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ASTROLOGER VIEW: Applying and Separating Aspects

     One of the most fascinating occurrences in Astrology is the study of aspects. In this we see how one planet affects another by their relative places in the heavens. Yet, except for those times when planets are in stationary positions, our solar system is constantly in a state of movement and change. Planetary positions are different every day. Some change hourly.

Thus, the relationships between these planets are in a constant state of flux. Someone once said, "Nothing is. Everything is becoming." Our universe lives and breathes and changes, and as it does, the aspects between planets go through the cycle of first coming into being, then reaching their greatest, then fading from power and finally becoming non-existent.

To see this, consider an aspect between the Sun and the Moon. Just before Full Moon, the Moon is approaching an opposition to the Sun. The aspect starts first as a faint hint, when the Moon approaches within 9 degrees of the opposition. The Full Moon gets fuller as the opposition becomes more exact, then slowly starts to fade as the Moon starts to move beyond the exact aspect until it goes beyond 9 degrees away from the opposition.

The opposition then, exists from its most weakness at 171 degrees apart, to its most strength at 180 degrees apart, then reaches its most weakness again at 189 degrees apart. This same reasoning holds true for all aspects, including the square, trine and conjunction as well as minor aspects (even though the allowable orbs are different). In each instance, the aspect begins weakly, strengthens, then fades in effect until it is no longer considered an aspect.

As two planets move closer to exact aspect, we call this an applying aspect. When the planets subsequently move away from exactness, they are forming a separating aspect for as long as they are within the allowed orb. The position of the faster-moving planet determines when the aspect is "becoming" and when it is "dissolving".

To understand the difference in meaning between these applying and separating aspects, we can look at life to see how we react to things approaching us or diverging away from us. Think of an event that you might be looking forward to. Most events are short-lived, but the anticipation of them can be for many days, weeks, months or years.

Going on a date, getting married, attending a sporting event, lecture, concert, participating in any timed celebration, observing a holiday, parade, speech or attending a gathering all hold within them the pre-aura of the event which is often filled with anticipation, anxious waiting and often nervous expectation. This is similar to an applying aspect and describes the exact nature of how these aspects work. They always represent a looking forward to something, with the forward-reaching expectation of becoming, as if something is about to be birthed.

What is interesting to note here, is that the greatest of expectations are usually nearer the beginning of the aspect in its least exactness, for as it becomes stronger and closer to exact, the thoughts tend to become more grounded in the realities of how will I deal with the coming event. What will I do? How will I act? It is important to remember that in Astrology, as in all of life, the unknown is always the greater exaggerator.

When the event takes center stage, all else seems to be unimportant as we confront the full reality of the event, which may or may not be what we anticipated. Yet, like the exact aspect, this is the time when we deal with circumstances as best as we can.

When the event finishes, we often experience a disentanglement effect. There tends to be clutter after a feast, strewn confetti after a party, objectionable echoes reverberating, all in the aftermath of what seemed to be so important. There is a fading effect which often manifests as a desire to free oneself from the event, even if it was a positive one.

During this separating time, the mind is considering how the event has effected oneself, and how has it changed one in their ability to meet the future.

Thus, two individuals who have the same aspect in their charts, but one is applying and the other separating, will look at life from entirely different viewpoints. The applying aspect seeks to find out what to do in order to deal with the influence of impending events. The separating aspect seeks to grow from them.

It may well be that those of us who have a lot of applying aspects in our charts are constantly looking forward to events, seeking to bring things together, while those of us with many separating aspects are more individualistic, seeking to free ourselves of entanglements. Always the areas in life where these feelings occur, is told by the nature of the aspect itself and the planets involved.

The applying aspect creates tension, while the separating aspect releases it. In this way, individuals with applying aspects might be making themselves more tense and nervous because of the impending nature of dealing with life in its exactness that always seems to loom over their futures, while those persons with separating aspects might tend more to look for the easy way out, the lesser responsible path which ultimately frees their mind and bodies from obligations they consider too difficult or unnecessary for them.

An applying Sun square Mars aspect will feel impelled to take action towards making something become. The same aspect when separating will push towards action away from becoming and more towards dissolution. In this way, separating aspects have more of a dissolving, sacrificial, forgiving nature to them. The applying aspect fights with life. The separating aspect tries to learn from it. This is why an individual may be quite willing to fervently engage circumstances in some areas of their life, but not feel the same imperative in others.

What may well be happening here, is that while the energy of the applying aspect is spent in direct confrontational action towards dealing with the event, the energy of the separating aspect is exerted more towards consciousness, learning from the experience and internalizing the event in the hope of better dealing with similar events in the future. In our search for simplicity, we are likely to find that the human experience is much more complex than we have ever imagined.

The more we can learn about these applying and separating aspects the better we will understand how we react to the constantly changing yin and yang forces, not only that we were born with (in our natal charts) but that are ever-forming in transits and progressions in this universe we live in.

Halloween began as a Celtic festival 2000 years ago with the belief that the end of summer and beginning of winter blurred the line between the living and the dead. The Celts built large bonfires, wore animal masks and skins while offering sacrifices to protect themselves from the unknown evils that were thought to be lurking in the dark of the oncoming winter.

In 43 A.D., the Romans conquered the Celts and ruled over them for the next 400 years. As a result, Christianity began to spread over Celtic lands and in the 7th. Century, Pope Boniface IV attempted to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a church holiday,- All Saint's Day, also known as All-Hallows. It was celebrated on November 1st. to honor Saints and Martyrs. The night before it, October 31st. was called All-Hallows Eve, which eventually has become Halloween as we know it.

Astrologically, the holiday of Halloween always occurs during Scorpio, the sign of death, ghosts, hidden unseen things, the afterworld, the unknown, metaphysical and spiritual realms, and the deep dark recesses of the unconscious that often become preoccupied with the supernatural and mankind's ultimate relationship with the universe.

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