How To Read Transits/Transit Chart In Vedic Astrology

Transits are one of the major tools which help in making predictions but the interpretation of transit of planets
in Astrology can be tricky sometimes and one can make wrong conclusions without a proper approach.
Not to forget there is no standard guide in Astrology which can help us to make an in-depth interpretation of
planetary Transits.

Without a proper guide, many of us out there make huge blunders and a faulty study of planetary transit
always leads to a wrong interpretation of a Horoscope.

So in this article of mine, I will shed some light on how to read effects of planetary transit or in simple words I
will teach you how to read a transit chart.

What are Transits & How You To Calculate Transit Chart?

As we all know planets are in motion all the time and tend to affect our fate where other factors also matter.
In simple words, transit is nothing but the never-ending motion of planets which generates effects depending on
where they are transiting in your Horoscope.

In order to see the transits of any particular day, all you need to do is make the horoscope for that day.
For example; suppose I want to know the planetary position of planets on 24th of June 2018 then all I have to
do is enter the date, time and place in any astrology software.

You can use Astro Sage for it which come with a mobile app and is accurate when it comes to calculations.
Now, here is what I got and as you can see in the image, the planetary position of the planets are given where
sign (R) is written against them which denotes retrogression.

 
You can use this app to get a dynamic view and you can even view the transits with respect to your ascendant
or from any other house.

For that;

All you need to do is tap on that house and the whole chart will rotate and will become the center of the
Horoscope.

I bet probably you did not know the feature of this great app.
The same method can be used to calculate for any given time.

So I guess now you know who to get your transit chart and I will take you to lessons on how to read transits in
astrology.

Transit Period Of Planets

Due to factors like distance from planet Sun and their rotation speed all planets have a different duration in
which they complete their journey in one sign and move to other sign.

For your reference I have listed transit stay of each planet in one sign.

1. Sun: palnet Sun stays in one zodiac for exact one month and move to another sign other on the 15th day of
every month.

Transit of planet Sun is very important in both Astrology and Religion, for example, major festivals like Makar
Sakranti starts when the planet Saturn moves to Capricorn sign on 15th of January.

In fact, all planets are affected by planetary motion of Sun especially their retrograde motion.

I will talk about retrograde planets in a separate article soon.

2. Moon: Moon goes through all twelve signs in about 28 days which means it takes approximately 2 1/2 days in
each sign.

3. Mercury: Mercury transits is complicated because it goes into retrograde motion quite often. Mercury takes
around 1 year to travel through all 12 Zodiac signs. But its stay in a particular sign ranges from 14 to 30 days.

4. Venus: Just like Mercury, Venus transits duration in a particular sign is not fixed approximately Venus stays
for 23 days to a little over 2 months in a sign.
5. Mars: Mars takes about 2 years to travel through all the Zodiac signs and stays in a particular sign for about
1.5 months. But sometimes Mars transit can become unusual like the current Mars transit in Capricorn where
Mars will stay there for 6 months!

5. Jupiter: The nicest & wisest Jupiter takes about 12 years to travel through all 12 Zodiac signs which means
Jupiter stays in a single sign for 12 months (1 year).

7. Saturn: The mighty Saturn is a very slow moving planet and he takes around 29.5 years to travel through all
12 Zodiac signs which means Saturn transit in a single sign for 2.5 years.

8. Rahu and Ketu: These two troublemakers always move in a retrograde motion and takes around 1.5 years to
travel through each Zodiac sign.

These periods should be known to you because it does help you understand the complete picture and is the
foundation of astrology.

You will be mesmerized when you will see how the constant planetary rays effect us and how their relative
position from each other creates events in our life.

Interpretation of Transit from Moon sign or Ascendant?

From now onwards make it a habit of reading transits through the Ascendant chart, I am not saying you
should not consider Moon chart but always give more weightage to the ascendant chart.

I will explain to you why, first of all, dasha and transit work together and dasha decides how transit will give
results. Also, keep one thing in mind that a transit can never override the promises as indicated in your
Horoscope.

When we decode the dasha results we always consider lordship of planets from the ascendant, not from the
Moon.

So why not see transit results of planets from the Ascendant chart? Trust me it will give you a more accurate
Analysis.

For example, suppose your rising Ascendant is Gemini and Moon sign is Libra.

If we look at the current Saturn transit in Sagittarius is transiting through the 6th house of Gemini Ascendant.

Whereas from the Moon sign Libra Saturn is transiting through the 3rd house.

I am quite sure that there are a lot of issues in your life from 2017 especially health issues despite the fact that
Saturn was transiting favorably from your Moon Sign.

The same way there were many of my clients where Saturn was not transiting favorably from their Moon sign
and caused issues in their life, and it is because Saturn was transiting through a difficult position from the
ascendant.

So the crux here is that do give preference to transit from the Ascendant, not from the Moon chart.

Techniques For Reading Transit Of Planets

Now, this is the most important part and the main objective of this article and it is my great pleasure to write it
here for you.

Here, I will divide it into 4 parts mainly which are as follows:

Interpretation based on Lordship Of Transit Planet.

Consider The General Effects Of Transit Planet.

Ashtakvarga Analysis Of Transit Planet.

Co-Relation Of Transit Planet With The Mahadasha Lord.

Following paragraphs are very important so pay full attention to them.

Lordship Of The Transit Planet

Lordship of planets are the foundation of Astrology and one should learn it completely. Once you master it you
will be able to predict dasha results and transit results effectively.
Here I will take Saturn transit 2018 to make you understand the importance of Lordship in analyzing a
planetary transit.

Saturn transit in Sagittarius happened in October 2017 and while checking its effects you need to consider the
Lordship of Saturn first and then the house from where it is transiting.

For example, Saturn is yogakaraka for Tauras ascendant and gives them good results in the house where it is
transiting.

So during Saturn transit in Sagittarius, they will get the good results for the 8th house like sudden rise, gains,
help from in-laws etc.

In short, their 8th house will become auspicious and despite the bad position of transit Saturn they should not
worry much about Saturn transit in their 8th house but due to the transit of Saturn through their 8th.

The houses ruled by the planet Saturn will suffer i.e 9th and 10th house.

Also, they should not worry over the fact that Saturn is going to a bad house instead they should prepare for
the weakness over their 9th and 10th which will be there due to Saturn transit in 8th house.

Same way you need to consider the house from where the planet is going to transit check if that house is
auspicious or not.

For your quick reference to all houses except 6th, 8th and 12th are considered as malefic whereas 1st, 2nd, 4th,
7th, 10th and 11th house are considered as benefic.

If both lordship of the planet and the house where the planet is going to transit is auspicious then the whole
transit will prove auspicious.

Without considering lordship you can not make a correct interpretation.

General effects of the transiting planet.

Most of us are quite aware of the general principle that a planet in transit from bad houses i.e 6th, 8th or 12th
gives bad results.

We are also familiar of the fact that the transit of natural malefics i.e Saturn, Mars, Rahu, and Ketu gives good
results in upachaya houses i.e 3rd, 6th and 11th.

Now you should know the general effects of each planet in transit while passing through each house of the
horoscope.

I haven’t written anything on it but the use of common sense and a little bit of astrology will clear the picture
for you.

After going through above paragraphs you will get a good idea on how to read Transits.

But still there is something missing which can gauge the magnitude of good and bad effects and the next
paragraph is going to deal with it.

Ashtakvarga Analysis Of Planetary Transit In Astrology

Ashtakvarga is a system where auspicious effects of a planet are measured from each other.

I have written in detail about ashtakvarga plz do look at it, I will be adding more content to it.

So, in Ashtakvarga Analysis of Transit, if a planet has more then 4 benefic bindus then that transit will give
good effects irrespective of its position and lordship.
For example, currently, Jupiter is in Libra and for Taurus ascendant natives is passing through their 6th
house.

Here if Jupiter is having more then 4 bindus in the sign of Libra then the result of Jupiter transit into Libra
will prove good for them.

Here from my own personal experience, I want to make you aware of the fact that even if ashtakvarga bindus
are more than 4 i.e 5, 6, 7, 8 (maximum bindus gain in a sign by a planet is 8) the concerned planet still don’t
give all the way good results, some negative aspects does show up depending on the lordship of the planet.
For example, Jupiter is a malefic planet for Taurus ascendant and its current transit through Libra in their 6th
house will still give some negative results even if Jupiter has more then 4 bindus in ashtakvarga of Libra.

Now you have seen I have written 4 bindus quite a few time and want to tell you that for planet Saturn there is
an exception where more then 3 ashtakvarga bindus is considered as good because the total ashtakvarga bindus
contributed by Saturn is only 39 and is rare to see more than 5 bindus in a particular sign.

For other planets, easily you can consider more than 4 bindus for good results during their Transit through a
particular sign.

Once you carry out all the exercise given above you will be easily able to figure out the magnitude and kind of
results a transit is going to give for you.

So far above I have covered the important points which can help you to read Transits accurately but as
mentioned in the very beginning that Transits works as per promises of the Horoscope and works under
running dasha lord.

And one needs to connect the dots or I would say need to make a connection with the running mahadasha and
the promises reflected in the Horoscope.

Co-Relation Of Planetary Transit With The Mahadasha Lord.

If you understand and master this, then you can easily read a transit chart and your interpretation of transit
cannot go wrong.

This is more like understanding the journey of a person through a Horoscope.

For example, if someone has clean rajyoga in your Horoscope then it is an indication that you will rise high in
life.

But that will happen only if dasha is supportive and is connected to Rajyoga in some way.

Now transit of planets are very important here because they will have a big say when the person will reach the
peak of the rajyoga.

Or in other words, they activate a rajyoga in a Horoscope.

Suppose a person has Pisces ascendant with Hamsa Yoga in his horoscope and his Jupiter-Jupiter dasha is
running which roughly goes for 2.5 years but out of all that Jupiter-Jupiter there will be a particular time when
that person will reach its high. Not all 2.5 years are going to be glorious.

And if you look currently JUPITER is transiting through Libra from the 8th house of Pisces Ascendant natives
and can be considered as weak and not supportive for the rise in life.

But if you look the next transit of Jupiter in 2018 in the sign of Scorpio you will see that planet Jupiter will be
transiting over their 9th house and will aspect the ascendant via its 9th aspect.
So a clean cut indication of what is going to happen in the Horoscope of that person and easily he will reach its
high time when Jupiter will be in Scorpio.

Or in other words, Transit Jupiter in Scorpio will activate the Rajyoga here which is Hamsa Yoga.

You can even fix the month here or even day when big auspicious events will happen but that requires an
intense practice and some other technique of Astrology.

Let me give you a more convening example.

Suppose there are two people with Aries rising where one is married and another one is not and current transit
of Jupiter is transiting through their 7th house.

The married person have combinations for bad marriage or a married life but still, he or she is able to pull it
off by sheer patience.

But since it is reflected in the horoscope that the person is going to suffer in marriage it has to happen with him
or her and here transit can ignite the fire and can cause the issues in their life and here Jupiter can do that due
to its transit over the 7th house.

Because something has to happen with that person which is related to the partner and here if Jupiter have less
then 4 bindus then this will be the time the marriage will go bad completely.

On the other hand for the unmarried person, the transit of Jupiter will work differently and most likely he or
she will get married due to this Transit of Jupiter provided timings of marriage is on as per mahadasha and
antardasha.

This is how transit tends to bring the results and it is never plain and simple, the interpretation of transit in a
Horoscope tends to change due to the condition of the horoscope, good or bad yoga in it and most importantly
they tend to work as an assistant to the mahadasha lord and decides our destiny.

The same way a person will not get the childbirth if Jupiter is not influencing the 5th house or its lord during
the transit.

Same way you need to analysis a transit of the planet with respect to each house not just from the ascendant
because it can bring out a lot of information which will help you to predict the effects of transits.

Before wrapping up this article I would like to mention the composite transit of Saturn and Jupiter which is
known as Double Transit Theory and is a proof of why transits are important and how they relate with the
dasha and decides one’s rise and fall.

Conclusion

Never ever trust transits blindly and always give importance to the running dasha first. Make a Judgement of
what promises dasha is bringing and then apply transits over it.

Dasha lord will automatically guide you because transits are like a free ball with many directions to go and you
can not be making vague interpretation out of it.

Also the condition of the concerned planet in natal horoscope whose transit you are looking for matters a lot.
For example support you are looking for Jupiter retrograde effects through Scorpio sign then the
interpretation of it requires you to check if Jupiter is retrograde in natal horoscope or not.

The lesson can go on and on and many things can be added in it like Vedha, Tara Bala, etc but my objective is
limited for this article and is focused on awareness of basic rules to read transit in astrology.