While contemplating the aspects and phases I saw that there are a few points (aspects) that we visit on the Waxing half of the circle and then again coming back around on the Waning half. (eg: the trines 120/240 - and inconjuncts 150/210) But/and... we come at them in the reverse order and "going in the other direction" + with a different consciousness. This felt similar to a retrograde and seems like an important pattern in astrology/life. It reminded me of walking thorugh the bush with my grandfather who would often stop and say, "It's helpful to turn around often and look back, sometimes even take a few steps backwards; it's a different forest going the other way".
Anyone else curious about or have insights, thoughts, feelings on this necessary change in perspective and a different order of experiencing any given point?
That's such a neat and poetic observation, thanks for sharing that Dawn.
Looks like all aspects can be folded upon the conjunction-opposition axis as a mirror image. Seeing it in that way is a fun way to think about it, and I've never noted that before quite as clearly as now.
If that's abstract - what I'm saying it take the conjunction and opposition axis and fold the wheel of aspects along that axis so that the top square and bottom square meet each other. All of the other aspects will also meet each other with the exception of the 5th and 7th harmonic aspects.
Ya... exactly. Very interesting.... Thanks Ari.... yes, there's the mirroring and then there is also this retrograde-like pattern (Trine, Sesququadrate, Inconjunct to Inconjunct, Sesquiquadrate, Trine) that feels like going over the same ground again but in the opposite order. Do you have insights/intuitions about this pattern?
No insights on my end, but I appreciate that observation.