With lesson 5, we start to stress a more structured approach in our study of transits by consolidating the skills learned in the previous lessons.

We explore the importance of a Planet's current position in the sky as a cause that can precipitate events already seen potentially in the natal chart (by repeating or reviving a natal planetary configuration). And this latter illustration together with a demonstration on how to evaluate the strength and duration of a transit form the key elements to a simple structured approach to transits. We illustrate these techniques using the chart of one of the great 20^th century American poets and novelists, Sylvia Plath.

Known for her exquisite poetry and her autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar", Plath had a "fragile hold on life" and an increasing erratic relationship and marriage to the writer Ted Hughes that ended in suicide at the youthful age of 30. Like Hemingway, her well documented life makes her chart an ideal case study for the topic of transits.

Content for this Quarter as well as the following quarter, Quarter 6 is based on Books 23 and 24 of Morin's Astrologia Gallica. Both volumes are newly translated from the Latin by James Holden and are available now from the AFA bookstore and Astroamerica.com.

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