Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
• Transiting JUPITER. Enhances and instills confidence. The planet’s needs are met: Its area flourishes as a source of self-value and pride.
• Transiting MARS. Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
• Transiting SUN. Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
• Transiting VENUS. Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
• Transiting MERCURY. Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
• Transiting MOON. The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.

• Natal ANGLES. Conditions or circumstances of one's life.
• Natal MOON. Instinctive adaptations, emotional responses (reactivity). Public personality or face (mask). Relations with mother figures or the public.
• Natal SUN. One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.
• Natal MERCURY. One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).
• Natal VENUS. Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”
• Natal MARS. Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”
• Natal JUPITER. Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.
• Natal SATURN. Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.
• Natal URANUS. Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.
• Natal NEPTUNE. What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.
• Natal PLUTO. Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.

[Jim Eshelman]

Pluto transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own authenticity and solitude needs.


t PLUTO - r ANGLE Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts) the conditions of one's life. Requiring that you be atypical, free of others’ arbitrary codes, willing to be an outsider or solitary, and less beholden to other people's conventions. - Feeling greater necessity to meet one's own authenticity and solitude needs.

t PLUTO - r MOON Transforms patterns of (and need to get free of others' judgements regarding) instinctive adaptations, habitual emotional responses, and social mask. Being atypical, anomic, outsider, and unbeholden to social conventions. Atypical emotional responses (reactivity). Significantly alters (strains or disrupts) relations with mother figures.

t PLUTO - r SUN
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t PLUTO - r MERCURY
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t PLUTO - r VENUS
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t PLUTO - r MARS
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”

t PLUTO - r JUPITER Enhances, strains, restructures, or disrupts ambition, prosperity (finances), social standing, and esteem. If necessary, operates outside conventional social codes to separate or distinguish oneself. Willing to stand at odds with society or tribal expectations.

t PLUTO - r SATURN
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t PLUTO - r URANUS Transformative renewal: Powerful inner demand for change, individualism, reformation, and shedding others' expectations. Willing to be atypical, an outsider, unbeholden to convention. Intensified excitement (strain, disruption).

t PLUTO - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t PLUTO - r PLUTO
Modifier: Transforms (intensifies, strains, or disrupts). Powerfully needs that the planet’s expression be free of others’ arbitrary codes. Being atypical, willing to be an outsider, and unbeholden to conventions with respect to what the planet signifies.
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's authenticity and isolation needs.

[Jim Eshelman]

Neptune transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own reality-forging and absorption (merging, submergence) needs.


t NEPTUNE - r ANGLE Feeling greater necessity to meet one's own reality-forging and absorption needs. Dissolves, distorts, or confuses boundaries, definitions, and concrete forms of the conditions of one's life. Sensitizes, disorients, distorts, confuses, or exaggerates conditions creating a state of increasing uncertainty. Increased idealization or fantasy about one's life or conditions.

t NEPTUNE - r MOON Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, and disorients, magnifying disproportionately emotional responses and instinctive adaptations to physical, psychological, and social environments. Public personality (social mask) linked to fantasy and illusion. Idealization or disillusionment of relations with mother figures or the public.

t NEPTUNE - r SUN
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t NEPTUNE - r MERCURY Distorts, confuses, disorients, or exaggerates one's thoughts, communications, and relationship to information and learning. Magnified (enchanted) curiosities linked to fantasy.

t NEPTUNE - r VENUS
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t NEPTUNE - r MARS
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”

t NEPTUNE - r JUPITER
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t NEPTUNE - r SATURN
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t NEPTUNE - r URANUS
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t NEPTUNE - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's reality-forging and absorption or merger needs.

t NEPTUNE - r PLUTO
Modifier: Dissolves (atrophies, withers). Sensitizes, distorts, confuses, disorients (magnifies disproportionately, exaggerates). Idealizes (links to fantasy).
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.

[Jim Eshelman]

Uranus transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own freedom and renewal needs, including the need to be surprised, i.e., to require your nervous system to respond to new things.


t URANUS - r ANGLE Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, and renews. Frees the conditions of one's life from structure, inhibition, or restraint. - Feeling greater necessity to meet one's own freedom and renewal needs.

t URANUS - r MOON
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: Instinctive adaptations, emotional responses (reactivity). Public personality or face (mask). Relations with mother figures or the public.

t URANUS - r SUN
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t URANUS - r MERCURY
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t URANUS - r VENUS Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, and renews one's love nature, social and romantic pleasure needs (reinventing pleasure styles), and love of beauty and harmony, freeing them from structure, inhibition, or restraint.

t URANUS - r MARS
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”

t URANUS - r JUPITER
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t URANUS - r SATURN
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t URANUS - r URANUS
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's freedom and renewal needs.

t URANUS - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Unshackles, awakens, stimulates, renews. Frees from structure, inhibition, or restraint.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t URANUS - r PLUTO Awakens, renews, or liberates from inhibition or restraint an inner necessity to withdraw from herd views or expectations, isolate oneself, or be singled out from the collective.

[Jim Eshelman]

Saturn transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own materialistic needs: to acquire, construct, order, conserve, and retain. This includes your self-preservation and survival needs.


t SATURN - r ANGLE Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the conditions of one's life. Sense of inadequacy or restriction. Feeling greater necessity to more powerfully or effectively meet survival and other materialistic needs.

t SATURN - r MOON Structures and inhibits emotional and instinctive responses and social, psychological, or environmental adaptation and flexibility. Feeling inadequate emotionally, socially, psychologically, or in survival (with over-compensations). Limits relationship with mother figures or the public.

t SATURN - r SUN
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t SATURN - r MERCURY
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t SATURN - r VENUS
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t SATURN - r MARS
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”

t SATURN - r JUPITER
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t SATURN - r SATURN
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's material and survival needs.

t SATURN - r URANUS
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t SATURN - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t SATURN - r PLUTO
Modifier: Structures, limits, and inhibits (frustrates) the planet’s needs. Sense of inadequacy in the planet’s area invites over-compensation.
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation. [Include: Discomfort with isolation.]

[Jim Eshelman]

Jupiter transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own ambition needs, i.e., needs for superiority, assimilation and growth, achievement, success, recognition, exhibition, and esteem.


t JUPITER - r ANGLE Improves the conditions of one's life so that they better meet one's needs. instills confidence. Conditions flourishes, enhancing confidence, self-value, and pride. - Feeling greater necessity to meet one's own ambition needs (needs for superiority, assimilation and growth, achievement, success, recognition, exhibition, and esteem).

t JUPITER - r MOON Enhances and instills confidence in one's instincts and emotional responses. Successful, easy adaptation to social, psychological, and physical habitats. Quality relationships with mother figures or the public.

t JUPITER - r SUN Enhances self-confidence, purpose, vitality, and general well-being. Ego needs are met and flourish (self-value, pride, distinction). Elevates attitudes toward authority (one's own and others').

t JUPITER - r MERCURY
Modifier: Enhances and instills confidence. The planet’s needs are met: Its area flourishes as a source of self-value and pride.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t JUPITER - r VENUS
Modifier: Enhances and instills confidence. The planet’s needs are met: Its area flourishes as a source of self-value and pride.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t JUPITER - r MARS Enhances and instills confidence in one's feelings of strength and ability to take strong action, exercise power, and behave aggressively. (Power needs feel satisfied.) These areas flourish as sources of self-esteem and pride.

t JUPITER - r JUPITER
Modifier: Enhances and instills confidence. The planet’s needs are met: Its area flourishes as a source of self-value and pride.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's ambition needs.

t JUPITER - r SATURN Enhances and instills confidence in survival and material security (security needs are met, supplanting insecurity; confidence supplants feeling inadequate). Eases areas of regret or guilt (consoling one's buried darkness). Confident one can form, build, conserve, and retain. Work flourishes as a source of self-value and pride. Supports paternal and social authority and other traditional structures.

t JUPITER - r URANUS
Modifier: Enhances and instills confidence. The planet’s needs are met: Its area flourishes as a source of self-value and pride.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t JUPITER - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Enhances and instills confidence. The planet’s needs are met: Its area flourishes as a source of self-value and pride.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t JUPITER - r PLUTO Instills confidence in one's ability to withdraw from compliance to herd expectations and live on one's own terms. Solitude and authenticity needs are met (comfort with isolation).

[Jim Eshelman]

Mars transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own power needs, i.e., needs for aggression, dominance, controlling others, opposition, independence, contrariness, defense, and admiration of (and deference to) strength.


t MARS - r ANGLE Energizes, inflames, and coarsens the circumstances of one's life. Increases aggression. Greater necessity to meet one's power, aggression, dominance, control, independence, contrariness, and defense needs.

t MARS - r MOON
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: Instinctive adaptations, emotional responses (reactivity). Public personality or face (mask). Relations with mother figures or the public.

t MARS - r SUN
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t MARS - r MERCURY Energizes, inflames, and coarsens mental activity (thought) and mode of communication. Aggressive communication. Aggressively pursues learning and the satisfaction of curiosities.

t MARS - r VENUS Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and more aggressively pursues love and pleasure needs and attraction to beauty. Disturbs harmony. Drawn to bold, assertive people. Links aggression to love, pleasure, and social connection. (Aggressive and enflamed femininity.)

t MARS - r MARS
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's power needs.

t MARS - r JUPITER
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t MARS - r SATURN
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t MARS - r URANUS
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t MARS - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Energizes, inflames, coarsens, and aggressively pursues the planet's needs. Links aggression to the other planet’s expression.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t MARS - r PLUTO Fuels and inflames the need to live authentic to one's own nature, exempt from herd expectations, governed by one's own rules and choices (rudely and roughly if necessary). Aggressive dissociation or disaffiliation from others.

[Jim Eshelman]

Sun transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own individuation needs: to forge a distinctive, integrated identity and be a single, distinct, distinguished somebody (to stand in the spotlight).


t SUN - r ANGLE Adds vitality and spotlight to the circumstances of one's life. - Feeling greater necessity to meet the universe's demand that one forge a distinctive identity and appear as a distinct, distinguished somebody.

t SUN - r MOON
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Instinctive adaptations, emotional responses (reactivity). Public personality or face (mask). Relations with mother figures or the public.

t SUN - r SUN Reassessment and redecision with respect to identity, direction, and distinction needs. Spotlight's one's character, sense of self, and goals. Vitality (highlights health). Links ego to authority, centering attention on one's own authority (perhaps in contrast or relationship to others' authority).

t SUN - r MERCURY
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t SUN - r VENUS
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t SUN - r MARS
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”

t SUN - r JUPITER
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t SUN - r SATURN
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t SUN - r URANUS
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t SUN - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t SUN - r PLUTO
Modifier: Vitalizes the planet. Identifies the ego with it, linking its qualities to one’s core nature.
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.

[Jim Eshelman]

Venus transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own affection needs, i.e., needs to love and be loved, give and receive nurturing, for affiliation (including phases of separation and rejection), sex, and shared play.


t VENUS - r ANGLE Soothes, harmonizes, and gives pleasure through the circumstances of one's life. - Opportunities offered to better meet one's own affection needs (to love and be loved, give and receive kindness, sex, shared pleasure, affiliation).

t VENUS - r MOON
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: Instinctive adaptations, emotional responses (reactivity). Public personality or face (mask). Relations with mother figures or the public.

t VENUS - r SUN
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t VENUS - r MERCURY
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t VENUS - r VENUS
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's affection needs.

t VENUS - r MARS Pleasure through aggression, feeling powerful, and taking strong action. Pleasure or personal reward are linked to one's feelings of strength and ideas usually associated with masculinity. Soothes anger.

t VENUS - r JUPITER
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t VENUS - r SATURN
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t VENUS - r URANUS
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t VENUS - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t VENUS - r PLUTO
Modifier: Soothes, harmonizes; gives pleasure through the planet’s nature. Links pleasure (personal reward) to the planet’s expression.
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.

[Jim Eshelman]

Mercury transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own information needs, i.e., curiosity, gaining and sharing information, and understanding and demonstrating relationships between facts.


t MERCURY - r ANGLE Information demanded to satisfy others' curiosities. Immediate circumstances center on intellect, perception, analysis, and voice. Opportunities to better meet one's own information needs (curiosity, gaining and sharing information, understanding and demonstrating relationships between facts).

t MERCURY - r MOON Responding quickly and instinctively to others' curiosities and inquiries (answering the public's need to know). Intellect, quick perception, instinctive analysis, and language empower rapid social, psychological, and circumstantial adaptation.

t MERCURY - r SUN
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t MERCURY - r MERCURY
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's information needs.

t MERCURY - r VENUS
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t MERCURY - r MARS
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: Nature and direction of aggressions. Power needs, feelings of strength, taking strong action. Anger. “Masculinity.”

t MERCURY - r JUPITER
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: Ambition, social eminence, prosperity, enjoyment, and comfort. Social inclusion, response to social expectations.

t MERCURY - r SATURN
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t MERCURY - r URANUS
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t MERCURY - r NEPTUNE
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: What you get absorbed in or lose yourself in. The nature of one’s fantasies and how one pursues them and responds to temptation.

t MERCURY - r PLUTO
Modifier: Demand's information exchange to satisfy others' curiosities. Adds intellect, perception, analysis, and voice to the planet's operation.
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.

[Jim Eshelman]

Moon transits show the universe inviting you (and requiring from you) to more fully meet your own needs to respond and adapt, including instincts, neuroplasticity, and adapting to one's physical, psychological, and social habitats.


t MOON - r ANGLE Greater necessity to respond and adapt to shifting conditions, to meet the changing needs of one's physical, psychological, and social habitats. Circumstances are receptive to (and the world seems to hunger for) one's standing forth responsively.

t MOON - r MOON
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: Instinctive adaptations, emotional responses (reactivity). Public personality or face (mask). Relations with mother figures or the public.
Confrontation, reassessment, and redecision with respect to one's respond and adapt needs.

t MOON - r SUN
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: One’s character and sense of one’s own identity. Attitudes toward authority (one's own and others'). Vitality, bodily health.

t MOON - r MERCURY
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: One's curiosities, thoughts, and communication. Attitude or approach to learning and facts (data).

t MOON - r VENUS
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: Love nature. Social, romantic, and pleasure needs and styles (types of people or relationship experiences to which one is attracted). Attunement to beauty and harmony. “Femininity.”

t MOON - r MARS Instinctively (unthinkingly) acts aggressively, asserts strength, gratifies power needs, and expresses anger.

t MOON - r JUPITER Instinctively (unthinkingly) responds to social expectations, enjoyment, comfort, inclusion. Instinctive choices enhance esteem or prosperity.

t MOON - r SATURN
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: Survival, material security, attitudes toward work, paternal and social authority, traditional structures. Insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, regrets, guilt, other buried darkness.

t MOON - r URANUS
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: Things that delight, excite, or refresh. Attitudes toward change and individualism.

t MOON - r NEPTUNE Instinctively (unthinkingly) becomes absorbed in something (or absorbs others in it), responds to temptation, has and pursues fantasies, and gratifies the need to merge.

t MOON - r PLUTO
Modifier: The world responds hungrily to the natal planet’s themes, welcoming their expression. They act instinctively.
Signifier: Life areas in which one is most compelled to withdraw from herd expectations. Level of comfort with isolation.