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Aspect shapes

Kite

Modern

A kite is a grand trine 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 opposition (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 trine, the most agreeable of regards) and adds a fourth body that stands in opposition to one of them and sextile 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.