The Astrology Podcast

Transcript of Episode 531, titled:

Exact Transits in Astrology Webinar

With Chris Brennan and Patrons of The Astrology Podcast

Episode originally released on April 9, 2026

Original episode URL:

https://theastrologypodcast.com/2026/04/09/exact-transits-in-astrology-webinar/

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Transcription released April 15th, 2026

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CHRIS BRENNAN: One of the most important timing techniques in astrology is the technique known as transits where you look at where a planet is in the sky, and when it lines up with a placement in the birth chart, often an important event will happen in a person’s life. And I’ve always focused on both sign-based as well as degree-based transits, but in this webinar, I want to really emphasize the importance of degree-based transits, especially when a transit goes exact within one degree of orb or even goes exact to the minute. These are incredibly potent time periods for events to happen in a person’s life, both really major events as well as somewhat moderate or even minor events sometimes can be described by exact transits to the birth chart. So today I’m doing a webinar with a group of patrons, and we’re gonna go through and talk through some examples of exact transits that happened in people’s charts and what happened in their life when those transits went exact. 

All right. So where do we start here? So over the past few years, during the course of my work, one of the things that I did in reviving ancient astrology is I revived a sign-based approach to astrology where when we go back and look at the ancient texts, we can see that the ancient astrologers were taking into account both sign-based transits and placements as well as degree-based planets, like placements and transits. So they would pay attention to, for example, an aspect begins when two planets are aspecting each other by sign or when they become configured by sign. But it grows more intense the closer the aspect gets to an exact aspect to the degree. And this is a paradigm that we see coming up over and over again in ancient astrology. 

In modern times, the degree-based approach to things was very well worked out, because everything really moved in an almost hyper degree-based focus during the course of the late 20th century and early 21st century in terms of astrology. So when I came into astrology, or at least got into Hellenistic astrology in the mid-2000s, something that was new and innovative was the idea that there could be degree-based aspects or that you should pay attention to like, a degree-based conjunction, for example. And so a large part of my work was reviving that ancient sign-based approach to working with not just natal placements, but also transits. So for example, I’ve been one of the loudest proponents who has promoted the idea that the Saturn return begins as soon as Saturn returns to its natal sign, and it isn’t over until Saturn departs from the natal sign, even if the most important period of activity is when the Saturn return goes exact to the degree. And I saw some astrologers commenting on that recently and wondering where that came from, and I think I was largely responsible for that, or at least partially responsible for that, because I’ve seen that as such a potent technique, especially when you’re paying attention to in a whole sign house context the fact that when Saturn returns back to its natal sign, it’s also moving through that whole sign house for the duration of that entire transit. And that’s often wrapped up in some of the themes of what the Saturn return is all about.

So I feel like I’ve established the sign-based approach pretty well, not just as Saturn returns, but also in recent years with things like retrogrades and eclipses. But I’ve been really into transits and tracking my own transits and other people’s transits over the past few years, especially as I’ve been doing some of the retrograde work and other things like that, and just paying attention to transits when they go exact. And I’m continually – I’ve always been, it’s not something I’ve ever not paid attention to, but I’m often continually impressed at how an event will manifest when a transit is within a degree of going exact, especially when it’s within one degree of applying or even one degree separating. Oftentimes there will manifest like, a specific event in the person’s life, and it doesn’t always have to be a major event, but something significant will happen when a transit goes exact. And to me, this has always been one of the most impressive parts of astrology that I feel is the most compelling because of how consistently that happens, and how closely it often aligns to the exact transit, sometimes down to within minutes of the transit going exact. 

So yeah, I wanna clarify this degree-based approach, and I would like to emphasize it and make sure that’s clear in everybody’s minds, because it’s a really potent and powerful tool both for prediction as well as for looking at your own chart and understanding events coming up as well as the timeline associated with those events. 

Okay, so here’s the little diagram. Imagine that let’s say Mars is at five degrees of Aquarius in your birth chart, and let’s say that it’s in your 4th house. So let’s say we’re having a transit of Mercury comes up to four degrees of Aquarius and five degrees of Aquarius, and it conjoins Mars. So that means that this transit, the way I often conceptualize it and the way I see it actually experienced is almost like a graph where when it gets within that one degree range, which in this instance would mean as soon as Mercury gets to about four degrees of Aquarius, about a degree from Mars – not just to the degree, but also to the minute. So if Mars is at like, five degrees and 30 minutes of Aquarius, then the one degree range begins at four degrees and 30 minutes of Aquarius, exactly one degree earlier. And then there’s just this intense spike that begins increasing at that point all the way to the point that the conjunction goes exact when it’s at its most intense. And then immediately once, in this instance, Mercury starts separating from Mars, there’s a downslope where it starts to dissipate, especially once it gets more than one degree from Mars or one degree from the exact transit, the event associated with the transit often starts to drop off or dissipate or move into the past rapidly once you get outside of the one degree range. 

So that’s a really simple, basic concept, and theoretically it’s something everybody learns when they first learn transits. But I really wanna emphasize it here because it’s such a crucial technique, and it’s something that everybody should be paying attention to regularly in terms of their own transits. And when you pay attention to that range, you’re gonna start seeing things. You’re gonna start seeing very interesting things about how astrology works and how it lines up as a timing technique. 

So I’ve been tracking this especially over the past year in my own chart, especially with like, Mars transits where starting last fall, Mars started going through Scorpio, and it would just conjoin almost every planet in my chart over the next several months. And I was often surprised at how literal the events were that would occur, especially within Mars was within a degree. And because I have a day chart and Mars is more tricky in my chart, they were often like, a crisis or some sort of problem would arise when Mars was within one degree. 

So for example, just a few weeks ago one that happened was that Mars hit five degrees of Pisces in my 2nd house, and it squared the degree of my IC at five degrees of Gemini. And what happened is that day about five minutes before the transit went exact, I noticed there was a leak in the ceiling of my place, basically, my home, and there was this dark brown smelly liquid that was dripping out of like, a fire suppression pipe that had become damaged for some reason and was dripping through a vent onto my floor. And then what ended up happening is I had to get people to come out to fix it, and they had to like, cut a big hole in the ceiling, and it was a whole ordeal. But it began when the planet Mars was squaring the degree of my IC – with the IC representing the home and the living situation – and then basically a negative event happened in my home on that day almost to the minute of when the transit went exact. 

So that’s an example of the type of event that I’m looking for here in terms of the type of things that you’ll see. And for a lot of people, you know, it’s gonna be – in terms of people trying to remember it, unless you’re tracking it recently, we may only remember the biggest transits or the outer planet transits or the ones that were more consequential. But it’s actually happening all the time. 

And so let’s set up some of the ranges. So people though sometimes get tripped up in terms of expectations, because they might always expect it to be a major event that happens that coincides with the transit going exact. However, sometimes it’s a major event that coincides with a transit, but other times it could be an event of moderate importance in your life. Or it could be an event of very little importance in your life, but nonetheless, something still happens at that time that impacts you and is related to your life in some way. So we have to pay attention to the whole range of like, really important, middling importance, and very not important types of events. 

Additionally, sometimes a transit will manifest as a concrete external event that happens in your circumstances in your life, but sometimes it will just manifest in like, a psychological context of being in an irritable mood some day if you’re having a Mars transit, or let’s see, feeling overly depressed or slow one day if you’re having a Saturn transit. If it’s a Venus transit, maybe you’re feeling particularly positive or optimistic and so on and so forth. So the exact transit can manifest sometimes as an external event, and sometimes as an internal event of some sort, which also trips people up if they’re not paying attention to that range of possibilities. 

Other options are sometimes a transit will coincide with an event that happens in your life that you’re aware of exactly as it’s happening. Like, let’s say you get into a car crash. You know, you’re aware that that is happening right when the transit goes exact. But other times, a transit will go exact, and something important will happen that impacts your life. But it won’t be immediately visible to you or evident at that time. So I remember like, there was, like – what – a course or a digital file or something I had out there, and it got posted somewhere one day, and then I found out about it later. But it wasn’t until I found about it that I realized what the bad transit was that I had that day in retrospect, that something negative had happened to me because somebody shared my book or something online or something like that. But I didn’t find out what the bad transit was, what the manifestation was, until later. But it turned out that it wasn’t that the transit hadn’t coincided with an event; it was just that I wasn’t aware of the event that was impacting my life on the day that the transit went exact. And that’s a tricky part in terms of this as well, but it’s one that’s important to pay attention to because sometimes or oftentimes you will find out at some point in the future about what happened with that transit. But it’s only if you’re paying attention that you’ll sometimes connect it with a transit later on. 

Okay. So those are all basic things. Leisa Schaim and I did a whole episode on transits where we went into a lot of this more, so I won’t continue to belabor it too much. But now I wanna talk about some of the examples that were sent in by listeners. And I put out a call for examples on social media, and a bunch of people sent those in. And then I also have some patrons that I’m gonna interview here today. Let me read just a few of the submissions that were sent in on social media, because there was a few good ones that I wanted to highlight. 

So one of the people – and I’m gonna skip, well, there was one person named Tara who sent in one that said, “When transiting Mars went exact conjunct my natal Mars in the 7th house, my divorce came through. When it retrograded from there and hit my Descendant, my ex reached out after 23 years. When Mars started moving and hit my Descendant again, I finally saw his message.” So I liked this one, because on the one hand, that’s a pretty straightforward symbolism of the first direct hit. That when Mars was exactly conjunct natal Mars in the 7th house, a divorce was finalized. So Mars usually represents severing and separation, and the 7th house represents marriage, so in that instance we have a very literal manifestation on the day of the exact transit of the separation of the marriage being finalized. But then the rest of this brings up other things about how there’s different ways that you can identify whether a transit’s gonna be more important or less important. And some of that has to do with things like profections, for example. You can use the annual profections timing technique to tell if a transit’s gonna be more important in a given year; if that planet happens to be the ruler of the year or the lord of the year in annual profections, you know that it’s gonna be more important. Other ways that transits can be more important or an exact transit can be more important is if the transiting planet is actually stationing on that exact degree or is going retrograde there so that it’s gonna pass over that degree three times. And sometimes when that happens, it signals the unfolding of a series of events that’s gonna take place over an extended period of time. And I’ve talked about that a lot in episodes over the past year. But this is also a good example because it showed the other thing I was just talking about, which is they said that when the second exact Mars transit hit in the 7th house, their ex reached out after 23 years, and this would have been when Mars was retrograde conjoining the Descendant. But they didn’t get the message, basically. But then when the third transit happened, they finally saw the message, and that would have been like, weeks later. So that underlines one of the points I was making that sometimes a transit can go exact, and it can indicate something important’s happening, but you’re not aware of it yet. But oftentimes you will become aware of it later on. So that was a good one. 

Another one – Stefanie Iris Weiss sent in a good example where she said, “My bookcase piled” – well, the setup was Pluto square Mercury in the 8th house, that was the transit. And she said, “My bookcase, piled heavy with decades of books that inform my work and worldview, imploded from the inside. It didn’t topple or fall over; the shelves just crashed on top of each other, pushing all of my books to the Hadean bottom of the bookcase.” So this is a really good example just because it was Pluto exactly squaring Mercury in the 8th house, and squaring Mercury especially within a degree, and then just having like, the destruction basically of all of these books suddenly and the bookshelf just imploding suddenly almost from the inside. So that’s a pretty good example. Thanks to Stephanie for sending that in. 

On social media, a person named Sarah sent in one where they said, “Transiting Mars in Leo in the 6th house exactly trine natal Mars in Sagittarius exact within one minute. The event was the day this hit exactly, I was literally on the operating table having a C-section at 45 years old. Mars didn’t show up as a conflict for me; it showed up as precision. It showed up as surgery, and it brought my son into the world.” 

So I thought that was a great positive example of sometimes Mars in the 6th house and sometimes the health or bodily things that come up with the 6th house, but because it’s a trine, it was a positive manifestation where she’s having literally surgery. Like, her body is being cut into, which is a Mars signification, but in order to bring new life into the world, which is a really beautiful manifestation of that. 

And that’s another tricky thing that I should bring up that sometimes it’s the difficult transits that stand out the biggest in our heads sometimes, because they often coincide with the most obvious events, whereas sometimes people have trouble remembering the more positive ones sometimes. And that can be tricky sometimes when you’re working with clients, or when you’re trying to collect examples, but you can still see it if you’re paying attention in your own life in terms of a day-to-day basis and having positive transits. But sometimes it’s like, in our memory, like, a pleasant day where we went to the park and really enjoyed ourselves doesn’t stand out as much as like, I don’t know, the day that we had surgery or the day that like, a car accident happened or something like that. 

This was a good simple one. Christina sent in this one that said transiting Mars exactly conjoined the IC in her chart – the degree of the IC – and she said, “A few years ago, there was a woodpecker in our basement the day Mars was exact on my IC. I looked it up and found that woodpeckers are associated with Mars, the Roman god of war.” So I thought that was a really good one, because like, a woodpecker is like, it’s an annoying thing that’s making sound; there’s like, an animal in there that’s presumably like, you know, hitting its head against the wood and making a lot of noise. And so it’s a sudden kind of intrusion of having like, a wild animal in your house that’s making a lot of noise or destroying things, and having it right on your IC like that on the same exact day. And I like that because it’s a good example of what I said of like, a lower level significance transit that happens, but nonetheless in this instance it stands out because it fits the symbolism of Mars as well as the symbolism of, in this instance, the exact degree of the IC, which again is the home and the living situation. So it’s like, for me, I was having, you know, Mars square my IC from Pisces, and then there was a leak in my house, and they had to cut out part of the ceiling and start construction. And then for Christina, it was Mars conjoining the IC and having a woodpecker in her house suddenly. 

I’ve seen other examples; I have one – I think I used it in my book – that combined with profections of a guy who he had Mars conjoin his IC, and his house caught on fire and then burned down with all of his possessions on the exact day of Mars conjoining the degree of his IC. So there’s lots of different manifestations and different levels of severity, just depending on what the profections are doing, whether there’s like, a retrograde, whether it’s also going retrograde and other things like that. 

All right. So there’s others I could go into, but I’m gonna save those, and I want to interview some patrons now that are here to talk about and hear some stories directly from people. So let me look and see at what the most upvoted ones were. 

Okay, I’m gonna do the top two. So Charles, if you’re still here, I’d love to talk to you first. 

All right, thanks for joining me! 

CHARLES: Thanks for having us.

CB: What’s your birth data? 

C: April 29, ‘88. 

CB: All right, so here is your chart with the transits. So the transit – give me the set up, and what was the story here? 

C: Sure, yeah. I had started a job a week prior, and so yeah, I’m in a Virgo profection year – my 2nd house – and I got this job. So Mercury also rules the 11th; I got this job through a friend, and I started out just as one of like, the clients there – it’s a wellness center. And I was hired there just to participate in like, their workforce program. And on my second week there is when Mercury when retrograde stationed direct on the degree of my Ascendant, and then it’s pretty much like that day or the day after was when I was then promoted to like, a case manager position where I’d be leading groups, and… I mean, it was the first time in like, well over a decade that I had a salary. It lasted for at least a couple of months, so. You know, Mercury I think, it was interesting. It was sort of the joker. But yeah, that’s the general set up was just like, a large pay increase in a 2nd house profection year. 

CB: Nice. I love that. So you got a promotion basically the day that Mercury was exactly conjoining your Ascendant while you were in a Mercury profection year that was activating your 2nd house of money and finances? 

C: Absolutely, yeah. And I thought interestingly also like, Pluto was fairly conjunct the Descendant, and then also my natal Pluto had Lilith conjunct, which Lilith’s in my first house, so I also kind of found that significance there also to some degree. And then the Moon at the time was conjunct my MC. 

CB: Nice. Okay. So you knew it almost down to the minute that that day, the Moon was conjoining your Midheaven, which I see – it was at 21 Aries there, yeah. Yeah. That’s a really important one when you see the Moon triggering things as well, because it moves so swiftly, but the days that it does do something notable or coincides with something, it really stands out. 

And you said that… Okay, I see it. So Mercury had actually been retrograde and then it stationed – what was the date that we were looking at again? The 7th or 8th? No. 

C: I think it was the 13th or 14th. 

CB: Okay, got it. So and you said you had gotten the job originally like, two weeks earlier? 

C: It was just a week prior. So it was like, the first full week of August. I believe I had started that Tuesday, and then it was either the following Wednesday or Thursday the promotion. 

CB: Got it. Okay. So yeah, this is, as you were saying, this was Mercury retrograding back and basically stationing direct right on top of your Ascendant while it was the lord of the year and the ruler of the 2nd house. So this is basically like, taking into account all of the filtering mechanisms that I had talked about at the beginning, which is like, profections, since Mercury’s the lord of the year, so its exact transits are gonna be more important, and then retrogrades. That when a planet retrogrades and especially stations on the degree of something in your chart, especially something important like in your instance the Ascendant, that those are gonna stand out as even more important events than otherwise. So that’s a beautiful example. 

C: Oh, and then I also forgot to mention, I thought it was interesting that the nodes were fairly conjunct also with my natal nodes at the time. 

CB: Right. In your 2nd and 8th house. 

C: Yeah. And that it was like, a very temporary thing, where it like, I mean, I still – I’m working where I was promoted. But it was like, it was temporary in that we all received a pay cut, maybe like, a couple of months later or a few months later. And we’re still there, but yeah, it’s just like, it was like, I don’t know, I thought that was interesting. Because with my South Node in my 2nd house but then with the North in the 8th of like, shared resources, ended up getting away from personal finances. 

CB: Yeah. Well, and just that also means eclipses were – and are still – taking place in your 2nd and 8th house axis. So there’s a lot of fluctuation and major beginnings and endings and going back and forth there in just the financial axis, and that’s something that’s still playing out. So and you’re about to have a birthday, so you’re actually about to switch out of this profection year and go into a 3rd house profection year, right? 

C: Correct, yeah. 

CB: Nice. Okay, cool. All right! Well, that’s a good – I think that was a great example to start off with, just because yeah, it was exact right on your Ascendant and it fit all those criteria. So that’s pretty good!

C: Great. Thank you! 

CB: Yeah. Thanks for joining me! And just say thanks for sharing – all right, so let’s go to the 2nd example, and I’ll just go through as many as I can here. Bebe, are you here? 

Hey, thanks for joining me! 

BEBE: Hey. 

CB: How do you usually pronounce your name? 

B: Bebe. 

CB: Bebe. Okay, sorry! I was like — 

B: No, you’re good! You actually got it right the first time. I was impressed. 

CB: The first time, yeah. And then I started questioning myself! What’s your birth data? 

B: October the 10th, 1993. 

CB: Do you know the date that we’re looking at? 

B: Yeah. So March the 7th, 2022. 

CB: Okay, so we’re looking at March 7th, 2024, and give us the set up for what we’re looking at. 

B: Yeah, so I was in an abusive marriage, and we actually had been separated for two years before that, so I like, moved out in 2022. And that morning on March 7th, I just was like, because over the two years, I was trying to make it work. But that morning I was just like, nope. This isn’t working. I’m gonna file for divorce; I’m gonna cut you off. I blocked his number, blocked him on social media and everything, and I just remember, you know, going to file for the paperwork the next day or within the next couple days. 

CB: Wow, okay. So this was basically you decided to fully exit the marriage and to cut off your ex? 

B: Yeah. And that was my 7th house profection year, too, so. 

CB: Right. So you had – and let me see. So just to clarify, because I see several things going on here, but… So was it 2024 or actually – no, this is 2023. It should be 2023, right? 

B: I had — 

CB: Because in the — 

B: — on 2024 on my… 

CB: Just trying to clarify what the transit is in the description you said Saturn was at zero Pisces, or… 

B: It was the transiting Venus conjunct my natal Saturn. 

CB: Got it. That’s what you were – okay. Got it. 

B: Yeah. 

CB: So – there I see it now. Because it’s like, you’ve got – you’re in a 7th house profection year. You have Saturn in your 7th house. It’s also it’s just past your Descendant, so it’s actually not super far from your Descendant. But then on this very day, Venus was conjoining your natal Saturn — 

B: Right. 

CB: — as well, and that was like, the primary transit was just realizing that that was it and you were done. 

B: Yeah! 

CB: Nice. 

B: And interestingly enough, when you started this webinar, I was sitting here and, you know, looking even further back. The day that I moved out, Saturn was – like, transiting Saturn – was conjunct my natal Saturn! 

CB: Saturn was conjunct – okay, so that was part of your Saturn return story. 

B: Yeah. 

CB: Do you happen to know what day that was? 

B: That was April 30th, 2022. That’s why I said 2022 on accident at first. 

CB: Got it. Okay. So that’s another exact one. And that one’s even closer, so — 

B: Right. 

CB: — your natal Saturn’s at 23° 53’ Aquarius, and transiting Saturn was at 24° 14’ Aquarius. So on pretty much the day of your Saturn return, you decided to move out and not fully end the relationship, but to start the process? 

B: Yeah. 

CB: Okay. Nice. And that’s also, again, interesting, because now Mars is going through Pisces in your 11th and is just off your Descendant. So I’m assuming there was probably something in the few days before that that like, precipitated that or led up to it, or — 

B: Yeah. Actually, I was in the hospital, and the day that he picked me up from the hospital, it was just awful the way he was treating me, and that’s why I was like, I can’t stay with you at the house, and I moved out. 

CB: Wow. Okay. And it was the day that he picked you up? 

B: Yes. 

CB: Okay. So then like, the hospital visit itself is — 

B: Was like — 

CB: — shortly — 

B: — the 25th. It started the 25th. 

CB: Okay. So yeah, that was right when Mars was actually conjoining your Descendant within one degree, and transiting Saturn was actually even closer to your 6th house Saturn exact transit. If I can ask, why were you in the hospital? 

B: So it was for a suicide attempt. And I know that, like, my – I’m going through a lot of trauma therapy right now, but from the way my ex treated me. And he was an alcoholic, and he was very psychologically abusive and emotionally abusive, and yeah. And I had gone to the hospital to deal with my own mental health issues, and the way that he treated me when I got out – you know, literally just within hours of picking me up, I couldn’t stay there anymore. You know, after just spending a few days trying to take care of myself, and — 

CB: Right. 

B: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah, that makes complete sense. So it’s like, we’re seeing all of the different themes of 6th house Saturn return and like, health and being in the hospital, and then one of the thing – and then the Mars is like, going over your Descendant during all of this, and he’s being a jerk. But one of the things that’s fascinating about – you said it was April 30th was the day you decided to move out? 

B: Yes. 

CB: One of the things I love is that Venus was like, exactly conjoining Jupiter in your 7th house on that day. And so just objectively, the astrology was saying, like, something good is happening that day in your love life, while at the same time simultaneously there’s two negative transits, especially Mars, going through the 7th and something bad – or there’s a severing or separation that’s happening. But that’s really descriptive then, and it makes so much sense that you took the first step towards freeing yourself from a not-good relationship and something positive happening there, and then presumably opening it up so that you could have more fulfilling and successful relationships in the future. 

B: Yeah. I commented on the post in Patreon, but later that year in 2022, I met my current partner in November, and there was – I think Pluto was transiting my South Node. So you know, just breaking old patterns, and we didn’t start dating that year. We didn’t start dating until 2024. 

CB: Oh right, you had a whole story about that, because it was like, three transits, but it showed that you had met somebody important, right? 

B: Yeah, because it was also conjoining my Vertex. There were some other ones conjoining my Vertex. Yeah. 

CB: Got it. Okay. Yeah. So it opened you up to meet them, and then you’ve been together for a while since then, right? 

B: Yes. 

CB: Nice. Okay. Well, that’s a really good example then, and that shows – it’s great because it shows… And then the divorce was finalized in you said 2024 was when you decided to do it? 

B: Yeah, so I finally – I finalized it – I don’t remember the exact date, but it was in April of 2024. 

CB: Okay, got it. 

B: Yeah. I wanna say it was like, mid-April, but… 

CB: Mid-April. Okay. Well, that’s kind of funny just because then Mars was actually back to your Descendant then where it was when you — 

B: That is — 

CB: — first left! Yeah. All right, well, this showed like, several different things where obviously we all have multiple things going on in our charts at any one time sometimes, because like, lives are complicated and there’s different factors that are coming into play. But this was a really good example of like, the exact Saturn return and that being important. You know, positive transits and negative transits happening at the same time, even in the same house, and how you can have something that probably felt somewhat wrenching and hard to do, but necessary at the time, but then was also positive at the same time, and how sometimes even the most difficult transits and experiences in our life can sometimes open it up and set things up for more positive experiences later on, which is kind of what makes them necessary, because sometimes if we hadn’t had that, then we wouldn’t have met somebody else who ends up becoming the love of our life or what have you. 

B: Right. 

CB: Yeah. So that was good! Thanks for sharing that; that was a really good example. 

B: Yeah. Thank you! 

CB: Okay. I’ll just start going through the most upvoted ones. So Karen, it looks like you’re next, that had the Mars opposite Pluto transit. Are you still here? 

Hey. 

KAREN: Hi. Hi, Chris. 

CB: Hey. Thanks for joining me! What’s your birth data? 

K: April 27th, 1957. 

CB: What’s the date of the event we’re looking at? 

K: It’s April 25th, 1992. 

CB: Oh yeah, there it is. Okay. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: So and the set up you said in the description is that you were in a Jupiter profection year, and on this date your father passed away when transiting Mars opposed your natal Jupiter. 

K: Right. I was in an 11th house profection year, and it’s right near my birthday. As you can see, I was just about to switch over to 12th house Saturn year. And my dad had been ill for many months. Like, it was not entirely a surprise. But you know, still painful. 

CB: Yeah. And Jupiter’s in your 8th house, which is often the house that has to do with death and mortality, and things surrounding that. And we see – for the audio listeners, we’re looking at Mars is exactly at 22 Pisces, almost – very closely – opposing Jupiter at 22 Virgo in the 8th house. And as you were saying – you have Aquarius rising – as you were saying, you were in the tail end of an 11th house profection year, and your 11th whole sign house is Sagittarius where we also find Saturn, which is also a little tricky in terms of activating that, especially since you have a night chart. And Saturn natally is squaring Jupiter a little bit widely, but nonetheless, and — 

K: And also it was like, the monthly Scorpio month, because it was the last month of that 11th house year. So Mars was kind of like, the monthly ruler opposing my annual time lord, which I — 

CB: Nice. 

K: You know, I find sometimes those monthly ones are very accurate too. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, and it also brings up – this is a great example because it’s, like you said, you’re in the last two days of this 11th house profection year. 

K: Right. 

CB: But nonetheless, the lord of the year getting hit by that tough transit of that opposition from Mars is still really potent, even if it is the end of that profection year. I had actually the same exact thing happen when my sister passed away. I was in a Jupiter profection year and it was the last week of that profection year, and then transiting Mars opposed my natal Jupiter, and she got in a car accident and passed away. So it’s a really similar – it’s interesting just seeing this, because it immediately makes me think of that in terms of, yeah, just the profection year being active, you know, all the way up until the last — 

K: Until it’s not. 

CB: — moment. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. 

K: Well, weirdly when my mom passed away, Mars squared Jupiter. I was in a 5th house year, and Mars was in Gemini squaring Jupiter the day she passed away too, which was kind of weird. 

CB: Wow. What was the date of that? 

K: August 14th, 2009. 

CB: August 14th, 2009. Oh wow. So yeah, Mars like, exactly again. So Mars here is at 22 degrees of Gemini. This is like, years later, and Mars is at 22 Gemini squaring Jupiter again at 22 Virgo. Although now we’ve got the addition of like, Saturn is there with basically on top of Jupiter and coming up on that conjunction. 

K: And I think the monthly for that event, I’m pretty sure, was the Virgo – the 8th house – as well. 

CB: Okay. 

K: It was like, a 5th house year, but that was the monthly had come to the 8th. 

CB: And Mercury – I see even Mercury there, but it’s really far from the Sun, so Mercury must be stationing. Let me animate it. So you’re in a Gemini – a Mercury – profection year — 

K: Right. Oh yeah, I hadn’t – yeah. 

CB: So August 14th. Let me animate it. So one, two, three, four… 10, 11, 12, 13, 14… 20. Okay. It was a little bit far away; it was about two weeks away or so from stationing, and then it would station in Libra and retrograde back into Virgo. 

K: Right. 

CB: And hit the cazimi and stuff. So I’m assuming that that was – oh wow, and then it would station direct on top of your Jupiter. Since she was your 2nd parent, was there was like, inheritance stuff after that, or were there — 

K: Yeah, there was. Actually, now that I’m thinking about – it was kind of a delay with the inheritance a little, but just because my one sister that was executor was having some health problems. But otherwise it was, yeah. Yeah, there was some inheritance then. 

CB: Got it. Okay. And just a process in terms of after she died. I guess I’m assuming doing some of the things that come after that in terms of — 

K: Yeah. The paperwork kind of was slowed down due to my sister’s issues that she was having, but eventually it all resolved. Everything was fine. 

CB: Got it. Okay. Yeah. So those were both then pretty impactful in terms of weirdly having the same exact — 

K: Yeah. 

CB: — Mars transit both times of like, a hard aspect to Jupiter in your 8th house of mortality in both instances. And yeah, that’s pretty stunning. And that makes sense just in terms of sometimes some of the most important events in our life having a notable exact transit aligning when that takes place. 

K: Yeah. Yeah, I know that’s one of the ones that have been the most exact that I’ve ever noticed. I found getting exact ones a lot of times, the transit is like, close but not always necessarily right on the degree. 

CB: Yeah. I think it’s tricky because there’s more broadly like, a range of the – by the time they move into the sign-based aspect, it begins the transit, and it gets more and more intense the closer they get to the exact degree, which is kind of we’re demonstrating the one degree – the really tight ones – today. But there is more of a range realistically in terms of events happening not always falling exactly within that degree range. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for sharing that. That’s a really good — 

K: Thank you — 

CB: — example. 

K: — for all you do. I appreciate all your efforts, and the podcast has just really meant a lot to me, so appreciate it. 

CB: Thank you. Well, thanks for contributing a great example to it now today. All right, take care. 

K: Yeah, you too. 

CB: Okay, Josh with the Mars transit and the job layoff, if you’re still here? 

Hey, thanks for joining me. 

JOSH: Yeah, thanks for having me. 

CB: What’s your birth data? 

J: 11-22-1990. 

CB: And what is the date of the event we’re looking at? 

J: January 13th, I think? Let me double check. Yeah, January 13th, at eight AM – 2026. 

CB: Since I’m animating, I’m just gonna approximate the time. All right. There we go. And so for those listening, what’s the set up? You said this was a transit that coincided with a job loss? 

J: Yeah. So I got a message that morning that I had been impacted by layoffs at my job, and immediately realized like, oh, Mars is transiting my natal Saturn! And Mars is currently my time lord; I’m in a 10th house profection year if we profect from the Lot of Fortune. 

CB: Where’s Fortune? I don’t have — 

J: Fortune is in Taurus at 10 degrees of Taurus. So 12th house year. 

CB: 10 degrees of Taurus. Okay, you’re in a 12th house year. 

J: Slash 10th if it’s from Fortune, but yeah. 12th house from Fortune. 

CB: Yeah. Got it. Okay. And I see – so you had a job loss on this day. Saturn is at 21° 35’ Capricorn natally and transiting Mars was at 22° 28’-ish Capricorn, so yeah, you were having an exact Mars transit to your Saturn. This is a night chart because your Sun is in Sagittarius in the 6th house, so Saturn is the more difficult and sensitive placement for you in terms of getting a natal transit to that position. How long had you been at that job for? 

J: I had been there for four years. And what’s interesting is – the first day on the job, April 4th, 2022, was an exact Saturn-Mars conjunction in Aquarius at 22 degrees Aquarius. 

CB: Yeah. Oh wow, okay, yeah. 22 degrees of Aquarius in your 8th house. That’s interesting because your 8th house was also coming up in the other one because you have Pluto was very close to your Moon in the 8th house in the layoff, which was you said January 13th? 

J: Yeah, January 13th. Oh, also my birthday’s November 21st, not 22nd. So there’s just the Sun and the Moon are slightly off. Everything else — 

CB: Got it. 

J: — is the same. 

CB: Got it, got it. Okay. Let me redo that then. So your birthday is November 21st? 

J: 21st, yeah. 

CB: Okay, here we do. Does this look right? 

J: Yep, that’s correct. 

CB: All right. So that actually makes the transit even more important, just because – so your Moon is natally at 20 degrees of Capricorn? 

J: Yep. 

CB: Okay, got it. All right. So yeah, you’ve got a lot of stuff going on here then. Your Midheaven is at eight degrees of Pisces, so the nodes are transiting there, which means you’ve also had eclipses going on in that axis which is also bringing in some career stuff. 

So this was a big – losing a job you’ve been at for four years is a pretty big loss or pretty big hit, I’m assuming, right? 

J: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. 

CB: Okay. Just trying to understand the sort of like, magnitude of it. And I’m trying to think if there was other questions I had, but that’s pretty straightforward just in terms of that hit to the natal Saturn. And with Saturn ruling the 8th house maybe bringing in some financial focus in terms of the implications of that for you.

J: Yeah. Definitely. Yeah, the symbolism felt really, really apt for me. Like, Saturn in the 7th house – contracts. Mars – separation from contracts. It was all very literal. And the funny thing is two days prior when Mars had been exactly conjunct my natal Moon, I had a tattoo. Like, needles on the skin! So I was – there was some very, very like, exact transits right there right in a row with the symbol. 

CB: Yeah. I love that. There was another lady that had Mars conjunct the Moon in the first house, and she did needling or something like that, and she said her whole face turned red. So I love that you’re mentioning that here. Was that – that wasn’t like, your first tattoo, but had you done that before? 

J: I have, yeah. And I only started looking, like paying attention to transits this year. And I’ve had two tattoos in that time; neither of them – I haven’t planned them around transits at all, but both of them have been Mars-Moon transits. One was transiting Mars conjunct my natal Moon, and the other one was the Moon conjunct my natal Mars, so. 

CB: Nice. I love that. And what was the – do you know the day that it was happening? Because this is reminding me, this is the whole triple conjunction of Venus and the Sun and Mars. 

J: The tattoo would have been the Saturday before the 13th, so that’s January 11th. 

CB: PM. Why is it telling me that the Saturday was the 10th? 

J: I may have just done the math wrong in my head. Let’s see, so the… Well, the 13th was it Tuesday or a Monday?

CB: The 13th itself, it’s saying, was a Tuesday. 

J: Oh that’s – oh I’m looking at – that’s why. My calendar is on 2025. Let me jump to 2026. 

CB: The Monday would have been — 

J: Yeah, so it was – the 13th is correct for the layoff. 

CB: Okay. 

J: Saturday was the 10th. Yeah. 

CB: Cool. Okay. Yeah. So then it’s this whole triple conjunction of, like you were saying, Sun and Mars exactly on the Moon, but even Venus was sort of there as well. I like that, because there’s an aesthetic component to how you were getting poked with a needle that day as well. 

J: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. That’s pretty good. Okay, I like that. Well, and that also brings up a good points that I meant to make, but I completely spaced out but was worth making here, which is that a transit and an exact transit – it isn’t always just one event, but sometimes there’s multiple things that will happen to you under the same transit that will be symbolically similar, even if they’re completely different events. So in this case, it’s like, happening around the same transits. You get major work done with a needle in terms of your skin and getting a tattoo, but then at the same time, you get a layoff just a few days later sort of under similar transits activating similar placements. And so sometimes that can happen, and I’ve seen that a lot as I’ve been tracking my own, of sometimes an important day will happen, and then you’ll have like, two or three different things happen at once that are all separate things in your life, but somehow symbolically connected with the same transit or transits. 

Yeah. Thanks for sharing that; that was a good example! 

J: Yeah, thank you.

CB: All right, take care. 

All right, awesome. So yeah, so pay attention to that; that’s a really important point that – and we’ll probably see more of this as we go through, but it’s not always, even though we’re focusing on what was the singular event that happened under this transit, that’s another thing that people should pay attention to that can trip people up is that there can be multiple things happening under the same transit that manifest different ranges of the symbolism of whatever that transit is. It’s not always one singular event. 

All right. So let me go back and see what the next example is, and if everybody could continue to upvote – vote on by clicking the Q&A button which one they think I should do next, I’d appreciate it. 

Maureen, if you’re still here with the transiting Pluto story, let me know in the chat if you wanna share it. 

CB: Hey! What’s your birth data? 

MAUREEN: May 21st, 1956. 

CB: What’s the date of the – that we’re looking at? 

M: Event? Yep. 

CB: Yeah. 

M: November 2nd, 2024. 

CB: Let’s see. So here is the chart, and just – I’m gonna do an approximate time since we’re focused on outer planet transits. So what was the – you said you were traveling, and you got sick? 

M: Yeah. I was traveling with my church; we were on a pilgrimage. And we were in Lourdes, France. I got sick with norovirus; a bunch of us came down with a terrible stomach bug. And from throwing up, I wound up with a compression fraction on my spine. And so you can see Pluto was exactly opposite my natal Uranus, and Mars was also conjunct natal Uranus as well at the time. 

CB: Wow. Okay. So you were like, you were throwing up so violently that you broke your neck. 

M: My spine. The — 

CB: Your spine. 

M: — lumbar, yeah. The L2. And — 

CB: Wow. 

M: — when I finally got home, I had to have back surgery. It’s also worth noting I had an eclipse in my 6th house in Libra earlier about a month before that. It was like, October 2nd, I think? 

CB: Yeah. That would have been… Yeah, right in Libra. Well, there’s a lot going on here. I mean, so your Ascendant itself is at early 26 Taurus, and transiting Uranus was retrograde at 25° 50’ Taurus. So it was really very closely conjunct your Ascendant. With the recorded birth time, it was within, what, 15 minutes. So that is an exact transit itself where you have Uranus conjoining your Ascendant, and there’s like, this unexpected bodily disruption that takes place. But then at the same time in the sky, transiting Mars was at 29 Cancer opposing transiting Pluto at 29 Capricorn, and this was right on top of your natal Uranus at 29 degrees of Cancer. And it’s interesting that you were — 

M: In a 9th house profection year. 

CB: Oh! Okay, nice. So you were in a 9th house – because I was just about to say you were traveling; you were in a foreign country at this time, so that’s part of why the 3rd house-9th house axis is getting activated there and getting lit up. And you’re actually in a 9th house profection year. So that’s even more striking in terms of why the Pluto transit at 29 Capricorn would be really potent in activating that opposition with Uranus. 

And I guess that’s the other – that’s why the 3rd house component is coming in, because this – the effect that it had and the impact that it had is that in injuring your neck in that way, it probably seriously impacted your mobility from that point forward. 

M: Oh, yeah. I mean, just before the trip, I found out I had to have a hip replacement. So you know, I had a cane with me, but the pain from the broken spine was unbearable. And then we still had to go to Barcelona to catch the flight home. So it was not a fun trip! 

CB: Wow. Yeah. That sounds really rough. 

M: Yeah. 

CB: How are you – so it’s a year and a half now almost later. Like, how are you now or how is your mobility at this point? 

M: I mean, it’s good, but I still have back pain if I’m on my feet too long or walking for long distances. So — 

CB: Okay. 

M: — yeah. I don’t think it’ll ever be the same, but it is what it is, so! 

CB: Yeah. Well, and it’s interesting, you know, Uranus went into Taurus back in 2018 and 2019, and that was the beginning of Uranus moving through your first house and probably some changes that started happening in your life and your sense of self and even your body starting at that point. But then because your Ascendant is so late, the most important event of that transit probably would have occurred towards the end, we would just think theoretically, and then that obviously is this. And now this month, actually, that transit of Uranus through your first house is finally ending as Uranus is getting ready to go into Gemini. So you’re sort of moving out of that period of your life, and it sounds like are about as recovered from that as you can be in terms of getting over something that intense. 

M: Yeah. It’s funny, because we traveled last July to Amsterdam, and I believe it was in a Mercury retrograde, and we had nothing but problems. And then I got covid when I got there! So — 

CB: Oh no! 

M: Yeah! My travels have been a little turbulent to say the least, so. 

CB: Right. 

M: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. That’s tough. I guess the last thing is you were in – it looks like Mercury was at 29 Scorpio on this day, and it’s interesting that that was conjoining Saturn at 29 Scorpio. And that’s the lord of the year; that’s the ruler of the 9th house. 

M: Yes. 

CB: Okay. Wow. Okay. Well, I’m glad you’re okay. Just as a quick question, you know, with Uranus going into Taurus in 2018-2019, other Taurus rising people I know started making major radical changes in their life or especially like, later in life, they were pursuing the things they always wanted to pursue or doing the things that they always wanted to do from that point forward, which I know like, two people for example that moved and relocated to a completely different part of the country. Were there — 

M: Exactly. Yeah. We retired in 2016 in April, so that’s, yeah, 10 years ago. And we left New York and we moved to Florida. 

CB: Oh wow. Okay. So yeah, you moved to your sort of dream retirement situation at that point? 

M: I wouldn’t say it’s my dream retirement situation… 

CB: Okay! 

M: But here I am! 

CB: Well, what – when you made the move, did you have aspirations that that would be a good retirement situation? 

M: I mean, it’s something that my husband and I always talked about. He hates the cold. I really, really didn’t wanna move to Florida.

CB: Okay. 

M: But I did, and here we are. And you know, that’s why I travel a lot during the summer, because the heat here, it’s just unbearable, so. 

CB: Got it. Okay. 

M: He loves it. 

CB: That makes — 

M: I tolerate it, and that’s where we’re at! 

CB: So you retired in 2016. Did you move right away, or did that happen a little later? 

M: We did – we retired on April 1st, and we moved on I believe it was like, the 6th or the 7th. 

CB: Got it. Okay. 

M: It was pretty quick. 

CB: And then it sounds like you went on two trips just in the past couple of years. So is the travel part is really important? Is that what you’ve been doing in your retirement is like, traveling around to all the different places you’ve always wanted to visit? 

M: We’ve been doing a lot of traveling in the past 10 years, yes. I also, you know, was very heavily into animal rescue with different nonprofit organizations here as well as before I retired in New York. And now it’s funny, because I have a pileup of planets in my 12th house, and I am going to volunteer at one of the local hospitals and considering end of life doula care. 

CB: Oh wow. Nice. For animals or for people? 

M: Oh no, for people. 

CB: For people, okay. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I like the Moon-Neptune conjunction you have in your 6th house and just the sense of compassion for taking care of animals or people in not-good positions. So that makes a lot of sense. 

M: Yeah. 

CB: Cool. All right. Well, thanks for sharing that example. I’m sorry that happened, but thanks for sharing it so we could all learn something from it. I think that was really compelling. 

M: Well, thank you for having me, and have a good weekend! 

CB: All right. Thanks! 

I don’t know the episode number, but I’ve done an episode on annual profections – someone’s asking in the chat. So if you go TheAstrologyPodcast/Episodes, you’ll see – you can do a search for profections there and you’ll find it. 

All right, yeah, thank you. That was a really good example from Maureen. It’s tricky, because as always, like, I always actually wanna just keep talking to people and going through their chart because I always learn and I’m so fascinated each time to hear people’s stories. But I’ll keep moving just for the sake of focusing on this topic – hyperfocusing on it – and getting through as many examples as we can today. 

All right, so let me go to the next one. Looks like the next one is from Aimee that had the Pluto-Venus transit. Let me know if you’re still here in the chat, and if you’d like to share your example. 

Hey! 

AIMEE: Hi there. 

CB: Thanks for joining me. What’s your birth data? 

A: Two 10 ‘74 at seven PM. But my great grandma was an astrologer, so we’ll take the seven PM as being absolutely correct even though it’s 29 degrees of Leo. 

CB: Nice. That’s cool having a great-grantmother astrologer; that’s pretty unique. What was the location? What’s the date of the event we’re looking at? 

A: Well, I looked back in my texts in my phone, and August 2nd, 2021, was when I was first texting a realtor about buying a different house to live in that was separate from my husband of 24 years. 

CB: Okay. So — 

A: Instigating event, I think, in that. 

CB: So give us the set up or what was the – remind me of the premise again of the event that happened around this date? 

A: I mean, well, you know, at the time, I actually wasn’t looking at astrology at all. I had kind of fallen off from looking at astrology because my life was pretty set with my business and my husband and so on. But anyway — 

CB: Sure. 

A: — I — 

CB: So from — 

A: — suddenly had this impetus to move along, and I was like, I’m done with all these problems, and yeah. So I ended up – but at the same time, I was also receiving some money from my family that helped me to have some funds to be able to like, venture out and have a place of my own, so. 

CB: Got it. 

A: Yeah. 

CB: So in your description, you said that the transit is that you had Pluto transit your Venus; I see your Venus is at 25 Capricorn, and transiting Pluto is exactly at 25 Capricorn at this time in the — 

A: Yep. 

CB: — 6th house. And you said when it got within a degree of that, you moved out of the house you lived in with your husband of 24 years, and also that Jupiter was conjunct your natal Jupiter in the 7th and Saturn had just entered your 7th house. 

A: Yeah, I mean, Saturn was of course well into my 7th. Sorry, I should have phrased it better. 

CB: That’s okay. So I see – yeah, so we see transiting Pluto conjoining Venus. We also see Jupiter at 29 degrees of Aquarius conjoining your Descendant at 29 Aquarius exactly. So this is actually very similar to one of our earlier examples where you have, you know, difficult transits since you have Pluto conjunct Venus, you have Saturn going through the 7th house, and both of those can be like, wrenching kind of ending, like, sometimes metaphorical death-type transits when it comes to a partner or the death of a relationship. But then at the same time, you also have a very positive transit, which is Jupiter conjoining your Descendant. And in this instance, that’s describing this wrenching motion of deciding to leave and separate from your partner, but that ultimately being a choice for you and being a positive choice that you made out of your own personal volition. 

A: Yeah. That puts it perfectly. Thank you. 

CB: Why did you – do you wanna – so 24 years is like, a long time to be together. Was there a thing that set you off, or why did you decide to end it at this time in terms of how it lined up with these transits? 

A: Like, I honestly couldn’t say, because I mean, we went through marriage counseling so many times from 23 years before! So yeah, you know, thank you, Pluto, because I’m much happier now! 

CB: Okay. So you just weren’t — 

A: Yeah, no — 

CB: — happy in the relationship? 

A: — I mean, I felt like so many things had piled up, and there was an instigating event where one of our – my ex-husband and I, a mutual friend of ours had had a bad fight with her husband, and she had said how it was like a marriage breaker. And my ex-husband was like, “Yeah, that’s a marriage breaker,” and I was like, let me just say there’s like, 10 marriage breakers we’ve had, and I was like, you know what? I’m done. And so it was like, a surprise to me that I could even say the words. Like, I’d been sort of stuck in it for so long that I didn’t even know I could say those words and move onto something else. Boy, golly am I thankful I did because it was difficult. 

CB: And so what we’re looking at date-wise, August 2nd – because I’m noting that like, Mars is at two degrees of Virgo, so it’s just coming off of your Ascendant just the week earlier where you had Mars exactly conjoin the degree of your Ascendant. But we’re looking at a chart on August 2nd for the day that you decided to look for a new place. 

A: Yeah, that’s when I first was in contact with a realtor and actually that very day we put in an offer on a house. 

CB: Oh wow, okay. 

A: Yeah, so it wasn’t like, I was just starting the conversation and it was like, actually saw a house and I was like, let’s put in an offer. 

CB: How – and so you’re using that to approximate when you made the decision to leave. But when do you think like, the precipitating events happened? Were they pretty close in terms of days of when you had made that decision? 

A: No, there were dramatic events over like, years past that were, you know, whatever, eight years before or 10 years before or 14 years before, you know? There were sort of like, at intervals very traumatic events, and I — 

CB: Yeah. I mean more like — 

A: — and finally I was like, can’t do it. 

CB: Right. I mean more like what was – this is approximately the date that you made the final decision to leave, but it’s not… Yeah. That’s okay, if you don’t know, if this is the closest we can get to that, I guess because this is a pretty tangible decision in terms of you actually got the new place, new house at this point. 

A: Well, yeah, that’s when I first put in an offer on the house and first actually looked at real estate listings. And as it happened, that very day – I know it seems improbable, but I found a good house that first day, so. 

CB: Nice. All right. Awesome. Are you still — 

A: I’m afraid that my Mercury is Pisces, I’m not the best on like, telling you all the dates precipitating that. 

CB: That’s all right. Are you still in that house to this day? This was like, four or five years ago. 

A: No. Yeah, actually, I ended up starting to date and then September 7th met my new partner – September 7th, 2023, I met my new partner. September 7th, 2024, we moved into our house in Maine. But what was interesting is that in July, so July 3rd or 2nd, 2023, we put in an offer on this house in Maine, and like, just within a week after that, I talked to my business partner of a dozen years and I’d owned my company for 20-plus years. And I was like, I’m moving to Maine; what do you think? And he was like, well, if you want me to buy you out, you know, that could be a good idea. And I was like, oh yes, please, because AI is eating us alive! So at any rate, Uranus hitting my Midheaven as you had there on the screen certainly. 

CB: What date was that? 

A: So July 2023 would be – like, you could just say mid-July. July 7th, July 10th, something like that, 2023. 

CB: Got it. Okay. So yeah, so this is like, transiting Uranus going over your Mars in the 10th house and eventually your Midheaven as well. And you decided to make – to sell your share of your business to your partner and to have them buy you out, and then were sort of like, liberated from that job and that career? 

A: Yeah, which was kind of like, I still can’t believe it honestly, because I started the company in 2001. And like, I was the face of the company, but amazingly I was able to extract myself so. 

CB: 2001. That would have been close to Jupiter – I see Jupiter’s in your 10th house here, so that would have been just after Jupiter was in your 10th house originally. 

A: Yeah. April 6th, 2001, that’s when I started my company. 

CB: Yeah. It was just after – because the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in 2000 was in Taurus, which would have been your 10th house. So it looks like — 

A: Oh. 

CB: — Saturn was still going through there, and Jupiter had just moved into Gemini into your 11th house. 

A: Yeah. And probably when Jupiter was in my 10th was when it was actually, you know, I was making enough money to actually think of starting a company. 

CB: Got it. Nice. Cool. All right, well, those are good examples, yeah, again of reiterating some of the things we were seeing earlier, of sometimes difficult choices showing up in a person’s chart. Because that’s one of the things is it was you making a choice to leave, and I think that’s one of the things that’s so fascinating is that it’s not an external event happening to you per se, but sometimes the exact transit is something that comes from inside of you and a choice that you make, and that’s pretty cool. 

A: Yeah. And it definitely came from inside of me, because I was really not planning to pay any attention to astrology in that period of my life. I only have come back to it in the last year or so after seeing how emblematic it is of actually the things that happen in my life, so. 

CB: Nice. 

A: Yeah. It wasn’t — 

CB: Awesome. 

A: — instigated by my being like, oh, Pluto’s going over my Venus; what am I gonna do about this? It was like, totally unconscious. And then afterward, I saw an astrologer and it was like, oh! Hmm. 

CB: Yeah. Totally. That’s one of the things that I love is that we’re not always aware of like, the astrology operating, but sometimes when we learn it and we go back and then look at the big events that happened in our life and see how it lined up, that’s when it’s really impressive, because then it’s obvious that we weren’t doing it because of the astrology or because we were convinced that it was something we should be or that we had the suggestion implanted or something like that. But instead, it’s something that’s just naturally arising from within us. 

Cool. All right, well, thanks for sharing your example. I appreciate it. 

A: Well, thank you. 

CB: All right. Awesome. Yeah. So we learned some really good stuff from that. Constance said there was a long-term build up – yeah, that’s really important. You know, oftentimes with these exact transits, we’re looking at trigger events. And trigger events like transits often trigger things when they go exact, but the build up is often taking place with the broader sign-based transit. And that’s why I always tell people to start paying attention as soon as the sign-based transit happens, because at that point, you may start seeing some of like, a shift take place where the unfolding of a sequence of events starts to happen. But it’s not until the transit goes exact that the most pivotal or crucial turning point will actually happen. And that’s part of the dynamic that we’re seeing here. Yeah, it starts when the planet moves into the sign – exactly. And then Jessica, if you’ve got a Saturn return one, then sure, let’s do that. 

What’s your birth data? 

JESSICA: 14th of June 1994. 

CB: And what’s the date of the event that we’re looking at? 

J: So the first event which was the custody return was the 15th of May – or March – 2024. So I’ve got two examples with my Saturn return, both of them going back to the exact degree of my natal Saturn. And one of them — 

CB: Sorry, you said 2024, right? March 15th, 2024? 

J: Yes. 

CB: Okay. Just confirming all right, so here is your chart. You have nine degree of Cancer rising? 

J: Yes. 

CB: Okay. All right, so this is a Saturn return story. For the audio listeners, you have Saturn at 12 degrees of Pisces. And tell us what was happening. 

J: So I had a long court battle for two years prior. And then all of a sudden out of the blue, the other party just returned my daughter back to me, which was a big shock, and yeah. 

CB: So you — 

J: Big event that happened that year. 

CB: So you had been married, and you had a child with somebody, and then you separated two years earlier in what year? In 2022? 

J: So what happened was it was my daughter’s grandmother. She actually stole my daughter and then used the court against me to keep the custody. So it was really, really, really horrific court case with so much bad things. And yeah, the father which was – daughter’s father wasn’t involved at all. It was all between the grandmother and me. It was crazy. 

CB: Was it your grandmother or the father’s grandmother? 

J: The father’s mum. 

CB: Okay, that’s interesting. 

J: Yeah. 

CB: Wait, it’s the father’s mother. 

J: Yes, yeah, the father’s mother was the one that essentially kidnapped her. 

CB: Okay. 

J: And then she just gave her back all of a sudden on this exact date. 

CB: All right. And so on this date, Saturn is at 11 degrees of Pisces – 11° 35’ Pisces – and it’s conjoining your Saturn within a degree at 12° 19’ Pisces. So that is very close and very exact. You do have Saturn ruling the 7th house of relationships as well as the 8th house of other people’s things, and it’s conjoining your natal Saturn in the 9th house, which is also – the 9th house can be like, legal things like the courts and having to deal with lawyers and different things like that. So that’s probably part of what we’re seeing there. 

And so that was the first exact hit of Saturn to your natal Saturn, but then you said there were other things that happened? 

J: Yes. So in November the 30th, 2024, I tripped on a puzzle and I broke my foot. It was the second foot break I had had in the course of I think four months of each other. So Saturn retrograded back after I got my daughter back, and then it stationed direct again over here. I don’t know how that worked essentially, but this is when I broke my foot. And essentially, I thought was quite interesting with Saturn being… 

CB: Sorry, the connection’s breaking up. Let me see – so Saturn retrograded back, and then yeah, we see Saturn again at 12 degrees of Pisces conjunct your natal Saturn at 12 Pisces. And you broke your foot at this time? 

J: Yes. Yeah. Still healing from it now. 

CB: Got it. Okay. So this was like, a major, major injury? 

J: Yes. Yeah. And both of my feet were actually broken during my Saturn return, which I thought was very interesting. One was in July. I noticed that Saturn was at 19 Pisces and retrograde. So I had a Mars conjunction; it was conjunct my natal Mars at the time of the first incidence with my foot. But I think also with that Jupiter transiting my 12th house with a lot of hospital visits as well during that time. 

CB: Right. And you were saying even just having Saturn in Pisces natally, which is associated with the feet, and it’s weird that you had a foot-related injuries during the course of your Saturn return? 

J: Yeah. Both feet essentially, which was horrific, but very, very correlative with that. 

CB: Yeah. That’s terrible. Were those the two events, or was there another one with the third pass? 

J: So there was two events separately. The other one was in – when was it? The 3rd of July. Yeah, but it wasn’t exactly passing over it. But yeah, the Mars was conjunct the Mars at the time. 

CB: Got it, okay. So the other injury was transiting Mars had just conjoined natal Mars. I see it there with your Mars at 15 Taurus, and Mars is at 16 – I think I have it set for my time, so I’m not sure if I had it set for the right timezone for the transit. So it was about 16, 17 Taurus, which would have been just coming off of activating that Mars placement there in Taurus in your birth chart. 

J: Yeah. Horrific injury to them both, very accidental. 

CB: Yeah. I see even like, transiting Pluto’s at one degree of Aquarius squaring your Midheaven and your IC at the same time. And it looks like transiting Mercury moved into Leo and then opposed Pluto and squared the Midheaven, so I’m sure that would have impacted you. How did you do that both times, or like, what actually – how did you break each foot during the course of that year? 

J: One was at home, tripping over a puzzle piece. And — 

CB: Oh right. 

J: — the second was in a public place at the school. 

CB: Which was which in this instance in July that we’re looking at? 

J: The July one was at school. My daughters had a school event, and I fell down the stairs and tore a tendon. And then the second one was at home tripping over a couch, and it was a puzzle piece that caught on a certain part of my foot, and yeah. 

CB: Got it. 

J: Lots of swelling. 

CB: Yeah. That’s really, really tough. How are you now that it’s – what is it? It’s almost a year and a half, two years later. 

J: Still having issues, unfortunately. One of them needs surgery as there’s a nerve caught around the area, and the other one’s still getting diagnosed. So it’s definitely a bit of a long process. The eclipses I’ve noticed in Virgo have been really correlating with it and flare-ups of my injuries as well. Because I have quite a few injuries. I’m not sure whereabouts in my chart – I think it might be that it’s my Mars and Moon squaring exactly that is the reason I have so many chronic injuries. But yeah, those eclipses definitely flare up all the injuries at once. 

CB: Yeah. I was gonna say that about the eclipses, just because even though Saturn is finally getting out of – you completed your Saturn return recently, that Saturn has moved out of Aries, we’re still getting, for example, the Virgo eclipse that just happened in early March was in your 3rd house. And when we did the 3rd house episode a year or two ago, we saw so much of how the 3rd house is so important for mobility and just themes of being able to move around, and it makes sense as you continue to have eclipses there in terms of having ongoing issues with that and then eventually needing to do things to allow yourself to have a restart. And it sounds like the surgery is part of that. 

I’m glad you mentioned the Mars-Moon square, though; I hadn’t seen that aspect when we were talking about the first injury and having Mars conjoining your natal Mars in Taurus in July of 2024. But that means it would have been activating and also squaring the Moon at 15 degrees of Leo natally at the same time. So that makes a lot more sense of why that would be a sensitive spot for you, especially with Cancer rising and the Moon ruling your Ascendant. 

J: Yeah. It was that aspect in my birth chart, I think, is a reason for a lot of the issues I’ve had over my life as well, especially with Mars being in detriment I think. Just not happy. Not a happy Mars! 

CB: Sure. Yeah. I mean, it is good that you have some counteracting things, though, with like, Venus in the first house is helping a little bit in terms of a little bit of bodily help and protection, as well as Jupiter at five degrees of Scorpio trining your Ascendant. And then this year, you’ve had Jupiter going through your first house, and while that may not have fixed things yet, hopefully some of the things that you’re doing – you know, you’re looking into the surgery and everything else. Hopefully that’ll be able to fix or heal, to whatever extent you can, some of those things. 

How soon are you planning on doing that? 

J: So I’ve got a few surgeries that I need to do. I’m trying just to time it with my life at the moment. I’m a single mum of three kids. I’m having a foot surgery, and I also need a shoulder surgery as well. They’re just such big events that I’m trying to time it with my life and to find a good time to do it, essentially. At the moment with Jupiter in my first house, I’ve been getting really healthy, taking lots of supplements, doing some physio. I’ve recently gained a lot of weight. I was almost sickly before, and that Jupiter definitely helped me gain enough weight to feel healthy again. So I’m just hoping to fix my body, sort out life a little bit, and then see where I go. The shoulder surgery will probably be the first point of call, because it’s what causes me the most pain. And then the foot surgery will probably be the next point of call. 

CB: Nice. Okay. Good. Well, I’m glad at least that there’s some positive things going, like that Jupiter transit has been bringing some positive health things being offset by the difficult stuff you had been dealing with up to this point. And it’s good that to whatever extent your Saturn return and especially the exact Saturn return coincided with some of the most intense part of that, that that’s over at this point with Saturn just a month ago departing from Pisces and you officially ending your Saturn return. Yeah. So onwards — 

J: Sounds good to me. 

CB: Yeah! So onwards and upwards. 

Thank you for sharing — 

J: Definitely. 

CB: Thank you for sharing that; I really appreciate it even though it was like, hard stuff you went through. Thanks for sharing your story with us. 

J: Oh, you’re very welcome. 

CB: All right, cool. Well, take care! 

All right. Everybody says thanks for sharing your story. Let me – Laura, if you’re still here with the home birth story, it looks like you’re the next. 

Hey! Thanks for joining me. What’s your birth data?

LAURA: May 30th, 1986. 

CB: What’s the date of the event that we’re looking at? 

L: February 22nd, 2014. 

CB: Does this look – your Ascendant is 21 Libra? 

L: Yep. 

CB: Okay. So you said that on this date, you gave birth at home and it was a home birth, and that one of the primary transits was that transiting Venus was conjoining your Mars in the 4th house at this time? 

L: Right. Yeah. It was also a 4th house profection year. 

CB: Wow. 

L: 27. And there was just a lot going on for me that day that all culminated to my firstborn arriving! Very late. 

CB: That’s incredible; I love that! So a 4th house profection year – because this is a great inversion of a lot of the other examples that I talked about earlier today where it was like, transiting Mars going through somebody’s 4th house, and then in my instance there was like, a major leak in my ceiling, or another person’s home burned down. But in this instance, it’s a positive transit happening in the 4th house where Venus is at 21, 22 degrees of Capricorn, and it’s conjoining Mars at 22 degrees of Capricorn. And what made you – what was the build up to it in terms of deciding to have a home birth, which is the other interesting part because that’s unique in and of itself, giving birth at home, which is a 4th house thing obviously, versus doing it at the hospital? 

L: So I have – at the time, I was doing all my research and felt really strongly about giving birth at home. And since then, and since having two more children, I have changed my entire stance on home birth, and it’s not something that I would recommend to my loved ones and friends. And I feel very fortunate that my daughter and I survived and had a very straightforward, uneventful experience. 

So yeah, I just, I thought it was interesting that Neptune was also very present. I think Neptune is conjuncting my Moon in the 6th house, and also sextiling my natal Neptune, which is in my 4th house as well. And just how I was sort of under this spell of the magic and delusion of home birthing as it is presented in the natural childbirth world. That illusion has since been broken for me. So I just thought that was interesting also. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, because it’s like, it works when it does, but then the danger is like, if something goes wrong, then you could be in a really bad situation not having access to doctors and the ability to do life-saving medical procedures and things like that. 

L: Yes. Absolutely. 

CB: Yeah. Well, yeah, and that brings in other exact transits where in this instance, it’s like you’re having a positive transit, but yeah, you’re pointing out – for example, you’re in a 4th house profection year. So Saturn is the lord of the year. I mean, actually that’s interesting in and of itself. You’re in a 4th house profection year, which is activating your Mars and your IC in the 4th house, but also your Neptune in the 5th house. And then natal Saturn is at six degrees of Sagittarius, and you were talking about Neptune, and it is interesting that there was a Sun-Neptune conjunction in your 6th house happening that day at four and five degrees of Pisces that was like, squaring your Saturn. And like, the combination of all that – go ahead. 

L: Yeah. Oh, sorry. That Sun-Neptune conjunction is also aspecting my Pluto. 

CB: By trine, right. I guess I was just thinking that the way you’re describing it and from your perspective, you were under the illusion of some medical ideas with Neptune in the 6th house at the time as well as whatever presumably media and stuff you were taking in at the time with Saturn in the 3rd house. And that was giving you a perspective that was different than where you’re at today. So it’s just interesting that Saturn was the ruler of the 4th house, and that was receiving an exact transit from Neptune squaring Saturn at that time, and that you did something related to your home and living situation and medical thing that would be different once you came out of that transit. 

L: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. I can’t think of a better way to phrase that, but that makes a lot of sense and is just really interesting. And I’m glad you had a positive transit happening in that day with transiting Venus conjoining Mars so that it, yeah, so that it went smoothly. And I can see you also had transiting Jupiter at 10 degrees of Cancer conjoining your natal Venus at 11 degrees of Cancer in your 10th house, which was another pretty positive and supportive transit that was happening that day.

L: Yeah. I noticed that as well. Yep.

CB: Nice. 

L: And my nodes also had something… Maybe not. It’s hard to see on my phone. But anyway. Yeah. 

CB: Yeah, just a nodal — 

L: Lots of things happening. 

CB: You had an exact nodal reversal happening at that time where the North Node was exactly conjunct your South Node in the first house. Cool! All right, well that’s a pretty good example, and I like the positive side of that, but I appreciate your like, cautioning in terms of telling the story of where you’re at now. 

L: Thanks. Appreciate it. 

CB: All right. Thanks! 

Okay, this is a little different one, but this might work. Kelly, if you’re still here with the example of purchasing shares in your company? All right. 

Hey! What’s your birth data? 

KELLY: Nine 21 ‘62. 

CB: All right. And what is the date of the event we’re looking at? 

K: August 27th, 2018. 

CB: And your Ascendant is at 27 Aquarius? 

K: Yes. 

CB: Okay. So in terms of the set up, you said that on this day, you purchased shares in your company to be a partner, and that Saturn and Uranus exactly trined your natal Uranus in the 8th house. 

K: Right. But what I also noticed is that the Sun and the Jupiter were… Do we have the right date? Yeah. Were also in opposition on the 2nd and the 8th house. 

CB: Right. Okay. So what was the set up in terms of describing the context of this event? What does it mean that you bought shares with your company? 

K: Okay. So I had worked there for a number of years, and I had been offered to buy shares before but never really wanted to. And for some reason, I decided to do it at this time. It was just different, because I was – before where I questioned it, I think because of Saturn, but I was just like, so sure this is right. And I was very comfortable with the decision. But it was something that I wouldn’t normally have done. 

CB: Okay. And how did it impact you, or why was it an important event? 

K: Because I had to take, you know, money out of my savings that I had put away for retirement. And I just looked at it as a way for, you know, a different way to retire. You know, build a retirement fund. 

CB: Got it. And did that end up being successful, or how did it impact your life? 

K: Yes. Yes. Yeah. I mean, I’m still working there, and yeah. So yeah, it was very just… I was on the board before, but now I just felt like I played a more important role in the company. And so it kind of changed what I was doing at work and how I was looked at. Just, you know, my partnership made it different than just leading a department. I was part of the whole leadership team I guess. 

CB: So by buying the shares, it elevated you to be a partner — 

K: Yeah. 

CB: And a partner is a more like, a leadership role in the company? 

K: Right. And I think because of that, because the company did really well for a number of years, that the dividends have pretty much helped to pay for that investment. And then also I feel like in the past I felt like my salary hadn’t been where it really should be. And I think because of that, I feel like it’s more appropriate for where I am. 

CB: Got it. Okay. 

K: Also I’m not sure if it matters or not, but I do the finance there, so that kind of plays a role also. 

CB: In terms of accounting? 

K: Yeah. 

CB: Okay. Got it. Yeah. That makes sense. 

K: Right. 

CB: Yeah. I mean, that makes a lot more sense then if you’re working there in an accounting capacity.

K: Right. 

CB: And I love that in terms of just you having a cluster of three planets in the 8th house in Virgo and accounting being part of that is like, a really common thing that I see. 

K: Right. And it was also a 8th house profection year for me. 

CB: Oh wow. Okay. So it was in an 8th house profection year. You were asked if you want to buy shares, and through that be elevated to partner. That’s brilliant. That’s also brilliant, because that’s one of the transits I was seeing, but I was curious why that was being so important. But I saw that it’s like, transiting Venus that day got to 20 degrees of Libra, so it was conjoining your natal Mercury at 21 degrees of Libra in the 9th house. And that makes more sense now if Mercury was also the lord of the year and you’re having an extremely positive transit of Venus to Mercury within a degree at that time. 

K: Yeah. And then would the Mars play into that at all with it being trining my Sun? 

CB: Yeah, for sure, especially if you’re in an 8th house profection year, then the Sun would have been activated as a more sensitive placement. And so transiting Mars – because also it looks like transiting Mars wasn’t just trining your Sun, but it looks like Mars is actually stationing literally that day — 

K: Oh! 

CB: — at 28 degrees of Capricorn. So it would have been trining your Sun for like, a week or two or a few weeks while it was stationary at that degree. It looks like it was stationing direct. 

K: And then Jupiter being in the 10th house at that time. 

CB: Yeah. Jupiter transiting your 10th in Scorpio and just coming off of that conjunction with your Venus at 13 degrees of Scorpio. 

K: Yeah. I just thought it was ironic how I had so many exact transits that day. 

CB: Yeah. And they’re all pretty positive transits, and it’s showing a positive move in terms of your career and going upwards at this point. 

K: Right. 

CB: Nice. That’s really good. Okay! Well, that’s cool in terms of it being both a positive career transit as well as a positive financial transit for you, and showing that interplay between like, your natal Jupiter in the 2nd house versus your 8th house stellium and how your personal finances being kind of like, intertwined with other people’s money, and that happening both in the sense that you work as an accountant but also that this crucial turning point had to do with investing shared resources, basically – or your resources – in the company’s resources.

K: Right. It was I think you’ll see this also plays into a negative transit that I was having. And that would be my brother passed away two days after this. 

CB: Oh wow. Okay. 

K: And so if you look at – that was an 8th house profection year, and then Mars maybe because it’s in the 12th house? 

CB: Right. So what was the exact day of that? 

K: The 29th. 

CB: The 29th. Okay. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: So there’s Mars transiting in your 12th house, and… What else is happening? So the Sun is going through your 2nd, your 8th, and then you had the positive financial transit. But then… Okay. I mean, the only other one is, besides Mars stationing in your 12th house of loss, is it’s like, Pluto was squaring your Mercury, which is the lord of the year. So it’s weird that you’re having a positive transit and a negative transit at the same time to the lord of the year. What is Mercury itself doing? So the ruler of the 3rd house is Mars, which is natally in Cancer in the 6th. It’s a day chart. How did he pass away, or what happened? 

K: He was an alcoholic. But — 

CB: Okay. 

K: — when he went into the hospital, we didn’t realize that he was that bad. That would, you know, be the cause of him passing away kind of suddenly actually. 

CB: Oh, that’s what it is. It’s transiting Pluto. I was looking at it when I was looking at the 27th. Pluto is at 19 degrees of Capricorn, but then by the 29th, Pluto had retrograded back to 18 degrees of Capricorn, and that was exactly opposing —

K: Okay. 

CB: — your Mars at 18 degrees of Cancer, which is the ruler of the 3rd house of siblings. So it’s like… 

K: Okay. 

CB: That was probably the worst transit that you were having at the time and is a once-in-a-lifetime transit to have transiting Pluto oppose Mars in the 6th house. And because it was ruling the 3rd house of siblings, to have it be like, the loss of a sibling through illness and essentially through addiction. Addiction issues show up oftentimes with the 6th house because it’s functionally treated more like an illness at this point when somebody has a drug or alcohol problem. Yeah. So that was the other major transit you were having at that time. 

K: Right. 

CB: Wow. Okay. So I’m sorry to hear about that. Was that — 

K: Thank you. 

CB: — a big loss and shock — 

K: Yeah. 

CB: — to you at the time? 

K: Yeah. I mean, he’d been an alcoholic, obviously, for a long period. And we knew it had been escalating. But really had – I didn’t, you know, probably in denial thinking like, okay, now he’s gonna get some help and he’ll be fine. And then he just wasn’t, so. 

CB: Okay. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. So that’s the other part of the 8th house, and I guess that’s the other thing I was talking about, which is that sometimes when parts of our chart are being activated or transits are happening we’ll get multiple different manifestations of that thing, of whatever it indicates. And for you, it’s the 8th house being activated, and so on the one hand, we’re having the shared resources and investment and other people’s money and accounting aspect of the 8th house, which is a strong positive part of the 8th house. But then on the other hand, we’re also having the themes having to do with like, mortality and death, which is the other main signification of the 8th house. And yeah, you were experiencing both of those in that year. I assume that’s like, one of the more significant deaths that has happened in your life. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: Okay. Yeah. Well, and it’s also it’s similar to the examples we were looking at earlier with like, one of the examples which was Mars was opposing Jupiter, the lord of the year at the time, and the person lost a loved one. Here it’s transiting Pluto opposing Mars and losing a sibling. 

K: Right. 

CB: Wow. Okay. Well, that’s a good – yeah, thanks for sharing that. That’s a good example — 

K: Sure. 

CB: — and again, it shows what we’ve seen in other instances, which is sometimes we’re having really positive transits and really negative transits happening at the same time. And that sometimes you can have, you know, metaphorically there’s like, a wedding and a funeral, or in this instance it was a job promotion and then the loss of a loved one. And — 

K: Yes. 

CB: — that life is complicated like that sometimes. 

K: Right. Yeah. So two big ones right at the same time basically. 

CB: Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Absolutely. 

Well, that actually brings up that… That’s actually the answer to that, though, is that transiting Jupiter in your chart is transiting your 10th house. You have a day chart, so your Jupiter transits are the most positive, and the Mars ones are the most negative or challenging. And transiting Jupiter’s at like, 16 moving into 17 Scorpio. So that’s actually trining your natal Mars at that time. 

K: Okay. 

CB: So that’s actually it. Those are the two primary ones. Let me circle that. Let’s see. So we have transiting Jupiter trining Mars, and then we have transiting Pluto opposing Mars. So on the one hand, you’re getting a positive career thing happening with Jupiter going through your 10th house and hitting positive things like your Venus placement and trining Mars, which is the ruler of your 10th house of career and you’re getting a promotion. But then because you’re simultaneously having one of the worst possible transits, which is transiting Pluto opposing Mars – the ruler of the 3rd house – and because Mars doesn’t just rule the 10th house of career but it also rules the 3rd house of siblings, you’re also experiencing a significant loss at that time. So that’s a really incredible… Yeah. And rare sort of line up to have that happening at that time, and to have both of those areas activated in that way. But I think that is really important in terms of what we can learn from that as astrologers. 

K: Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. Thank you for sharing that. I appreciate it. So I guess that’s happened – the promotion happened, and you said you’re still with the same job? 

K: Yep. 

CB: Good. Okay, awesome. Well, thanks a lot for sharing your example. I appreciate it. 

K: Thank you. 

CB: All right. Take care! 

Yeah. So that’s really important, and that’s the other thing about this is like, you know, life is complicated, and all of us have multiple things going on in our life at any one time, and sometimes important threads in our life can culminate all around the same time, especially when we have multiple important transits happening at the same time. And sometimes when those transits are going exact at the same time, we have multiple really important life-defining events happening at the same time. Or sometimes it’ll be just a few days apart if the transits are spread out just a little bit, or sometimes if the exact transits are spread out by a month, there’ll be two important different things happening back-to-back in a different month. Yeah. That was good. So everybody in chat says thanks to Kelly for sharing. 

All right, where are we at? Okay, there’s just two more, I think, if both of you are here that I could do really quickly before I wrap up and before I run out of energy. So Rachel with the Mars transit, let’s do your first if you’re here. 

Hey. 

RACHEL: Hi. Can —

CB: Hey. What — 

R: — you hear me? 

CB: Yeah. What’s your birth data? 

R: March 17th, 1995. 

CB: There it is. Okay. And what’s the date of the event that we’re looking at? 

R: It was March 24th just this past March. 

CB: Okay. So you have 28 Libra rising. What was the set up? This was a transit that you had a medical event? 

R: Yes. So I think it’s kind of a short and sweet story, but on that day, I ended up going to the ER. I’d thought it was like, chest pains; I was on a new medication, so I thought maybe I was having a reaction to it. But it turns out I do have GERD, and it was like, flaring up really badly. And I think Mars can mean like, inflammation too, so I think that was pretty significant. But yeah. It was just my stomach. And I’m still kind of going through it, but it’s getting better. 

CB: Nice. So it was – for the audio listeners, you have Saturn at 16 degrees of Pisces in the 6th whole sign house in a night chart. And on that day, transiting Mars was at 17 Pisces conjoining your Saturn in the 6th house. And you had you said like, a tightening in your chest, and — 

R: Yeah. 

CB: — another issue? 

R: Yeah. 

CB: Okay. And what is GERD again? 

R: It’s like acid reflux, heartburn. So like, a lot of burning in my stomach. 

CB: Okay. Wow. Yeah, so Mars is usually like, fieryness or inflammation or other things, and so you were actually like, literally feeling that and ended up in the hospital. 

R: Yeah. 

CB: And is that – is it fixed now, or was that like, a major incident that you’re still dealing with?

R: I’m still dealing with it, but it’s kind of slowly getting better, but it’s kind of on-and-off now. But it’s much better than it was on that day. 

CB: Got it. Yeah. Well, Mars is at like, late Pisces right now. So it’s still been going through your 6th house, but it’s about to finally depart from your 6th house. So hopefully that’ll be better once it gets out of there. 

R: That would be great. 

CB: And that’s something we see sometimes commonly is like, the most critical event happening at the exact transit but there still being lingering things while the transit is still happening by sign. 

R: Yeah. 

CB: Nice. All right. Well, that’s a good quick example. Thanks for sharing that. 

R: Thank you. 

CB: All right. And then my headphones are about to die, but I think I might be able to squeeze in the last example. Na’e, are you still here? 

Hey. 

NA’E: Hello! 

CB: What’s your birth data? 

N: March 15th, 1994. 

CB: All right. And what’s the date of the event – the first event? 

N: Date of the first event is February 21st, 2025. 

CB: The chart and the transits, and give us the set up. What happened? 

N: Yeah, so like, this is all happening while the Mars retrograde is grinding over my MC. And this was the day that my mom passed away. She had a really unfortunate accident at the start of February, and she was in the ICU on life support for multiple weeks, and then with another astrology friend of mine, we had actually elected this day as like, when to end her life support because of multiple reasons. But I didn’t actually realize until looking back that it was my exact Venus return. There were so many other things going on, I was like, just trying to figure out a way to bring her peace as fast as possible. She has Sun and Mars in Sagittarius, so that Moon was transiting right over her Sun during that event. But yeah — 

CB: Wow. 

N: — I like, went back and looked at this, and I was like, oh, that is an exact hit on my Venus. 

CB: Got it. And the event, her injury happened – the medical event happened – earlier in the month. So that would have been — 

N: Yeah. 

CB: — when Mars was closer to your Midheaven and opposing your IC — 

N: Yeah. 

CB: — I would assume. 

N: Yeah, the event happened like, February 7th, and I live in Honolulu now; I live in Hawai’i. So there is this really interesting thing, because like, Mercury is combust with the Sun; I actually didn’t get the call that she had been in this accident until Mercury perfected the conjunction and then passed the Sun. 

CB: Got it. Okay. Yeah, during the cazimi. 

N: Yeah. 

CB: So I see on February 7th that Mars was at like, 18 Cancer, and it was opposing your IC at 20 degrees of Capricorn. And so that’s, there’s other things going on, but that’s probably one of the main triggers in terms of the Mars retrograde opposing your IC and the IC representing the parents and each of the parents, and in this case, your mother. And she has that accident, and then later in the month when transiting Venus exactly conjoined natal Venus at nine degrees of Aries, and Venus is actually the ruler of your 8th house of death and mortality as well — 

N: Yeah. 

CB: — as the ruler of your Ascendant that you — 

N: And this would have been at the tail end of my 7th house profection year, too. 

CB: Oh, okay. So you’re also in a 7th house profection year. And then she was gone, and it was just a matter of that you had to – that the doctors said that you needed to stop doing life support, and it was a matter of when to let her go. And then you ended up – it ended up being this day? 

N: Yeah. And then, right, flew back to Hawai’i trying to get my life back together. I was in my final semester of college, too, so like, this – so many moving parts. And then April 16th of that same year, I got the call that my stepfather had passed away. And this was the Venus retrograde; it had retrograded back into Pisces, and it was conjunct, I think maybe off by a degree, my Sun. And then also with Rahu and Saturn. 

CB: Oh, right, because this wasn’t just Venus conjoining your Sun on the day that your mom died, but Venus was slowing down to station retrograde within a degree. Okay, so that — 

N: And then this would have — 

CB: — first part — 

N: This would have been the start of my 8th house profection year, so now I’m in a Venus profection year. 

CB: Okay. So then your birthday takes place on March 15th, and then it switches from your 7th house to your 8th house. And then Venus is activated as the lord of the year. Venus is retrograde. And then what was the date for the second event? 

N: April 16th. 

CB: Okay, so then like, a month after you switch into your 8th house profection year. And what happens with your father? 

N: He has passed the night before from a stroke, and I got the call at like, 6:15 that it had happened. And then I think at 8:15 that morning, I had called my job, and I was like, “I can’t do this.” I was like, I’d used up all my vacation time; I’d used up all my PTO, my paid sick time, my unpaid sick time. And I just kind of had to take an extended leave of absence, which is very like, the North Node there. Because I was already having questions about whether I wanted to stay at this job, but knowing that the job market was really shitty, I was like, I’ll just stick with it. I’ve definitely had worse jobs. It’s a pretty great place. But then just kind of like, push came to shove and the life circumstances happened, and I just had to call HR that day, and I was like, “I can’t do this right now.” Like, I have to grieve; I have to graduate college; I have all these other things. Like, I just can’t prioritize this job right now. And they were super cool about it. They were like, “So sorry this is happening to you; I totally understand.” And yeah, then I checked the chart, and I was like, “Whoa!” Like, North Node, Saturn, Venus on my Sun in the 6th. 

CB: Yeah. So you said you had used up all of your sick leave and PTO, and so you quit your job on the spot on this day, and we see Venus is conjoining Saturn in your 6th house of work, and it’s also conjoining your Sun at 25 degrees of Pisces. And was your father – because I also see that like, transiting Uranus is conjoining your South Node in the 8th house. Was this unexpected? Was this like, one of those situations where his medical situation came out nowhere where sometimes like, sometimes when an older couple, when one passes away, another one does not long after that because of the stress on them. Or like, what were the circumstances surrounding this? 

N: So my parents, like, my mother and my stepfather have been divorced since before I was born, which was like, another story for another day, but when my mom was passing away, there was a lot of arguments or strife between me and him, because he didn’t wanna come to her funeral. And I was really upset about that for obvious reasons. So I actually wasn’t on speaking terms with him. And it wasn’t – he passed from a stroke, so it wasn’t – it was very quick and sudden. 

CB: Right. 

N: But he did have a history of high cholesterol and high blood pressure. So like, when they told me he had passed away, I said, “Oh, did he have a stroke?” And they said yes. 

CB: And it was on the 16th? 

N: Yeah. So it would have been the night of the 15th going into the 16th. 

CB: Got it. Okay. 

N: Yeah. 

CB: The 15th. 

N: And fun fact, he is also a Pisces Sun and a Taurus Moon. 

CB: Pisces Sun, Taurus Moon. Okay. 

N: We have synastry. 

CB: Well, that’s crazy then that the both of those happened independently though and that both happened for you on either sides of the Venus station where your mom passed away as Venus was stationing retrograde conjunct your Venus, and then your father passed away when Venus was stationing direct conjunct your Sun. 

N: Yeah. 

CB: Wow. That’s incredible. 

N: Yeah. It was – like, I remember when I got the call that morning that he passed away, I just like, screamed at the sky. And I was like, “Saturn, what the hell?” Because this was also like, the tail end of my Saturn return. 

CB: Right. Your Saturn return, and like, Saturn exactly conjoining your Sun. 

N: Yeah. So I was just like, screaming at the planets on that day. I was like, “I get it. Astrology exists! I get it!” 

CB: Yeah, that’s really heavy. And that’s a good example of, again, like, even your natal Saturn is early in the sign. It’s at like, five degrees. But it’s like, because your Sun is so late at 25 degrees of Pisces, there was still major final climactic Saturn return events that happened towards the tail end of what’s still more broadly speaking a three-year period of Saturn going through its natal sign.

N: Yeah. And I’d had a reading recently, and I told the person I was like, because I have the malefics conjunct so early, I was like, I was kind of surprised that I didn’t have more climactic things happen when that was a direct hit. But I think the Mars retrograde is really – the Mars retrograde and the Venus retrograde, and right, like the Venus retrograde starting in the sign of the lord of the year at that point, and then switching to Venus being the lord of the year, I think all of those culminating factors. 

CB: Yeah. That literally layers in like, all of the main filtering factors that we’ve talked about today, which is like, you know, exact transits, retrogrades being more important when the transit is retrograde and stationing, especially to the degree, annual profections activating either the sign or the lord of the year… Go ahead? 

N: I just said it’s like, almost my Ascendant lord, Venus. 

CB: Right. Yeah. Absolutely. And yeah, that’s a really good example. I’m trying to think of – I mean, did you have any other stuff when Saturn went into Pisces in early 2023 forward? Like, what was happening? 

N: That’s when I first got this job. The — 

CB: Oh, okay. 

N: — job I quit that day. I got – I think I signed my paperwork and stuff at the end of 2022, but my first day in the office was like, January 2nd, 2023, or something. 

CB: Got it. Okay. So it was working that job for a couple of years, which then culminated with you quitting it during Venus retrograde stationing conjunct Saturn on your Sun in your 6th house. 

N: Yeah. 

CB: Wow. Okay. Well, and I guess that’s the other thing that it demonstrates is that transits are sometimes multiple things happening at once. In this instance, like, it was the loss of your father, but then also quitting that job at the same time. 

N: Yeah. And like I said, it wasn’t the worst job in the world, but I already kind of saw that I didn’t… Like, there wasn’t maybe as much maybe synastry, since we’re talking astrology. There wasn’t as much synastry with like, my beliefs and the direction that the company was heading. So I was already having those questions about like, how to reconcile that and like, what I was going to do about it. And then the universe, fate, the North Node, whatever you wanna call it kind of took the decision out of my hands. 

CB: Yeah. That makes sense. And that’s really important in terms of how that can work sometimes where there’s a confluence of things that are outside of our control, and then sometimes that are within our control and our choices. But all of them are being mirrored and mapped out in some ways by the transits. 

N: Yeah. For sure. 

CB: Awesome. Well, thanks for sharing that; that’s a really good example and I think is a perfect one to end on today just because of how many things that tied together at once. So thanks for sharing it. 

N: Yeah. Mahalo. Thank you. 

CB: All right. Thanks. 

Yeah. Everybody says thanks for sharing. All right, I think that’s it. So my headphones are dying, so that’s the last one I can do for today. But I think that puts us at a good two-and-a-half hours for this workshop. 

Thanks everybody – all the patrons – who joined me for this today for this live webinar that we did with just patrons of The Astrology Podcast. I also got a bunch of social media examples that were submitted, so I might do a separate recording at some point sharing some of the best ones of those. But I think we learned a lot here today where, you know, I was trying to isolate it and we were trying to focus on what was the exact transit that coincided with the event, but obviously our lives are complicated, and there’s other sign-based things going on at any one time. There’s eclipses happening. There is whatever the broader outer planet transits are. Sometimes there’s multiple transits happening at once. We saw the importance of annual profections as a filtering technique to help identify the most important transits that are gonna be more potent in a given year. We saw quite a bit. So this is a good first step, I think, at really understanding exact transits. And if people would like to do more of these, let me know, and maybe we can do another webinar like this. 

If people are watching this later on YouTube, if you have a good example of an exact transit that happened in your life, please post it in the comments below this video on Youtube, and I may take some of those and use those as examples in a future episode. 

What else? To summarize the main point of today, though, everybody should pay attention to your exact transits, especially when a transit comes within one degree of orb, because oftentimes you will see a specific event manifest in your life at that time. And sometimes it can be really important events. Like, we’ve seen some really major life-defining events happen today. Sometimes it’ll be a medium – an event of medium importance, let’s say, and other times it will be an event of lesser importance, but nonetheless something has still happened at that time which symbolically has matched the quality of the transit in some way. 

So sometimes creating a transit journal can be a good idea, and that might be a good project that all of us could do this year. Because I started like, a document, and I’ve just been noting sometimes when I have an exact transit and what happened on that day. Or if like, multiple different things happened on that day that a transit went exact to note that. And that could be a good process that maybe we could all research this year and come back and do another episode is just from this point forward paying attention to each notable transit that you have when it comes within a degree and just what happens in your life at that time. And you learn so much about astrology by doing that, about not just the transiting planets, but also you learn more about what the houses mean. Like, we’ve seen a lot of really clear instances of what the houses signify today. You learn about what the aspects mean. You learn about distinctions about benefic versus malefic and everything else, and that’s the reason why I’ve always said that transits are one of the most compelling things about astrology. Because when you look at like, natal charts, for example, sometimes the interpretation of a natal placement can be somewhat subjective in some instances or to some extent. But having an event happen in a person’s life really brings the chart alive in a really concrete way. And that to me has always been one of the most compelling things about astrology that I wish that more people truly studied. But by doing webinars like this, I hope that I’ve given people the tools in order to understand how to approach degree-based transits in this way a little bit better. 

So yeah. So I think that’s it for this webinar and for this episode of The Astrology Podcast. So thanks everyone for watching or listening. Thanks to all the patrons that joined me and shared your story with me today; I really appreciate each of you, and especially those of you sharing really delicate things and really important events in your life. Thanks for opening up and sharing that with us so that all of us can grow and learn as astrologers. I think that’s so important and so valuable, and I’m really grateful to be able to do this with all of you. 

All right. I think that’s it for this episode. So thanks everyone for watching or listening. And I’ll see you again next time! 

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