If you’ve had a look at the introduction to natal astrology page, there is a line near the end that talks about alchemy being found in the blue and red lines that criss cross the chart - Aspects, or geometric patterns, between the planets ⚡️
I focus on Aspects in energy healing sessions. Below you’ll find an explanation. I first published this article on a friend’s astrology site - it was featured in her newsletter in 2022. It’s closing down and I have decided to post my writing here.
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Aspects In Astrology: Deep Dive Into Your Unconscious
Journaling has been one of my favorite activities since childhood, just writing about how I felt in any given situation. Decades later, I discovered energy healing and natal astrology. This brought the light of wisdom and compassion to my journaling practice. The natal chart opened me eyes.
Our emotional reactions to life can be seen in Planetary Aspects– those red, blue and dotted lines that crisscross a chart. Each of the Planets represents a part of your psyche; the flow of energy between them tells us if they move in alignment, or if they create stumbling blocks.
The more I journaled about the difficult Aspects in my chart, the easier it was to pinpoint beliefs, emotional reactions, and unconscious patterns that undermined my happiness. Judy Hall’s The Astrology Bible is one of my favorite astrology books, thanks to the chapter on aspects. It tells you how each relationship looks when functional vs sabotaging. When in doubt, have a look at that chapter, and then focus on healing self-sabotage.
A Case Study (Me!)
For example, Mercury and Jupiter oppose each other in my chart. The planet of the Mind is in the 10th house of Work, in Pisces, a sign that dreams up endless scenarios. With Jupiter in Virgo, the perfectionist worrywart, I obsessed over what can go wrong. Or what people might say about my work. With two additional planets in Virgo (including Saturn!), I soon discovered that my inner critic had the loudest voice of all. Journaling and energy healing turned down the volume.
Below you will find a summary of Aspects to use as journaling prompts.
Integrating the tough Aspects creates the biggest transformations, especially those with orbs under three degrees. The orb is the difference in degrees, for example, Mars at 14 degrees vs Jupiter at 17 degrees has a 3 degree orb. Whether it’s a conjunction, a square or a trine depends on what Signs they are in,
Conjunction: Two planets are in the same sign, or no more than 10 degrees apart. It’s likely one will eclipse the other, though in some cases they join forces and give the native more power.
Square: Productive tension between two planets, much like the tension that a violin’s strings need to create sound. Two competing forces challenge the native to raise their game.
Opposition: This is the most challenging aspect as the qualities represented by the opposition are manifested in the outside world as head-on collisions or challenges. We actually need to integrate warring parts of our psyche before we find peace andpower in the world.
Quincux: My first astrology teacher described this as a pebble in your shoe, a small annoyance that we try to ignore. The pain grows with time until we are forced to look at it. The biggest gains can be found in this Aspect, often resolving issues that can drag on for decades.
These are the challenging aspects, the ones that typically bring a bit of creative tension. We also have aspects (geometric patterns) that bring ease into our lives, namely Trines and Sextiles. I haven’t gone into the specifics in this blog post.
There are plenty of ways to integrate what we find in the natal chart. You will find a guided meditation on Youtube HERE, designed to integrate oppositions in the astrology chart. The foundations of energy healing are covered in my books: Amazon.com/author/reginachouza
Reiki hugs,
Regina
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