A short companion practice to the essay “II. Hope Math,” for locating the end of a hard transit.
This is for people inside a hard stretch who need to know when it ends. It uses whole sign houses. An important note: it is not a replacement for therapy, medical care, or talking to trusted people, but it can sit alongside those.
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What you'll need
Hard transits, the ones that change the texture of daily life, usually come from slow planets: Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
Look at where each of those planets is now. Note which whole sign house it is moving through in your chart. Then look for any hard aspect it is making to a personal planet—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars—or to your ascendant.
The hard aspects are conjunctions, oppositions, and squares. If you recognize your experience in more than one, pick the one that feels most central. Start there.
A transit perfects when the transiting planet hits the exact degree of the aspect. Slow planets often perfect the same transit two or three times across months or years, because they retrograde.
The last perfection is the date you want. That is when the planet is finally done.
On astro-seek’s transit calculator, enter your birth data and confirm whole sign houses. Set a date range that covers the next three years. Scan the results for the rows that match your transit (the same transiting planet, the same natal planet or ascendant, and the same aspect), then write down the date of the last perfection.
If the transit has not yet had its first perfection, note both dates: the next perfection (the next hard wave) and the last perfection (when the planet is past the aspect).
Write the last perfection date somewhere private.
Check the date when you need it. Whenever the hard thing starts to feel like a forever condition.
The date is what says: this is a season, not forever.