Aspect Hits

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Aspect Hits view: select from Top Menu

(for Export to CSV – scroll down)

Aspect Hits View calculates and shows aspect hits (Transits, Sec Prog, SA, Midpoints) to the currently displayed natal chart over a user-selectable date range. The resultant data is saved on exit, (bottom left – Done button).

Top Menu

Available for Your Charts and Provided Charts

Transits to Natal planets/points
Transits to Transit planets/points
Secondary progressions to Natal planets/points
Solar Arc directions to Natal planets/points
Midpoints (from AC ver 2.75)

After exiting the Aspect Hit view the full landscape View #5 or View #6 can be used to view the automatically saved resultant aspect hits. The aspects table in View #5/6 can be sync’d to the displayed charts. Please see:

Aspect Hits sync’d

Aspect Hits with added Midpoints

Calculate Button

Tapping the Calculate button AC immediately saves the ticks made in the Aspect Hit tables. The midpoint tables Natal Planets/Points and Midpoint Aspects are saved immediately (if the Midpts button is selected and prior to tapping the Calculate button).

Aspect Hits to the Bitcoin chart – View #5

Aspect Hits to Bitcoin – since this GIF was made the Aspect Hits Results table is shorter so that the Crypto financial chart can be seen. See GIF below.

Aspect Hits to the Bitcoin chart – View #6 (Financial)

Aspect Hits for Bitcoin sync’d

Aspect table legend

t = transit

r = radix/natal

p = progressed (secondary progression)

d = direction (Solar Arc)

Aspects:

E = Entering

X = Exact

L = Leaving

> = Already in aspect when entering

< = Already in aspect when leaving

See More Settings for Aspect Hits screenshot below.

Aspect Hit – Entering Leaving

Using the Aspects Hit view:

Tap the start date field to pick a start date. See screenshot below.
Tap Days, or Months, or Years for the period. See screenshot below.
Tap the stepper to increase or decrease the period from the start date to the end date. See screenshot below.
Tap Transits, and/or Sec prog, and/or Solar Arc switches
Select Planets and/or Points
Select Natal Planets/Point
Select Aspects
Tap Calculate
Tap the Cancel button to stop the calculations.

For Midpoints – as above but

Tap the Midpts button to enable it and populate the midpoints table.
To apply ticks to all midpoints tap the All Midpoints button. Tap again to remove all the ticks. Tap a midpoint record to select it or unselect it (apply a tick or remove a tick)

Note midpoints follow the The Combination of Stellar Influence (COSI) standard but also have Chiron included.

Amazon – COSI

Aspect Hit – Start Date

Aspect Hit – Months Selected

Aspect Hit – Seven Months Selected

Ready to Calculate…

More Settings for Aspect Hits

Aspects Hit Print Preview

Aspect Hits – Print

Notes

Changing the applying or separating orb doesn’t immediately change the aspect results list. Tap the Calculate button to see the new orb applied

All Transit/Sec Prog/Solar Arc/ Natal/Aspects and midpoint selections from their associated tables are saved when the Calculate button is tapped. Initially, none are selected, ie on first use.

Aspects Hits does not depend on the planet’s and/or points selected for the natal chart. Thus all or any aspects to natal points can be calculated.

Caveats:

There can sometimes be two exact aspects in a given period of time, due to retro planetary action. Currently, AC may only take into account one exact aspect.

However, reducing the Enter and Leaving aspect orb can help to fix this.

Example

Jupiter trine to radical Moon between the periods of 4th June 2018 and 3rd August 2018 there were two exact aspects, 16th June and the 3rd of August. AC reports the 16th June, if the Enter and Leaving aspect orb is set to 1 degree. This is because the enter and leave dates for the aspect of the 16th June 2018 overlap the 3rd of Aug 2018 aspect date. Aaron Spelling Natal.

Reduce the Enter and Leaving aspect orb to fix.

Useful summary (from ver 2.07

Summary of Progressions and Directions settings

Further Considerations:

Due to retrograde motion occasionally an aspect maybe missed. Again reducing the Entering and Leaving orbs to a minimum (eg 0.06 mins) can help. Reducing the Entering and Leaving orbs to a minimum can help even when Exact Only is selected from the Performance settings. This is often only useful for transits.

If you get many hits with the same date/time, increase the Entering and Leaving orbs. Applies to Sec Progressions, and Solar Arcs.

Additional functionality:

CSV export Aspect Hits results to iPad Text file (from AC ver 2.69)

Export AC Aspect Hits listing as a CSV file ready for import into the free Apple iOS app Numbers and other spreadsheet programs on Mac or Windows.

NB the CSV files are not exported to Drop Box.

Aspect Hits with new Export to CSV icon

CSV File Name View – tap the file name field to edit. The default file name is taken from the current Aspect Hits form title.

CSV file Name View – tap the file name field to edit.

Locating the saved Aspect Hits CSV file on your iPad – Tap the Files app icon

Files App

Files App view

On My iPad

AstroConnexions Folder

AC Exports folder

Transit example

Aspect Hits CSV file

Notes and Caveats

An unfortunate limitation of iOS is that rich text cannot be saved to a text file ie symbols (eg zodiac signs etc) can’t be saved to a text file.

Only exact results are saved as CSV. Other results are ignored. See Performance setting – for exact aspects only.

24 hour time display is always used in the CSV file.

For increased performance

CSV Position column: seconds ” can’t be shown as the export routine uses ” to identify columns.

Commas can’t be shown in dates as commas are used as delimiters.