The Conjunction

Think of two instruments playing exactly the same note. You no longer hear two sounds, you hear one, louder and richer than either alone. That is a conjunction: two planets so close together that their energies fuse.

The conjunction is the first aspect, the angle of zero degrees. It is not really an angle at all, but a meeting: two planets standing side by side in the sky, as seen from Earth.

The geometry

Because the two planets are side by side, they are usually in the same sign, sharing its element, modality and polarity. Their energies do not have to cross any distance to meet. They simply act together, in the same style and the same area of life.

The aspect that is not an angle

Here is something many beginners miss. The ancient astrologers did not count the conjunction as an aspect at all. An aspect, from the Latin for "looking at", was a way for planets to see each other across the sky, and planets side by side do not need to look. The conjunction was treated as a union, a different and stronger kind of connection. Modern astrology counts it as the first and most powerful aspect.

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