Parallel Activations Study
As with the longitude activations, a declination contact between two transiting bodies carries more weight when it also touches the natal positions. A Parallel Activations study returns the moments where both conditions hold.
The study generates an event each time two transiting bodies are parallel or contra-parallel while one of them is within orb of a parallel to a natal body. Every event records both transiting bodies, which kind of contact they make, the natal body being activated and the moment the contact perfects.
Create a Parallel Activations Study
To add a Parallel Activations study to the current workspace:
- Click Transit Studies → Parallel Activations on the menu bar.
Alternatively, click the Parallel Studies drop-down button on the toolbar and select Parallel Activations from its flyout.
The new study appears at the bottom of the Studies list and is selected automatically, so its settings open immediately. It takes its name from the study type.
What This Study Finds
Parallel Activations is an activation study rather than a transiting one, and the distinction decides what counts as an event. The parallel or contra-parallel is formed between two transiting bodies in their own right, entirely in the sky, and no natal body takes part in it. What makes it an activation is that one of those two bodies is at the same time within orb of a parallel to a natal body, and it is that contact which activates the natal body. In a transiting study such as Transiting Parallels, by contrast, the natal body is one end of the parallel itself.
The Transit Orb, on the Event & Natal Data tab, sets how close a transiting body must be to the natal body for the activating parallel to register. See Orb Settings for how the orb fields behave. The Event Type drop-down on the same tab narrows the results to parallels alone or contra-parallels alone, or leaves the study generating both; see Event Type Selection. Because the technique works in declination rather than longitude, neither the diurnal angles nor the hypothetical Uranian bodies are offered in this study's body lists. See Which Bodies a Study Offers for the full set a study omits.
The settings column lays the study out on two tab controls. The first carries an Ephemeris tab holding the shared ephemeris settings and date-range panels, and an Event & Natal Data tab. Rather than using the shared Natal Data panel, this study lays the same rows out inline on that tab, with the Event Type drop-down, the natal record, date and time fields and the Transit Orb together. The second tab control carries an Inner & Outer Bodies tab holding the Inner Bodies and Outer Bodies lists side by side, and a Natal Bodies tab holding the single Natal Bodies list.
Events Table Columns
The events table shows the columns below. Several columns are hidden by default, as the table notes. Right-click any column header to show or hide a column, as described in Choose Events Table Columns. The headers of the coordinate columns follow the study's Reference Plane: they read Longitude and Latitude in the ecliptic plane, and Right Asc and Declination in the equatorial plane. The ecliptic-plane header text is listed here.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Date Time | Date and time the contact perfects, in the application's long date-time format. Always the first column, and it cannot be moved. Visible by default. |
| Event Type | Which kind of contact the event is, parallel or contra-parallel. Visible by default. |
| Inner Body | Name of the transiting body drawn from the Inner Bodies list. Visible by default. |
| Inner Body Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Inner Body Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Inner Body Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Inner Body Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Inner Body Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Outer Body | Name of the transiting body drawn from the Outer Bodies list. Visible by default. |
| Outer Body Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Outer Body Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Outer Body Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Outer Body Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Outer Body Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body | Name of the natal body being activated. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Event Interval | Elapsed time since the previous event in the list. Hidden by default. |