Ascendant
The first impression and the manner people meet first.120° · orb 8° · 40 searches a month
Ascendant Trine Chiron
Read as flow — and present in 8.89% of random pairings, which is the part usually left out.
Checked against chance
How often this happens anyway
Exact angle
120°
Orb allowed
±8°
Odds by chance
8.89% — about 1 pairing in 11
Ascendant per sign
hours
Chiron per sign
4 years
Searched
40/mo · rank 285 of 382
Chiron takes about 4 years to cross one sign. Everyone born inside that window has it in the same place, so this aspect is largely a description of the age gap between two people rather than of the relationship.
Put concretely: if you and your partner were born a few years apart, this aspect was decided by the calendar before either of you existed. Why 40.1% of searched aspects work this way →
What these two planets are doing
Chiron
The injury that became a competence.At 120° the question this pairing raises is whether the initial recognition was accurate, set against whether the same wound is being pressed or tended. A trine lets them reinforce each other, which is comfortable and, for the same reason, easy to stop noticing.
Chiron moves 20000 times slower than ascendant, so the faster one sets how long the exact angle holds.
If the birth time is wrong
This aspect survives 0.5 hours of error
17.11°
per hour — how far Ascendant moves, the
faster of the two and therefore the one that decides.
8°
the orb allowed for trine. Beyond it the
aspect is no longer counted at all.
Fragile
A birth certificate rounded to the nearest hour can invent or erase this aspect.
Worked out from how far the faster point travels per hour against the orb allowed. Why birth-time accuracy decides which aspects to trust →
Ascendant and Chiron at other angles
The same two planets meet at 2 angles that people search for. Same functions, different relationship between them.
Searched about as often
Rank 285 of 382 by demand.