Semisextile

Semi‑sextile – planets in adjacent signs, themes are close but of different nature. The aspect is weak: it is noticed when both planets are activated by a transit at the same time.

View it together with transits: the semi‑sextile manifests when both planets are active simultaneously. At other times it remains background.

An aspect is rarely exact to the minute. The orb is the allowable deviation from the exact angle at which the aspect is still considered active. An angle of 88 degrees with an orb of 7 is a square with a 2‑degree deviation, and the smaller the deviation, the stronger the aspect manifests.

An aspect is called applying if the deviation from the exact angle is decreasing, and separating if it is increasing. The platform checks this by shifting the calculation forward by 0.2 days. An applying aspect is still gaining strength, a separating one has already completed its effect.