As we continue our lessons on Transits, we stress a more structured approach by consolidating the skills learned in the previous lessons.

This lesson builds on last week's introduction to a more structured approach to Transits by stressing the need to detect two factors in any Transit. First, we want to know its quantitative impact and then its timing, or in other words, the strength and duration of its impact on the native. How this can be determined is the focus of this lesson.

We also go into a discussion of House distortion and how the houses themselves are a foundation and the basis for attitudes or impressions formed beforehand about a given house based on the sign found on a house cusp.

The life of Sylvia Plath, poet and diarist continues to be the subject of our study as we observe the significance of transiting planets during important moments and events in her life.

As has already been mentioned, Sylvia Plath was 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 of these volumes are newly translated from the Latin by James Holden and are available now from the AFA bookstore or Astroamerica.

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