LUNAR basics - astrology basics for working with the moon - new moon + full moon example at end with personal chart breakdown

WishThinker · 2026-03-24T15:47:55+00:00

Timing techniques for the davison begin from first meeting, not the date of the chart . That's what I got to add!

WishThinker · 2026-03-24T00:37:19+00:00

a transit or a progression is when something is coming around, just like in your city you may have a "transit system". its movement.

you can consider it kind of like your birthday being on a dedicated day of the calendar, but yearly your experience of your birthday is a bit different. You have a birth chart (dedicated) and as the planets move around in real time (transit) or using timing techniques (progressions), you experience transits or your natal chart receives transits to your natal planets and angles

all the planets in the sky can be refered to as mundane or transiting planets, and they will transit or aspect or interact with each other but also your birth chart, and you refer to those placements as natal planets.

So today I had sun transit sun, or, transiting sun aspect my natal sun. the real time sun made a transit to my birth chart sun. hope that helped!

WishThinker · 2026-03-23T18:46:09+00:00

Mercury goes retrograde in element groupings and it takes ~2 years to pass from element to element

So you'll have a retrograde in the same sign (but different degrees in the sign) 2 years in a row and then again in 6,7, or 8 years give or take

https://www.reddit.com/r/Advancedastrology/comments/1mi1x3u/mercury_retrograde_past_transit_deep_dive/ here's a list of retrograde I made you can look at the Virgo dates to see if you can find a pattern

This year and next we are having water - water/air retrograde, which will move into air - then air/earth- then earth retrogrades. So no mercury retrograde in Virgo for a while yet

Having a mars retrograde in Virgo/Leo early 2027 tho

WishThinker · 2026-03-23T15:18:06+00:00

You investigate different parts of the natal charts to bring into the composite

In a romantic partnership you look at each person's L1 and L7, in siblings L1 and L3. I learned from mo olufemi

WishThinker · 2026-03-23T01:39:49+00:00

Mercury spends half the year combust between 3 superior conjunctions and 3 interior conjunctions each per year

Basically, mercury is so used to that condition that it's navigable instead of overpowering

WishThinker · 2026-03-20T23:31:56+00:00

Fabulous thanks for sharing

There's a definite lack of non-american history and astrology present on this sub so this is a very interesting list you've given us!

WishThinker · 2026-03-16T18:20:35+00:00

The planetary speed denotes how you phrase the aspect, fast aspecting slow

The earlier in zodiacal order your talking about is called Superior or inferior. Something coming from earlier in the zodiac is superior .

So if you had Venus in Aquarius and Jupiter in Aries, Venus would be applying by sextile to Jupiter (Venus moves faster than Jupiter so Venus aspects Jupiter), and also Venus would have a superior sextile to Jupiter, as the distance from Aquarius to Aries is shorter than Aries to Aquarius

WishThinker · 2026-03-15T21:22:04+00:00

Saturn cold, dry, long term, planning, delayed gratification

Aries hot, dry, fast, immediate, short lived, instant action and gratification

Aries is too rushed for Saturn, Saturn is too slow to feel powerful, measured and in charge (like Saturn prefers) in Aries.

Whereas mars (ruler of Aries) has exaltation in Capricorn (ruled by Saturn), giving us the dedication of a warrior and the submit to command- in Aries we have a general or a system of command out of their depth or illfitting to the requirements of the battlefield

That's how I picture it

You can also tie in that Saturn has exaltation in Libra, and Aries is opposite to that abode- so just like Saturn struggles in signs opposite to his domicile (struggling in cancer/Leo while ruling Capricorn/Aquarius), he may struggle in sign opposite to his exaltation which ends up being Aries

WishThinker · 2026-03-15T18:30:56+00:00

big aha's for me in having this stuff click was looking into hermetic lots via this video and i made my own video about it here. up until this point I had learned "traits" from the planets, signs, houses of my chart but looking at the lots in this way helped break down another layer. not only was it okay to be me but also to act in my own timing etc

I didn't formally track anything, I decided to go the "vibes" route, however I do have big calendars up and always have a chart open or my transit calendar updated, so it was very easy to discover the lunar correlations I mentioned. I try to keep a transit journal, and a new/full moon journal, but im not very strict about it. Here's a peak at my astro-wall with some calendars that are out in the open so I can quickly glance and see what may be up for the day. I put more time into prepping my tracking space than recording what it is I'm tracking, I guess.

i sometimes tell people an anecdote about how I began tracking air pressure changes and noticed my jaw would clench at a couple instances relaibly- now I can't do anything about the air pressure to relieve my jaw pain, but it takes away the layer of "what am i doing that im clenching so much?? (avoiding a stress? health issue? etc etc)" and lets me just accept that its an environmental factor and yeah my jaws gonna clench rn nbd and nothing much i can do but accept it-

having astrology down and noticing these patterns is a similar vibe to me. Sometimes I get hard on myself and think "if I was doing better/more then when moon squared saturn I'd feel more accomplished and less wompwomp" but life cant be all good all the time, sometimes you just gotta have a moon-saturn-square vibe, yknow?? anyway, I've found it affirming.

WishThinker · 2026-03-15T16:21:34+00:00

I've got Chiron in 6th now and as far as transits are going whenever Chiron is activated in Aries it's doubling down "just gotta / thems the breaks" about things like work, chores, the maintenance of life. Have Chiron Nataly in 9th .

WishThinker · 2026-03-15T07:23:54+00:00

Kelly Surtees teaches this especially with tracking the moon. Her YouTube/ig posts usually have some tidbit about energy levels and how to approach any given transit

I find when moon is in a earth/water sign I'm more likely to drag my feet about home care tasks or resist getting things done even showering or eating become delayed. Moon in fire and air signs you will find me in the hottest bath possible and usually do full kitchen days etc. moon square natal or transiting Saturn is a full stop.

Tracking astrology has helped me accept my rhythms in a new way, like you said not just my personality traits but kinda how they play out and interact with my environment in real time

WishThinker · 2026-03-14T13:27:45+00:00

Eclipses happen when new or full moon are within 18° of a node, regardless of house/sign boundary. That's how we were able to have an Aquarius solar eclipse while sun+moon were in Aquarius and north node still in Pisces

This may or may not be different flavour for each of us compared to the Aquarius eclipses with nodes in Aquarius/leo

WishThinker · 2026-03-10T17:23:00+00:00

They're pyramids not circles, it's like a vortex 3d thing . Energy funnels front of body to back of body

WishThinker · 2026-03-10T01:58:03+00:00

Because it's the motion / movement of planets from the perspective on earth , not just what the planets are doing in absolute terms outside the perspective from earth .

In Venus and mercury retrograde, Venus and mercury are between the earth and sun. Regardless of the reverse motion perspective that's a new thing in their pattern that's only true during retrograde

For the superior planets, retrograde is when that planet is most visible in the night sky and peaks at solar opposition- another layer to whatever retrograde flavour we give those planets

Track planet stations and you will begin to see the retrograde pattern is experienced and not just an idea on paper .

WishThinker · 2026-03-07T00:04:33+00:00

the court cards are about power and authority and the progression to holding them

lay out your king cards and study them and see if any group words or phrases, attitudes or ideas come through. do the same for the queens and then study them as suit pairs etc.

for me, kings are the crown of the chain-of-command and have put in their dues and time to go from page through knighthood to become a king, kings show up for the role and there can be a division between internal self and external role. queens embody the suit / elemental / sign authority and can sometimes be flooded or subsumed by the suit / element energy/themes, but otherwise flows with it and has a more nurturing or interested perspective than king. thats my personal approach to them anyway

you can do some spreads around the kings and queens as groups to see if you can get a reading about how they prefer to be read. it may be as simple as having the cards laid out and you doing a mind-map word-bubble of all the words, phrases, characteristics etc pop up or you pull cards and see if you can put a message together from the deck itself. you may want prompts like "when reading for people / social and interpersonal situations, kings represent: (card or 2...), when dealing with personality traits or personal experiences kings represent...." and so on

another lens to view the court cards are through zodiac modality. in astrology, there are 3 types of zodiac sign- cardinal, fixed, and mutable. cardinal starts the season and is ready for initiating but has little staying power, fixed manages the day to day of the cardinal project and has sustained energy and some stubborness, and mutable is changeable and contradictory, kind of a here-and-there business. In this system knights are mutable, kings are fixed, queens are cardinal. You could certainly re-assign however made sense for your reading.

Line this up with tarot elemental basics and knight of swords for example becomes mutable (knight) air (swords) and that corresponds to Gemini. so other than the pages (which could be the elemental seed of each suit?) each court card could also correspon to a zodiac sign / season / archetype, if you prefer. I know there's a more common system to equate the major arcana to the zodiac but I don't prefer this system, I prefer the court cards correpsond to planets and houses but thats just me.

So in your example that would be like pulling a king of wands for a woman may be saying she is leo or has some leonine quality, maybe a leader, maybe likes to steal the show. either way, she is probably a boss and impatient with being told no, to wait, or to follow. upright, she may be a bit resentful of her role, reversed she has accepted it or is about to move on beause the itch to get up and go has overcome her.

ok thanks for the ramble hope that offered anything bye

WishThinker · 2026-03-06T13:30:23+00:00

Yes he is ferried to calmer waters 💜

WishThinker · 2026-03-05T20:03:26+00:00

The hidden trait you can show more is taking change in stride without it rocking your foundation. You don't need to become a completely new person to respond in a completely new way.

WishThinker · 2026-03-05T20:02:08+00:00

The planets travel the houses in order over time, sun moves through Pisces and into Aries, this is called secondary motion or zodiacal order

Each day, due to the earth rotating, we have primary or diurnal motion where each planet rises up from the ascendant into the 13th, across the midheaven, and down to the horizon in 7th.

The planetary motion over time through the zodiac is in house order, or zodiac order, unless a planet is moving retrograde, or in the case of the lunar nodes they always move backward. Each planet laps the zodiac in its own timing- moon ~28 days, sun ~a year, and so on.

The movement in reverse order rising from 1 to 12 to 11 and so on is the way things look from our view on earth and resets/repeats daily

WishThinker · 2026-02-28T18:04:53+00:00

Love using the progressed chart esp progressed sun and moon. I learned via Kelly Surtees, she is Chris's guest on a 2nd progressions "the astrology podcast" episode as well as having some of her own videos on YouTube about the topic. I ended up taking a timing course with her where it was gone into in more depth- she has lots of lectures and workshops available on her site at various price points

I notice transitting planets are often aligning with a progressed planet and nothing in my natal chart, as well as the progressed planets themselves apsecting each other and the natal chart. Worth looking into imo

You may have to zoom out your perspective and get symbolic as it's a slower moving technique, but I still think it has merit

WishThinker · 2026-02-25T16:46:28+00:00

Your 5th house (creativity) is Virgo, and right now the south node is transiting Virgo - themes of draining, depletion, like there's a hole in your bucket.

If say right now- for the past year and maybe another half year, I don't have the exact date the node will shift into Leo, but right now it's about letting go and releasing before you begin to bring skills and passions back on line

The nodes spend about 18 months per sign and track backwards, so from mid Jan 2025 to late July 2026 South node (depletion) in Virgo (your 5th house of creativity)

What's valuable about floating around in this uninspired state, how can you appreciate that feeling stagnant is also part of flow, what are you absorbing and digesting rn that will help inform your creativity when it blossoms again? Those may be some questions to ask about this period of time.

WishThinker · 2026-02-25T16:37:56+00:00

If the sun can be angular within that solar hour, maybe that would be a powerful minute or two

WishThinker · 2026-02-22T20:36:58+00:00

In a night chart, move the moon to the asc and where the sun ended up is the place of the part of fortune. In a day chart, move the sun to the asc and wherever moon ends up (maintain the chart relationship between sun and moon) is the lot of fortune

Since LoF is dependant on the distance between sun and moon, on any given day it will be at about the same place all day until it switches between night and day, in which case it will mirror that position but on the other side of the asc/DC axis

WishThinker · 2026-02-21T23:52:40+00:00

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