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Comparing two charts on Vega’s wheel: one sky inside the other
Above Vega’s small wheel, next to the chart’s name, tap “+ Compare”. You place a second sky inside the first: today’s sky, to see your transits at a glance, or the chart of someone you keep, to see what links you. The planets of the second sky appear as small dotted discs, and their three strongest links with your chart are drawn by themselves.
Placing a second sky inside the wheel
The small wheel in the chat shows one chart: its planets on the circle of the zodiac, its Ascendant on the left (Vega lights up your chart). “+ Compare” adds a second sky, inside. The chart on the circle does not move: it is the frame, and the second one is read against it.
- Open Vega from your chart’s page, or from any page once your chart is kept on this device.
- Tap “+ Compare”, just to the right of the chart’s name, above the wheel.
- Choose “Today’s sky”, or the first name of a chart you keep.
- Read the wheel: the planets of the second sky are inside, dotted, and a golden line joins each of the strongest links.
The label changes with your choice: “+ today’s sky”, “+ Hugo”. Tap it again to compare with another sky, or choose “Stop comparing” to get the wheel back on its own.
With today’s sky: your transits at a glance
Today’s sky placed inside your chart is the very definition of a transit: a planet of today forming an angle with a planet of your birth (what is a transit?). The wheel puts the ten planets of the moment inside, at their degree, and draws up to three passages.
It picks the most telling ones. The slow planets first, from Jupiter to Pluto: their passages last weeks or months, and the wheel keeps them up to eight degrees from exact. Then, if there is room, the fast planets, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, within three degrees at most. In each group, a passage over your Sun, your Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars or your Ascendant comes before the others, the tightest first. Today’s Moon is shown but never joined: it changes degree hour by hour.
Beside the wheel, the strongest passage is written out, “Jupiter square Sun”, with the planet’s position today and the place of your planet. That passage is drawn in motion: a line says whether it is approaching exact or moving away, and the planet glides in its true direction, retrograde included. For the detail, the dates and the length of each passage, the My transits page remains the full tool (your personal transits).
With another chart: what links you
Choose the first name of someone whose chart you keep (keeping a chart): their ten planets settle inside your wheel. You see at once where their Moon falls against your Sun, their Mars against your Venus.
The three lines drawn are the strongest aspects between your two charts. They are the ones the compatibility page calculates, with the same orbs: the site hands them to the wheel, nothing is judged by eye. Beside it, the wheel names the first one, “Moon sextile Moon”, then whose place is whose: “Camille: Moon in Sagittarius · house 4”, “Hugo: Moon in Aquarius · house 3”.
The conversation itself does not change: you are still talking about your chart, and Vega already knows the charts you keep (Vega and your loved ones). The comparison is one more look at the wheel, not another conversation.
For a full reading of your bond, with its strengths and its frictions, open the compatibility page: the wheel gives the picture, the page gives the text (love compatibility).
A tapped word lights up in both skies
In one of Vega’s answers, tap an underlined planet, “the Moon”, “your Venus”. It lights up on the circle, in your chart, and its twin lights up inside, in the second sky. The line beside it gives both places: yours, then “Hugo: Moon in Aquarius”, or the position of the day when you compare with today’s sky.
When Vega names an aspect, the wheel looks for it by calculation before drawing it: in your chart first, then between the two charts compared, then in today’s sky. An aspect that exists nowhere is not drawn: its planets light up, without a line.
On a compatibility: both charts from the start
When your conversation is about two people, from the compatibility page or after adding someone in the chat, the wheel shows both charts without your choosing anything: the first on the circle, the second inside, their three strongest links drawn.
Ask Vega “What is our strongest link?”: the aspect she names is drawn from one chart to the other, from one person’s planet to the other’s. In this conversation, an aspect she names is read between the two of you first, since your bond is what she is talking about.
What the wheel does not do
The small wheel gives a picture, readable at a glance on a phone. So it has its limits, and here they are.
- It holds two skies at most: one chart on the circle, a second inside. To see a third, change the second.
- The second chart shows its ten planets, from the Sun to Pluto. Its Ascendant and its houses are not drawn: the chart on the circle gives the orientation.
- Your choice lasts for the open conversation. It is kept nowhere: reload the page and the wheel is back on its own.
Calculate your chart, open Vega, then tap “+ Compare” above the wheel: today’s sky or the chart of someone close settles inside yours.
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