Transits don't Repeat Themselves, They Rhyme

 

A popular saying in historical research is that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.  As regards astrological cycles, nothing could be more true in both a metaphorical sense, and function of astronomical reality.  We track the cycles of a planet making aspects to a natal chart as having a relationship to the moment in which it last made that same aspect.  The way this plays out of course will not be the same as the last pass on this point of the Zodiac, but it will build upon a similar theme.  A common and solid astrological practice in delineating future transits is to investigate what happened the last time a planet was in that same place, be it a year ago with the inner planets, or decades later with Saturn, understanding the narrative which was begun at that point will help to understand what is likely to progress as the planet returns to this point.  While the transit in most technical terms is the same (of course the rest of the transits happening to that chart concurrently will be different, colouring it in a new light), the life living the chart will have grown and altered their perceptions from the last time any given planet was in that place, and thus will react differently to the transit.  Sometimes what was once a tragedy, becomes a triumph.  

  Just as a human life evolves through time and reacts to the same stimuli in a different way (if lessons have been properly integrated), when a planet cycles the Sun and returns to the same degree of the Zodiac, it isn't truly in the same place in space at all.  The Sun itself is orbiting the Galactic Center.  For truly, every time a planet orbits the Sun, it has in fact made a spiral through space and time.  The Zodiacal degree it returns to shares a lateral connection to its past, like a lode bearing beam cast back through time, connecting it to the same degree, but moving ever onward and upwards to greater heights.  View your own life and the cycles you live in the same regard.