Dictionary term
Transit Table
Direct answer
Transit Table is a table predicting when selected bodies cross a meridian or another defined reference line.
Transit Table is a passage-time table used in historical astronomy, timekeeping, or navigation.
- Source
- The Great Almanac Dictionary
- Category
- Historical Almanacs & Instruments
- Also appears in
- Historical Almanacs & Instruments
- Aliases
- None listed
- Last updated
- 2026-07-16
Quick reference
- Use when
- Use Transit Table by matching the stated site, time scale, body coordinates, and meaning of transit.
- Do not use it for
- Do not confuse meridian transit with a planetary transit across the Sun.
- Reference category
- Historical Almanacs & Instruments
- Related terms
- Canon of Eclipses, Meridian Table, Precession Table, Declination Table
The story behind Transit Table
Transit predictions supported time services, star catalogues, navigation, and observatory scheduling.
Transit Table in spiritual tradition
Transit Table rewards careful observation, explicit assumptions, and humility about the limits of every model or measurement.
The Great Almanac frames Transit Table with educational restraint. Mystical or symbolic language may be meaningful, but it should not be exaggerated into certainty, panic, or permission to ignore ordinary responsibility.
Transit Table in the Bible
This is a factual history-of-science, instrument, timekeeping, or navigation reference. It may support wonder and disciplined attention without becoming a claim of fate, worship, or private revelation.
Transit Table in numerology
Transit Table is not a numerology claim. Any numbers attached to it should retain their ordinary scientific, calendrical, navigational, or historical meaning unless a separate symbolic interpretation is clearly labeled.
Why Transit Table matters
Transit Table matters because it lets an observer prepare an instrument before a brief alignment event.
Example in a reading: An observatory may list a clock star's meridian transit to prepare a timing observation.
Interpretive caution: Do not confuse meridian transit with a planetary transit across the Sun.
How Transit Table is used in a reading
Use Transit Table by matching the stated site, time scale, body coordinates, and meaning of transit.
Where interpretation stops
Transit Table is presented as sourced astronomy, calendrical, Earth-science, cultural, or instrument-history reference. Definitions should distinguish measured phenomena from civil convention and historical interpretation, preserve location and time dependencies, and avoid turning factual sky data into a deterministic personal claim.
Sources and editorial method
Research references used for this entry include:
- U.S. Naval Observatory: Astronomical and Navigational Almanacs - Official descriptions of the Astronomical Almanac, Nautical Almanac, and their tabular data.
- U.S. Naval Observatory: Astronomical Applications Data Services - Authoritative services for positions, rise and set data, phases, seasons, eclipses, and astronomical dates.
The page starts with a direct definition, then separates use, example, caution, spiritual meaning, and historical context. For astrology, occult, demonology, curse, and spiritual warfare terms, the editorial rule is to explain the term without making fear-based, fatalistic, medical, legal, financial, or ritual-instruction claims.
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