How I Use Astrology in My Everyday Life
From tracking the moon daily to understanding the longer movements of Jupiter or Saturn, here are a few tips I have!
When I get questions about what astrology rituals I engage in, like how I manifest at a new or full moon or what I do at the time of eclipses, I usually have nothing to add. While engaging in these activities can be nice, I don’t see astrology as something that needs to be that complicated - it simply exists in the background of your everyday life. I view astrology as a useful tool that helps you to better understand developments happening day to day, and it also serves as a reference for major life chapters that might be unfolding over several years. You don’t need to force yourself to do anything around specific astrological events, your life will naturally play out as it is meant too and the astrology will echo that.
Astrology shows up in all different areas, whether it’s reflecting internal changes happening at work, indicating that a certain week might be more social for you, or hinting that it might be time to go easy on yourself and slow down. By keeping track of transits to your chart (link out to an article on this), you can make sense of these various ebbs and flows throughout a given week, month, year, or even decade. In today’s newsletter, I want to break down a few of the ways I incorporate astrology into my everyday life to show how you can make greater sense of where you are currently are and where your energy might be best directed.
Resources
For all of the points that I’m about to go over, you will be tracking transits to your chart. These are some helpful resources for how to do so.
I personally pull up a transit chart when I want to know exactly where the current planets are in relation to my own chart. In addition to online chart generators, you can use an ephemeris.
If transits feel confusing, there are a couple of helpful astrology apps that do the interpretation work for you. Time Passages and Chani are popular options. I don’t use either, but have heard good things about them.
Because a lot of what I talk about below is referencing transits to specific houses of your chart, you may want to pull up this past article I did on the themes of all 12 houses.
I also recommend keeping a journal and taking note of what happens throughout your week and how that corresponds with current transits. You can even revisit past years in your life and write down major events that occurred and how the transits at that time reflected that. I did an example of my “transit diaries” last year.
Here are a few of the ways I use astrology in my everyday life.
1. I track the Moon to understand where my emotions and priorities will lie on any given day
Because the Moon is the planet that moves the most quickly, only spending 2.5 days in one sign and house of your chart, it is the transit that is the most telling of how you will feel on a day to day basis.
On any given day, I know what sign and house of my chart the Moon is moving through. Tracking the Moon helps me to understand why a certain area of life may be a bigger priority that day, as well as what days may be more significant in terms of activity, versus other days in that same week that may feel slower. For instance, I know that when the Moon is moving through my 5th house of creativity and leisure activities, work likely won’t be as busy. But then a couple of days later when the Moon has shifted into my 6th house, my work schedule suddenly picks back up again.
Tracking the Moon even helps to see more minor happenings, like what days I may be more motivated to exercise (usually the moon in a cardinal sign is when I feel extra energized), or when I may need a slower start to the day because I’m tired (hello, moon in Pisces!). I also use the moon to pick days to organize events with friends, because I know I’ll naturally feel more social. In addition, I schedule astrology readings, workshops, and work announcements by looking to the Moon’s transit. If I’m wanting people to purchase something from me, I’ll usually time that to the Moon transiting a financial house of the chart (2nd or 8th houses or connecting with Venus). Or if I’m announcing an offering that I want to go over well with my audience, I will time it to the Moon being in the 1st or 10th house (more visible parts of the chart) or the 11th (community oriented). If I’m hosting a workshop or event, I’m usually identifying the best Moon transits out of the month for teaching and connecting with people.
I will say that you don’t necessarily need to plan too much with astrology, these events and emotions that correspond with the Moon’s transits will naturally occur. For instance, even if I’m not planning some type of social outing for a day that the Moon is in a relationship oriented house of the chart, people may still reach out to me or ask me to meet up. The same goes for career - I will receive emails about work opportunities or simply be busier than usual without me needing to do outreach or force it.
This workshop I hosted several months ago and corresponding newsletter are helpful if you’re wanting to go deeper in using the Moon to plan out your week.
2. Recognizing that certain times of the year are geared toward different activities and themes
If you’re wanting to understand the various “seasons” that make up your year, like what month your career might be a bigger deal, versus when a better time may be to take off work and schedule travel, that’s when you will want to look to the slightly longer transits of the Sun and Mars.
The Sun spends about thirty days in a sign and house of your chart, and it shows where you’re going through significant personal development and tapping into new interests and sides of your identity. When the Sun and Moon aspect each other at the time of the new and full moons each month, you can identify that as a key periods out of the month for noticing a specific house and sign’s topics getting intensified. In the days building up to a new or full moon, you will notice the topics of the sign and house in which the lunation is occurring becoming more prominent in your life. A new moon in your 2nd house may have you feeling super focused on launching a work project or building your own business that month, while a full moon in your 7th house may have you doing a lot of reflecting on a relationship or coming together with people you care about more frequently. These will be background themes you’re seeing play out over several weeks, rather than just a couple of days. In the diagram below, the Sun is in the 11th house and a full moon is occurring in the 5th house. Both 11th house themes of community and social commitments and 5th house themes of creativity and building self confidence will be relevant for them this month.
Meanwhile, Mars typically spends about six weeks in a sign and house of your chart (unless it is nearing a retrograde or actually retrograde) and shows where you’re feeling more motivated and inspired to take action during that period. Therefore, the transits of the Sun and Mars are pretty similar in that they define this several weeks period of seeing greater activity occur in a certain area of your life. However, Mars just tends to bring up more aggravation, irritation, and impulsive behavior than the Sun, which is something to note. Mars can point to an area of your life that may feel a bit frustrating for a few weeks
For further information on how the new and full moon cycles can help you plan for your month, you may want to revisit this past article I did.
3. I like to look to Mercury’s cycle with the Sun to understand when I’ll have more inspiration for communication based work.
This exercise is more specific to what I do for work, since so much of my day involves writing, podcasting, coming up with short form content, and speaking with people. Therefore, I like to look at what Mercury is doing over a longer period of time to understand when I will receive more ideas or developments in these areas. If you have a similar career that revolves a lot around communication, tracking Mercury might be especially helpful.
I like to check in on Mercury’s greatest elongation dates throughout the year in order to see when a flurry of ideas or greater activity with communication based projects are likely to take hold. When Mercury reaches its further distance from the sun, which happens every couple of months, you can expect to have an “aha” moment with a concept or an idea you have for a project, or you may possibly be launching something you’ve been developing for a while. Here are a few key dates for the rest of 2026 to pay attention to.
Meanwhile, I’m always aware that when Mercury is retrograde three times out of the year, that those several weeks likely won’t be as productive. I usually don’t try to introduce any type of new idea or offering in my business, and I spend these periods reflecting on how to restructure work in a certain area, giving extra thought to what I want to speak and share about once the retrograde is over. You can find upcoming Mercury retrograde dates here.
For more information on working with Mercury, you can revisit this past newletter.
4. The longer transits of Jupiter, Saturn, and the Nodes help me to understand the bigger picture of what I’m working toward
I can’t emphasize the transits of Jupiter, Saturn, and the North Nodes enough for understanding the longer, one to three year long themes that make up these mini chapters of your life. These transits can indicate when more meaningful life events will happen for you, like getting into a relationship or reaching a major relationship milestone, switching careers or getting a major new job, experiencing shifts in the way you think about yourself and your overall identity, having a baby, moving cities, etc.
The house in which Jupiter is transiting shows where you may want to expand, further your education, and break free from restrictions over the course of a year. Saturn’s transit indicates where you may experience greater stress, but also where you’ll be doing significant restructuring and learning how to commit and take things more seriously during a 3 year period. And the transits of the North and South Nodes through a pair of houses in your chart will show where you’re experiencing significant changes over a couple of years, which could come about by one chapter ending but a new one beginning. You may also be learning how to achieve greater balance between those two areas of your life.
I always know what signs these three transits are happening in, and it’s the first thing I identify when I pull up someone’s chart. It just helps me to place where they are in life and where they’re currently experiencing the biggest growth and change. With my own chart in my daily life, it helps me to identify years of career peaks or when I can expect to be more focused on my personal life or mental health. So if nothing is happening in one area, I’m not trying to force it so much, knowing that in a year or two, activity will start to flow there again. For instance, having Jupiter transit my 12th house for the past year has been a quieter period of not having as much occur in my social life or career. I could choose to freak out about this and force myself to remain busy. However, knowing astrology, I can recognize that by the time Jupiter enters Leo and then Virgo over the next year, I’ll be busy and embarking on new ventures. I can allow myself to rest, knowing that this period isn’t forever.
For further information on how to track year long themes with the transits of Jupiter, Saturn, and the Nodes, you can revisit this past workshop I did on the topic.
Let me know in the comments how you use astrology in your daily life! Always fun to see different approaches to this practice.
Thank you for the deep dive Alice! ❤️