MareSaturni
During my vacations I printed a few random charts to study and I came across a couple of chart that had few major aspect. They were either very scattered and had mostly oppositions and squares, or very concentrated in one portion of the chart and had lots of trines and conjunctions.
I use tight orbs for the major aspects (the usual, nothing excessive), and I don't feel comfortable with the ideas of allowing more room so more aspects should be made. I feel this a bit like cheating...
Anyways, none of my books really offer any ideas about the importance of the amount of aspects, so I looked on the internet. I didn't find much, but what I found implied that people who have charts with few aspects do not fully integrate parts of their psychological side ("the left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing", lol!), have boring lives/personalities or are not complex enough. One site used Hitler's chart (always the guy ) as an extremely bad case of "chart with few aspects".
I suppose all of this could be true, but honestly it sounds a bit too negative, with no silver lining. I always try to imagine how I'd translate the message to the native, and I found it very hard to even soften 'boring, psychologically unintegrated and/or not complex'. Of course, I realize that other factors would be present and hopefully would be able to balance this out.
I know we have less dramatic astrologers here, so I was wondering if anyone has other (possibly less abysmal) ideas about what a small amount of major aspects can imply in a chart, overall.
I use tight orbs for the major aspects (the usual, nothing excessive), and I don't feel comfortable with the ideas of allowing more room so more aspects should be made. I feel this a bit like cheating...
Anyways, none of my books really offer any ideas about the importance of the amount of aspects, so I looked on the internet. I didn't find much, but what I found implied that people who have charts with few aspects do not fully integrate parts of their psychological side ("the left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing", lol!), have boring lives/personalities or are not complex enough. One site used Hitler's chart (always the guy ) as an extremely bad case of "chart with few aspects".
I suppose all of this could be true, but honestly it sounds a bit too negative, with no silver lining. I always try to imagine how I'd translate the message to the native, and I found it very hard to even soften 'boring, psychologically unintegrated and/or not complex'. Of course, I realize that other factors would be present and hopefully would be able to balance this out.
I know we have less dramatic astrologers here, so I was wondering if anyone has other (possibly less abysmal) ideas about what a small amount of major aspects can imply in a chart, overall.