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Aspect Calendar

A timing engine that searches a span of time for every moment your chosen points form your chosen aspects — orb-curve graphs, a heat grid, and a full list of exact perfecting moments.

8 min read Updated 14 August 2026 Pro

The Aspect Calendar is a timing engine: pick a set of points, a set of aspects and a comparison mode, and it searches a span of time for every moment those points form those aspects — showing both the in-orb windows leading up to each hit and the exact perfecting moments themselves.

Opening it

Tools → Aspect Calendar… — a Pro feature. From the Dashboard, opening it before any profile is loaded doesn't do nothing — it falls back to a transit-only search (sky-to-sky) automatically, so the tool is useful even before you've picked a subject. From the Expanded Chart View, a profile must already be open; the two natal-dependent comparison modes stay disabled either way until one is.

Works before you've picked a chart. Open it from the Dashboard with no profile loaded to search the transiting sky alone — handy for spotting an upcoming outer-planet conjunction before you've even opened a birth chart.

Three comparison modes

  • Tr → Tr — Transit → Transit: sky-to-sky, every pair among your selected points aspecting each other as they move.
  • Tr → Na — Transit → Natal: transiting points aspecting your natal chart's fixed positions.
  • Pr → Na — Natal → Progressed: secondary-progressed positions (a day of ephemeris motion standing in for a year of life) aspecting the natal chart.

Tr→Na and Pr→Na need a natal chart loaded — they're greyed out until one is.

The toolbar has four groups. Period is a fixed span from the anchor moment — 30 days, 90 days, 6 months or 12 months. Planets & Angles is 12 bodies (Sun through Pluto, plus Chiron and the North Node) and the two natal angles, Ascendant and Midheaven — angles only ever appear on the "to" side of a pair, since they can't transit or progress. Aspects toggles which of the six classical aspects to search for, each with its own built-in orb: conjunction (±8°), sextile (±5°), square (±7°), trine (±7°), opposition (±8°) and quincunx (±3°). The default search covers Jupiter through Pluto against the five major aspects (quincunx off) over the next 12 months.

The Aspect Finder — Graph and Grid

The Finder tab has two views of the same result. Graph plots one orb-distance curve per pair-aspect across the window — a "blade" that dips toward zero as the aspect comes into then out of orb, coloured by aspect type; hovering one dims the rest and brightens it for a clean read in a crowded chart. Grid turns the same result into a heat table — one row per pair-aspect, one column per month, shaded by how tight the orb gets that month with a marker on any month containing an exact hit.

The Aspect Calendar's Graph view — several orb-curve blades across a 12-month window, coloured by aspect type, with exact-hit labels along the top and an aspect-colour legend top-right.

Graph view — each blade is one pair-aspect dipping toward zero orb as it comes into range; the flattest dips near the top mark the exact hits.

The Aspect Calendar's Grid view — a heat table of pair-aspects by month, shaded by closest orb that month, with circular markers on exact hits.

Grid view — the same search result as a heat table; a filled marker on a bar means that month contains an exact hit.

The Exacts tab

Every moment a selected aspect actually perfects, grouped by pair and sorted by date — the exact date and local time, the degree and sign it perfects at, whether the faster body is applying or separating, and a ℞ flag if it's retrograde at the hit. Clicking any row, or the footer's Add to timeline button (which jumps to the tightest exact in the current results), closes the dialog and moves the chart's transit timeline straight to that moment — the same jump-to-moment handoff used by Movements of the Moon.

The Exacts tab, grouped by pair — Jupiter trine Neptune, Jupiter trine Jupiter, Saturn trine Neptune — each hit listing its date, local time, perfecting degree, and an Applying or Retrograde flag.

One row per perfecting moment, grouped by pair and sorted by date, with the applying/separating state and any retrograde flag on the right.

Exporting

The footer's Export CSV button writes every exact in the current results to a CSV file — one row per hit, with the subject, comparison mode, date window and timezone recorded in the header block above the table.

What's next

The Aspect Calendar tells you exactly when a contact perfects; the Graphic Ephemeris shows the same kind of contacts as a continuous, scrubbable picture across years at once: Graphic Ephemeris →

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