Orb of an Aspect
The allowance of degrees within which a configuration is treated as an aspect at all. It is a convention, not an observation, and the two main conventions disagree in kind: the traditional orb is a property of the planet and is halved into a moiety.
Under Lilly's table the Sun and Moon are in aspect within 8.5 plus 6, that is 14.5 degrees, which would be very wide by modern standards, while two Mars aspects are allowed only 7 degrees in total. Lilly's numbers are themselves conventional and were not measured; the modern figure of 8 degrees for a major aspect has no traditional authority either. An aspect within a degree is called partile and is judged far more strongly than one at the edge of the orb.
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The allowance of degrees within which a configuration is treated as an aspect at all. It is a convention, not an observation, and the two main conventions disagree in kind: the traditional orb is a property of the planet and is halved into a moiety, so the permitted distance between two planets is the sum of their moieties; the modern orb is a property of the aspect and is applied uniformly.
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Two incompatible conventions. Traditional: an orb belongs to each planet (Lilly: Sun 17, Moon 12, Jupiter 11, Saturn 9, Mercury, Venus and Mars 7), halved into a moiety, and two planets are in aspect when the distance is within the sum of their moieties. Modern: the orb belongs to the aspect (8-10 degrees for the majors, 1-3 for the minors).
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