Major Chart Patterns
difficult to spot aspects when using the standard wheel-
of-houses chart form.
If you have trouble visualizing these patterns, you may
want to mark the oppositions in red, drawing a red line
from one planet across to the next. I still do this. If you
have printed out a chart with aspects already drawn in,
other colors may have been used to mark them, or even
plain black ink. If this is the case, I draw in (over the
other color or black print lines) with the colors I prefer to
use, so that I can easily spot these patterns, later, at a
glance. I use a straight-edge for this, along with colored
pencils or pens. Many programs will mark these lines in
color for you, on-screen. For myself, I use the following
colors, you may want others. The colors I use for the
main aspects are:
Red: Oppositions (180º), Squares (90º)
Red: Semisquares (45º), Sesquiquadrates (135º)
Green: Trines (120º), Sextiles (60º)