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Understanding
and Managing Orbs
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by Noel Tyl
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The concept of orb comes up very often: what orbs should I use? Why do some texts recommend orbs large than this, lesser than this? How do we use the concept practically? ---Let’s solve this once and for all!
We can appreciate the measurement of orb two ways.
First, measurement of orb is an organizing tool among many numbers. It works to help the astrologer organize measurements. Arbitrarily and with some empirical back-up over perhaps three centuries –and not without a good dose of numerological nuance— orbs have been set quite liberally, focused most often upon seven degrees, and ranging up to 14 degrees. Way back in astrology there was no reference to orb: a planet related to another planet by House position; a planet was “with” another planet if they were in opposite Houses, the same House, etc.
On the one hand, we benefit from organizational help in our work, but on the other hand, we do not want that organization to introduce more problems: untenable relationships between symbols, so many aspects cluttering our analytical insights, overlapping measurement considerations, etc. –When we are talking about the degree relationship between two planets, in sophisticated modern astrology, we must remember that we are not measuring distance as much as we are measuring affinity. And this brings us to the second way of appreciating orb: as a span of consciousness.
There are people whose consciousness, for one reason or another, can/does reach out beyond conventional orb measurement and establish an affinity, a relationship between behavioral faculties (the planetary symbols). For example, Pablo Picasso [October 25, 1881 at 11:15 PM LMT in Malaga SPAIN] has Uranus 9 degrees away from square with his Moon in Sagittarius. That is a wide orb by conventional measurement; but Picasso was anything but a conventional personage. His consciousness did include the highly individualizing and self-intensifying square between Uranus and the Moon. His arch opinions about the world motivated enormous political commentary through his art; his mother was an extreme influence in his female-dominated upbringing. The shoe would fit. We would learn this from our client’s reality; we would anticipate and then know this; we would incorporate that square for this special person ... but to have such a wide orb for every portrait would simply clutter our work with a multiplicity of aspects, divergences, and tangents. The vast majority of people will not be reaching that far, so to speak, to link behavioral faculties within our symbolic procedures.
Because of the Picasso “fit”, we are not saying that the guidelines of tighter, conventional orbs are wrong or impractical. It means that the portrait artist, the astrologer, must be aware of exceptions.
Another example: self-styled “King of All Media” Howard Stern [January 12, 1954 at 1:10 PM EST in New York City] has Mars 12 degrees away from opposition with his Moon, ruler of his communications 3rd. With Stern’s full-time job being amplification and broadcasting of his persona, his emotionally excitable, disruptive, and hyperactive personality, this opposition is valid! We would simply see and sense that this shoe would fit, that those colors of Mars and the Moon would go together in the portrait. There is surely an affinity here between the two behavioral faculties.
The thesis I espouse with regard to orb is to keep the measurement of orb reasonably tight: the tighter the orb, the fewer the aspects shown in the aspect grid, the more reliable those aspects are. And we keep an eye out for the occasional special-case exception.
I recommend orbs of 7 degrees for the conjunction, opposition, and the square, for the Sun, the Moon, and the Planets. I recommend 6 degrees orb for the trine; 4 for the sextile; 2.5 for the semisquare and the quintile; and 2 degrees for the quindecile. These values organize measurements extremely well. Any rare, outstanding exceptions can easily be noted visually during analysis. The aspect grid is kept uncluttered and readily helpful.[1]
We must recognize now, at the outset of our preparation for analysis and consultation, that our portrait, the horoscope, is not created to capture our subject in tightest detail. This is relating our client to the horoscope; actually confining the personality’s development and bloom to what we know about astrology! --Rather, the horoscope is created to relate TO the life of our client, to reflect it; the horoscope is brought to life within the reality experience of the individual. The measurements and the colors of potential meanings are animated, verified, and given significance by the life reality being lived by the client.
Our techniques guide us to that reality information, and our measurements are given ultimate meaning by the client’s life experience. Stockpiling myriad measurements in hopes of capturing some magical nuance is a manifestation of the astrologer’s insecurity. --How many measurements do we need to begin a meaningful discussion with our client? The stronger measurements are the strongest guidelines. And then the interpretive art begins.
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[1] Many software manufacturers weigh the astrologer down with default aspects like the novile, bi-quintile, septile, etc., which have no ready significance in the mainstream of astrology. The artist-analyst must have aspects at hand that are efficient for portraiture, kept keen by a meaningful grasp of orb. |
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Noel Tyl,
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Noel Tyl (no-ell till) is one of the foremost astrologers in the world. His twenty-nine textbooks have led the teaching of astrologers for two generations.
Tyl has written the professional manual for the field, the 1,000-page text "Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology" that has securely placed astrology in pace with the most sophisticated disciplines of humanistic studies extant today.
Mr. Tyl is a graduate of Harvard University with his degree in Social Relations (Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology), lectures throughout the Western world, serves his clients from his office in Phoenix AZ, maintains perhaps the most sophisticated astrological teaching website on the web, noeltyl.com, and leads his highly esteemed Master's Degree Certification Correspondence Course throughout 16 countries.
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