Aspects

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Aspectarian

  A chronological list of all aspects formed during a specified period. Most astrology magazines acrry an Aspectarian for the concurrent month; and one for the year is now usually appended to the Ephemeris.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Inconjunct, Dissociate

  These are terms sometimes applied to the Semisextile and the Quincunx aspects, as indicative that no relationship can exist between adjacent signs and houses, or between those which are one sign or house less than an opposition.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Semi-Decile (18°)

  Harmonious, but weak

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Strength of aspects

  The relative strength of aspects is a debatable factor, for so much depends on the intrinsic character of the rays. If you consider the rays as energy, each altered in character by virtue of the sign position of the planet from which it is emitted, the aspect determines the direction of the influence upon you as an individual. It is in the synthesis of qualitative, quantitative and directional factors that the practice of Astrology becomes both an art and a science. The relative strength of aspects is a debatable factor, for so much depends on the intrinsic character of the rays. If you consider the rays as energy, each altered in character by virtue of the sign position of the planet from which it is emitted, the aspect determines the direction of the influence upon you as an individual. It is in the synthesis of qualitative, quantitative and directional factors that the practice of Astrology becomes both an art and a science.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Astronomy, Glossary

  Mundane, Parallel

  This has to do with a similarity of relationship between two plaents on opposite sides of, and the same distance, measured, along the Equator, from any one of the four angles of the horosccope. Mundane parallels bear no analogy to zodiacal parallels. A Rapt Paralle is a mundane parallel by direction, formed after birth, as a result of the Earth's rotation (axial), whereby the places of the plaanets are carried from East to West to the point where the two planets are equidistant from, and on opposite sides of the same angle. Another variety of mundane parallel by direction, is that formed when one planet advances to the same distance from an angle as that held by another planet at birth. These parallels are the invention of Placidus de Titus who held them in high esteem. Yet it appears that time tempered his judgment, for in his collection of Nativities, he frequently employs zodiacal directions as taught by Ptolemy.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Conjunction

  This is classified as a constructive influence, though much depends on the nature of the planets. Modern authorities tend to reject the classification of aspects as good or bad, since a so-called bad aspect has constructive possibilities to an individual who has the strength of resolve to put it to constructive use.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Parallel

  The same nature as a conjunction. Since it is usually coincident with a conjunction it serves to give it an added accent. This accent is helpful if it involves other aspects from favorable planets. The effect of a parallel is generally considered to be of longer duration than that of a conjunction.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Semi-Sextile (30°)

  An aspect of mixed quality, rhythmically favorable but involving planets in inharmonious signs.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Semi-Square or Semi-Quartile (45°)

  Generally termed a malefic aspect; somewhat mitigated, in case the aspecting planet is a benefic.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Sextile, Hexagon (60°).

  A favoring aspect, involving planets in congenial signs of the same polarity (q.v.). Alan Leo says of the Sextile aspect: that it partakes of the nature of Moon and Neptune; that it is more combining than any other aspect, and is often more potent and favorable than the trine; that its color largely depends on the nature of the planets involved, and of the Signs they occupy; and that while the trine may be said to denote negative goodness such as a reward for past deeds, the sextile denotes positive good in that it generates the activity that produces change and thus possesses greater potentiality for the future.