Do Aspects Have Dignity?

Q: Is an aspect from Jupiter “debilitated” when it affects the cusp of Capricorn?

An aspect doesn’t have dignity, a planet has dignity. You have to understand that dignity is about the relationship of the guest to the host. The planet is a guest and the owner of the sign the planet is in is the host. Next you have to understand what an aspect is. It is a “dhristi” – it is a line-of-sight, by which a planet can cast a glance upon a different place. The glance is the glance of the host, it is not the host itself. The glance is not received by the host of the sign it lands in, because the glance is not a guest, it is just a glance. If someone looks at your house, it is a hell of a lot different than if they come into your living room. If they look into your house you get affected by that, but if they are actually in your house they are a guest. The aspect is a glance. it is the power of the planet transfered by a glance.

So the dignity of a planet is decided by it’s relationship to the planet who hosts the sign it is in. Therefore the glances that planet casts by aspects carry that dignity with them wherever they land.

7th lord 10th lord mutual aspect

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Question

 

7th house lord and 10th house lord aspecting each other?

7th lord in 7th house itself and 10th lord in 1st house …what does this mean??

Answer

Judging this in isolation:

The spouse will assist in your gaining a position in society / aka “career”. The spouse is a big part of that. Marriage is strong, and the career recognition is also strong.

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Western Aspects and Vedic Aspects

Aspects are the most poorly understood aspect of Vedic schools of astrology. Even “Vedic astrologers” seldom know what Vedic aspects really are. It is a real shame. The beauty of Vedic astrology is that its ancient form is still largely intact. This gives us access to the way global astrology was practiced centuries and millennia in the past. Thus you can trace most techniques or principles of any school of astrology to a Vedic origin.

Most people think that Western Aspects deal with orbs and exact degrees. The truth is that Vedic Aspects also deal with orbs and exact degrees, as you have just learned, and have done so potentially for thousands of years since Sage Parashara wrote the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra during the time of Maharaja Yuddishthira, roughly 5,000 years ago.

There is a Western Aspect theory that applying aspects (those less than their exact focal point, but getting closer to it) are more intense while separating aspects (those separating from their focal point and moving past it) quickly dissolve. Look at the basic chart for Vedic aspects to the most fundamental point, 180º away. You will see that the effects are far more intense as the aspecting planet applies to (approaches) the aspected planet, and once the focal point of 180º is reached the intensity of the aspect quickly falls off. This is because as the aspecting planet approaches the aspected planet stands in its eighth house and gradually moves into the seventh. After being exactly opposite in the seventh house it moves towards the sixth. Follow the graph for from the eighth house (210º) through the sixth house (150º) and you will see that it is an exact description of applying and separating aspects.

In Western Aspects trines are thought of as mild and beneficial influences. This is because in ancient astrology planets mildly aspected the trines (fifth house / 120º & ninth house / 240º), except for the beneficial Jupiter who aspected these points at full strength.

Squares are considered to be rigid, strengthening, but rough aspects in Western Theory. This comes from ancient astrology in which rigid and rough Saturn is the only planet who fully aspects the tenth house (the 270º square), and strong but rough Mars is the only planet who fully aspects the fourth house (the 90º square).

When you use real Vedic aspects, the aspects that calculate exact degrees, there is no need to wonder if you should also use Western aspects. You already are, because vedic degree aspects are the mother of Western aspects. The only unfortunate thing is that vedic software does not yet offer as appealing and intuitive an interface to depicting aspect patterns on charts.

- Vic DiCara

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© 2010 Vic DiCara, All Rights Reserved

What is an “Aspect”?

“Aspect” is another rather obscure and outmoded English word. If you look it up in a normal dictionary, you will learn that the word refers to the position of one thing in relation to another; the way things face each other; the way things look at other things. You can “study something from every aspect” if you turn it around and look at it from different directions. By looking at things from many different angles you can learn about them in all their aspects. So, the word aspect is all about the angle from which you look at things.

Aspect is a word of Latin origin. It is based on the word spec which means “to look.” Eyeglasses, for example, were originally called spectacles. Putting an “a” in front of “spec” makes a verb of it. Aspect really means “the act of looking.”

The Sanskrit word for astrological aspects is drishti, the meaning of which is identical to the meaning of aspect. They both mean “the act of looking.”

Aspects / drishti are not ordinary, casual glances. They are special, careful, willful glances which reveal new facets of things, and which even influence the things they look at. For example, a businessperson in a board meeting says, “This data is going to significantly aspect the way we do business in the coming year.” The data and the business plan “look at” each other in a profound way that influences both of them.

Sometimes a girl will look at a boy in a way that turns his legs to jelly and makes butterflies take flight in his heart. That sort of willful, powerful, influential glance is exactly what an aspect really is.

How Aspects Work

Right now I am sitting at my desk writing these words. There is a window in front of me, just to the right. Looking out that window I can see the driving school two blocks away from me, and all the people walking on the sidewalk in front of it. I am not on that sidewalk, but it is almost as if I was – because I have a clear line of sight to it. If I wanted to affect something going on there, it would be pretty easy. I could wait till someone walked by and then shout something or whistle – and the person would be shocked and affected by my energy. That is me “casting my aspect.”

I could not really do this very well to some spot I could not see with a direct line of sight, even if that spot was closer to me physically.

Also, if I stand up from the desk and walk just a little bit to the right the view I get our of my window changes dramatically. Now I see rooftops. Moving still more to the right I will see my neighborhood street. This illustrates that aspects are all about the position of two bodies in relation to one another. When there is just the right angle between me, my window, and the driving school sidewalk – I can see it perfectly and influence it dramatically. If the angle is not right, the line of sight is obscured or changes to some other focal point.

Believe it or not, you now know more about what aspects are than maybe 90% of people who have been practicing astrology for years. Each planet has certain “windows” through which they can look at things. When a house cusp or another planet moves into an opportune angle to those windows, the planet can see it and can therefore influence it.

Now you have to learn about what those angles are and what windows the various planets have.

- Vic DiCara

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© 2010 Vic DiCara, All Rights Reserved