✶ Kite
✶ Kite
Subfolder of: Aspect Patterns · Aspects
Definition: A Grand Trine with a fourth body opposite one of its corners, which therefore sextiles the other two.
📐 Geometry
- Grand Trine a–b–c
- d Opposition a
- d Sextile b and d Sextile c
Arithmetic test: d ≈ λa + 180. Every leg must be within its own aspect orb (see the linked aspect notes).
🧭 Reading (modern Western usage)
In modern practice this configuration is read as the opposition gives the Grand Trine a direction and outlet; body d is the “tail”, body a the “head”. Within Astrology Arith(m)etic, read each leg with the book method — body × aspect × body, coloured by sign and house — and then read the figure as a whole.
🔗 Used in
Sources
- Bil Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (CRCS, 1983) — aspect configurations
- Robert Hand, Horoscope Symbols (Whitford, 1981) — aspects and configurations
- Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (2nd c. CE), Book I — trans. F. E. Robbins, Loeb Classical Library 435 (1940), public-domain text at LacusCurtius: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/home.html