A day of transits is a snapshot. A month of transits is a short film, and a relationship lives at the speed of the film far more than at the speed of the snapshot. Most of what two people go through together, a busy stretch at work, a move, a few weeks of being unusually easy to live with, takes longer than a day to arrive and longer than a day to leave.

The monthly relationship forecast reads a whole month of sky against the chart of the relationship itself, and tells you which contacts carry the month and on which dates they peak.

The chart being forecast

The forecast is cast on the composite chart of two people. It is built from the midpoints of the two birth charts, planet by planet, so it belongs to neither person and to both, and astrologers read it as the relationship as a unit. Any pair has one: partners, friends, siblings, colleagues. A transit to the composite describes something happening to the pair rather than to either person separately.

Why a month shows different things than a day

On any single day, the fast planets dominate the picture simply because they are always touching something. The Moon crosses every point of the composite in about four weeks, and the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars make fresh contacts every few days. Meanwhile Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move so slowly that on a given day they hardly seem to be doing anything at all.

A month turns that around. Over thirty days the fast contacts come and go, each one a short episode, while a slow planet in orb of a composite point is there from the first day to the last. You see it for what it is: the backdrop. A month is long enough to show a slow planet coming into orb, becoming exact on a date you can mark, and beginning to separate. That arc is what people mean when they say a relationship "went through something".

Take a pair with Saturn approaching the composite Sun. On any one day the report for that day would list it among a dozen other things. Across a month it is unmistakable: the same contact, every day, getting tighter. Inside that steady pressure, Venus might cross the composite Moon for a few easy days in the second week, and Mars might square composite Mercury for a few short tempered ones near the end. The month tells you which is the weather and which is the climate.

Ranking by the whole month, not by the loudest day

Each transit is weighed by the strength it builds up over the whole month: how close it comes, and for how many days it is active. That is why the report ranks a slow contact that is in orb all month above a dramatic sounding fast one that lasts an afternoon.

The readings come with stars, from one to five, that rank each transit against the others of the same month. Five stars are the contacts that carry the month for this pair; one star is the background hum. On the page you see the transits rated three to five stars, so the month reads as a month rather than as a list of every passing contact.

The transit calendar

Before the readings comes the month's transit calendar. It has one row per transit, strongest first, with up to thirty rows. Each row names the transit in words beside its glyphs, and says which sign the transiting planet is in (and when it changes sign), whether it is retrograde, which composite house it crosses, and which sign and house the composite point it touches is in.

Beside the name runs a strip of the month's days. A dot marks every day the transit is active, the large dot marks the day it is exact, and a hollow ring marks the day it is farthest from exact. When a transit does not become exact within the month, the large dot marks the day it comes closest, and the orb is given. A strength bar shows how much weight the row carries.

Read the speeds apart here too. A slow planet's row stretches across the whole strip, because the month sits inside its season. The fast planets give short runs of dots, the dated moments inside that backdrop.

Under the rows comes a day by day list of what becomes exact on each date. It is the part to keep near the calendar on the wall: if a hard contact peaks on the 14th, that is not the day to start a long conversation about the holiday budget, and if an easy one peaks on the 22nd, it may be a good evening to have it instead.

Signed in members can download the calendar as a PDF.

The AI synthesis

At the top of the report, a button asks the AI astrologer to synthesise the month: to write it as a month, with what it opens with, where it turns and what it leaves behind, and to say plainly which few transits actually carry it for this couple. The synthesis is written for the current month, from the strongest transits of that month.

Choosing the month

You choose the month and the year, so you can read the month ahead, the month you are in, or a month that has already happened and that the two of you would like to understand a little better.

A note about the houses and birth times

The composite houses are equal divisions from a midpoint Ascendant rather than the houses of a real sky, so read a transit through a composite house more lightly than one through a birth chart house. For house transits with real angles behind them, read the same month against a Davison chart, which is cast for a real moment over a real place.

Both birth times matter. Without them the composite planets are still reliable and the month's aspects stand, but the composite Moon may be out by a degree or two, and the Ascendant and houses are unavailable. In a composite all twelve houses are measured from that Ascendant, so without it there are no houses at all.

Tendencies, not verdicts

A month of transits describes what a relationship is being asked to deal with. It is not a prediction, and it is not a judgement on the relationship. A demanding month is not a bad sign about the pair, and an easy month is not a guarantee. Two people who know what month they are in are simply better placed than two who are surprised by it.

When you are ready, read the monthly relationship forecast for the two of you here.

Frequently asked questions

What is a monthly relationship forecast?
A month of transits to the composite chart of two people: the sky read against the relationship's own chart, ranked by strength, with the date each contact becomes exact.

How is it different from the daily relationship forecast?
Same chart, longer window. A day shows what is passing. A month shows a slow contact arriving, becoming exact and moving on, which is the scale most relationship weather actually happens on.

What do the stars mean?
They rank each transit against the others of the same month, from one to five. The page shows the transits of three stars and more, the ones that shape the month.

What does "exact" mean in the calendar?
The day the transiting planet is closest to the exact angle. When a transit does not become exact within the month, the calendar marks the day it comes closest and gives the orb.

Do we both need a known birth time?
For the aspects, no. For the composite houses and Ascendant, yes, and the composite needs its Ascendant more than a birth chart does, because all twelve of its houses are measured from it.