most of us learned Astrology Through books, Google, youtubeOr blog like this one.
A little information from here, a little from there.
This means that we often have different pieces of knowledge – and at the same time, we also have internalize shortcut.
Square = opposition = difficult aspect?
the most Universally Used Shortcuts is in astrology equalizing squares and opposites with “difficult aspectAnd then treating them as if they were essentially the same thing: the challenging aspects.
Similarly, trines And sextiles Are merged together as “soft aspects” And treated more or less the same way – perhaps with some added nuance along the lines of “not as powerful or beneficial as the sextile trine, it just needs some activation”.
But usually it stops there.
The problem with these shortcuts is that they distort chart interpretation.
not only do they go away Explanations unclear – what we often call Keyword salad Explanations – but they can also lead really wrong conclusion.
>>A square is very different from an opposition and serves a completely different function in the chart!
Telling someone seeking career advice that they may lose their job because they have a “challenging opposition” upcoming is a big no-no. Ouch.
And no wonder these aspects get mixed up when the information out there is not quite accurate.
If you try to Google or ask an AI what is the difference between square and opposition, you get the wrong answer – see below.
it just is not true That classes are created by internal pressures, and that the protests represent external, direct conflicts.
when we understand deep logic of aspects – that opposites operate on a single axis, whereas squares introduce another axis and are therefore a multidimensional problem – it becomes immediately clear why this shortcut does not hold up.
Working with thousands of students over the past decade, we have identified 3 main lexical shortcuts – Equating squares and opposites as the same “hard aspect” is one of them, and there are 2 more – This not only results in unclear readings, but also distorts how the chart is actually read.
Caro tells us all about these 3 shortcuts here:
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