Transits — the sky as it is now

Your birth chart never changes. The sky, obviously, keeps moving. A transit is what you get when you lay today’s positions over the fixed positions you were born with and look at the angles between them.

That is the whole mechanism behind every daily reading, every “big year ahead” piece, and every warning about Mercury retrograde. Transiting Saturn arrives at the degree your natal Moon sits on; the reading is about what that contact is traditionally taken to ask of you.

The Moon transits your whole chart every month, so lunar transits are a mood — hours, not chapters. That is what a daily reading is made of, and it is why a daily reading should be light.

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move slowly enough that a single contact can stay within orb for a year or more, coming and going as the planet stations and turns. Those are the ones people actually recognise afterwards. It is also why a twelve-month report can say something useful while a daily one mostly cannot.

A transit is exact on a particular day, and it would be easy to print that day. Gori does not, and the reason is not caution for its own sake.

A date implies an event, and there is no mechanism by which a planetary angle causes an event. What a transit describes, at best, is a pressure — a thing that is being asked of you over a period. So the reports talk in months and in pressures. Gori will not answer yes or no, will not tell you when to sign something, and refuses medical, legal, financial and crisis questions outright rather than running them through a chart. Astrology is a language for thinking about your life. It is not a way of knowing what will happen, and anything that tells you otherwise is selling you certainty it does not have.