Partile transiting aspects - applying vs separating

[Jim Eshelman]

Nov 06, 2016

Jim, when a transiting factor is partile aspected to a radical factor, do you allow any distinctive strengths/characteristics of this aspect between an approaching or separating partile aspect?

[Jim Eshelman]

Nov 06, 2016

Jim, when a transiting factor is partile aspected to a radical factor, do you allow any distinctive strengths/characteristics of this aspect between an approaching or separating partile aspect?

Simple answer: No distinction.

Complicated answer: It depends <vbg>.

-- (1) On multi-pass transits, there Is a life-process (internal transformation) underway from the moment the aspect first enters partile until it last leaves partile. Even if you "lose sight of it" in the middle, during non-partile periods, hindsight generally makes obvious that there was a clear ongoing process or ongoing life-shift.

-- (2) There are times, especially when it doesn't overlap other major indications, that an aspect seems to crest or peak when it's exact, and disperse. I've had many instances, e.g., of a slow Mars transiting Saturn where the tension and strain is rough during the onramp, and something happens at the aspect peaks the completes the process and the tension disperses. In some cases, this is clearly because I took some sort of action that resolved it (broke the tension, but I can't always track that.- I don't recall seeing this behavior in multi-pass aspects except on the last pass.

-- (3) Of course, if an aspect comes to a new return chart angle when it is separating, it won't act any different than if it were applying, it's just a very close aspect in the foreground. Return charts are static, and don't measure whether something is applying or separating, they're a snapshot in time.

[Jim Eshelman]

Nov 06, 2016

Thanks Jim, I now have a better understanding.

[SteveS]

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