Transit Chart

How to read your result

The tool reports where the planets are NOW relative to your birth chart - which house each transiting planet currently occupies counted from your own ascendant, and the dates it entered and leaves.

Read the slow planets first. Jupiter changes sign about once a year, Saturn every two and a half, the nodes every eighteen months; those placements describe a stretch of life. The Moon changes sign every two and a quarter days and describes a mood, which is why a transit reading built on the Moon says very little.

A transit is a modifier, not an event. It describes what the current sky is doing to the chart you were born with - the same Saturn transit lands differently on two charts depending on what it touches.

A worked example

For the chart used across these pages - 15 April 1990, Mumbai, Aries ascendant - a Saturn transit through Pisces falls in the 12th house from that ascendant. The 12th is a dusthana, so tradition reads that passage as a period of withdrawal, expense and endings rather than visible progress.

Now cross-check it against the dasha. That same chart is in a Sun mahadasha with a Saturn antardasha through March 2027 - so Saturn is both running a sub-period AND transiting a difficult house. That convergence is the actual reading; either signal alone would understate it.

This is the habit worth forming: a transit reading that does not name which dasha it lands inside has answered half the question.

Where these positions come from

Positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa, the sidereal standard for Vedic work - not from a tropical calculation shifted by a constant. Ingress dates are found by scanning the planet's longitude and then bisecting to the day, so a reported entry date is computed rather than looked up.

Retrograde re-entries are handled explicitly. A planet that leaves a sign, turns retrograde and re-enters produces separate ingress and egress events rather than one smoothed span, because those re-entries are precisely the periods practitioners care about.

Houses are whole-sign from your ascendant, which is the Vedic convention and differs from the Placidus houses a Western transit report would use.

What transits do not tell you

They are not a forecast. A transit describes a condition, not an outcome, and the same passage produces very different lives depending on the chart underneath it and the choices made during it.

They also should not be read without the dasha. Vedic practice treats the dasha as the primary timing system and transits as the modifier; a strong transit inside an unrelated dasha usually amounts to less than people expect.

And house placement depends on your ascendant, which moves roughly every two hours. With an uncertain birth time the SIGNS the planets occupy are still correct, but which of your houses they fall in may not be.

See which dasha this transit lands in →