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⚹ Free Aspect Search — When Do Two Planets Meet?

Umbriel's free aspect search answers when rather than now: pick two bodies, pick the aspects, and get every date they make them over the years ahead. Free, no account.

✦ Open aspect search — free

Runs in your browser. Nothing to install, nothing to set up.

What it actually is

Almost every astrology page tells you what the sky is doing today. This one answers the question people actually ask: when does it happen?

Choose two bodies, choose which aspects count — conjunction, square and opposition are the default, because those are the ones people plan around — and choose how many years to look across. You can search the transiting sky against itself, or against a point in your own chart.

Each hit is solved for rather than sampled: the engine steps forward, finds the crossing and then refines it, so the date is the date the aspect is exact rather than the nearest day it happened to look at.

⚠️ A circular search like this fails by inventing results, not by crashing — the same wrap-around mistake once made Umbriel's Moon search report 74 New Moons in three years instead of 37. The window arithmetic here is guarded because of it.

The practical use is planning rather than prediction. If you want to know when transiting Saturn next squares your natal Moon, or when Venus and Mars are next conjunct, this answers in one step instead of paging through a year of transit lists looking for it. And because slow planets cross the same point three times, the answer is usually a period rather than a date — which the results show as three dated crossings rather than flattening into one.

How Umbriel computes it

Rather than scanning a table by eye, the engine steps forward day by day over the window you choose and solves for the moments the chosen bodies actually reach the chosen angle, refining each hit by bisection rather than reporting the nearest sampled day. Both directions are available: transit-to-transit, or transit to a point in your own chart. Conjunction, square and opposition are the default because they are the contacts people plan around, and any of the aspects can be switched on or off. ⚠️ A circular search of this kind fails by inventing results rather than by crashing — the same wrap-around error once made the Moon search report 74 New Moons in three years instead of 37 — so the window arithmetic is guarded rather than assumed. Retrograde motion is handled explicitly rather than ignored, which matters because a slow transit commonly makes the same aspect three times — forward, back over it, then forward again — and a search that reports only the first pass hides two thirds of the contact. All three crossings are returned, in date order, so a long transit reads as the extended period it actually is.

What's in your result

Common questions

What does aspect search do?

It finds the dates two bodies make a chosen aspect, across a window of years — answering when rather than only now.

Can I search against my own chart?

Yes. You can target a point in your natal chart instead of another transiting body.

How exact are the dates?

Each hit is refined rather than sampled, so the date given is the date the aspect is exact.

Which aspects can I search?

Conjunction, square and opposition are on by default, and the others can be switched on.

Is aspect search free?

Yes, and transit-to-transit searches need no birth details at all.

Go deeper

Each of these is a free tool in its own right.

☽ Moon Search · ✦ Current Transits · ◷ The Year Ahead

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