“Show me”: Vega lights up an aspect on your chart’s big wheel

How to ask

Write to Vega the way you would say it out loud: “show me”, “display”, “highlight”, “where is my Moon?”. The site recognises the request and what it points to, in your sentence, before Vega even writes. Vega only needs to know your chart: calculate it once on this device, and every aspect it holds can be shown.

• A pattern: “Show me my grand trines”, “my Water grand trine”, “my T-square”, “my grand cross”.
• An aspect: “Show me my Saturn Mercury conjunction”, “my Moon trine Mars”, “my Venus square Uranus”.
• Two planets: “Show me Saturn and Mercury”; the wheel draws the aspect between them, if there is one.
• A planet and all its aspects: “Where is my Moon?”, “Show me my Mars”.
• What Vega just talked about: “Show them to me”, right after an answer about your grand trines.

“What does my grand trine mean?” or “Show me how it works” ask for an explanation: Vega answers in the chat, without touching the wheel.

What you see on the wheel

The chat steps aside to make room. On your chart’s big wheel, every aspect line fades out except the ones you asked for, drawn one by one in their colour. Their planets light up; the others dim. A grand trine fills with gold; two grand trines that share planets both fill.

Above the wheel, a banner says what is shown, “Two Water grand trines”, “Saturn–Mercury conjunction”. The wheel stays interactive: tap a line that is shown and it explains itself as usual (the chart wheel). The banner’s cross brings back the whole wheel.

If you are not on your chart’s page, it opens, and the wheel is waiting with what you asked for. In the conversation, a golden badge “On the wheel: …” stays above the answer: tap it to see the pattern again.

Never an aspect your chart does not have

Everything the wheel shows comes from the site’s calculation, never from Vega’s text. If you ask for a Sun Mars conjunction and your chart has none, the wheel stays whole and Vega simply tells you. If the two planets are linked by another aspect, a sextile for instance, that is what the wheel shows, and Vega says which one.

Patterns are read with a little more width than single aspects, as astrologers do: each side of a grand trine, a T-square or a grand cross counts up to one degree beyond the usual orb of its aspect, never past eight degrees. A trine at 7°30′ that closes a second triangle therefore counts in the pattern. The Ascendant and the Midheaven can be one of its points: a Sun at 28° Aries, Pluto at 1° Virgo and an Ascendant at 28° Sagittarius form a grand trine, called dissociate because its three signs are not of the same element.

And the chat’s small wheel?

It follows too: Vega’s answer lights up, on the chat’s small wheel, the same pattern as the big wheel (Vega lights up your chart). The small wheel follows the conversation word by word; the big one shows a whole pattern, at the size of your chart.

Both wheels read the same list: the aspects and patterns the site calculated for your chart, with the same orbs. When Vega counts your grand trines in her answer, she counts from that list too, so the number she gives you is the number the wheel shows.

What it does not do

The wheel shown is a look of the moment, not a setting: it helps you see at a glance a pattern Vega is telling you about, then it becomes your chart’s full wheel again, as the site calculated it.

• Nothing is kept: leave or reload the page and the wheel is whole again.
• A compatibility is not shown on the big wheel: ask Vega to compare instead, on the small wheel (comparing two charts).
• The Vedic chart keeps its own wheel: the request applies to your chart’s Western wheel.