Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy Herring, author of Astrology of the Moon and the new Essential Astrology. Almost any astrology software or chart calculation website will also include an aspect grid: a table that shows you where all the planetary aspects are in your chart. This can be a handy, thorough guide to keeping track of all the chart aspects, but you can learn to spot the major aspects quickly in a chart just by eyeballing it. Here's how to do it. Pick any planet in a chart and note its sign and degree. For example, let's use the Sun at 19° Sagittarius. Now, add and subtract your preferred orb amount to that degree number to get a range. Let's use a 5°