Human Design Transits
Transits are the positions of the planets at a given moment. They activate the same gates for everyone at the same time, which colors the general mood of that moment.
Planets in a transit
In a transit, each planet brings the theme of its gate to everyone for as long as it stays there.
Defined centers
The centers that the planets define by themselves at a moment are defined for everyone while the transits last, so everyone feels their energy in a consistent way, and the people whose own center is open there feel it the most.
Channels in a transit
A channel joins two centers through the gates at its two ends. When both gates are activated, the channel is defined and brings its theme for as long as the planets stay in those gates.
Completed channels
The channels that the planets of a moment complete together with a birth chart, or define on their own, bring their theme for as long as the transit lasts. The Moon moves on within hours, while the slow planets can stay for months or years.
Centers defined now
A center can be defined for now, when the planets of a moment complete a channel with the gates of a birth chart while the center is open in the birth chart itself, so its energy is felt in a consistent way only while the transit lasts.
Coming up
The next time each planet of the transits moves into a gate that completes a channel with the birth chart, counted from the moment shown and up to a year ahead. The Moon gets there within days, while the slow planets often don't within a year. Each one can be shown, to see the transits of that moment.
Completed for two people
The channels that the planets of a moment complete together with the gates of two people, or define on their own, bring a theme that the two of them share for as long as the transit lasts, a channel that neither of them nor their connection defines.
Defined centers of two people
The defined centers of a connection chart with the transits are the ones that the two people and the planets of the moment define together, as the body graph shows them for as long as the transits last. The Connection Chart shows the centers of the two people without the transits.
Cycles
The slow planets mark a few turning points in everyone's life, each at the moment one of them first gets back to where it was at birth, or to the opposite side of the wheel. Since a planet seems to move back and forth for a while every year, it can pass the same point up to three times, and the cycle is the first of them.
Saturn Return
Saturn takes about 29 years to go around the wheel, so it gets back to where it was at birth around the age of 29. Within Human Design, this Saturn return closes the first stage of life, the years of growing up, and it's a time when people often look back at how they've lived so far.
Uranus Opposition
Uranus takes about 84 years to go around the wheel, so it reaches the side opposite to where it was at birth around the age of 40. Within Human Design, this Uranus opposition is the middle of life, the turn to its second half, and it's the time that's often called a midlife crisis.
Chiron Return
Chiron takes about 50 years to go around the wheel, so it gets back to where it was at birth around the age of 50. Within Human Design, this Chiron return opens the last stage of life, when what people have learned from their own life can be of use to others.