Hermetic astrology teaches that the planets in your birth chart can form ten aspects aka angular relationships that have a distinct influence.
Birth chart aspects depict thought-compounds within your not-conscious soul-mind. They’ve been built by experience, possess psychokinetic power and work to attract events and conditions similar to their formation experience.
An aspect’s keyword describes the manner in which the thought-cell desires mapped by the planets have merged and the type of event they strive to attract.
A conjunction aspect is formed when 2 or more planets are in approximately the same degree of the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its keyword is prominence.
In response to experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets have united at the same time to form a prominence thought-compound in your not-conscious soul-mind. The indicated character-behavior traits express in a conspicuous manner.
What eventuates is due to your own actions rather than environmental influences forced upon you and beyond your control.
A life-matter indicated by the planet’s house position receives a lot of your attention and could be a central life activity.
A semisextile aspect is formed when 2 planets are approximately 30º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its keyword is growth.
In response to experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a harmonious thought compound. The indicated thought-cell activity is mildly pleasurable and steady.
What eventuates is due to small advantages that come from a helpful environmental.
You experience growth with a life-matter indicated by the house positions of the planets.
A semisquare aspect is formed when 2 planets are approximately 45º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its keyword is friction.
In response to an annoying experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a discordant thought compound. The indicated thought-cell activity is mildly painful, easily irritated and prone to uncertainty and indecision.
What eventuates is due to circumstances beyond your control involving a chronically annoying person or situation.
A life-matter or person associated with the houses occupied by the planets stirs up fiction and gets you riled.
A sextile aspect is formed when two planets are approximately 60º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its key word is opportunity.
In response to a beneficial experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a harmonious thought compound. The indicated feel-good thought-cell activity is continuous and pleasurable.
What eventuates is due to supportive environmental conditions.
You have an opportunity to develop abilities and easily adapt to circumstances indicated by the house positions of the planets.
A square aspect is formed when 2 planets are approximately 90º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its keyword is obstacle.
In response to a frustration experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a discordant thought compound. The indicated thought-cell activity is easily irked, riled and angered.
What eventuates is due to your inability to adapt to circumstances beyond your control.
A life-matter or person associated with the houses occupied by the planets is an obstacle that causes a violent, angry reaction and a period of acute crisis and struggle.
A trine aspect is formed when two planets are approximately 120º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its key word is luck.
In response to a fortunate experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a harmonious thought compound. The indicated feel-good thought-cell activity is prolonged, buoyant and pleasurable.
What eventuates is due to supportive environmental conditions.
You can easily develop the indicated abilities and have luck with a life-matter indicated by the house positions of the planets.
A sesquisquare aspect is formed when 2 planets are approximately 150º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its keyword is agitation.
In response to a disruption experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a discordant thought compound. The indicated thought-cell activity is displeased, disturbed and troubled.
What eventuates is due to your inability to adapt to circumstances beyond your control.
A life-matter or person associated with the houses occupied by the planets creates a painful disturbance that has you agitated and making change.
An inconjunct aspect is formed when two planets are approximately 150º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its key word is expansion.
In response to experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a neutral – no pleasure–no pain thought compound. The indicated thought-cell activity is slightly separative bringing things together and then taking them apart.
What eventuates is due to your own actions rather than environmental influences forced upon you.
A life-matter indicated by the houses occupied by the planets experiences expansion but then drifts apart. Inflated expectations have deflated results.
An opposition aspect is formed when 2 planets are approximately 180º apart in the zodiac.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its keyword is separation.
In response to a break-up experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time and built a discordant thought compound. The indicated thought-cell activity is conflicted: see-sawing back and forth between two powerful desires.
What eventuates is due to your inability to adapt to circumstances beyond your control.
Due to a conflict involving a life-matter or person associated with the houses occupied by the planets you’re forced into making a painful separation decision knowing that to gain one thing you will lose the other.
A parallel aspect is formed when two planets occupy the same degree of declination. Both can be north or south or one can be north and the other south.
Its power is measured by its astrodyne score and its key word is intensity.
In response to experience the thoughts, feelings and impulses ruled by the planets entered your consciousness at the same time to form an intensity thought-compound in your not-conscious soul-mind. The indicated behavior traits and qualities are initially obscure and imprecise but gradually develop till they are forced into action.
What eventuates is due to your own actions rather than environmental forces beyond your control.
You gradually develop an intense interest in a life-matter indicated by the house or houses occupied by the planets.
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