Aspect Patterns

Examples of aspect patterns are the Grand Water Trine or the Cardinal T-Square. The picture above shows how Tom Cruise has a Kite pattern which is a variation of the Grand Water Trine - Pluto in Virgo opposing the conjunction of Jupiter and Chiron in Pisces gives the pattern a focus.

I used the AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter program feature - Options, Research Charts, Search Three, Aspect Patterns together with Halloran Software's $59 file of 4600 Famous Charts to find celebrities who had tight versions of aspect patterns with particular focus, reaction, or pattern planets. The program allowed me to exclude charts that had a lot of other patterns, as well as saving to a new charts file just the people who had a particular pattern for easy recall later. It was quite gratifying to see the effects of particular patterns and focus planets play out in the lives of the chart subjects. I was able to observe consistent themes repeated for each of the focus planets, including Chiron (but not the asteroids), in biographical essays about the celebrity subjects.

Some subjects had very clear signatures, such as animal and nature lover (and winning dog sled racer) Susan Butcher with her strong Cardinal T-Square focused on Neptune (within three degrees of the 4th), where the Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, and Chiron are the T-Square pattern planets that closely square Neptune. [Dec. 26, 1954, 7:20 PM, Boston] It is fascinating to watch in her life as unworldly Neptune drives her further and further away from civilization.

Aspect patterns confirm the traditional meanings of the planets, but the patterns are independent of which reference frame the astrologer uses, so an astrologer can make them an important part of his or her repertoire regardless of the type of East or West zodiac or house system that the astrologer follows.

The number of patterns in the average chart is four or five, but it ranges from as many as seventeen patterns to as few as zero patterns (in three percent of charts). Some lives feature much change, others follow a steady course. The fewer the patterns that you have, the closer the descriptions should fit you.

Sample aspect patterns interpretation reports for President Obama, John McCain, and Warren Buffett.

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