Frequently Asked Questions

How accurate are the predictions?

 

If one of the outer planets, i.e., Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto, is strongly affecting a planet in your birth chart, your reading is likely to be highly accurate. 

 

Outer planet transits (orbits) offer a higher degree of accuracy, but since they move very slowly, they are not always affecting something in everyone's chart..

 

You can ask your astrologer to let you know which of the predictions are based on outer planet transits.

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Astrologers call the planets currently orbiting the Sun transiting planets. 

 

When a transiting planet arrives at the position where a planet was when you were born, the planet in your chart gets activated by that planet.

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Astrologers call geometric angles between planets aspects. 

 

Activation can also occur when a transiting planet makes an aspect to a planet in your chart. 

 

Important aspects that we look at are 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 degree angles. 

 

The impact is greater when those same two aspecting planets, the transiting planet and the one in your chart, are aspecting each other in your birth chart.  This also increases the accuracy of the astrologer's predictions.

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An example of an outer planet's impact on a birth chart.

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For instance, let’s say a baby was born on the first day of the sign of Gemini. 

 

The date a sign begins varies a little from year to year, but is usually around the 21st through the 23rd.  So, let say you were born on May 22nd when the Sun was at zero degrees Gemini. 

 

Also, on that day, the planet Saturn was at one degree Gemini. 

 

I will call the Sun a planet even though it is a luminary. 

 

So these two planets, the Sun and Saturn, were almost exactly aligned.  When two planets are at the same degree or within a few degrees of the zodiac, we say they are conjoined.  This is what was happening on May 22nd in our example.

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Now, let’s imagine that the planet Saturn where it is today orbiting the Sun arrives at zero degrees Aquarius.  That orbiting (transiting) planet (Saturn in this example) is making a 120 degree angle (aspect) to where the Sun was when you were born. 

 

Since the Sun and Saturn were both at the same place on the zodiac wheel, both being at the beginning of the sign of Gemini, when you were born, something big is happening now.

 

Transiting Saturn is strongly activating the Sun and all the arenas in your life that the Sun rules in your chart. 

 

Transiting Saturn is also activating all the areas thatSaturn rules in your chart.

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In the process of interpreting the transits, a particular number of degrees are allowed before the planet comes into an exact alignment or a precise angle with a planet in your chart. The number of degrees between the two planets is called the orb.

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Most astrologers use varying degrees for different planets and different aspects, such as eight degrees for a conjunction (when the two planets share the same degree or are close in degree). 

 

That means the astrologer starts predicting possibilities of what can occur as soon as the transiting planet gets within 8 degrees of the planet it is aspecting in your chart. 

 

The fewer the number of degrees taken into consideration, the tighter the orb, which means the fewer things there will be to talk about during a session, but what does get talked about is going to be a lot more accurate in timing.

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Our interpretation policy is a 1 degree to a 1.5 degree orb. The orb is the distance to either side of a planet. That distance defines the window from beginning of probability to end of probability. 

 

This means that we are focusing on windows of time that are much more likely to happen, but the actual experience you have may happen sooner or later than the precise window of time we give you.