☌︎ Conjunction — two planets at one point

Shares — our measurement for every day of 1950–2010 from the NASA ephemeris, with the same orbs as in the chart calculation.

What a conjunction means

It’s the strongest aspect in the tradition, but by nature it’s neither good nor bad: the meaning comes from the planets that have met. Sun with Venus and Mars with Saturn are both conjunctions, yet they read differently: in the first, self-regard and taste work together; in the second, anger switches on together with self-control — anger kept in check.

How to read a conjunction in your chart

The meaning of an aspect comes from the two planets. In the calculation each planet has one side noticeable in a person: Sun — self-regard; Moon — mood; Mercury — thoughts and words; Venus — likes and taste; Mars — anger and drive; Jupiter — reach and generosity; Saturn — self-control and sense of duty; Uranus — an urge for change; Neptune — dreaminess; Pluto — a need for control.

On the chart screen a conjunction reads like this: “in you they switch on together — one almost never comes without the other.” And right away, a sign that it’s not about you: the two sides live apart.

For example: Mars (anger and drive) and Jupiter (reach and generosity) in conjunction: where there’s drive, there’s reach — if you take something on, it’s something big.

The smaller the orb — the distance to the exact angle — the stronger the aspect by tradition; on the chart screen the aspects go from the most exact.

When a conjunction marks the year, not the person

The slow planets stay in the same aspect for months and years, and such an aspect is found in most people born in the same half-year. On the chart screen the aspects of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto with each other are marked as generational, without an interpretation of character, and for the rest it says how many peers have them.

• Uranus — Neptune — in 9 out of 10 peers · generational aspect
  January 1989 — December 1997, with breaks
• Uranus — Pluto — in 9 out of 10 peers · generational aspect
  September 1962 — August 1969, with breaks
• Saturn — Uranus — in 8 out of 10 peers
  January 1987 — November 1989, with breaks
• Saturn — Pluto — in 8 out of 10 peers
  November 1981 — November 1983, with breaks
• Saturn — Neptune — in 7 out of 10 peers
  December 1951 — November 1953, with breaks; March 1988 — November 1990, with breaks
• Jupiter — Saturn — in 7 out of 10 peers
  December 1960 — December 1961; September 1980 — October 1981; March 2000 — March 2001, with breaks
• Jupiter — Uranus — in 7 out of 10 peers
  August 1954 — July 1955; October 1968 — September 1969; December 1982 — November 1983; January 1997 — October 1997, with breaks; April 2010 — and beyond
• Jupiter — Neptune — in 6 out of 10 peers
  December 1957 — November 1958, with breaks; December 1970 — November 1971; December 1983 — October 1984, with breaks; November 1996 — February 1997; March 2009 — February 2010

“In 9 out of 10” — how many of those born within half a year before and after a person with this aspect also have it. Dates — when the angle held within the orb, 1950–2010.