Barleywine
Periodically I drag out my ephemeris (yeah, I know, old-school hardcopy guy) and take a look at planetary transits (conjunctions and major aspects only) for my and my wife's natal and progressed charts. I usually ignore Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus unless I'm considering a one or two-day period involving an event, or unless they're at or approaching station (Mercury and Venus), closely angular or making an ingress by sign. I always take a quick look at Mars if it's slow or stationary and tying something together. I will glance at the outer planets, but mainly out of habit, not because I draw much that's useful from them.
But over the last few years I tend to focus almost exclusively on Jupiter and Saturn transits - especially the latter - because they give a more lasting impression of the tone of extended periods of time. The rest is mostly ephemeral in its impact. Jupiter and Saturn also give me a perspective on the "social context" of the period: Saturn as the "architecture" and Jupiter as the "indwelling dynamic," just something a bit fanciful I worked out to make more sense of them as "social" planets.
What are your thoughts on the relative dominance of these planets in a transit chart?
But over the last few years I tend to focus almost exclusively on Jupiter and Saturn transits - especially the latter - because they give a more lasting impression of the tone of extended periods of time. The rest is mostly ephemeral in its impact. Jupiter and Saturn also give me a perspective on the "social context" of the period: Saturn as the "architecture" and Jupiter as the "indwelling dynamic," just something a bit fanciful I worked out to make more sense of them as "social" planets.
What are your thoughts on the relative dominance of these planets in a transit chart?