Conjunction

Strictly speaking this is two bodies at the same spot, and some writers hesitate to call that an aspect at all. Ptolemy's list, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, leaves it out, and Ashmand explains that a part of the zodiac cannot be configured with itself. Raphael's Guide 1877 calls it a position. Wilson 1819 defines aspects as every kind of familiarity except this one.

Lilly 1659 calls it good or ill according to the question asked, and Heindel 1919 classes it as indeterminate. The meaning is taken from the planets involved, so a Sun and Venus meeting and a Mars and Saturn meeting were read very differently. The calculator counts two bodies as conjunct within 8 degrees, a figure chosen for this site. Zadkiel 1852 distinguished an exact meeting from one that is merely within orbs, the allowed margin.