Current Aspects

When To Use It

Open the full window when you want to:

• see more than the strongest few aspects
• filter by planet, aspect or phase (applying or separating)
• read the aspect grid at a glance
• check antiscia, contra-antiscia and parallels of declination
• inspect aspects to the house cusps alongside the planetary aspects

The window reads the active Astro Clock chart. To analyse a saved chart, load it in Astro Clock first.

How To Open It

In Astro Clock, click More at the bottom of the Current aspects tile.

The tile and the window share two settings:

• Aspect orbs: Lilly (half of each planet's orb added together, the default), Morin (Morin's semidiameters) or Modern (fixed orbs: 8° for the conjunction, square, trine and opposition, 6° for the sextile)
• Morin mode, the checkbox in the tile, which switches to Morin's latitude-corrected aspects, antiscia by declination and his configurations

Screen At A Glance

Legend

1. Close button (or press Escape)
2. Planet and Aspect filters
3. Any, Applying or Separating
4. Section toggles: Planetary, Antiscia & parallels, Cusps
5. The orb policy in use
6. Planetary aspects, with the aspect grid on the left
7. Orb, allowed orb, phase and the time of exactness
8. Exactness bar
9. Notes such as reception, mutual reception or partile

Main Controls

• Planet limits the list to aspects involving one planet.
• Aspect limits it to one aspect type.
• Any, Applying and Separating filter by phase.
• Planetary, Antiscia & parallels and Cusps turn each section on or off.
• Click a cell in the aspect grid to show only that pair; a button lets you clear the pair filter.

What The Sections Show

Planetary Aspects

The first section shows every aspect in force under the chosen orbs, with a short note on how those orbs are counted.

• The grid shows each pair's aspect, its orb and an arrow for applying or separating.
• The list puts the tightest aspects first. Each row shows the two bodies and the aspect, the orb and the allowed orb (for example orb 0°32′ of 7°15′), applying or separating, when it was or will be exact, and an exactness bar with a percentage.
• Notes under a row flag reception, mutual reception, partile contacts or an aspect that changes sign first.

In Morin mode this section becomes Morin aspects, latitude-corrected with Morin's orbs.

Antiscia And Parallels

• Antiscia mirror a degree across the Cancer-Capricorn axis, and contra-antiscia across Aries-Libra, with a 1° orb.
• Parallels of declination are a later technique, listed with a 1° orb.

In Morin mode this becomes Antiscia / Contra-antiscia (Morin) by equal declination, followed by Morin's combustion, translation, besiegement, doryphory, collection, frustration and mediation.

Cusp Aspects

With Cusps on, the window lists aspects to the house cusps within 1°, with their phase and notes such as dexter or sinister and partile.

Practical Workflow

1. Load the chart you want in Astro Clock, or stay in Realtime.
2. Choose Lilly, Morin or Modern orbs in the Current aspects tile.
3. Click More to open the full window.
4. Filter by planet, aspect or phase, or click a grid cell.
5. Turn on Antiscia & parallels or Cusps for the wider picture.
6. Close the window, or press Escape, to return to Astro Clock.

Notes

• The window doesn't save a chart. Use Save chart in Astro Clock for that.
• It always reads the active Astro Clock chart.
• Loading a saved chart first is the easiest way to analyse an earlier chart instead of the live one.