What Is the Difference Between a Transit and a Natal Placement?

Your natal chart is fixed — it is the snapshot of the sky at your birth and it never changes. It is the foundation of who you are. Transits are what is happening in the sky right now and how those current planetary positions interact with your natal chart. Think of your natal chart as the blueprint of a house and transits as the weather outside. The house does not change, but the weather affects how you experience living in it. Saturn transiting your seventh house — even if you do not have natal saturn there — brings the same restructuring and building energy to your relationships that natal saturn in the seventh carries. Jupiter transiting your tenth house opens doors professionally regardless of where your natal jupiter sits. This is why two people with very different birth charts can have similarly significant years — because the same transit hits everyone, but it hits each person in the specific house that transit falls in for their chart.