Patterns

A stellium is comprised of three or more planets in the same sign. Imagine the situation as three roommates sharing a single room in a household. They may get along and learn how to accommodate each others needs and agendas, or they may all be jockeying for the limited space and interfering with each others' plans. Ancient lauthors spoke of planets occupying the same house/sign as a co-mingling of their natures. Planets in a stellium may act as a unit, bringing emphasis, focus, and concentration to the affairs of the house they occupy. However, if the planets are inharmoniously disposed toward one another, the result may be confusion, conflicting agendas, imbalance in the topic that the house signihes, or overemphasis on the qualities of the sign in which the planets are located. T-squares are comprised of two or more planets in opposition, with each one in a square configuration to the same third planet. Because the square and opposition aspects are generally inharmonious, diffhcult, challenging, and destructive, planetary energies bound up in this confhguration generate a tremendous amount of tension and stress. Two planets with conflicting and opposing agendas, pulling the individual in opposing directions while a third planet that squares the other two is at cross-purposes with both of them is not a harmonious condition. The individual may feel torn asunder and locked in a vice grip at the same time. Yet, like water held back by a dam, a huge amount of potential energy is being amassed. Thus the potential of a T-square is like that of a generator that can fuel the ambitions to accomplish a task. Many successful people who have overcome great obstacles in the achievement of their success have T-squares, as this is a configuration that produces the energy to accomplish work if it can be properly harnessed. orb; angular houses more prominent as the manifestation of outer events; Sun, Moon, Asc ruler & inner planets more important

The essence of the conjunction aspect is a co-mingling of the natures of the various planets. Since stelliums connect three or more planets in the same sign and house, they theretore point to areas of concentrated activity. Depending on the nature of the planets involved and their individual conditions, stelliums may function to augment or decrease the significations of that area of life. But for good or ill, the topics of the house and the qualities of the sign that contain the stellium will be emphasized in the person's life. The square and opposition aspects indicate negation or challenge, and T-squares or grand squares connect planets in the same modality. Thus the T-square or grand square link planets that occupy either the cardinal, fixed, or mutable signs in a manner that accentuates some kind of conflict, struggle, or tension between the significations and topics represented by the individual planets and the houses involved. Because all the planets occupy the same modality, a theme is immediately suggested that emphasizes action and external crisis for the cardinal signs, stability and rigidity for the fixed signs, or change and indecisiveness for the mutable signs.

The T-square and grand-square patterns also configure sets of houses that are either angular (first, fourth, seventh, and tenth), succedent (second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh) or cadent (third, sixth, ninth, or twelfth), and this information indicates the amount of dynamic energy behind the planets to produce outer events. Thus the most externally potent combination involves planets in cardinal signs and angular houses, while planets in cadent houses have less force for manifesting externally, or they may be more likely to constellate internal processes. If, for example, the T-square is an opposition between the second and eighth houses, polarized by mutual squares to the eleventh, you know that these succedent houses indicate a moderate level of dynamic activity, and that the issue revolves around personal money vs. a partner's money as it aftects group a ations. Furthermore, if the planets are in fixed signs, the individual will tend to be rigid and controlling around these issues,while if in mutable signs, the individual will tend to be more flexible, or changeable and flip-ilopping about. Finally, the individual planets and the houses they rule flesh out the details.