Subject E Winning Transits

Subject E Winning Transits

Again, we have a transit chart with a crowded 5^th house, and when those transits were compared to the natal chart of Subject E, most of those planets ended up in the natal 2^nd house of money. Besides that, what first catches our eye is that the transiting East Point conjuncted the transiting Transpluto and both conjuncted the natal Pluto, South Node, Prenatal Lunar Eclipse at 21 Leo 14, and Midheaven.

Once again we have a natal chart with Scorpio rising, and therefore, two chart rulers.

• Transiting Mars was just inside the cusp of the 2^nd house of money where it trined the stellium mentioned above—natal Pluto, South Node, Prenatal Lunar Eclipse and Midheaven.

• Transiting Pluto squared the stellium. That’s a lot of power at the Midheaven. Just as importantly, Pluto squared the natal Moon’s Nodes, which represented a milestone or turning point in life.

Transiting Jupiter ruled the 2^nd house of money and trined its own natal place. It also sextiled the chart co-ruler Mars, and natal Ascendant, as well as Uranus in the 8^th house of lotteries. Jupiter co-ruled the 5^th house of risks and gambles.

Neptune was the modern ruler of the 5^th house of risks and gambles. It transited the natal 2^nd house of money.

• It trined natal Jupiter.

• It opposed Uranus in the 8^th house, which interestingly enough, is said to induce mystical experiences as well as inspiration and excitement.

• It squared its own place.

Transiting Mercury trined natal Venus in this chart, and that appears to be all it did. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but Mercury is an important planet to this win because it ruled both the 8^th house of lotteries and 11^th house of plot twists and lucky breaks. We want to see it do something important, but the recipient of the aspect,Venus, neither ruled nor occupied a winning house. It seems a little like a wasted aspect, doesn’t it? We need to have a closer inspection so that we will remember to look for these things in our own charts.

First, let’s note that transiting Mercury was in mutual reception with transiting Jupiter, so they have each other’s full backing and support, and work together. They may create or indicate a special talent. Jupiter ruled of the 2^nd house of money.

Secondly, let’s note that Mercury had reached the degree of the previous new Moon, which took place on December 6, at 13 Sagittarius.

Before that, around November 7, 1991, soon after Mercury entered Sagittarius, it trined the natal Sun in the 9^th house. The 9^th house isn’t one of the winning houses, so maybe we shrug. But the Sun is the Sun. It’s as central to the chart as it is to our lives. It doesn’t have to do anything other than be itself. However, this natal Sun did a lot more. It ruled the Midheaven, which is almost tied in importance with being an Ascendant ruler of any chart. But it was also the final dispositor of all the natal planets, which increased its power and strength even more. The final dispositor of a chart is equivalent to being President, Queen, Dalai Lama, or Pope. It’s the top of the food chain. To reiterate, transiting Mercury trined the Sun.

After the Sun, Mercury trined natal Transpluto of payoffs. Lucky chart, right? After Transpluto, Mercury trined, in order:

• Venus, the Lesser Beneficent, and then on Nov 17, entered the 2^nd house of money.

• Pluto, planet of wealth, power and transformation, one of the chart rulers.

• The Prenatal Lunar Eclipse at 21 Leo 14, a point of fate and destiny.

• The South Node of the Moon, which signifies the reaping of karma, or that which has been sown and is deserved.

• The Midheaven, the path we take in life, an estimation of our reputation, and public recognition.

On November 28, 1991, Mercury turned retrograde at 24 Sagittarius, just before it could complete a trine to its own natal position at 26 Sagittarius. Think about what it did next; it trined, in reverse: the Midheaven, South Node, Prenatal Lunar Eclipse, Pluto, and Venus again, before becoming stationary direct at 7 Sagittarius, just short of Transpluto and the Sun, with an orb close enough to be effective, even if not partile.

In retrograde motion, the inner planets are like hurricanes. At first, they are just sort of “at sea,” stalled, murky, vague, without a definitive form, but all the while, feeding, gathering strength, and getting ready to unleash all the force and energy they’re accumulating as soon as they turn direct and hit landfall. This may be true of the outer planets as well, but their retrograde cycles are so long, we may have less comprehension of the gales they produce.

So, at first glance, while it seems as if making a trine to Venus was all that Mercury did to help out in this win, it actually did much more. Mercury accrued some energy of every planet and point it aspected while retrograde, and unleashed it when it “hit landfall.” We could say that it doesn’t even matter that Venus was the designated point of impact, that it just happened to be the planet Mercury reached by aspect when all the other winning transits fell into place, but that would be to trivialize what appears to be the marvel of a master plan in the Universe.

Transiting Uranus transited the 2^nd house and opposed its own natal place in the 8^th house of lotteries. It sextiled natal Mars, the chart co-ruler of, and at, the Ascendant.

The Moon’s transiting North Node conjuncted natal Chiron of triumphant ascendancy and once-in-a-lifetime events, in the 2^nd house of money.

The transiting Sun conjuncted the natal Part of Fortune, and sextiled the Prenatal Solar Eclipse at 5 Pisces 43.

Transiting Chiron, of triumphant ascendancy and once-in-a-lifetime events, conjuncted natal Transpluto of payoffs.

The transiting Vertex date with destiny trined the natal Moon in the 11^th house of plot twists, and sextiled the natal East Point, to capture the public’s imagination.

The transiting Midheaven squared natal Mercury at the Midheaven, ruler of the 8^th house of lotteries and 11^th house of plot twists. It also trined the natal Moon in the 11^th house. Subject E experienced a lunar return just hours after this win.

© Lesia Valentine 2018