What the sky is actually doing
The transits this week
Where everything actually is
Every planet in the transits this week, with the sign and degree it is sitting in this minute, whether it is retrograde, and what that placement is doing. The Moon is first because it is the one that changes.
About these numbers. Positions and today’s Moon times are calculated live in your browser, accurate to within about five arcminutes. That is close enough for the sign every time and close enough for the degree almost every time, but a planet sitting right on a boundary can read one degree out. Today’s aspect times are rounded to five minutes for the same reason. Every time in the fourteen day list below is from the Swiss Ephemeris and exact to the minute.
What today is doing
The transits this week are all on this page, with the exact minute each one becomes exact. Every ingress, station, lunation and decan change for the next fourteen days, calculated from the Swiss Ephemeris and converted into whatever time zone your device is set to.
Nothing here was written in advance, so none of it can go stale. The page reads the date when you open it and shows you the real sky, which also means that when a stretch looks empty, the empty stretch is the answer.
Everything that actually happens
Every time on this page is calculated from the Swiss Ephemeris and shown in your own time zone. Nothing here is written in advance, so it cannot go stale. If a stretch looks empty, that is the real answer: some weeks genuinely have nothing in them.
How to read the transits this week
Four kinds of event show up in the transits this week, and they do genuinely different things. Knowing which is which is most of the skill.
An ingress is a planet crossing from one sign into the next. The register changes, sometimes sharply. Fast movers like the Moon do this every two or three days, and the Moon’s ingress is usually the most noticeable shift in an ordinary week.
A station is a planet stopping and turning around, either retrograde or direct. Stations are the heaviest events on this list because the planet sits nearly motionless on one degree for days on either side of the exact time.
A lunation is a new or full Moon, the two moments each month when the Sun and Moon are conjunct or opposite. The degree matters as much as the date, which is why this page gives you both.
A decan change is the Sun crossing ten or twenty degrees of a sign, moving into the next ten day slice with a different sub ruler. Most calendars skip these entirely, which is exactly why they are here.
Why some weeks look empty
Some of the transits this week will be crowded together on one day and then nothing will happen for four days afterwards. That is not a gap in the data. Real skies are lumpy, and a week with two events in it is genuinely quieter than a week with nine.
Every other daily astrology feed has to publish something every single day, so a quiet Tuesday gets dressed up as a meaningful one. This page will just tell you the Tuesday was quiet. That is more useful, and it is the honest version. The Swiss Ephemeris is the same calculation engine professional astrology software runs on.
Questions about the transits this week
How often does this page update? Continuously. It calculates from the moment you open it, so the transits this week are always the current week rather than whenever the page was last edited.
What time zone are the times in? Yours. The page reads your device setting and converts, so you never have to do the arithmetic from Eastern or from UTC.
Why do other sites give a different time? Usually rounding. A lot of calendars publish to the nearest day rather than the minute, which is fine until an event lands near midnight or near a sign boundary and the date is simply wrong.
Does this tell me what will happen to me? No, and nothing can. This is a calendar of the transits this week, not a forecast. What any of it does depends on where it lands in your own chart.
What is a decan and why are they on here? A decan is a ten day slice of a sign, three per sign, thirty six across the year, and each one takes a different sub ruler. The full explainer is here if it is new to you.
A calendar, not a forecast
This page tells you what the sky is doing, not what is going to happen to you. Those are different claims and only one of them is honest. What a transit does depends on where it lands in your own chart, which is a specific question rather than a general one.
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