Dear Students!

Chodesh Tov to all and welcome to a very different cosmic atmosphere this month, but of course nothing about Aquarius is in the norm!!!

Actually the new moon's chart contains 6 water planets and 5 Earth!!! Whatever happened to the Air of Aquarius ?? In fact, so many planets are in already in the following sign of Pisces (Stellium), such as the rising sign, and of course Neptune . as both Sun and Moon are in the 12^th house, in a way, we are accessing our feelings in a completely different manner!

It's time to bring our ideas and ideals to fruition and manifestation in the most grounded way. The domain which is dominant this month is the 11^th house, the one of altruism and philanthropy. For the ones of us who have had an idea for a start up, or to create a non for profit, this is the time to act!

Much of our radical ideas will be positively influenced by the compassionate energy of Pisces –in fact, many of us will realize our prejudices and pre conceived ideas are blocking us and others in our spiritual growth.

Saturn is slowly ending its cycle in Capricorn before entering Aquarius where it will carry and activate all the changes that has been made both for ourselves and humankind.

Wishing everyone a great month of enlightenment and love!

Chodesh Tov!

A transit occurs whenever a planet, moving it in its orbit, forms an angle to any of the planets in your natal chart or forms an angle to the beginning of any of houses in your chart.

Transits are fundamental technique in interpreting important trends and issues in Astrology, and one of the few points of which astrologers agree upon.

In the past most texts have been oriented primarily to predicting the events that will happen to you, but astrology is really should be giving you an understanding of your place in the universe and the kinds of energies that are flowing through you and trough the physical universe.

Here is how we should use transits.

Your natal horoscope makes a statement about the kinds of intentions with which you come into your life. But because the language of astrology contains words and symbols, we cannot specifically designate the level at which the intentions will work themselves out.

An event can occur totally within yourself as a psychological change, or as an interchange between yourself and another, or as a change totally outside yourself in the material and social universe. If you don't understand how you are involved in causing a particular event, it means that you are operating unconsciously and not in control of circumstances.

The transits in themselves do not cause either good or bad results. They are just signs that you will have to confront certain issues in your life at a particular time.

In the interpretation of transits, the planets have pretty much the same meaning that they have in the natal chart. This is true of angles that they form towards your natal chart, but they do have additional characteristics.

So let's see how Robert Hand explains basic aspects in transits:
Conjunction – beginning of a new cycle, matters involving the self alone, or in conjunction with its most intimate surrounding, the birth of a new phase in life, the culmination of a process that began at the last opposition transit involving the same two planets.

Sextile – your relationships to groups, interaction with your immediate surroundings; when you can and should take the initiative; a time for reviewing the recent events and seeing what's needed to be changed; changes involving relatively little effort.

Square - challenges from circumstances or others that force you to prove yourself or to make necessary changes; a time when a course of action proves incorrect or, if the challenge is withstood , a time of new initiative and active forward notion; a challenge of self-expression which may force you changes in your way of relating to others.

Trine – feeling easy and luck of stress; you can make creative changes or just flow along; an opportunity for self-expression expand to make you wiser and more effective; all you need is a little effort and you will meet a little resistance , or you can just not notice this transit and nothing will change.

Opposition - time of confrontation with other; the culmination of your affairs in some way or the total collapse of some area of your life that has not worked successfully; events that increase self-consciousness through meetings with others; interaction between your inner and outer worlds; a time of dynamic changes.

Unfortunately Robert Hand doesn't look at quincunx (angle of 150 degree between the planets) as an important aspect also in transits, here we will need to make our understanding as we learned in the classes of AKA.

This shows again to us that aspects are important colors not only in natal chart but also important angles that transiting planets make to our natal planets and activate them.

We are about spiritual astrology and it's about either we do our spiritual work and become better or the universe basically will pull out the rug under our feet.