☌ The Conjunction · Integration

Two planets at the same degree. They act as one, so you rarely meet either of them on its own — whatever one of them is doing, the other is already in it. The most concentrated aspect; what it concentrates is entirely down to the pair.

The conjunction at a glance

• Angle0°
• Umbriel calls itIntegration
• Typical orbabout 8°
• Keywordsfusion, concentration, one voice

What the conjunction means

An aspect is the angle between two planets — how they talk to each other. At 0°, the conjunction is the aspect of two drives always arriving together, and how little distance there is to see either of them alone. In a chart it's associated with fusion, concentration, one voice, hard to separate.

We call this one Integration, after what the angle does rather than how it is supposed to feel. Elsewhere you will see the conjunction called a “neutral” or “blending” aspect. Same geometry — it is worth knowing both words, but the older one rates the experience before you have looked at anything.

A question to sit with

Which two parts of you always arrive together — and when did you last meet either one on its own?

Working with it

Try naming the two separately for once — a line about what each one wants, on its own terms. Not to pull them apart, which you can't, but to find out whether you have ever seen either of them clearly.