Personal Transit Alerts
How personal transit alerts surface significant transits to your natal chart.
Personal transit alerts highlight when a transiting planet right now is forming a significant aspect to a planet in your natal chart. They appear on the Home dashboard so you can see, at a glance, which transits are active for you today - for example, "Transit Saturn square your natal Moon."
Prerequisites
Transit alerts are personal, so the app needs to know which natal chart to compare against. Two things must be in place:
- You are logged in - alerts require an account
- A primary birth data entry is set - the alerts are calculated against the natal chart of your primary birth data
If either is missing, the Home dashboard simply shows the current sky without personal alerts. To learn how to register and mark a primary entry, see Managing Birth Data.
Where Alerts Appear
When the prerequisites are met, alerts appear directly on the Home dashboard as alert cards. Each card describes the active aspect - the transiting planet, the aspect, and the natal planet it is hitting.
For more about the Home dashboard, see Home Page.
Tuning Which Alerts You See
How many alerts you see depends on the aspect orb - the allowed distance from an exact aspect. A wider orb surfaces more alerts (including looser ones); a tighter orb shows only near-exact aspects.
You can adjust this in Settings → General:
- Personal Transit Alerts - a toggle to turn the feature on or off
- Orb setting - the aspect orb used to decide which transits count as significant
For background on aspects and orbs, see Points and Aspects.
Tips
Transit alerts are most useful when checked regularly.
- Daily check-in - glance at Home each day to see which transits are coming into orb
- Start tight - begin with a narrow orb so only the strongest transits show, then widen it if you want more detail
- Pair with snapshots - when a notable transit is active, save a snapshot so you can review it later