How the Sky’s Movements Affect Your Energy and Daily Life

The sky is never still.
Although your birth chart is fixed—a snapshot of the heavens at the moment you were born—the planets keep moving.
They dance, align, clash, and shift.
And with every movement, they generate an invisible wave that touches your body, mind, emotions, and soul.

This is what we call planetary transits.
And even if you can’t see them, you feel them.

When Mars is activated, you might feel a sudden anger without knowing why.
When the Moon is full in your opposite sign, your chest aches for no clear reason.
And when Mercury goes retrograde… even your Wi-Fi seems to have a soul.

Transits are like the cosmic weather.
You can’t stop them, but you can prepare for them, understand them, and flow with their energy.
And when you learn to read them, you stop fighting the tides—and begin to sail with them.

What is a planetary transit?

A transit is the current movement of a planet through the sky in real time.
And since your birth chart is a fixed map, these planets “touch” specific points on it.
When that happens, it activates an energetic, emotional, or even physical experience.

It’s as if a current planet plays a note on your internal piano.
Some transits bring harmony, others bring tension, others trigger transformation.

For example:

When Jupiter transits your Sun, it can expand your energy, bring you opportunities, or help you shine.
When Saturn transits your Moon, it may make you feel limited, nostalgic, or deeply introspective.
When Pluto transits your Ascendant, it can transform your identity from the ground up.

Each planet, depending on its nature and speed, brings transits of different duration and intensity.

Types of transits and their duration

Fast (personal) transits

Moon: Changes every ~2 days. Affects mood, emotions, sensitivity.
Mercury: Every 3–4 weeks. Influences thoughts, communication, technology, and decision-making.
Venus: Affects love, pleasure, aesthetics, values.
Mars: Stimulates action, desire, assertiveness, competitiveness, anger.

These are felt like emotional waves or immediate impulses.

Slow (generational or deep) transits

Jupiter: 1 year per sign. Expands, teaches, blesses.
Saturn: 2.5 years per sign. Structures, limits, matures.
Uranus: 7 years per sign. Awakens, revolutionizes, breaks patterns.
Neptune: 14 years per sign. Dissolves, confuses, opens mysticism.
Pluto: 15–30 years per sign. Transforms, destroys, and regenerates from the shadows.

These transits not only affect you personally but also entire generations.
Yet when they touch key points in your chart, they can change your life.

And what about Mercury retrograde?

Ah yes, the infamous one.

Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to move backwards from Earth’s point of view.
It’s not really retrograding, but its energy slows down or becomes distorted.

This can cause:

Miscommunications
Misunderstandings
Delays or cancellations
Tech or travel issues
People or themes from the past resurfacing

But it’s also a sacred time to review, reorganize, rewrite, reconnect.

Mercury retrograde isn’t your enemy.
It’s a teacher asking you to pause and reflect before moving forward.

What do you feel during a transit?

It depends on the planet and the point in your chart it touches.
But common effects include:

Mood swings or unexpected sensitivity
Hyperactive or blocked energy
Emotional or existential crises
Vivid, symbolic dreams
A strong urge to change, release, or move on
Repetitive karmic or emotional themes resurfacing

Transits don’t bring anything that wasn’t already inside you.
They simply activate what’s been waiting to be seen, healed, or transformed.

Are all transits difficult?

Not at all.
There are transits that bring clarity, blessings, expansion, love, inspiration.
For example:

Jupiter trine your Moon: emotional well-being, joy, luck in family life
Venus sextile your Sun: attraction, love, beauty
Neptune conjunct Mercury: poetic inspiration, mysticism, creative flow

The cosmos doesn’t only challenge—it also guides, supports, and blesses.

How can I work with transits?

Observe without resisting
You don’t need to “do” something for every transit. Sometimes, simply allowing and feeling is enough.
Use astrology as a compass, not a crutch
Instead of saying “this is happening because Saturn is in my 7th house,” ask:
“What is this transit trying to teach me?”
Keep a lunar or transit journal
Track how you feel during full moons, eclipses, or intense aspects. Over time, you’ll develop deep inner wisdom.
Prepare for powerful transits with rituals or rest
Knowing that Pluto is approaching your Moon can help you care for your emotional body in advance.
Reconnect with spiritual practices during key moments
Grounding, breathing, nature, candles, cleansing, intention-setting—these help your body handle cosmic intensity.
Seek conscious guidance
An astrologer, therapist, or spiritual guide can help you translate what the sky is asking of your soul.

Transits are cosmic waves.
You can’t stop them, but you can learn to ride them.
They are messages from the moving sky, touching the sleeping or wounded parts of you, asking to be awakened.

They are not punishments.
They are portals.
Each one is a bridge between the heavens and your soul.

And the more fluent you become in their language,
the less fear you’ll have of chaos, endings, or change—
and the more trust you’ll have in the sacred art of living.

Because you too are moving.
And the universe…
is moving with you.