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Wider aspect orbs (8-10 degrees) allow for the psychological effects of aspects to come through and become visible in the chart as potentials that need our efforts to become conscious and incorportated into our conscious life and personality. Aspects of wider orb tend to be more psychologically subtle in effect and dormant, expressing themselves as background influences on character, development, and emotional patterns. The more we focus on them, the more they become obvious in their patterning power in our lives. They are psychic complexes and tragic gods that seek the light of consciousness to become real and embodied.

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By focusing on the essentials, taking only what we need, and leaving out everything else, we may learn about the foundation and building blocks of astrology more deeply. I mean studying the mythopoetic nature and facets of the major planets and major aspects, without adding more complexity where it is not needed. Saturn becomes the archetype of the father, the king, the social boundary, and the moral aspect of the human psyche. The Moon becomes the archetypal mother, matriarch, and the alchemical queen. Mercury becomes a bridging androgynous archetype, a hermetic closing mechanism, a mind playing with images and ideas. The Sun becomes an archetype of life, of light, radiance, vitality, childhood, wholeness, the cry of a lion, and regeneration. A conjunction becomes an identification and merging of two forces that feel so close and alike as to be unable to function alone without each other. There are endless associations and symbolism to every planet, house, and aspect, so much that we can spend years learning about the basics and still not cover them completely.

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The hard aspects may bring delays, difficult circumstances, and difficulties to character, but they also give the impetus to overcome, to struggle, and go against the flow. The energy seeks conscious realization in the personality. They are character-building. It is through the hard aspects that we learn about ourselves and grow, and become the persons we are at our core and in potential. There is no coming to consciousness without that dynamic struggle. Jung spoke of that process as the individuation process, of becoming what one has always been. The hard aspects, through their edges and swings, teach us more about ourselves and how consciousness may grow and expand by remaining open to possibilities, potentials, and unintegrated energies.

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Uranus represents the higher creative and abstract spheres of the archetypal mind: symbolic structures, mythic ideas, prophetic passion, promethean archetypes, and blinding light. It is the promethean urge in the psyche to go beyond itself and into spiritual escapades, dissociating from the earthly plane and visiting metaphysical realms with sparkling eyes of wonder. These are eyes capable of seeing harmony in the whole: the music of the spheres resounding in the cosmos and the world, glimpsing higher order structuring the everyday world.

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The 4th house and the Moon describe the inner landscape of the personality: its dreams, fears, memories, secrets, skeletons in the cupboard, and ancestral ghosts. In that landscape, we see ourselves as both child and adult, grown-up and childlike, spontaneous and anxious, excited and saddened. The inner world is illuminated by the Moon and the 4th house as the seat of emotions, reflections, and wishes. Watery yet structuring, the 4th house shares many similarities to its opposite - Saturn and the archetypal structure of time, reality, and the ground afoot. The Moon embraces, structures, and touches the heart. The 4th house is the foundation, the lowest point of the horoscope that represents the foundations, the structure that holds all of it together and stands tall and firm.

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Saturn is the psychological "skin" that protects us from the world. Some people have "thin" skin; others have "thick" skin. These conditions of psychic permeability can be discovered by inquiring into Saturn's condition in the chart. When aspected by Uranus, Neptune, or the Moon, someone can be extraordinarily sensitive to the outer world and its influences. When aspected by Pluto, Mars, or the Sun, someone may have thoroughly developed psychological defenses that keep them protected through distance, self-isolation, and inner barriers.

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Chiron represents the difficult inner work of forgiving oneself and learning to live with one's unhealing wound. It is difficult to settle with the word "unhealing", so we often say "unhealed", as though to say "unhealed as of yet", hoping to heal and to correct our wounds. But perhaps something else is needed. Self-forgiveness goes beyond correction. It is a form of learning to live with our wounds and difficulties. Chiron is not easy to deal with, asking us to accept the darker and hurt side of human nature. This is why Chiron is associated not just with spirituality or transcendence, but also with blind rage, wounding, suffering, illness, and injustice. These are often the ways, or the keys, into a more conscious relationship with the principle of Chiron. Wounds need consciousness because only consciousness can provide care, tenderness, and love to the wound, and can make something out of it while still honoring its message.

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Mars represents the body in its visual, aesthetic, and biological aspects. The world of the body, its impermanence, pain, pleasure, and glory, belongs to Mars. The body image that we cry and bow down to in the mirror is also a reflection of Mars. It is difficult to imagine Mars ruling anything other than the literal body, but the psychic body, the aliveness and motions of the mind, also corresponds to Mars, to the factor that is experienced as "to be alive".

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Mars is the "spear" that we use in our dealings with the world, the defenses that we have against the world, and rightly so, because to survive, we need defenses, weapons, and psychological armory. It can seem aggressive from a more "polished" or "polite" view, but to Mars, these are necessities, necessary aspects of existence without which we are threatened by erasure.

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“Sometimes “inner work” requires an act of loyalty rather than an effort at transformation. Knowing what makes us happy (Venus), expressing this to others (Mercury), and standing firm in the face of opposition (Mars) may seem very petty against the more profound concerns of the outer world. Yet in their own way, these things are equally profound, for it is these small acts of self-affirmation that define the ego and ultimately the capacity to mediate the heavy planets with their destructive and transformative potentials.” ― Liz Greene, The Inner Planets: Building Blocks of Personal Reality

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“The 8th is also the gateway into the underworld, the transitional place where we discover that we are not masters of our lives, but must bow to more archaic, primal needs and patterns that are larger and older than any individual.” ― Liz Greene, Relationships and How to Survive Them

I place emphasis on Chiron because it is the archetype of meaning, of the spiritual animality and animal spirituality of the cultural animal that the human being is. Chiron rules our meaning-making, the ways we try to make the irrationality of life make sense, the lack of reason behind injustice and the wounds that we all carry. From the astrological viewpoint, Chiron is where life becomes unsane, irrational, and downright brutal. It is both the wound and the bandage, the crying abandoned centaur and the fatherly patronage of Apollo.

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Chiron rules alternative schools of healing, spirituality, and astrology. It is no surprise then that these spiritual sources of insight may arise from our transpersonal wounding, the attempt to transcend it and spiritualize it through awareness of the hurting body (Chiron). Chiron cannot escape the wound like Neptune, form a philosophy around it like Jupiter, or intellectualize it like Uranus. It has to feel the wound, and through this wounded, hurting feeling, another form of spirituality arises, once Chiron is turned into a celestial constellation by Zeus. Astrology, in particular, is the search for spiritual explanation of our earthly wounding - the conditions in our lives that seem predestined, unavoidable, and unchanging.

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Jung's concept of the synchronicity principle is interesting from an astrological viewpoint. Psyche (inner cosmos) and matter (outer cosmos) mirror each other meaningfully and acausally, without that implying a literal relationship. This explains why events meaningfully coincide with important transitional phases, transits, progressions, and solar arc directions. The psyche is capable of understanding matter and the cosmos as alive, symbolic, and metaphoric through the intuitive, synchronous mode of comprehending life. All is meaningful and surrounded by mystery once we understand the world through the images produced by our minds and the unconscious.

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A process-oriented approach to astrology sees in the planets an archetypal reservoir of possibilities, behaviors, and potentials. Every planet is an archetype of limitless potential and infinitude. It is a pure pattern of behavior, the underlying motif and shape that universalizes different ways of being and behaving. Beneath every vibrant expression of life, there is an archetype involved, an archetypal pattern that is invisible to the psychological eye but all the more active and influential. Archetypal patterns such as the mother goddess, the divine child, the hero, and the shadow reveal patterns of possibilities of experience that cannot be reduced or summarized without losing their richness and depth of reference. Their variations may be endless (the archetypal image), yet the underlying archetype (the invisible pattern) remains the same throughout different ages and regions.

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Every planet is a dynamic within the personality and life. Each archetype represents a vital dynamic that structures experiences and transforms the soul. Astrology maps these dynamics through planets, houses, and especially aspects. The aspects are the building blocks of the dynamics in astrology. They are the flowing energies of the psyche, the divine energy seeking resolution and direction. Archetypes are likewise centers that organize energy toward particular activities, goals, and instinctual patterns. Understanding astrology dynamically means to see every part of it as moving toward a greater goal, a transcendent movement of energy that we know so little of as to have only symbolic hints about.

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“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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