1. Astrology 101 Lecture 6 – Aspects
Elder High Priestess Tehilah Firewind

2. 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

3. Conjunction Power; concentrated and directed force
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:

4. Opportunity, change Sextile The planets are 2 signs apart
60° angle formed
Opportunity, change
Minor Aspect: Semi-Sextile
difficulties with changing

5. Obstacles, solid and unavoidable
Square
The planets are 3 signs apart
Forms right triangle
Obstacles, solid and unavoidable
Minor Aspect: Semi-Square
difficulties, karmic cost

6. Trine The planets are 4 signs apart 120° angle formed
Creative spark, source of inspiration and imagination

7. Opposition Polarized action, awareness, competing traits
The planets are directly opposite each other, or 6 signs apart
180° angle formed between planets
Polarized action, awareness, competing traits

8. Minor Aspects
Quintile - 72° angle which represents harmony, equilibrium, or flow
Quicunx Inconjunct - 150° angle which represents discord, disequilibrium, or ebb

9. 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

10. 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, past lifetimes, longing to return to comfort
North Node:
Head of the dragon
The future, what is approaching, how will this longing be satisfied, experiences
Image and further reading:

11. Axes Electric; destiny’s gate
Vertex always in W Anti-vertex always in E
Destiny’s Gate – Change, caused by a small, unexpected opportunity or challenge Vertex is the point located at the intersection of the Ecliptic and the Prime Vertical, a circle that goes through the Nadir and Midheaven
Gravity – Nadir is what you choose to keep private (private persona) or your personal matters and Midheaven is how you come across without trying, even to those you have not met face to face (public persona)
Lunar Nodes is called the Karmic or Fate axis
Midheaven and Inum Coeli/Nadir called the Gravity axis
Ascendant/Descendant called Magnetic axis

12. Syllabus Progress: The Zodiac Planets Houses Aspects
Reading and interpreting natal charts
Using electional astrology and divination
Medical astrology

13. Homework From The Astrology Book by James R Lewis This isn’t even
Affliction, page 10
Grand Cross, page 281
Square, page
Angular (all sections), page 24-25
Grand Trine, page 281
Star Pattern, page 627
Antiscion, page 26
Hard Aspects, page 293
Stellium, page 629
Applying Aspect, page 30
Inclination, page 358
Superior Conjunctions, page 635
Appulse, page 30
Inferior Conjunctions, page 358
Syzygy, page 638
Aspect, page 55-57
Kite, page 384
T Square, page
Beholding, page 84
Malefic Aspects, page 422
Trine, page 691
Benefic, page 84
Mundane Aspect, page 473
Tripod Pattern, page 691
Besieged, page 85
Mutual Application, page 478
Vigintile, page
Boomerang, page 94
Mystic Rectangle, page 478
Yod, page
Bowl Pattern, page 95
Nodes, page 498
Bucket Pattern, page 99
Novile, page 499
This isn’t even
Bundle Pattern, page 99
Occursions, page 502
Combust, page
Opposition, page 503
all of them!!
Configuration, page 169
Orb of Influence, page
Conjunction, page 169
Parallel, page 514
Just key ones. Septiles, sextiles and others were skipped
Contraparallel, page 180
Paran, page 514
Conrascion, page 180
Partile, page
Culmination, page 189
Platic, page 538
Cusp, page 192
Seesaw Pattern, page 609
Decile, page 197
Separating Aspect, page
Dexter, page 200
Sinister, page 615
Dissociate Aspects, page 203
Soft Aspects, page 616
Domicile, page 207
Splash Pattern, page 625
Elevation, page 220
Splay Pattern, page 625