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Capricorn, seventeen degrees |
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The word to know today
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Orb
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An orb is the allowance of degrees inside which an aspect counts as made. In the older scheme the orb belongs to the planet rather than to the aspect, so every body carries its own width around with it. Lilly gives the Sun fifteen degrees and the Moon twelve.
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Sleep Like A Baby Tonight (Try This 30-Second Sleep Trick)
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So, this doctor walked away…
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It’s shockingly simple. You’ll wonder why no one told you this before…
The average sleep score in the US is 41 out of 100, however people who use this 30 seconds sleep trick consistently average 80+.
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Nothing in the sky lines up exactly, and the old system had an allowance for it. The Moon runs from five degrees of Capricorn to about seventeen today, forty one percent lit, still in her detriment and a day short of her first quarter. When she comes within a certain distance of an exact aspect, the aspect counts as made. That distance is the orb.
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What makes the scheme strange to a modern eye is where the orb lives. It does not belong to the aspect. It belongs to the planet. Every body carries its own allowance, the same width whether it is making a trine or a square, and two planets count as in aspect when the gap closes to half the sum of their two allowances. Lilly gives the Sun fifteen degrees and the Moon twelve. The rest run smaller, seven to nine.
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So the two lights have the widest reach in the system, and she is the second widest of the seven. She is also the fastest, which makes her aspects both the broadest and the briefest. She enters the allowance, crosses the exact degree, and is out the other side inside a day. Capricorn is her detriment and it is also the exaltation of Mars, so the sign counts a malefic up and counts her down. She has twelve degrees of reach here and no authority at all to use it with.
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From the shelf
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William Lilly, Christian Astrology
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London, 1647, where every planet is given an orb of its own and the aspects are measured against that rather than against one fixed allowance.
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