Aspect Orbs
Aspect Orbs explains declared tolerances around exact aspect angles. Orb is 3° and the square is included; the receipt preserves both 87° and 3°.
Overview
An orb is the allowed deviation from an exact aspect and must identify angle, planets or points, luminary weighting, phase, and software convention. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: orb is 3° and the square is included; the receipt preserves both 87° and 3°. Verification follows this declared method: For an 87° separation, show that it is 3° from an exact square, then apply the published square rule rather than a hidden global tolerance.
At a glance
- Topic
- Aspect Orbs
- Method family
- Aspect Orbs · aspects and configurations
- Case inputs
- measured separation 87°; square target 90°; published square cap 6°
- Measured finding
- orb is 3° and the square is included; the receipt preserves both 87° and 3°
- School frame
- Aspect Orbs · geometric aspect method
- OpenFate tools
- Aspect Orbs · birth chart + astrology reading
Definition and exact scope
an orb is the allowed deviation from an exact aspect and must identify angle, planets or points, luminary weighting, phase, and software convention
Calculation or decision rule
for an 87° separation, show that it is 3° from an exact square, then apply the published square rule rather than a hidden global tolerance
Worked case and illustrative near miss
measured separation 87°; square target 90°; published square cap 6°. orb is 3° and the square is included; the receipt preserves both 87° and 3°.
Illustrative near miss: Displaying “square” without the measured angle or silently changing to a 2° cap after seeing the chart.
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 connect Aspect Orbs to the natal chart and reading flow where supported; the connection supplies evidence, not a guaranteed life result. Verification retains failed measurements and uncertainty, then revises interpretation rather than the receipt. Aspect Orbs 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.