How to interpret the result
Look first for contacts involving Mercury, the Moon or the Ascendant, which tradition links to speaking, listening and mood. In a constructed example, Person A shows transit Moon sextile natal Mercury at 1.40 degrees at 7:00 PM; rerun for 9:00 PM and that orb could narrow to about 0.40 degrees, while slower contacts barely move. The headline count is not a readiness rating: twelve contacts are not better or worse than five.
