Hotspot Transits

The Hotspot Transits study finds when a body crosses a fixed zodiac degree that you consider significant.

Creating a Hotspot Transits Study

To create a Hotspot Transits study:

• Click Mundane Studies → Critical Degree Transits → Hotspot Transits on the menu bar.

The new study is added to the Studies list and opens with your workspace's default settings, ready to configure. You can also create it from the study-group dropdown button on the main toolbar.

Events Captured

This study records an event each time a chosen body crosses a fixed longitudinal degree on the zodiac, a hotspot or critical degree. The degrees the study watches come from its Hotspot Degrees table.

Each event reports the body that made the crossing and the hotspot degree it reached. Because a hotspot can be set to any degree, you can also use this study to capture sign ingresses by listing the sign-boundary degrees; for dedicated sign-boundary tracking, see Sign Ingresses.

Events Table Columns

The events table can display the following columns for this study. Many are hidden by default; to show or hide any column, right-click a column header (see Event Column Visibility). Column headers that name longitude or latitude are relabeled to right ascension and declination when the study's Reference System uses an equatorial reference plane.

Column	Description
Date Time	Date and time of the hotspot transit event.
Body	The body crossing the hotspot / critical degree.
Body Longitude	Longitude of the body. Header shows "Body Longitude" (ecliptic) or "Body Right Asc" (equatorial).
Body Sign	Zodiac sign of the body.
Body Latitude	Latitude of the body. Header shows "Body Latitude" (ecliptic) or "Body Declination" (equatorial).
Body Distance	Distance of the body.
Body Speed	Longitudinal speed of the body.
Hotspot Longitude	Longitude of the crossed hotspot. Header shows "Hotspot Longitude" (ecliptic) or "Hotspot Right Asc" (equatorial).
Hotspot Sign	Zodiac sign of the hotspot.
Event Interval	Interval (days) since the previous event.