Free Aversion Calculator

Aversion is the condition where two planets occupy signs that share no whole-sign aspect: the 2nd, 6th, 8th, or 12th sign-distance from each other. Traditional language says such planets cannot “see” or witness each other by sign.

This page follows the classical aspect frame: conjunction, sextile, square, trine, and opposition are the configured relationships. When two signs fall outside those distances, this calculator treats the planets as averse. Degree orbs do not override the sign relationship.

In interpretation, aversion marks missing direct testimony, not a standalone verdict. It is a prompt to check house rulership, dignity, reception, benefic testimony, sect, and the rest of the chart before deciding how strongly the disconnect matters.

This tool counts sign-distance, not degree separation. That is the whole point of the traditional method. Mercury at 29° Cancer and Saturn at 1° Scorpio are close to a square by degree, but Cancer and Scorpio are five signs apart, so the whole-sign frame treats them as a trine. Conversely, Mercury at 1° Cancer and Saturn at 29° Gemini sit very close by degree but in adjacent signs, so this calculator treats them as a 12th-sign aversion, not a conjunction.

This calculator uses the seven traditional planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are useful in many modern readings, but they were not part of the seven-planet sign-aspect system this tool is reporting.

Three result categories appear in this tool's display order:

1. Domicile lord averse to its own sign. The house ruler does not witness its own sign, so the result asks you to check indirect support.
2. Planet averse to the Ascendant. A traditional planet has no sign-based witness to the rising sign.
3. Planet pair in aversion. Two traditional planets do not share a whole-sign aspect. Dispositor and luminary pairs are sorted to the top because they are often more useful to inspect first.

If your chart contains a planet averse to bothMars and Saturn, the tool flags it as “freedom from the malefics.” Treat that as an absence of direct malefic witness by sign, not as a guarantee that the planet has no challenges.

Aversion is symmetric by sign-pair. If Aries and Virgo are in aversion (a 6th sign-distance), they are in aversion in both directions. The interpretive emphasis depends on rulerships, houses, dignity, and other testimony, but the geometric fact is mutual. Use the table to look up which signs cannot see any sign you care about.

Read across the row to see every sign that the row's sign cannot see. Notice the pattern: each sign is in aversion to the four signs that share neither its element nor its modality through any aspect-forming distance. The 2nd and 12th sign-distances correspond to what modern astrology calls the semi-sextile (30°). The 6th and 8th correspond to the modern quincunx (150°). The Hellenistic frame groups both into aversion because both fail the whole-sign witnessing test.

In whole-sign Hellenistic astrology, the 2nd, 6th, 8th, and 12th places are not configured to the rising sign. That lack of witnessing is one reason traditional authors treat these places as difficult, indirect, or less available to the native's immediate agency.

This helps explain the classical topic assignments:

• 2nd house, averse to the 1st. Substance and livelihood. Resources matter, but they are not directly configured to the bodily self represented by the rising sign.
• 6th house, averse to the 1st. Illness, labor, service, and subordinates. These topics often describe burdens, obligations, and conditions that require management.
• 8th house, averse to the 1st. Death, inheritance, and other people's resources. These topics depend on conditions beyond direct personal control.
• 12th house, averse to the 1st. Enemies, confinement, exile, and hidden troubles. The classical “bad daimon” house describes pressures that can be hard to see directly.

Some modern traditions read these houses with more constructive or psychological language. This calculator does not settle that interpretive debate; it reports the sign relationship so you can keep the traditional diagnostic separate from the reading you build from it.

If you have planets in any of these four houses, the calculator surfaces them as “averse to the Ascendant.” This is not in itself a verdict, but it tells you those significations operate without direct whole-sign witness to the rising sign.

A house ruler in aversion to its own domicile is one of the most useful checks this calculator performs. The house's ruler is present elsewhere in the chart, but it does not witness the sign it governs by whole-sign aspect.

Take a Cancer-rising chart. Saturn rules the 7th and 8th houses, by ruling Capricorn and Aquarius. Suppose Saturn sits in Leo. Saturn is now in the 6th sign-distance from Capricorn, the 7th house sign, so the 7th house ruler does not witness the 7th house by whole-sign aspect. Saturn still opposes Aquarius, so the 8th house would need to be judged separately.

The metaphor the ancients used is governance. The lord is “away from home.” The house can still operate (the affairs of marriage, money, illness, career, or any other house topic still unfold), but the ruler is not directly configured to its own place. That makes reception, planets present in the house, benefic aspects, and dignity more important to inspect.

Sect can matter when you interpret Mars and Saturn elsewhere in the chart, but this calculator does not weight aversions by sect. The Sect calculator is useful context, not an extra scoring rule on this page.

The calculator surfaces ruler-in-aversion cases at the top of your results. Read those first, then look for mitigating or supporting testimony in the rest of the chart.

These terms often get mixed together. The distinction that matters for this tool is simple: aversion is sign-based, while the modern quincunx is usually degree-based.

Both frames describe configurations on the chart that are not conjunctions, sextiles, squares, trines, or oppositions, but they answer different questions. The quincunx asks whether two bodies are about 150° apart. Aversion asks whether their signs share one of the classical whole-sign relationships. This calculator only answers the second question.

There is one wrinkle worth knowing. A degree-based 150° quincunx and a sign-based aversion usually coincide (the 6th and 8th sign-distance ranges contain most 150° configurations), but not always. A planet at the start of one sign and another at the end of a sign five away can be 150° apart by degree while being in a 5th sign-distance trine by sign. In that case this calculator reports the whole-sign relationship and leaves degree-based minor aspects to other methods.

The freedom flag is simple: a traditional planet sits averse to both Mars and Saturn at the same time.

The logic is mechanical. Mars and Saturn are the two malefics. If neither malefic witnesses a planet by sign, that planet lacks direct malefic testimony from this specific whole-sign condition. That can be a relief factor in a traditional reading.

It is not a full condition score. Dignity, sect, house placement, benefic testimony, solar condition, and other afflictions still matter. Use the flag as a note of possible protection, not as a promise that the planet operates without trouble.

The calculator flags this case explicitly when it occurs. You will see it labelled as “Freedom from the malefics” with the planet name and the two sign-distances involved.

A practical way to use this report is to move from the house ruler cases to the broader planet-pair cases.

1. Review domicile lords averse to their own signs. These tell you where a house's ruler does not witness its own sign. Check reception, planets in the house, benefic aspects, dignity, and sect before making a judgment.
2. Review traditional planets averse to the Ascendant. Note which houses they occupy and what those planets rule. This shows which topics lack direct whole-sign witness to the rising sign.
3. Find the dispositor and luminary aversions. A pair involving the Sun, Moon, or a dispositor relationship is often worth reading before an ordinary planet pair because it can affect a larger chain of testimony.
4. Read ordinary planet pairs last. Ordinary planet-pair aversions can still matter, but they are best read as supporting context after the chart's house rulers and angular relationships are clear.

The calculator sorts your results in this order automatically. Work top-down, then compare the findings against the rest of the chart.