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The conjunction
A conjunction blends two planets into one force: they stand together in the same part of the zodiac and act as a pair. What it does depends on which two planets meet.
You cannot say where one of your traits stops and another starts. The warmth and the stubbornness arrive in the same gesture, and the people who know you have long since given up trying to separate them. That is a conjunction: two parts of the chart standing at the same degree, so that whatever one does, the other is doing too.
It is the simplest aspect and the strongest, and it is neither easy nor hard in itself. Venus and Jupiter together give warmth on a large scale; Mars and Saturn together give drive that carries its own brake. The nature of the pair is the whole story.
In your chart
Two bodies count as conjunct when they stand within 8° of each other, or 10° with the Sun or Moon among them, and the chart writes down the orb, the distance from exact. The tighter the orb, the more completely the two are one force: half a degree is a single voice, seven degrees is two people who finish each other’s sentences. The wheel draws it as a short cream line, and the aspect grid as a ring with a stroke to its upper right. A conjunction to the Sun colours identity directly, and one to the Ascendant or Midheaven puts a planet on an angle, which the tradition counts as making it prominent.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Jupiter conjunction Midheaven · close at 1.3°
You believe in people the way a good parent does, and that belief sits right at the top of your chart, in how you are seen at work (blending, close at 1.3°): you are known for making a group feel cared for.
Themes
When the two agree, as the Moon and Venus do, the result is a strength so natural that it goes unnoticed. When they do not, as with the Moon and Uranus, the result is an inner pairing that never settles and makes something original out of the friction. The sign the pair stands in sets the stage, and the same conjunction behaves one way in Aries and another in Pisces.
A conjunction has no distance. You cannot stand back and look at it, and it can be years before you learn that what you took for one trait was two.
When there are three
Three or more bodies in one sign form a stellium, a concentration the analysis reads as a theme in its own right, and the closest pairs inside it are usually conjunctions.
How the analysis treats it
The aspect grid lists each conjunction with the orb beside it, and the chapter for each body takes it up. The analysis says how the two act as one in you, and which of them leads.
Your chart records how close to exact each aspect is, so the analysis can give a close one more weight than a loose one.
Sources: every position and date here comes from NASA JPL’s DE440 ephemeris and is checked against NASA’s JPL Horizons. How it is checked.
The conjunctions in your chart
Your chart lists every conjunction between your planets, and the two parts of you each one joins. Free, and it takes a minute.