A traditional sign relationship establishes whether two planets behold one another. Degree judgment adds measured detail without erasing that sign relationship or hiding a modern inclusion orb.
Read five separate layers
- Configuration names the sign-based conjunction, sextile, square, trine, or opposition.
- From exact measures the shortest distance to the aspect's exact degree.
- Phase compares both planets' signed longitude speeds to report applying, separating, exact, unchanging, or unknown.
- Partile is exact; kollesis is applying within the adopted three-degree threshold; other eligible contacts remain platic.
- The dexter planet prevails in sextile, square, and trine; a dexter square is also marked predominating.
Governed worked example
Worked example: qualify an eligible trine
Saturn at 17 degrees Capricorn and the Moon at 20 degrees Virgo are trine by sign. Their exact separation is about 116.47 degrees, roughly 3.53 degrees from the exact 120-degree trine.
- First establish Virgo-Capricorn trine eligibility.
- Then calculate the shortest exact angular separation.
- Record distance from exact separately from applying or separating phase.
- Use planetary speed and direction only for the governed motion judgment.
Superiority and the overcoming square
Direction is relational. In a traditional sextile, square, or trine, the planet on the right-hand or dexter side prevails over the planet on the left. Stelliums names both planets so the same contact can be read from either dossier: one planet exerts the testimony and the other receives it.
The square receives a more specific label. The superior planet is in the tenth sign from the planet it overcomes, so Stelliums displays the contact as a predominating or overcoming square. Sextiles and trines retain the broader dexter-prevailing label rather than being collapsed into the square doctrine.