Aspects
Sextile
Modern practice reads the sextile as opportunity: cooperation is available, but it usually needs a deliberate first step.
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Geometry
A sextile links two points 60° apart, one sixth of the zodiac circle.
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Traditional doctrine
Lilly described the sextile as moderately good, and Ptolemy counted it among the harmonious aspects.
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Modern meaning
Modern practice reads the sextile as opportunity: cooperation is available, but it usually needs a deliberate first step.
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Aspect orb
An orb is the allowance of degrees within which an aspect is counted; Lilly gave each planet its own radiation, nine degrees for Jupiter. Solunari applies fixed, versioned orbs in its calculation engine, so the same chart always yields the same aspects.
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Applying and separating
An aspect is applying while the faster body is still moving toward the exact angle. An aspect is separating once the exact angle has passed and the bodies are moving apart. Astrologers commonly treat applying aspects as building and separating aspects as fading.
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