What “aspect Orbs” are used to determine if the code letters like “e”, or other characters like ?, will appear beside a Sign name?
In the initial stage of The Experiment, only aspects to the planet or ascendant with an orb of 2 degrees or less will generate one of those code characters. An “aspect” is any of several specific “angles” between two planets (in this case, one in your birth horoscope and one in the other Member’s birth horoscope), such as “180 degrees (“an opposition”) or 0 degrees (“a conjunction”). The “orb of aspect” or just “orb” is an arbitrary limit to how many degrees from exact that aspect may be, while still being considered an aspect at all. An angle of 2 degrees would thus be considered “a conjunction” if the orb was set at 2 degrees, but an angle of 3 degrees or more would not. The closer an aspect is to exact (an orb of zero), the stronger the influence it indicates; so by setting small orbs of 0 to 3 degrees you only look at the strongest influences. The actual orb allowed is set by the judgment of the astrologer, based on his own experience and insight combined with generally accepted pr
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