ask jeanna: what are planetary transits and void moons?
in which we cover some 101 foundations
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It is our third edition of Ask Jeanna, where paid subscribers in the Discord get to ask questions for me to answer publicly in the newsletter. There has been a recent spat of really wonderful, vulnerable questions around astrology basics.
And so today, we are going to be covering some basics that you, too, may have been wondering about! When I say planetary transit, what the heck even is that? And what does the moon being “void” mean?
Let’s get into it.
The recent conversation in the Saturn channel was miles over my head, and I’m not sure at this point I even want or need that level of detail…. [I want to] maybe just continue to mostly lurk here and slowly feed my curiosity rather than be like “I must understand all the things right away.”
Vocabulary wise, it seems like a good early question could be: What is a transit?
I really appreciate you asking this question about transits because I am 100% confident you are not the only one wondering. But I’m going to spend some time breaking it down.
Part the first of my answer:
Astrology is, to me, at its core, a mindfulness practice. An observational practice, you could say: one that puts us here on earth in relationship with the cosmos, noticing how the changes in the sky (through the planets, stars, etc.) impact our seasons of life. But what are we observing? When Venus brightens in the night sky, and then seems to disappear for weeks on end every 18 months or so? When we see, so visibly in our night sky, that the moon waxes and wanes from a crescent to a full pizza pie every two weeks? What is that? What is happening, exactly? A planetary transit.