The planets in your birth chart form angular relationships called aspects and Hermetic astrology’s knowledge-base embraces the science of aspects.

Close observation revealed each aspect’s descriptive-keyword influence in real-life and you can easily observe this influence in your own.

Your chart’s aspect grid records each planet’s aspects and their power and harmony or discord scores. The grid provides big data.

The planets in your birth chart are markers for dynamic not-conscious urges and the aspects they form are markers for thought-compounds that detail the thought-structure of your soul.

Each aspect marks for a thought-compound involving the not-conscious desire-urges ruled by the two planets involved in the aspect.

An aspect involving the Sun associates your desire for power and significance with the desire-urge ruled by the aspecting planet; and an aspect involving Mars associates your desire for aggressive action, conflict and sex with the desire-urge ruled by the aspecting planet etc.

An aspect’s relative influence is measured by its power and harmony or discord score and by referring to the measurement data on your chart’s aspect grid it is easy to make a list of all the aspects in (1) descending power order, (2) descending harmony order and (3) descending discord order; and a list of each planet’s aspects in descending power, harmony or discord order.

These lists provide powerful data pertaining to your character as it has been built by experience up to the time of your birth as a human soul.

The ten most powerful aspects, the five most harmonious aspects and the five most discordant aspects allow you to deep-dive into the framework of your character to learn about the events that will define your life story unless you change what’s indicated.

The harmonious aspects are the trine, sextile and semisextile and the discordant aspects are the opposition, square, sesquisquare and semisquare.

A harmonious aspect marks for fortunate events and conditions and supportive social relationships specified by the house positions of the planets forming the aspect.

A discordant aspect marks for unfortunate events and conditions and troublesome social relationships specified by the house positions of the planets forming the aspect.

A conjunction aspect marks for prominence

A conjunction aspect in your birth chart marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that has a high concentration of harmonious or discordant desire energy. It works to bring the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the house or houses where the planets in conjunction are located into prominence. The pleasant or unpleasant life-matter is a major consumer of your time, effort and energy.   

A trine aspect marks for good-fortune and luck

A trine aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with vivid feelings of pleasure. It works to attract fortunate luck events involving the life matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in trine are located. Feel-good, high-harmony desire produces good-fortune and luck.

An opposition aspect marks for separation

An opposition aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with vivid feelings of pain. Its influence is measured by its relative power and discord. It works to attract unfortunate separation events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in opposition are located. Discordant desire tears two equally desirable life-matters apart.

A sextile aspect marks for an opportunity

A sextile aspect in your birth chart marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with feelings of pleasure. It works to attract fortunate opportunity events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in sextile are located. Harmonious desire easily adapts to changing circumstance.

A square aspect marks for an obstacle

A square aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with vivid feelings of frustration. It works to attract obstacle events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in square are located. Frustrated anger can harm and destroy.

A sesquisquare aspect marks for agitation

A sesquisquare aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with feelings of acute distress and displeasure. It works to attract disturbing agitation events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in sesquisquare are located. Distressful agitation prompts change and you should move along.

A semisquare aspect marks for friction

A semisquare aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with feelings of irritation. Its influence is measured by its power and discord. It works to attract annoying friction events involving the life-matters, activities or people ruled by the houses where the planets in semisquare are located. The discordant irritation can be cancelled by turning your attention to an activity that gives you pleasure.

A semisextile aspect marks for growth

A semisextile aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with feelings of mild pleasure. It works to attract growth events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in semisextile are located. Due to the absence of strong desire concentrated effort is needed to produce worthwhile results.

An inconjunct aspect marks for expansion

An inconjunct aspect in your birth chart marks for a not-conscious thought- compound that’s embedded with vague feelings of expectation. It works to attract expansion events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in inconjunct are located. The absence of strong desire often fails to produce worthwhile results but it isn’t a big deal.

A parallel aspect marks for intensity

A parallel aspect marks for a not-conscious thought-compound that’s embedded with intense feeling energy. It slowly works to attract intensity events involving the life-matters, activities and people ruled by the houses where the planets in parallel are located. But its no-harmony–no discord indefinite waywardness tends to uncertain, changeable outcomes.

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