Transiting Parallels Study
Declination contacts to the natal positions are missed entirely by longitude transits, so anyone working in declination needs them listed separately. A Transiting Parallels study does exactly that.
The study generates an event each time a transiting body forms an exact parallel or contra-parallel of declination to a natal body. Every event records the transiting body, the natal body it contacts, which of the two kinds of contact it is, and the moment the contact perfects.
Create a Transiting Parallels Study
To add a Transiting Parallels study to the current workspace:
- Click Transit Studies → Transiting Parallels on the menu bar.
Alternatively, click the Parallel Studies drop-down button on the toolbar and select Transiting Parallels from its flyout.
The new study appears at the bottom of the Studies list and is selected automatically, so its settings open immediately. It takes its name from the study type.
What This Study Finds
Transiting Parallels is a transiting study rather than an activation study, and the distinction decides what counts as an event. Here the natal body is one end of the contact itself: a natal body is required to complete the parallel, and no event exists without one. In an activation study such as Parallel Activations, by contrast, the parallel is formed between two transiting bodies in their own right, and a natal body is engaged separately by whichever of them is in contact with it.
The technique works in declination rather than longitude, and that has consequences for the body lists: the diurnal angles, the lunar axis points and the hypothetical Uranian bodies are not offered by this study, the Uranians because six of the eight have identically zero ecliptic latitude. See Which Bodies a Study Offers for the full set a study omits. The Event Type drop-down narrows the results to parallels alone or contra-parallels alone, or leaves the study generating both. See Event Type Selection for how the drop-down behaves.
The settings column carries a single tab control with an Ephemeris tab, holding the shared ephemeris settings and date-range panels, and an Event & Natal Data tab. Rather than using the shared Natal Data panel, this study lays the same rows out inline on that tab, with the Event Type drop-down alongside the natal record, date and time fields. Beneath the tabs, the Transit. Bodies and Natal Bodies selection lists sit side by side.
Events Table Columns
The events table shows the columns below. Several columns are hidden by default, as the table notes. Right-click any column header to show or hide a column, as described in Choose Events Table Columns. The headers of the coordinate columns follow the study's Reference Plane: they read Longitude and Latitude in the ecliptic plane, and Right Asc and Declination in the equatorial plane. The ecliptic-plane header text is listed here.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Date Time | Date and time the contact perfects, in the application's long date-time format. Always the first column, and it cannot be moved. Visible by default. |
| Event Type | Which kind of contact the event is, parallel or contra-parallel. Visible by default. |
| Transiting Body | Name of the transiting body. Visible by default. |
| Transiting Body Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Transiting Body Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Transiting Body Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Transiting Body Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Transiting Body Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body | Name of the natal body. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Separation | Angular separation between the transiting body and the natal body, in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Event Interval | Elapsed time since the previous event in the list. Hidden by default. |