Angular measures degree to degree — symmetric, and softened by distance from exactness. Glance is the whole-sign dṛṣṭi — asymmetric: one planet casts, the other receives. Toggle above to compare.
At the same degree the aspect is full; it works clearly to ±5° — and to ±10° where the Sun or Moon is one of the pair, for the lights are stronger. Beyond that it turns durbala — weak.
The trine joins the same element; the sextile, friendly elements; the square sets enemy elements against each other; the opposition is the setting sign. Geometry is friendship made visible.
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Durbala — the weak aspect. Beyond the kakṣyā the influence lingers but no longer lands: its results ripen in dreams and in strivings, not in events — the classical mark of a dṛṣṭi past its orb.
Rāhu, Ketu and the three outer rays cast no classical glance — they receive, and colour what falls upon them.
On the nodes: the classical pair-catalogue reads the seven planets and the three outer rays; Rāhu and Ketu stand outside it. Their pair-readings here are the Arka way — the shadow read by its nature: Rāhu magnifies the body it touches, Ketu thins it. And remember the Arka doctrine: the aspect is the one measure both zodiacs share — a trine is 120° in the sidereal sky and the tropical alike.
This grid is not the six aspects — it is the pairs. Which aspect is which (conjunction · sextile · square · trine · opposition) lives in the dial above and the table of six. Each cell here is one pair of planets; tap it and the window shows how that pair reads under a kind aspect (trine or sextile), under a harsh one (square, opposition, semi-square), and in conjunction — the whole conversation at once, whatever angle they happen to hold.
A generational aspect. Between the slow bodies this dṛṣṭi rarely speaks in one person's life: its results come clear only when the Sun, Moon, Mercury or Venus — or the Lagna or the 10th — ties strongly into the pair. Otherwise it is a whole generation's undertone.
A shadow pair. The nodes stand outside the classical pair-catalogue — they cast no glance of their own. This reading is the Arka way: the node read by its nature, magnifying or thinning the body it touches.