How to Add Astrology Transits to Your Calendar

The hard part of tracking transits is remembering them on the day you are standing in. You read that Mercury stations direct on the thirteenth, you think that might explain a few things, and then the thirteenth arrives and you have no idea why the week feels the way it does.

My astrology transit calendar solves that by putting the dates into whatever calendar you already look at, and every entry carries a note inside it, so when the day arrives you can read what that transit means without going looking. It takes about a minute to set up, and it works in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook. Here is how to do it in each one.

What Lands in Your Calendar

Before the steps, what you are adding. A lot of the astrology calendars you will find are fixed to a single year and go stale, so worth saying plainly: this one keeps moving. The feed carries 577 dates in its default set and runs to the end of 2032, so you are not downloading a 2027 calendar that expires and needs replacing every January. Tick every category and it holds more than 1,500.

Lunations, the new and full moon phases, each with its sign and degree
Eclipses, solar and lunar, flagged separately from ordinary lunations
Ingresses, every planetary move into a new sign, including the Sun, so the start of Virgo season and every other season change lands in your calendar
Retrogrades, both the retrograde station and the direct station
Solar Events, the equinoxes and solstices, named as such so you can see the quarters of the year at a glance
Cazimis, the hours a planet sits exactly at the heart of the Sun
Void of Course moons, each one showing how long it runs and which sign the Moon moves into next
A link inside every entry, so tapping the event opens the reading for that specific transit

You pick which of those seven you want before you add it, so if the only thing you care about is retrogrades, like the current Saturn retrograde, that is the only thing that will land in your calendar. Each entry takes fifteen minutes of calendar space and is marked as free time, so it should not make you look busy to anyone checking your availability.

How to Add Astrology Transits to Google Calendar

Google Calendar needs the web address version of the feed. This is usually the step people get stuck on, because the subscribe button handles it for you in every other app and Google is the one that wants the address pasted in by hand.

Open Google Calendar on a desktop browser. The mobile app cannot add a calendar by URL, though it will show one you added on desktop.
In the left sidebar, find Other calendars and click the plus sign next to it.
Choose From URL.
Paste in your own calendar link, the one from your order confirmation email.
Click Add calendar. It appears in your sidebar as Bonnie Sorsby, Transit Calendar.

To take only some event types, add them to the end of the address, separated by commas. The four values are lunation, eclipse, ingress and station. So for retrogrades and eclipses only, you would add &types=station,eclipse to the end of your own link.

Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, which is typically somewhere between a few hours and a day. There is no way to force it from your end, so a new date that has not appeared yet will usually turn up within the day.

How to Add Astrology Transits on Android

Android has no way to add a calendar by URL on the phone itself, which is a Google restriction and not something any astrology site can work around. The route is to add it once in Google Calendar on a desktop browser using the steps above, and it then syncs down to your Android phone on its own.

If it does not appear straight away, open the Google Calendar app, go to Settings, and check the calendar is ticked under your account. Newly added subscriptions are sometimes switched off by default on the phone.

How to Add Astrology Transits to Apple Calendar

Apple Calendar handles the subscribe button directly, so this is the quickest of the three.

On an iPhone or iPad, open the transit calendar page, tick the event types you want, and tap Subscribe. iOS opens the Calendar app and asks you to confirm.
On a Mac, you can do the same, or use File, then New Calendar Subscription, and paste the address above.
In the dialog that appears, set Auto-refresh to daily or weekly. The default of every five minutes is more often than the feed changes.

How to Add Astrology Transits to Outlook

Outlook calls this subscribing from the web, and it lives in slightly different places depending on which version you have.

In Outlook on the web, open Calendar, then Add calendar in the left sidebar.
Choose Subscribe from web.
Paste the address above, give it a name, and click Import.

Subscribe or Download the Astrology Calendar

The calendar page gives you two buttons and they do genuinely different things, which is worth understanding before you pick one.

Subscribe creates a live link. Your calendar checks back periodically and picks up whatever has changed, so the dates keep extending forward without you doing anything. This is the one you probably want.

Download file gives you a one-time snapshot of the next twelve months as a file you import. The events are yours permanently and they never update, which suits you if you would rather not have anything phoning home, or if you want to edit the entries yourself. You would need to download it again next year.

How Accurate Are These Dates

Every entry carries a degree and a minute. The new moon on November 9 arrives in your calendar as 16 degrees 53 minutes of Scorpio, and a retrograde station gives you the exact degree the planet turned. Each moment is calculated for that event on its own, which is where the precision comes from.

Times are published in UTC and your calendar app converts them, so the date you see is right for wherever you are. That matters more than it sounds. A station at 02:40 UTC on the sixteenth is the fifteenth in New York, and a calendar that publishes one fixed zone will usually get that wrong for most of the people reading it.

One honest note on stations. The moment a planet turns retrograde is the softest figure in any ephemeris, because its apparent speed often sits near zero for days on either side. The date holds. The minute can vary between sources, and anyone quoting a station to the second is selling you false precision.

What Each Transit Entry Links To

Every event in the feed carries a link back to the relevant post, so tapping an entry in your calendar can take you straight to what that transit means instead of leaving you holding a name and a date. A new moon opens the post for that new moon, so a Gemini full moon opens the Gemini full moon post, and a retrograde station opens the post for that retrograde.

Where a specific post does not exist yet, the link runs a search on the site so you still land somewhere useful. I am steadily filling those in, so more of them resolve directly over time.

Is There a Personal Astrology Transit Calendar?

A personal astrology transit calendar means something more specific than the one you just subscribed to, and people search for both without always meaning the same thing.

The calendar above is the sky. Every person who subscribes to it gets identical entries, because the Moon is full at the same moment for all of us. A personal transit calendar is the next layer: one that knows your chart, so it can tell you that this particular full moon lands in your tenth house, or that Saturn is currently sitting on your Venus.

Most of the options for that are paid, and several of them are slow. You buy a custom file generated from your birth data and it arrives by email some days later, covering a fixed twelve months. When the year is up you buy another one. Others send a daily email you have to read on their schedule instead of checking when you want.

Void of course Moons are the most frequent event in the feed by a wide margin, at roughly eleven a month. What a void of course Moon means covers why there are so many and what to do during one.

The way I would put it together costs nothing on the calendar side and keeps the personal layer live. Subscribe to the calendar for the dates, then use your own chart to check any of those dates against your placements whenever a calendar entry catches your eye. No waiting, no expiry, and you can look ahead as far as you like instead of being limited to whatever window somebody generated for you.

The Calendar Shows the Sky, Your Chart Shows Where It Lands

One honest limit. This calendar shows the sky, which is where all astrology starts, and the sky is the same for everyone looking at it. It does not know your chart, so it cannot tell you that Tuesday’s full moon might be landing in your tenth house, or sitting right on your Venus.

That part needs your own chart alongside it, and the two work well together: the calendar tells you when, your chart tells you where it lands for you. If what you are really after is a personal astrology transit calendar, one that knows your houses and your placements, that is the combination that gets you there.

The calendar gives you the date. Your Beautiful Birth Chart gives you the rest of it: your placements by sign and house, every aspect with its orb, and date navigation so you can type in any transit from your calendar and see exactly what it touches in your own chart.

Your Beautiful Birth Chart

Astrology Calendar Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add astrology transits to Google Calendar?

In Google Calendar on desktop, click the plus next to Other calendars, choose From URL, and paste in your own calendar link. That link arrives in your order confirmation email and is yours alone. The mobile app cannot add a calendar by URL, so this has to be done in a browser first.

Is the astrology transit calendar free?

The calendar itself is free to read. Every date for the year is on my transit calendar and you can check it whenever you like without paying for anything. Having it arrive in your own phone, with a note on each event telling you what it means, is seven dollars for the year.

Will it clutter my calendar?

You choose which of the seven event types to include before you add it, so you can take only retrogrades if that is all you want. Void of course moons are the one to think about, because they run roughly every other day and nearly triple the size of the calendar, which is why they are switched off unless you ask for them. Each entry occupies fifteen minutes and is marked as free time, so it does not affect your availability.

Does the calendar update automatically?

If you subscribe, yes. The feed is set to refresh every forty eight hours and your calendar app checks in on its own schedule. If you download the file instead, it is a fixed snapshot of twelve months and never changes.

What is the difference between subscribing and downloading?

Adding it creates a live link that keeps updating as new dates arrive, and it lands as its own calendar you can remove in one action. Downloading gives you a one-time file covering the next twelve months, which is yours permanently and never refreshes. Worth knowing before you choose: downloaded events import loose into whichever calendar you pick, and taking them out again means deleting them one at a time.

Can I change which transits I get after I have added it?

On Apple you can change it in place without removing anything. On iPhone open Settings, then Calendar, then Accounts, then Subscribed Calendars, tap the transit calendar, and edit the address in the Server field. The types you picked sit at the end of that address, so deleting the ones you no longer want is enough, and the rest of the calendar carries on untouched. On a Mac, right click the calendar and choose Get Info to reach the same address. Google Calendar has no address field on a subscribed calendar, so there you remove it and add it again with different boxes ticked, which takes about thirty seconds.

Can I add it to my phone?

On iPhone the Add to Calendar button opens the Calendar app directly. On Android, add it in Google Calendar on a desktop browser first and it will then sync to your phone automatically.

Is there a personal astrology transit calendar for my own chart?

The calendar feed here is the sky, identical for everyone. For the personal layer, pair it with your own chart so you can check any date from the calendar against your placements and houses. Most paid personal calendars generate a fixed twelve month file and email it to you days later, which expires and has to be bought again.

How do I add astrology transits to Google Calendar on Android?

Add it once in Google Calendar on a desktop browser, and it syncs to your Android phone automatically. Android cannot add a calendar by URL from the phone itself, which is a Google restriction.

Will it send me notifications?

The calendar itself sets no alerts at all. If a reminder pops up before an entry, that is your own calendar app applying its default for new events, and you can change it per calendar in your settings. On Apple Calendar the option sits under the subscription itself. On Google Calendar you can edit notifications for that calendar specifically without touching the rest.

What time zone are the events in?

The feed publishes times in UTC and your calendar app converts them to whatever zone you are in, so the dates display correctly wherever you are.