Aspects

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Square. Quartile (90°).

  Generally deemed unfavorable, since it represents the struggle of two forces at cross-purposes. It imposes severe tasks to be accomplished only through much concentration and self-denial -- often interpreted by the individual in terms of ambition.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Trine (120°)

  Supposedly the most favoring of aspects, joining planets in congenial signs of the same element. Trines are like having "a silver spoon in your mouth" - luck becoming "happy-go-lucky" for lack of the ambition that is born of challenge.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Sesquiquadrate (135°)

  Inversion of a Semi-square, and deemed equally unfortunate but less powerful.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Quincunx (150°)

  The inversion of a Semi-Sextile. Ptolemy called it inconjunct, practically rejecting it as an aspect of appreciable force. Modern statistics appear to indicate, however, that it has unrealized possibilities. It is presumed to be mildly favorable, but as it operates through inharmonious signs the resulting influence must be somewhat contradictory.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Opposition (180°)

  Proper interpretation must give consideration to the psychological stimulus resulting from whatever planetary influences are then in operation, from a sign and through a house.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Biquintile (144°).

  Biquintile (144°).

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Quintile (72°)

  A mildly benefic aspect, but ineffectual when directed to malefic.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Delineation, Glossary

  Semi-Quintile or Decile (36°)

  Kepler deemed it a good influence, but mild.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Astronomy, Glossary

  Aspects, Mundane

  Mundane aspects are those reckoned along the Equator, and measured in subdivisions of the noctunal or diurnal semi-arc. For example: Any two planets that have a separation of two houses are in mundane Sextile; of four houses, in mundane Trine. Thus it is possible for two planets to be simultaneously in the mutual relationship of a mundane Trine and a zodiacal Square. Mundane aspects can be computed only on a map erected for a birth moment. They represent a computation of coincidental influences on a basis of time, in subdivisions of the Earth's period of rotation; instead of on a basis of degrees of arc, in subdivisions of the orbits of the bodies involved. Zodiacal Aspects, based on the degree of longitudinal separation along the ecliptic, are computed without reference to an hour of birth, and are the ones commonly employed in delineation. Because of the alternation of signs of long and short ascension throughout the daily rotation of the Earth, equal units of arc rise of the horizon of an individual on the Earth's periphery, in disproportionate units of time; and vice versa. This affords one explanation of the phenomenon of the Orbs in reference to Aspects, and suggests that consideration should be given to the seasons at which a wide zodiacal aspect may become an exact mundane aspect.

• January 4, 2025Aspects, Astronomy, Glossary

  Declination, Parallel of

  This is the same phenomenon as a Parallel of Latitude, except that longitudinal position is measured along the Equator in terms of Right Ascension, while latitudinal position is computed in terms of declination, measured in degrees N. or S. of the Equator instead of along the Ecliptic.