Transit of Planets

Astrology is a centuries-old esoteric science and domain that reveals mystical connections between the movement of celestial bodies and our destiny. As evidently experienced by millions of people, the apparent position of the planets as seen from Earth at the time of their birth deeply influences their personality, relationships, career, finances, mentality, karmic patterns, and even reveals secrets about their previous and next births.

That is why it is often said that your destiny is written in the stars…

Well, that’s not the end of it. While the position of the planets at the time of your birth reveals your overall life’s journey, the current movement of the planets plays a major role in defining your daily life events and emotional shifts. This movement of planets is known as Planetary Transit.

As the planets move gradually across the face of other planets, they create a stir of events through their position, aspect and conjunction with other planets. Additionally, they sometimes appear to be going in a backward direction (retrograde), creating an even more powerful influence on your life. As we all know, different planets move at a different pace in their respective orbits around the Sun, so naturally, the speed of their transit through a particular sign (30 degrees) varies significantly.

Transit Timeline of Planets through a Sign

Moon-Approximately 2.5 Days

Mercury- Approximately 25 Days

Mars-Approximately 2 Months

Sun-Approximately 1 Month

Venus-Approximately 1 Month

Rahu & Ketu-Approximately 1.5 Years

Jupiter-Approximately 13 Months

Saturn-Approximately 2.5 Years

Impact of Planetary Transit

All planets have a specific symbolic nature with both positive and negative traits, and they impact different areas of your life. While transiting through a friendly, own or exaltation sign, a planet usually offers a favourable result, mirroring its best qualities, However, during its transit through an enemy or debilitation sign, it offers unfavorable results, revealing its negative side. This brings ups and downs in our life. Carefully observing the planetary transits can help understand the core reasons for persisting issues and can predict good and bad times in your life.

Transit of the Moon

Exaltation Sign-Taurus

Debilitation Sign-Scorpio

Own Sign-Cancer

Friendly Signs-Aries, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini, Virgo

Enemy Signs-Capricorn, Aquarius

The transit of the Moon impacts your thoughts, stress levels, subconscious mind, food, intuition, mother’s health, relationship with the family, and moods. Since the Moon travels quickly around the zodiac belt, its placement in the transit can show how your overall mood will be throughout the day, or in other words, which day is going to go well, and which day will end in distress. In favorable signs, it will give you motivation, an optimistic attitude, harmony in relationships, a strong willpower and a good mood. It will also favor your mother’s health. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give overthinking, anxiety, quarrels with family, a pessimistic attitude, and a shabby mood; your mother may also feel under the weather.

Transit of the Sun

Exaltation Sign-Aries

Debilitation Sign-Libra

Own Sign-Leo

Friendly Signs-Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, Cancer, Scorpio

Enemy Signs-Capricorn, Aquarius, Taurus

The transit of the Sun impacts your confidence, leadership, career progress, immune system, head and father’s health. In favourable signs, it will give you motivation, an optimistic attitude, confidence, fame, a strong willpower, job promotion, and good health. It will also favor your father’s health. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give over or under confidence (depending on its placement), low immunity, frequent headaches, pessimism, and loss of recognition. Your father may also feel under the weather, or you might have a quarrel with him.

Transit of Jupiter

Exaltation Sign-Cancer

Debilitation Sign-Capricorn

Own Signs-Sagittarius and Pisces

Friendly Signs-Scorpio, Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius

Enemy Signs-Taurus, Libra, Gemini, Virgo

The transit of Jupiter impacts your wisdom, wealth, liver, luck, spirituality, and knowledge. In favourable signs, it will give you opportunities for wealth gains, financial stability, opportunities to enhance your skills, good luck, and spiritual inclination. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give reduced luck, obstacles in incoming wealth, breaks in education, arguments with teachers, and stomach- or liver-related health issues.

Transit of Mars

Exaltation Sign-Capricorn

Debilitation Sign-Cancer

Own Signs-Aries and Scorpio

Friendly Signs-Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Pisces, Taurus

Enemy Signs-Aquarius, Gemini, Virgo

The transit of Mars impacts your passion, courage, energy, aggression, competition, and accidents. In favourable signs, it will give you high energy, bold decision-making abilities, risk-taking capability, courage, and victory in competitions. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give anger issues, lack of energy and courage, defeat in competitions, and sudden accidents.

Transit of Mercury

Exaltation Sign-Virgo

Debilitation Sign-Pisces

Own Signs-Virgo and Gemini

Friendly Signs-Aries, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Pisces,Taurus, Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius

Enemy Sign-Cancer

The transit of Mercury impacts your intellect, communication, logical approach, traveling, adaptability, sense of humor, and enjoyment. In favorable signs, it will give you confident communications, a sharp and witty nature, the chance to polish your skills, opportunities to travel, and be adaptive. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give miscommunications, rigidity, cancelation of travel plans, dullness, a monotonous lifestyle, and boredom.

Transit of Venus

Exaltation Sign-Pisces

Debilitation Sign-Virgo

Own Signs-Taurus and Libra

Friendly Signs-Aries, Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio, Aquarius, Capricorn

Enemy Signs-Leo, Cancer

The transit of Venus impacts your hygiene, fertility, wealth, luxury, comfort, beauty, creativity, marriage, and love relationships. In favourable signs, it will give you comforts, luxury, high fertility, good chances of conception, harmony in marriage and love relationships, creative ideas, and unexpected financial gains. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give loss of wealth, strain in marriage or love relationship, discomfort, and loss of wealth.

Transit of Saturn

Exaltation Sign-Libra

Debilitation Sign-Aries

Own Signs-Capricorn, Aquarius

Friendly Signs-Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini, Virgo

Enemy Signs-Leo, Cancer, Aries and Scorpio

The transit of Saturn impacts your hard work, seriousness, routine, persistence, discipline, obstacles, restrictions, employees, and delays. In favorable signs, it will give you patience and discipline. You will get respect and dedication from your employees. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give obstacles in work or income, disrespect from employees, a lack of patience, delays, and restrictions at the workplace.

Transit of Rahu

Exaltation Sign-Gemini

Debilitation Sign-Sagittarius

Own Sign-Aquarius (Co-rules with Saturn)

Friendly Signs-Libra, Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Enemy Signs-Pisces, Leo, Cancer, Aries, Scorpio

The transit of Rahu impacts your ambition, passion, greed, creativity, obsession, illusion and material desires. In favorable signs, it will give you wealth gains, passion and creativity. It will help you achieve your desired material goals faster. However, in unfavorable signs, it will give greed, illusion, unrealistic expectations, relationship troubles, bad influences, and opportunities to earn illegally.

Transit of Ketu

Exaltation Sign-Sagittarius  

Debilitation Sign-Gemini

Own Sign-Scorpio (Co-rules with Mars)

Friendly Signs-Libra, Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Pisces, Aries, Aquarius

Enemy Signs-Leo, Cancer

The transit of Ketu has an impact on your detachment, spirituality, surgery, accidents, and intuition. In favorable signs, it will give you spiritual inclination, wealth gains, intuitive powers, and creativity. It will help you take your mind off your selfish desires and think about others first. However, in unfavorable signs, it could cause sudden accidents, loss of relationships, job/career switch, or surgery.

NOTE: Just like the placement of planets in different signs during their transits create a significant impact, similarly their aspects on different signs during their transit will also create a huge impact. In general, the aspects of benefic planets on any sign can be considered as favourable, and the aspects of malefic planets on any sign can be considered as challenging.

Conclusion

Planetary transits play a very important role in shaping our day-to-day life, influencing our thought processes and creating emotional ups and downs that trigger important events related to all areas of our life. While your birth chart talks about your overall destiny, and shows your basic nature, transits reveal your day-to-day mode and give a deeper insight into how the major events of your life will take place.

Moreover, by observing and understanding the movements of the planets in the current moment, you can detect and better understand the periods that will support your growth or bring challenges in life. You will clearly understand which transits will bring you new opportunities and will be favorable for your career growth, family planning, as well as making new investments. This way, you can avoid unfavorable outcomes and unnecessary struggles, especially by keeping your patience during unfavorable transits. To sum up, planetary transits are the subtle indications given by the universe to guide you through life events and make the best of the opportunities that show up.