Applying vs Separating Aspects
Whether moving factors approach or leave exactitude. This guide gives a reproducible rule, worked example, illustrative near miss, and explicit limits.
Overview
Applying and separating describe whether the moving factors are approaching or leaving exactitude, requiring speed, direction, and a defined chart moment. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: distance to exact falls from 2.0° to 1.2°, so the square is applying. Verification follows this declared method: Calculate the current separation and a later separation from signed motion; label applying only when the distance to the target angle decreases.
At a glance
- Topic
- Applying vs Separating Aspects
- Method family
- Applying vs Separating Aspects · aspects and configurations
- Case inputs
- current separation 92.0°; one hour later 91.2°; square target 90°
- Measured finding
- distance to exact falls from 2.0° to 1.2°, so the square is applying
- School frame
- Applying vs Separating Aspects · geometric aspect method
- OpenFate tools
- Applying vs Separating Aspects · birth chart
Definition and exact scope
applying and separating describe whether the moving factors are approaching or leaving exactitude, requiring speed, direction, and a defined chart moment
Calculation or decision rule
calculate the current separation and a later separation from signed motion; label applying only when the distance to the target angle decreases
Worked case and illustrative near miss
current separation 92.0°; one hour later 91.2°; square target 90°. distance to exact falls from 2.0° to 1.2°, so the square is applying.
Illustrative near miss: A separation moving from 88.0° to 87.2° is leaving 90° and is separating, despite the smaller raw angle.
School and variant boundary
Exact angles are geometry; orb choices, priority, and symbolic language are declared practitioner conventions.
Product, safety, and verification boundary
OpenFate can expose the chart inputs needed for Applying vs Separating Aspects, but it does not claim a dedicated automated interpretation for this technique. Verification retains failed measurements and uncertainty, then revises interpretation rather than the receipt. Applying vs Separating Aspects cannot diagnose a person, remove consent, or guarantee an event.
Sources and editorial basis
- Skyscript: An Introduction to Aspects and Chart ShapingSections “The Aspects”, “Orbs”, and “Aspect Patterns”; nine commonly used aspects and chart-shape examples.Nicholas Campion’s public overview of major and minor aspects, orbs, and multi-planet chart patterns; its interpretations remain school-bound claims.
- NCGR-PAA Level II CurriculumPDF p. 4, lines 110–112, applying/separating and minor-aspect curriculum items.A professional curriculum naming sign classifications, five levels of rulership, reception, dispositors, sect, minor aspects, declination, antiscia, fixed stars, lots, and time-lord systems.