![]() ![]() It is true that one can do such comparisons, but how do you know which transits are more powerful? Is it simply a matter of taking the closest orb? Such an approach fails to consider that to a given individual, some things are far more important than others. ![]() A flaw with this argument is that it ranks all transit charts in equality to the natal chart, when the natal chart is clearly much more important. Some might say that one does not take the transit chart in isolation, but the natal chart as compared to the transit chart. For instance the marriage is not just the "I Do", but the proposal, the wedding rehearsal, selecting the bridesmaids and best man, finding the church, the honeymoon, having children (or not), the day to day relationship with your spouse and the eventual divorce or death do us part. While I will not get into all the technical details here on how this works, suffice it to say that an "event" is not a single instance in time, but can be every instance in time related to a given subject. If a planet responds, this is called "testimony" and this is what is thought to bring about "actual events". ![]() Now such a planet may never say anything about what it has just witnessed, but if there is a subject matter such as "marriage" as represented by the 7th house lord, lord of the lot of marriage, etc, then that domicile or exaltation lord may "call to witness" such a planet as to what it has seen. Such a planet is said to have "witnessed" the other planet. In this paradigm, Schmidt says that an aspect is a ray directed from the eye of one planet (as in a planet looking at another planet) such that a planet contemplates in its "soul", the nature and appearance of the other planet. Transits were not used in isolation, but planetary relationships were thought of in terms of the "legal paradigm" that Robert Schmidt says is present in the Hellenistic era texts. This is represented by your own natal chart and its natural unfolding through time (known through various time lord techniques). But far more important are your individual past actions since these set up pressures for you to act in a given way at a given time that do not exist with other people. One can look at the backdrop of the outer planets as representing what is true for a civilization at a given time which show the pressures for people to act on something at any given moment in time. If so many different things are happening all at the same time, what does a transit chart represent? There are some things that can be said to be true for a given era for most people, then there are those things that are only true to a given individual (such that someone is getting married). Also at any given time, there may be a dog eating his dinner, a guy across the street doing laundry in the basement, a couple in a town 300 miles away starting a honeymoon, an old man taking in his last breath at a local hospital, etc. If we take a snapshot of planet positions at any given time (transits of the current time), we will have a set of positions, the ascendant or rising sign for a given location, etc. One might ask the question, "If transits have such power, why isn't everybody doing what the transit chart says instead of their own natal chart?". There must have been a philosophical reason, or at least a common sense reason based upon an understanding of what transits are. Why was this the case? Since we know that astrologers had the ephemerides for calculating positions and knowing where planets were in ancient times, we know that it was never an issue that calculating positions was "not convenient enough". What importance did the founders of astrology place on transits? (as compared to primary directions and various time lord techniques.) It might suprise some to know that transits were the last consideration that ancient astrologers were interested in to see what is going on in the natives life at any given time. ![]()
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