The above graph shows the daily transits of planets to the Angles from midnight to midnight. Click on it to see (or right-click, you may have to download it on some platforms, then open with Window Media Player) an .AVI animation covering the current time period, which you can freeze-frame for any day you want to look at. The top line is when planets reach the MC, the bottom the IC, the middle when rising (line going up) or setting (line going down). The location is for New York (41N), but it works roughly for mid-latitudes anywhere in the world, local standard time. Slow-moving planets shift backwards in time about two hours each month, faster ones vary. 

This allows you to keep an eye on when helpful and hurtful planets are strongest, so you can take advantage of the best and avoid the worst. Have that power lunch or romantic dinner with Jupiter, Sun, or Venus angular – reschedule if it looks like Saturn or Pluto is going to be there. It’s simple, thumbnail electional astrology, and the results can have long-lasting effects, so it’s worth the effort to be on time…!