Yod and Kite in astrology?

A yod is a midpoint. The focal planet is the far midpoint of the two planets in sextile or it opposes the near midpoint and if you are into things like 90-degree dials, you would use it that way. If the delineation of the midpoint is vastly different than the delineation of the yod, then one or the other is wrong. If the yod didn't have the nickname "The Finger of God," no one would pay attention to it.

Kites grand trines, grand squares,mystic rectangles, and other planetary pictures are, for the most part, useless. In order for them to work all the planets involved have to be within a really tight orb. The idea is this. When one of the planets in the aspect pattern is hit by a direction, progression, or transit, particularly by the slow moving planets, the others are affected by aspect. So if the orb is 7 or 8 degrees, it could be many months or even years before it perfects the next conjunction or aspect to the other planets in the configuration.

Astrologers like these things because if they are in a chart, the client gets to feel special. "Oh, my astrologer told me that I have a grand trine."

"Well my astrologer told me that I have a kite, so there."

It's good for business particularly if its done in front of the client.

"Well, well, well, what have we here? I see a kite formation. That's very rare."

"Oh really? Wow what's it mean? I can't wait to tell Florence."

Then the poor shlub who has none of the above feels, if not inferior, at least less special. The fact is every chart, with or without the aspect patterns, is unique. That's about as special as it gets.

The more complex these patterns are, the more difficult they are to delineate. Figuring out what Mars in Leo in the 3rd is can be difficult enough. Toss in five other planets and it gets downright impossible (unless the astrologer relies on the one size fits all cookbooks).

If you think I'm full of donkey dust and you want to learn more about these things, I suggest an old book, "The Dynamics of Aspect Analysis," by Bil Tierney (He spells his first name with one "l" or my copy has an error on the cover and elsewhere). He goes over all these things in detail. Good luck.

Yod In Astrology

A yod is when two planets are sextile each other and another planet is sort of opposite both of them but is in fact inconjunct both - 150 degrees away, plus or minus 2 or 3 degrees maximum; the sextile planets should be within 4 degrees of 60 degrees apart. The signs that these planets are in are not really that compatible and the elements and modes are not either. This can create great inner tension and give a general feeling of something, somehow, not being right but we can't quite figure out what is going on inside. It's most noticeable when a transit planet triggers the yod by coming into conjunction with one of the three planets in the yod but this is then a time when you're sort of given anopportunity to sort things out.

Yods are very complex because each planet rules a house, so these areas of life are all involved and if Mercury or venus is involved, these rules two houses so quite a lot of the chart, and life can be affected somehow by the yod.

The kite consists of a grand trine which on it's own can go unnnoticed because the energies flow so smoothly between the plane4ts so for it to be positive it needs some sort of impetus to get it going, like a square to one of the planets or, in the case of a kite formation, two of the trine planets has a planet midway between them, and this creates sextiles with each of them; the sextile planet is then opposite the 3rd planet in the grand trine which creates inner tensions but the sextile planets then have some sort of ability to make use of what's going on and use the opposition as a way of being positive and so can give tremendous potential for the person who has it.