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Aspects · Intermediate

Applying aspect

Also called applying

An aspect that is getting closer to exact because the faster body is moving towards it.

If fast Mars is 85° from slow Saturn and moving so the gap grows toward 90°, the square is applying. Astrologers often read an applying aspect as building or still to come, and a separating one as already under way.

How it is worked out
Worked out from the two bodies' longitudinal speeds: applying when the orb is shrinking. For the Ascendant and Midheaven, which turn with the sky rather than moving along the zodiac, this site gives no applying or separating state.
  • Kind: Calculation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Separating aspect, Exact aspect, Orb, Aspect

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