Minor Aspects
Extended aspect-angle sets and their narrower orb policies. This guide gives a reproducible rule, worked example, illustrative near miss, and explicit limits.
Overview
Minor aspects extend the major-angle set with divisions such as 30°, 45°, 72°, 135°, and 144°, but catalogs and orbs are not universal. The page separates calculation from interpretation and keeps this worked result conditional: the quintile is retained at a 1° orb; semisquare and sesquiquadrate were not part of this query. Verification follows this declared method: Choose one declared set, calculate exact target angles before applying narrow orbs, and report omitted aspect families instead of silently treating them as absent.
At a glance
- Topic
- Minor Aspects
- Method family
- Minor Aspects · aspects and configurations
- Case inputs
- ☉ 4°♈ and ☿ 15°♊; separation 71°; quintile target 72°; orb cap 1°
- Measured finding
- the quintile is retained at a 1° orb; semisquare and sesquiquadrate were not part of this query
- School frame
- Minor Aspects · modern extended-aspect method
- OpenFate tools
- Minor Aspects · knowledge reference only
Definition and exact scope
minor aspects extend the major-angle set with divisions such as 30°, 45°, 72°, 135°, and 144°, but catalogs and orbs are not universal
Calculation or decision rule
choose one declared set, calculate exact target angles before applying narrow orbs, and report omitted aspect families instead of silently treating them as absent
Worked case and illustrative near miss
☉ 4°♈ and ☿ 15°♊; separation 71°; quintile target 72°; orb cap 1°. the quintile is retained at a 1° orb; semisquare and sesquiquadrate were not part of this query.
Illustrative near miss: Finding a 72° contact after searching dozens of undeclared angles and then hiding the multiple-comparison choice.
School and variant boundary
This extension is not accepted or weighted uniformly, so the included aspect set and orb table must be named.
Product, safety, and verification boundary
OpenFate presents Minor Aspects as a sourced knowledge method and does not claim a dedicated calculator or generated reading for it. Verification retains failed measurements and uncertainty, then revises interpretation rather than the receipt. Minor 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.