The astrology of the second half of life
Some things arrive on time
Four planets and one small body reach the same angles to your birth chart at roughly the same ages, for everyone, because the timing is made of orbits. Here is when they reach yours — to the day, and every time they do it.
Your dates
Six events
Work out your dates
The five, one at a time
- Age 29, then 58
Saturn return
Saturn finishes a lap and starts another. The first one is written about endlessly; the second, at fifty-eight, is barely written about at all.
- Age 35 to 65
Pluto square
The one with no typical age. Pluto's orbit is so uneven that this lands in the mid-thirties for some birth years and the mid-sixties for others.
- Age about 41
Neptune square
The most punctual of the five, and often three or five separate passes rather than one date.
- Age 38 to 45
Uranus opposition
Uranus reaches the far side of the sky from where it began — the transit the phrase "midlife crisis" was borrowed from.
- Age 48 to 51
Chiron return
Chiron comes back to where it started. The free calculator ranking for this today adds fifty to your birth year, which names the wrong year about half the time.
Why this one is different
Three things
- N° 01
The dates are computed, not estimated
Positions come from the same engine that draws charts here, checked against NASA's JPL Horizons. Chiron, which almost no astronomy library covers, is a table of sixty-five thousand daily positions fetched straight from JPL. Every date on this site is verified against published ephemerides, down to the hour.
- N° 02
You get every pass, not one date
Planets appear to stop and reverse for months at a time, so these transits usually happen three times, and sometimes five. Pluto crossed into Aquarius five times between 2023 and 2024. A calculator that hands you a single date has either got lucky or quietly dropped two thirds of the answer.
- N° 03
A date of birth, and nothing else
No time, no birth city, no account. These five bodies move slowly enough that the date alone settles it — and the arithmetic happens in your browser, so your date of birth is never sent anywhere at all.
The stance
A transit is a piece of timing, not a verdict on a life. This site treats astrology as a vocabulary for looking at a stretch of years, which rules out forecasts, warnings, and anything that claims to know what happens next — including anything at all about your health.
Guides
- N° 01
What a natal chart is
For someone who knows their sun sign and nothing else. What the chart is a picture of, and what it is not.
- N° 02
Why birth time matters
What changes with the hour, what doesn't, and what you can still learn if you don't know yours.
- N° 03
Why sites disagree about your chart
House systems, explained without jargon — and why two correct sites can show you different houses.
Also here
Free, no sign-up
The whole birth chart, if you want it
Ten bodies, six house systems and an SVG wheel you can download. That one needs a birth time and a place, and it will tell you plainly what it cannot work out if you don't have them — rather than assuming noon and handing you a confident, wrong chart.
Begin
One field, and no sign-up for the date
Your date of birth is all it takes, and the first date comes back straight away.