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Dominant planet traits

Sun dominant 🌞

This person will be strong and attract good energies. They have high confidence, determination and powerful physique. May be generous, charismatic and even sometimes exaggerated. Can be empowered to be great leaders and will stand out in a crowd.

Moon dominant 🌝

Affectionate, sensitive, loving people. They are very attached to their families and home, including friends. Strong and charitable they look for comfort above all else. Very romantic and almost always fantasizing or daydreaming. Great empathizers and listeners.

Mercury dominant 🗣

These people tend to learn and take in information quite quickly. Very intuitive, analytical and even clever. They have a big impact on communication skills and may find it very easy to express themselves especially their ideas. Most are extroverted by nature depending on other aspects.

Venus dominant 💋

This gives people sensual, sweet, lovely personalities and physical attractiveness. Love and justice are what they uphold the most. They seek harmony and great aesthetics. Very charming and sociable attitudes, with artistic sense.

Mars dominant 🥇

Strong, pioneering individuals with impulsive tendencies. They are conquerors, over life, love and passions. Very honest and enthusiastic people with powerful independence. Given skills to help them overcome and defeat any challenges.

Jupiter dominant 🍾

These people seek knowledge, stories and fun. They usually view life from a larger perspective. Wisdom is found easily for them as they grow older. Very optimistic and work enthusiastically with hope. Usually fair and generous people, with good fortune in their lives.

Saturn dominant ⏳

organized, perfectionist, mature, reliable, steadfast, and honest. These are all traits of this dominant planet, these people see reality as it is and gives a clear outlook on life. They will go through frustrations and challenges but will fight with a iron will and have lasting success.

Uranus dominant 💨

These people are free-thinking, daring individuals. Will care most about human progression, they do not like being tied down to society. They rebel the system, and works through erratic, random intuition. Sometimes they are the only ones brave enough to do what is right even if it’s not the norms of today.

Neptune dominant 🌊

This is where reality and fantasy are mixed. These people exude, sensitivity and mysticism. They live in their own worlds with a destiny that seems uncertain and untamed. Kindness and compassion, are used everyday for them as they are healers and artists.

Pluto dominant 🌑

Powerful individuals that hold positivity but at the cost can easily turn into negativity if they aren’t aware. Transformations are part of these people’s lives and may always be changing and forming into new enigmas. They hold hidden power and strength.

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How to Interpret a Transit

So, when it comes to transits, I recommend you start with the outer planets. In particular, if you want to know what’s going on in your life right now, check Saturn. Then Jupiter, then Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. You can look to the inner planets for info on your mood, or fleeting effects that don’t make a fundamental impact on your life. Mars is sort of in-betweener that it is worth paying attention to just in case it’s up to something.

Step one: The moving planet. I’ve talked a bit about each planet’s transiting effect here so I won’t repeat it in this post. In general, you know when you have a Pluto transit that something transformative will happen. You know with a Jupiter transit that something expansive will happen. This is the nature of the action that will take place. 

Step two: The natal point. This is the point that the transiting planet will share its energy with. It is your natural proclivity that will be challenged or lend its aid to the transit. This is the part of your inner world that is resonating with the transiting planet.

Step three: The natal houses. Where are the planets involved in your natal chart? If the transiting planet is Pluto, for example, in what house is your natal Pluto? In what house is the natal point being transited, as well? Things are not necessarily happening in these houses, but they generally hold the cause or the foundations of the action that will take place. Circumstances in these houses usually lead to the action of the transit.

Step four: The transited house. Here is where the action takes place. The transiting planet will cause a thing to happen in the area of life ruled by this house. The thing that happens, will have the energy of the transiting planet and the natal point. Tough to get more specific than that in a general post, but for example may you have Pluto transiting your Venus. Pluto will cause a transformation to the things ruled by this house, which will be closely related to your loving and aesthetic energy.

Step five: The ruled houses. This is a commonly misunderstood concept. For ruling planets, check the sign of each house. The planet associated with that sign, is the ruling planet of that house. For example, my 2nd house cusp is in Gemini. Mercury rules my second house, though it does not sit there in my chart. Anyway, these houses are where you will see the effects of the transit. When the action is completed in the transiting house, you will see the results in these houses.

Step six: The aspect. Took me long enough to get to this one, huh? In short, a conjunction indicated a change that is personal, that deeply concerns your identity. It also represents both the culmination and the beginning of a cycle. A sextile represents an opportunity that it is up to you to take advantage of. A square represents a challenge that will force you to take initiative, or prove yourself. It may show that your previous course of action was incorrect, or show you areas in which you require change and adaptation. A trine represents the removal of obstacles, a time when things move quickly because the energies involved are so in tune. An opposition represents a confrontation between you and the transiting energy, often in the form of a person. During an opposition, you will be forced to make a decision.

Step seven: Timing. I just wanted to do some quick notes on this that I may expand on later. First of all, with Uranus through Pluto especially, transits will be marked by a direct motion over the point, then a retrograde back, then one last direct motion over it before it moves on. The first direct motion will set up the issue, the retrograde back will be when it becomes most personal to you, then the last direct motion over will be the wrapping up of the issue, the introduction of the conclusions.

Times of contact with the same natal point involving both an outer planet and an inner planet may also be flashpoints for the overall lesson of the transit. Definitely keep your eye out for these, as they may indicate very significant moments in your life.

Well there you have it! As always, feel free to ask me any questions you may have. Remember not to worry about your transits. They just represent life experiences that help us to grow!

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