Mercury-Venus trine Uranus

[Aaronmcc11]

I definitely felt that Mercury-Venus conjunction come up over the local horizon. Both planets moved into Sagittarius today and are in a Trine to Uranus at 1 something Aries. I can't be the only one feeling the fiery electricity!

[astrologer50]

All transits act as background influences until they make a mathamatical aspect to another planet or angle ie: Asc/MC

[Aaronmcc11]

Originally Posted by astrologer50

All transits act as background influences until they make a mathamatical aspect to another planet or angle ie: Asc/MC

Aspect to a natal planet or a transiting planet?

[astrologer50]

Originally Posted by Aaronmcc11

Aspect to a natal planet or a transiting planet?

Natal

Transits
I use--- 1° approaching, 1° exact and 1° departing. If you click on the link listed below for the online ephemeris it will list all planets at any given time. Learning astrology is like learning a new ‘language’ and obviously the more effort you put into something the more your knowledge and understanding will increase. All transits act as ‘background’ influences through a house, until it makes a mathematical aspect to a planet inside or an Angle.

For 'timings' I would look to the retrograde hit as the most important trigger, then look to see what the quicker planets are doing especially mars & mercury --

astro.com has fee six month transit forecast plus when you get into Extended chart selection, look at the three tabs after calculating a chart under ‘method’ default is circular wheels (on left), middle is special charts and in their you get graphic ephemeris 1yr (or 5years) with natal = transits for 1yr and lots more. BUT you first must learn or memorise the 'glyphs' ie: shorthand for recognising what these maps/graphics mean.

For example when you post or reply to a chart the 'smilies' to the right and just under them [more] if you click on there it will bring up a whole loads of 'glyphs' Mercury Uranus conjunction (+or - 8') trine aspect 120' Libra
http://cafeastrology.com/transits.html
http://cafeastrology.com/transits_2.html
http://www.khaldea.com/ephemcenter.shtml
http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/transits18.0.htm
http://www.astro.com/faq/fq_fh_transits_e.htm
http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_transits_e.htm
http://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/2000/ae_2009.pdf
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/learn-astrology/astrology-glyphs.php
http://www.dkfoundation.co.uk/dkfoundation/BookTransitsAndProgressions.htm

Now it's more important to focus on transits from Jupiter to Pluto (poss mars as this is the ignition key)and these planets when aspecting something in your natal chart 'set off' the difficult or nice 'aspects - potential - problems' that your chart expresses. By that I mean if a benefic planet like Jupiter hits/touches/transits your venus, mars or uranus these could be experienced very pleasantly. BUT if your natal venus is afflicted, or badly aspected say conj saturn then jupiter will not has such a good effect. It all depends on how the natal planet is 'aspected'

For me I would say external 'events' must be seen by transits, progressions or Solar arcs to Angles ie: Asc/Desc & MC/IC most other times these events are 'internal, psychological matters as in between the ears'

Now astro.com uses a much wider orb, possibly something like 10° that’s why when you use the free transit forecast service a transit goes on for months and months. BUT common sense should tell you when the transit is ‘exact’ then it’s at the strongest. Some astrologers swear by 1° approaching produces ‘events’ some say the 1° exact, some say 1° off for triggering events. I personally look to the exact and 1° off for ‘timings’ especially the retrograde hit (backwards hit)

[Aaronmcc11]

So what your saying is that transits will not manifest outwordly until they're in 1* orb and everything else is experienced as background influence?

[astrologer50]

Originally Posted by Aaronmcc11

So what your saying is that transits will not manifest outwordly until they're in 1* orb and everything else is experienced as background influence?

more or less. Outward manifestations are seen when the angles are triggered/transited. The rest may simply be felt internally. Orbs can/are quite contentious things. I know Waybread here, uses 3' orbs astro.com uses very very wide orbs of 10' approaching, 10'exact and 10' departing to the transit goes on forever. Obviously, common sense suggests the closer, tigher the orbs the more it will be felt.

Also the planet receiving the transit, it's natal aspects will be affected, not just the planet it's making a transit to. So for example, as you have pluto and saturn opp MC, whatever goes over your MC will make 'hard aspects' to these two planets, so IF it were mars for example it may well cause delays frustrations (saturn) and stop/go situations connected to career/work/or your social standing in community. I have had all the outers go over my MC and most affected my marriage (as I was not working) or parents when younger...

[Aaronmcc11]

Well I definitely feel something happening to me and its manifesting itself in a quite powerful way externally.. its very difficult to think rationally right now. I wish I could understand it better but I am mentally agitated. I have a massive amount of energy and at first it was just inspiration but now its just confusion.

[Rebel Uranian]

I have Uranus prominent and when you have prominent planets you can pretty much always tell what they're doing. My Pluto is about 5* Sag and Saturn at 2.7* Aries, someone might argue that that's not important but there are a lot of natal aspects forming all at once right now with those. Almost all my planets are in close degrees of each other so transits are really fun.