Transits

A transit is a planet in today's sky making an angle to a planet in your birth chart. The slow ones last a year or more. Here is what each one means, how long it lasts and who has it now.

Each page says who has the transit now, by birth date. Your birth time and place make the dates exact. Solstice works out your own transits and talks with you about them while they happen.

Transits to your Sun

These depend on your birthday, in any year.

• Jupiter conjunct Sun: Your lucky year, every twelve years.
• Neptune conjunct Sun: Years when the self goes soft at the edges.
• Neptune opposite Sun: Fog in your relationships, for years.
• Neptune square Sun: Years of fog that show what you want.
• Pluto conjunct Sun: Once in a life, a change of identity.
• Pluto opposite Sun: Years of power struggles that make you stronger.
• Pluto square Sun: Years of deep change in how you use power.
• Saturn conjunct Sun: A year of focus and limits, every 29 years.
• Saturn opposite Sun: The half-way check, often through other people.
• Saturn square Sun: Friction that shows which plans are yours.
• Uranus conjunct Sun: Once in a life, a sudden new self.
• Uranus opposite Sun: Change that arrives through other people.
• Uranus square Sun: Restless years that break a pattern.

Planets coming back to themselves

These depend on your birth year, so a whole generation shares them.

• Chiron opposite Chiron: An old hurt seen from the other side.
• Chiron return: Around 50, old hurts and the means to tend them.
• Neptune square Neptune: Around 40, the dreams get a second look.
• Pluto square Pluto: Once in a life, at an age set by your generation.
• Saturn opposite Saturn: Around 44, the half-way check.
• Saturn square Saturn: Every seven years, a test of the structure.
• Uranus opposite Uranus: The midlife wake-up, around age 40 to 44.
• Uranus return: Around 84, a late and strange freedom.
• Uranus square Uranus: Around 20, the break from the script.

Saturn return

• Saturn return dates by birth year: The exact passes for each birth year, 1960 to 2010.

Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.