Your Transits: Today's Sky Against Your Chart

The last collapsible section in the Sky chart panel is labeled Your transits. It only produces something meaningful once you have saved a birth date and time in the sky controls, because this section's whole job is to compare two different moments: the sky right now, against the sky at the moment you were born.

What a transit actually is, mechanically

Everywhere else in the panel — the placements table, Aspects, the angles — describes one single moment: whatever the sky map's clock is currently set to. Your transits does something different. It takes the currently moving sky, positions the ten chart bodies at their live locations, and finds the aspects those live positions form back to the fixed positions in your saved chart. Each transiting body from tonight forms angles to your natal bodies, and the section keeps and displays the tightest of those, up to eight, with the natal side of each pairing labeled as "natal" so you don't confuse a moving planet with your own fixed placement of the same name.

The transiting Moon is deliberately excluded from this list. The Moon moves fast enough that it forms and breaks aspects within hours, and including it would flood a slow-moving forecast with entries that are gone by the time you finish reading them.

Why this section's orb is tighter than the rest of the chart

The Aspects section uses orbs of 6 to 8 degrees depending on the aspect. Your transits caps every orb at 3 degrees, a deliberately tighter window than natal aspects get. That is a real design choice in the engine, not a rounding accident, and it is grounded in a specific piece of reasoning: a transit is treated as an event, something happening now, rather than a temperament, something built into who you are. A wide-orb natal aspect can describe a lasting trait; a wide-orb transit would barely register as anything happening at all, so the section narrows the window until what's left is close enough to actually mean something is currently active.

What it means when the section comes back empty

If nothing in tonight's sky sits inside three degrees of anything in your saved chart, the section says so plainly: a quiet sky for your chart right now, with no tight transits from the slower movers. That is not an error and not a gap in the data — it is a genuine, computed result. Some stretches of time simply have no close transiting aspects, especially if you are only tracking the outer, slower planets, and the panel reports that honestly rather than manufacturing a match.

Reading the aspect, not the astrology, first

Everything a transit reports is a real geometric fact: a specific transiting planet's position, on this date, forms a specific angle to a specific point in your saved chart. What that angle is traditionally taken to mean is a separate, attributed layer on top. In classical practice, a transiting square is read as friction that surfaces something needing attention, and a transiting trine as an easier, more supported window — but the panel's computation stops at reporting the angle and its tightness; the interpretive reading that opens when you click a row is where the tradition's language enters, clearly apart from the underlying astronomy.

Why this section needs your real chart, not just tonight's sky

Your transits is the one part of the panel that is entirely pointless without a saved birth date and time, because there is nothing fixed to transit against otherwise. And even once you have saved one, remember that the natal side of the comparison is built from whichever observer location is currently set on the sky map's controls, not a geocoded birth city — so for the comparison to be meaningful, set that location as close to your real birth coordinates as you reasonably can before trusting what shows up here.

What this means for you tonight

Save your birth date and time in the sky controls if you haven't already, then open Your transits and check whether it lists anything at all. If it does, look up the transiting body in the placements table above to see exactly where it sits in the live sky tonight, then compare that to the natal placement it's aspecting — the tightness of the orb, shown to a tenth of a degree, is the panel's own signal for how much weight to give it. If the section comes back quiet, that quiet is itself the reading: nothing slow-moving is close enough right now to register.

For the natal side of every comparison this section makes, see the placements table explained and your rising sign explained. For the same five aspect types computed against a single fixed moment instead of a moving one, see aspects in your chart, and for the forward-looking events that will eventually become tomorrow's transits, see the sky ahead explained.