The Aspects
The Forest and the Trees
In understanding aspects and their orbs, it is easy to
lose sight of the forest because of the trees, and this is
a very important point. The reason we look at aspects
and aspect patterns is to see what is going on. Since
astrologers, today, for the most part, use computers, it is
easy to set some orbs and then let the computer churn
out a list of aspects. The problem with such lists is that
once you set an aspect to a certain orb, you may
exclude or be unaware of many important astrological
events, without ever knowing it.
For example, if I set the orb for the Sun at 9 degrees, as
we listed earlier, and I have the Sun and the Moon with
an angular separation of 9-degrees and 1 minute for
whatever aspect they might be approaching, that aspect
is not going to appear on my list, even though I need to