Birth chart aspects add complexity to your self-learning but you don’t need to know the science of aspects to gain an understanding of what each aspect in your birth chart indicates.
They provide valuable information pertaining to the events and conditions you’ll experience and you should have a sense of order and sequence when assessing your chart’s aspects.
That said, you should constantly fine-tune your concepts and understanding of the planets, keynote signs, aspects and keynote houses in your chart using real-life evidence and creative imagination.
Each aspect maps a thought-compound: A state of consciousness within your greater soul consciousness that’s been built by experience.
All the aspects in your chart and their power and harmony and discord scores are recorded on your chart’s aspect grid. It provides crucial support information but by sighting an aspect in your chart you’ll get a visual understanding of its house connections and affected life-matters.
Neutral aspects map events and situations that are feeling neutral. There are no feelings of pleasure or pain involved. They can play an influential role in your life and what eventuates is the result of your own actions, rather than environmental circumstances beyond your personal control, so you don’t consider them fortunate or unfortunate.
Harmonious aspects map fortunate events and conditions. You’re benefitting from support and environmental advantages.
The real force behind a fortunate event is the feeling of pleasure embedded in its associated thought-compound.
Discordant aspects map unfortunate events and conditions. Difficulties are causing major and minor psychological discomfort.
The real force behind an unfortunate event is the feeling of pain embedded in its associated thought-compound.
The type of event associated with each harmonious and discordant aspect is characterized by its keyword description.
Aspect scaling
An aspect’s power and harmony or discord score measures the quantity and quality of the feeling energy embedded in its corresponding thought-compound.
Measurement permits scaling so you can scale your chart’s aspects by their power, harmony or discord scores.
Power and high harmony and high discord are your chief consideration.
Aspects should be assessed as strong, moderate or weak and favorable or unfavorable.
Their astrodyne power score allows you to rate their influence as very important, moderately important, unimportant or inconsequential.
Astrodyne power measures the real force behind what’s going on: The strength of the psychokentic energy possessed by the thought-elements embedded in the thought-compound mapped by the aspect.
The outstanding events and conditions you’ll experience are mapped by the aspects with the highest astrodyne power scores.
Aspects with low power scores have their influence reduced.
You may even regard the influence of a very weak aspect as negligible.
An aspect’s harmony score allows you to assess its degree of support and benefit as high, moderate or low; and scaling allows you to make an individual judgement regarding its influence.
So, the influence of a luck (trine) aspect with a low harmony score can be less fortunate than an opportunity (sextile) or growth (semisextile) aspect with a higher harmony score.
An aspect’s discord score allows you to assess its degree of misfortune and difficulty as high, moderate or low; and scaling allows you to make an individual judgement regarding its influence.
So, the influence of an obstacle (square) aspect with a low discord score can be less unfortunate than an agitation (sesquisquare) or friction (semisquare) aspect with a higher discord score.
Aspect differentiation allows you to quite precisely pinpoint the central theme of your life journey including the fortunate and unfortunate events and conditions you’re destined to experience unless you take corrective measures and change what’s indicated.
Scaling and aspect differentiation requires the creation of lists
Aspects affect planets and houses and aspect scaling and differentiation is assisted by the creation of lists.
Create a list of your chart’s aspects in descending power order. This provides powerful information. The aspect with highest power score is your dominant aspect. If it involves your dominant planet, the Sun, Moon, Mercury or ascendant its influence is especially important.
Create a list of your harmonious aspects in descending harmony order. The aspect with the highest harmony score is your best aspect. It maps a thought-compound that’s working to attract fortunate events affecting the life-factors ruled by the planets and the life-matters ruled by the houses they occupy.
Create a list of your discordant aspects in descending discord order. The aspect with the highest discord score is your worst aspect. It maps a thought-compound that’s working to attract unfortunate events and serious difficulties affecting the life-factors ruled by the planets and the life-matters ruled by the houses they occupy.
Create a list of your dominant planet’s aspects in descending power and harmony and discord order. It’s your chart’s keynote marker and its aspects affect its life-factors and the department of life associated with its house position. It’s aspect network provides exceptionally valuable information: The chief trends and events of your life story.
Create a list of the Sun’s aspects in descending power and harmony and discord order. It’s a keynote marker. It’s network of aspects indicates distinct character traits and important events affecting your vitality, significance and authority and the life matters ruled by the house it occupies.
Create a list of the Moon’s aspects in descending power and harmony and discord order. It’s a keynote marker. Its network of aspects indicates distinct mental traits and important events affecting your mentality, moods, domestic life, day-to-day affairs and relations with women and the common people and the affairs of the house it occupies.
Create a list of Mercury’s aspects in descending power and harmony and discord order. It’s a keynote marker. Its network of aspects indicates distinct speech and communication traits and important events affecting your mental interests, accuracy and facility of expression and cerebral activity and the affairs of the house where it is located.
Create a list of the ascendant’s aspects in descending power and harmony and discord order. It’s a keynote marker. Its network of aspects indicates distinct personality traits and important events affecting your personality, personal affairs and health.
Your prominent planets – those with above average astrodyne power scores – are keynote markers. Create a list of each one’s aspects in descending power and harmony and discord order. Their aspects affect the life-factors they rule, the functional status of their corresponding desire-urges, and the life-matters ruled by the houses they occupy.
The houses in your chart map departments of life aka the event site.
Create a list of the aspects affecting your dominant house. This includes all the aspects formed by the planets in or associated with its department of life.
Create a list of the aspects affecting any house where a planet is located. This includes all the aspects formed by the planet and its cusp ruler/rulers.
Aspects involving cusp rulers have half their power and harmony or discord and one quarter of their power, harmony or discord if Scorpio (Mars and Pluto), Aquarius (Saturn and Uranus) or Pisces (Jupiter and Neptune) is on the house cusp.
In any aspect the planet with the higher astrodyne power score exerts the stronger influence; and its house location aka department of life maps the more influential life-matter. So, a thought-compound’s dominant planet will have the dominant influence over the event or situation it attracts.
The thought-compounds mapped by high-discord aspects require your attention.
You can list your aspects by type.
Create a list of your conjunction aspects and scale them in power order.
Create a list of your parallel aspects and scale them in power order. They’re astrodyne power scores measure their level of intensity.
Create a list of your trine aspects (luck experiences), sextile aspects (opportunity experiences) and semisextile aspect (growth experiences) and scale them in power and harmony order.
Create a list of your opposition aspects (separation experiences), square aspects (obstacle experiences), sesquisquare aspects (agitation experiences) and semisquare (friction experiences) and scale them in power and discord order.
The experience aka event involves the life-matters ruled by the house or houses occupied by the aspecting planets.
Your birth chart is a map of your life journey so you can match all the important events and conditions you have so far experienced with their aspect markers.
The aspects in your chart provide valuable information and birth chart study sessions devoted to assessing their influence will reward you with more understanding and more personal truths than you ever thought possible.
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