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Care must be exercised in using any of the above aspects, for they may be much modified and improved by sign and position, also by other more favourable aspects. In a minor degree they will apply also to the semi-square or sesquiquadrate aspect, which are as it were weaker expressions of the same influence, as explained on p. 47.

We have next to consider the ‘good’ aspects by which we mean those that are definitely harmonious and favourable in their action in every sense. But what has been said under the heading of ‘evil’ aspects should not be lost sight of when considering the nature of the ‘good’ aspects. Just as nothing in itself is evil, so nothing in itself is good, but may be perverted; and instances can be found where, in a weak horoscope, the good influences are made ‘ducks and drakes of’ so to speak, being used simply to minister to personal gratification or selfish indulgence. Yet such cases are comparatively rare, and, harking back to our musical simile we may say that, in a general sense, the good aspects are like the passages of smooth, sweet harmony that follow on the turbulent first movement of a symphony, where the soul appears to dwell for a while in a calm and undisturbed atmosphere, in which strength is gathered and balance restored after the turmoil of battle. Every great nation has shown its most marked periods of artistic productiveness shortly after a series of struggles for constitutional or political emancipation, the strength developed in the former being balanced by the sense of beauty cultivated in the latter: and in the same way we may think of the favourable or ‘good’ aspects as designed to harmonise the nature, just as the ‘evil’ ones are intended to stimulate it to achievement.