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Aspect shapes

Kite

Modern

A A grand trine with a fourth planet opposite one of its points, adding a focus and an outlet. It gives the easy talent of the trine somewhere practical to go. is a Three planets forming a triangle of trines, usually all in one element. It is a pool of easy, flowing talent that can be so comfortable it goes unused. plus a fourth body opposing one of its points and sextiling the others, so the effortless talent of the grand trine gains a focal point and an outlet. The gift is real: the When two planets sit directly across the zodiac from each other, about 180 degrees apart. It creates tension, awareness, and a pull between two sides that need balancing. (the kite's tail) gives the harmony a direction, so you can actually do something with gifts that might otherwise just coast. The shadow is relying on the talent and only using the tension under pressure. The work is aiming the gift at the opposition point on purpose. At your best you turn natural ability into genuine accomplishment.

Traditional (Hellenistic)

The kite takes a grand trine (three bodies in mutual A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice., the most agreeable of regards) and adds a fourth body that stands in opposition to one of them and A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. to the other two. The opposition gives the otherwise self-contained harmony of the trine a point of tension to act through, while the sextiles keep the fourth body in agreement with the rest. The figure converts ease into something that can be directed.

Sources

  • Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Defines the kite as a grand trine with an opposition that gives the harmony an outlet.
  • Tompkins, Aspects in Astrology (1989)Reads the kite's opposition as the point of discharge for the trine's ease.
  • Carter, The Astrological Aspects (1930)Catalogues the trine as the aspect of natural ease the figure channels.