↻ Free Current Transits Calculator: What's Hitting Your Chart Now
Umbriel's free transit calculator shows what the sky is doing to your birth chart right now.
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Every contact, with its exact orb and whether it is tightening or letting go. No account, no email. You can also set it to any date, past or future,, not only today.
TRADITIONALA traditional technique: in the books before 1700.
- What you'll needBirth date, time and place
- What you getEvery current transit to your natal chart with its exact orb, whether it is applying or separating, and the same for any date you choose
- CostFree, no account required
What a transit is
A transit is simply a planet where it is now making an angle to a planet or point in your birth chart. The natal chart never changes; the sky keeps moving; a transit is the meeting of the two. That is the whole mechanism, and it is why transits are the part of astrology most often used for timing.
Speed is what sorts them. The Moon transits everything in a month and is gone in hours. Mercury, Venus and Mars pass through in days. Jupiter and Saturn take weeks and often come back two or three times because of retrogrades, so a single contact can be a season, not a day. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can sit within orb for a year or more, which is why they tend to be read as chapters, not events.
Two things make a transit list worth reading rather than alarming. First, applying versus separating: a transit still tightening tends to be the live one, while a separating contact has largely spent itself. Second, orb, a contact half a degree away and one seven degrees away are not the same thing, and a list that prints them identically is not telling you much. Umbriel gives both. And a transit is a description of a period, not a prediction of an event.
How Umbriel computes it
This tool compares the sky at a chosen moment, by default right now, with your birth chart and lists the aspects between them. Umbriel casts a second chart for that moment in UTC using the same engine as your birth chart, at the latitude and longitude of your birth place, and then measures the angle from each of the ten planets, Sun to Pluto, in that sky to each natal planet. Contacts to your natal Ascendant and Midheaven are added only when your birth time is known, and Chiron, the nodes, Lilith and the other points are kept in separate tables from the planet-to-planet list. Aspects are the conjunction, opposition, trine, square, sextile, quincunx and semisextile, with default orbs of 8, 8, 7, 7, 5, 3 and 3 degrees, widened by 2 degrees for the five major aspects when the Sun or Moon is involved, and you can tighten or widen the orb scale. A natal point is treated as fixed, so a contact is marked applying if the transiting body is still approaching exactness and separating if it has passed. The house column shows which of your natal houses each transiting planet is crossing, and is blank without a birth time. The positions are as accurate as the birth chart's: Jupiter to Neptune agree with NASA/JPL Horizons to 2.5 arcseconds over 1910 to 2044, the Sun to under 1 arcsecond and the Moon to 0.27 arcminutes. The contacts are geometry that can be checked; what a transit means is interpretation.
What's in your result
- Every current contactTransiting planets to your natal planets, angles and points, with the aspect named.
- The exact orbHow close each one is, in degrees and minutes, so you can tell the live ones from the background.
- Applying or separatingWhether it is still tightening or already loosening, which is usually the difference that matters.
- Any date you likeNot just today. Set it to a date in the past to look back, or ahead to see what is coming.
- Transits to the anglesContacts to your Ascendant and Midheaven, which need an accurate birth time to mean anything.
- The slow ones, separatelyThe outer-planet contacts that define a period, not a day.
Common questions
What are transits in astrology?
Where the planets are right now, measured against where they were when you were born. When a moving planet makes an aspect to something in your birth chart, that is a transit: the main way astrology talks about timing.
Which transits matter?
Generally the slow ones. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts to your Sun, Moon, Ascendant or Midheaven are the ones traditionally read as significant, because they last long enough to describe a period. Moon transits change several times a day and are mostly noise unless you are watching for something specific.
Do I need my birth time for transits?
For transits to your planets, no. Those are calculated from the date. For transits to your Ascendant, Midheaven and houses, yes, and those are often the most concrete ones. Umbriel shows what it can stand behind and leaves the rest out.
Can I look at transits for a future date?
Yes. The calculator is not locked to today: set any date and it recalculates the whole picture for that moment, which is the usual way to look ahead at a Saturn or Jupiter contact.
Is the transit calculator free?
Yes. Every contact, with orbs and applying/separating status, for any date, with no account and no email.
Do I need an account or an email address?
No. There is no sign-up, no email capture and no free trial. Enter your details and the result is drawn in your own browser.
What to look at next
- Solar ArcMoves every point by one arc and lists the next ten exact hits by date.
- ProgressionsMoves each body at its own rate: a day for every year you have lived.
- Retrograde CalendarShows which planets are retrograde now and the date each one turns.
Go deeper
Every one of these is a page in its own right, written out one at a time.
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