Glenn Mitchell - Discover the Aspect Pattern in Your Birth Chart: A Comprehensive Guide

About the Author

Glenn Mitchell (Tallahassee, FL) is an astrologer with more than thirty years of experience and a PhD researcher in public health policy. He studied with the Faculty for Astrological Studies in London and has been mentored by several renowned astrologers, including David Cochrane, Kathy Rose, and Noel Tyl. He is also a certified expert in Astro*Carto*Graphy by the James Lewis Sladen Foundation (aka the Continuum).

In addition to doing natal consultations, Mitch maintains a blog at www.NewAgeAstrologer and videos at the NewAgeAstrologer YouTube channel. He is in demand as a popular conference speaker and has written articles for multiple astrological journals.

Feel free to reach out to Mitch at gmitchel850@yahoo.com.

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Discover the Aspect Pattern in Your Birth Chart: A Comprehensive Guide 2020 by Glenn Mitchell.

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First e-book edition 2020

E-book ISBN: 9780738763316

Cover design by Kevin R. Brown

Interior illustrations by the Llewellyn Art Department

The astrology charts in this book were created using the Kepler Superb Astrology Program, with kind permission from Cosmic Patterns Software, Inc., the manufacturer of the Kepler program (www.astrosoftware.com, kepler@astrosoftware.com).

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Names: Mitchell, Glenn, author.

Title: Discover the aspect pattern in your birth chart : a comprehensive

guide / by Glenn Mitchell.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Worldwide,

[2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: This

is a basic guide on how to interpret planetary and aspect patterns in a

natal astrology chartProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019051219 (print) | LCCN 2019051220 (ebook) | ISBN

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Subjects: LCSH: Birth charts. | Natal astrology.

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To my wonderful and supportive wife, Lillian.

To my mentors, David Cochrane, Kathy Rose, and Noel Tyl.

With gratitude to the Faculty of Astrological Studies.

Contents

List of

: How to Recognize Planetary Patterns

: The Splash

: The Bundle

: The Fan

: The Bowl

: The Bucket

: The Locomotive

: The Seesaw

: The Splay

: How to Recognize Aspect Patterns

: The Stellium

: The T-Square

: The Grand Cross

: The Hard Rectangle and Mystic Rectangle

: The Grand Trine and the Kite

: The Yod and Thors Hammer

: Imbalances

: Unaspected Planets

: Most Elevated Planet

: Intercepted and Duplicated Signs

: Retrograde Planets

: Leading Planets

: Planets on the Aries Point

: Tying It All Together

Charts and Figures

A Less Perfect T-Square

A Typical Example of a T-Square

A Dissociate T-Square

Astrological Shorthand

Acknowledgments

There are many individuals to whom I am indebted for their insights and assistance. I thank each and every one of you. I feel blessed to have such kind, generous, and understanding friends, family, and colleagues. I will name a few individuals who were there when this book was just an unproven concept. They encouraged me to start and finish the manuscript for this book. Robert Booton, Martina Erskine, Micho Frost, Aria Gmitter, Silvia Pancaro, Eleni Saatsoglou, and Scott Silvermanthank you one and all.

The charts for this book were generated with Sirius 3.0 from Cosmic Patterns Software. Sirius isnt only a great piece of astrology software; it also includes the complete Astro Databank data collection in its database. The one exception is the chart for . That chart was generated with Solar Fire 9 software. Chart searches were also done with Solar Fire 9. Screen captures and the editing on multiple figures were done with Techsmiths Snag-It! 2019 software.

Preface

Marc Edmund Jones wrote about planetary patterns back in 1941. The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation remains the seminal work on the topic. Since it is long out of print and written in a style that some find difficult to read, Ive undertaken the task of updating and extending Joness ideas.

Originally published in 1980 under the title Perceptions in Astrology , Bil Tierneys work is equally a classic for the study of aspect patterns. Updated in 1983, it became Dynamics of Aspect Analysis: New Perceptions in Astrology .

The two topicsplanetary patterns and aspect patternsintersect and intertwine. The ideal Bucket planetary pattern, for example, contains a Grand Cross aspect pattern.

Theres a myth among some astrologers that it takes hours to prepare for a consultation with a client. Those astrologers pride themselves on giving every chart the attention to detail they feel it deserves. Unless we have the good fortune to find celebrity clients willing to retain our services, we need to work more efficiently than that. We need to summarize the information in a natal chart quickly and reliably, in a matter of minutes, not hours. Yes, it can be done that fast andmore importantit can be done well.

Ive had the good fortune to be trained by the noted astrologer Noel Tyl. He told me from the first lesson that I was to spend no more than fifteen minutes preparing for a consultation. To get to that point, you have to master the art of chart synthesis. You need to be able to glance at a natal chart and drink in gulps of information.

This book is not a quick reference guide. Its a text for the serious student of astrology. Its aimed at the intermediate to advanced student. Jones felt the need to start with the very basic question What is a horoscope? I assume the reader already knows the answer to that question.