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Astrology 101 Lecture 6 – Aspects. Elder High Priestess Tehilah Firewind. What Are Aspects?. Aspects are the angles formed between planets Lots of aspects found even within a single chart Remember the earlier analogy: The house is the stage, the planet the actor, and the sign the costume
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Astrology 101Lecture 6 – Aspects Elder High Priestess Tehilah Firewind
What Are Aspects? • Aspects are the angles formed between planets • Lots of aspects found even within a single chart • Remember the earlier analogy: • The house is the stage, the planet the actor, and the sign the costume • Aspects would describe the chemistry between actors • There are many kinds of aspects
Conjunction • The planets are in the same house and sign • 0° angle is formed • Sign may differ if the planets are on a cusp Power; concentrated and directed force Images from: http://www.indigoray.net/lessons4.html
Sextile • The planets are 2 signs apart • 60° angle formed Opportunity, change Minor Aspect: Semi-Sextile difficulties with changing
Square • The planets are 3 signs apart • Forms right triangle Obstacles, solid and unavoidable Minor Aspect: Semi-Square difficulties, karmic cost
Trine • The planets are 4 signs apart • 120° angle formed Creative spark, source of inspiration and imagination
Opposition • The planets are directly opposite each other, or 6 signs apart • 180° angle formedbetween planets Polarized action, awareness, competing traits
Minor Aspects • Quintile - 72° angle which represents harmony, equilibrium, or flow • QuicunxInconjunct- 150° angle which represents discord, disequilibrium, or ebb
Asteroids • Chiron – the wounded healer • Healing of all manner, what in life needs healing • Saturn and Uranus • Hestia/Vesta – keeper of the sacred flame • Focus, dedication, and spiritual manifestation • Virgo and Scorpio • Pallus/Athena/Minerva – the intellectual warrior • Wisdom, applied logic, talent, relationship between father and child • Libra, Leo, and Aquarius • Ceres/Demeter – the earth mother and ruler of seasons • Comfort, unconditional love, relationship between mother and child, caring, nurturing, accomplishment • Cancer, Pisces, Taurus, Virgo • Juno/Hera – the divine consort • Personal relationships, commitment beyond initial attraction • Libra and Scorpio
Nodes • The path of the earth’s orbit around the sun is crossed by the moon twice, moving N, then S • South Node: • Tail of the dragon • The past, pastlifetimes, longingto return to comfort • North Node: • Head of the dragon • The future, whatis approaching, howwill this longing be satisfied, experiences Image and further reading:http://astrologyclub.org/eclipses-and-the-moons-nodes/
Axes Electric; destiny’s gate Vertex always in WAnti-vertex always in E Lunar Nodes is calledthe Karmic or Fate axis Midheaven andInumCoeli/Nadircalled the Gravity axis Ascendant/Descendant called Magnetic axis
Syllabus • Progress: • The Zodiac • Planets • Houses • Aspects • Reading and interpreting natal charts • Using electional astrology and divination • Medical astrology
Homework • From The Astrology Book by James R Lewis • Affliction, page 10 • Angular (all sections), page 24-25 • Antiscion, page 26 • Applying Aspect, page 30 • Appulse, page 30 • Aspect, page 55-57 • Beholding, page 84 • Benefic, page 84 • Besieged, page 85 • Boomerang, page 94 • Bowl Pattern, page 95 • Bucket Pattern, page 99 • Bundle Pattern, page 99 • Combust, page 164-165 • Configuration, page 169 • Conjunction, page 169 • Contraparallel, page 180 • Conrascion, page 180 • Culmination, page 189 • Cusp, page 192 • Decile, page 197 • Dexter, page 200 • Dissociate Aspects, page 203 • Domicile, page 207 • Elevation, page 220 • Grand Cross, page 281 • Grand Trine, page 281 • Hard Aspects, page 293 • Inclination, page 358 • Inferior Conjunctions, page 358 • Kite, page 384 • Malefic Aspects, page 422 • Mundane Aspect, page 473 • Mutual Application, page 478 • Mystic Rectangle, page 478 • Nodes, page 498 • Novile, page 499 • Occursions, page 502 • Opposition, page 503 • Orb of Influence, page 503-504 • Parallel, page 514 • Paran, page 514 • Partile, page 515-516 • Platic, page 538 • Seesaw Pattern, page 609 • Separating Aspect, page 610-611 • Sinister, page 615 • Soft Aspects, page 616 • Splash Pattern, page 625 • Splay Pattern, page 625 • Square, page 625-626 • Star Pattern, page 627 • Stellium, page 629 • Superior Conjunctions, page 635 • Syzygy, page 638 • T Square, page 639-640 • Trine, page 691 • Tripod Pattern, page 691 • Vigintile, page 726-727 • Yod, page 745-746 • This isn’t even • all of them!! • Just key ones.Septiles, sextilesand others were skipped