Quarter 2 - Lesson 9:
On Aspects - Intermediate Level - Part 1

The first of three lessons covering a review of Aspects based on Morin's 21st Book (with comments drawn from Book 16) begins with an appreciation that Planets through their Aspects act in two specific ways. We illustrate these two principles on the primary significators of human destiny, i.e., The Ascendant and the Midheaven.

We begin with Morin's statement on how Aspects function. He states,

"Properly speaking, the planets do not have any good or bad effect on each other by their aspects and that together they act on the sublunary world in much the same way as the planets act with the signs, as partners in the same action." Book 21, Section 2, Chapter 9
We then expand upon his general statement about the interaction between planets from which we can deduct the various possibilities that can exist between benefic and malefic planets aspecting one another. He says, "The partnership of benefic aspects from benefic planets is good; of malefic aspects from malefics is evil; but of benefic ones from malefic planets or of malefic ones from benefic planets the combination is intermediate in effect.

A Planet has specific action through its aspects and can be said to determine particular things. Hence it is clear that a power of action is inherent in the Aspects as well as in the Signs, which is dependent on the qualitative power of the Planets. In fact, the planets at times seem to act with greater strength through aspect than through rulership."

Using the charts of Angelina Jolie and Alan Dershowitz, we examine how the Ascendant (the primary significator governing human destiny) afflicted by an opposition or square from Saturn is a more serious matter than if ruled by them all things being equal. On the other hand, using the charts of Sonny Rollins and Ferruccio Lamborghini, we show how it is more fortunate for the Ascendant to receive a trine aspect from Jupiter, for example, than to be subject to its rulership, all things being equal.

We end the lesson how a planet might have a greater significance for the house to which it is opposed than the ruler of that house would have if it were located in some other house using the chart of Al Pacino.

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