posted March 20, 2006 07:11 AM            

This is from my dad's chart...I was shocked to see it...

T-Square from Moo: 21Leo31'48" to Sun: 24Tau02'29" and Jup: 27Sco31'58"
Cradle from Mer: 4Tau40'40" to Ven: 5Can38'14" to Plu: 1Vir40'15" to
Grand Trine with Mer: 4Tau40'40" and Sat: 6Cap24'12" and Plu: 1Vir40'15"
Cradle from Ven: 5Can38'14" to Plu: 1Vir40'15" to Nep: 5Sco05'18" to
T-Square from Ura: 12Leo30'32" to Mer: 4Tau40'40" and Nep: 5Sco05'18"
T-Square from Plu: 1Vir40'15" to Sun: 24Tau02'29" and Jup: 27Sco31'58"

posted March 20, 2006 11:01 AM              

A cradle is an astrological aspect that tends to focus energy in itself...and possibly cut off energy from the other half of the chart. People with cradles need to work to focus on the "non-cradle" side of life.

More here: http://www.lunarliving.org/astrology/grandsextile_cradle.shtml

Cradling,

Tim

posted April 02, 2006 04:55 PM              

"Trapeze, Cradle
A configuration of aspects formed when four points of a horoscope are uniformly connected by three sextiles, with the first and last points in opposition.

P.Globa states that a native having a Trapeze in the radix can gain energy only from within a context of struggle. The native can take from life only what they have gained, i.e. as long as life contains no disorder, restriction, or active engagement, he cannot forge something new. In human life this is more important than the force of creation - but without refusing something, without choosing, the native cannot construct the best future. The person can step aside from the struggle, but this is just a delay, like being in a comfortable prison. The Trapeze does not give in a life of protection, and you will not gain from it. At worst a constructed building can fail, if a person has chosen a situation of protection without having prepared and cleared away the foundations. Likewise also in character, firmness can collapse, and calmness and stability can be replaced by hysterical erraticness. When the opposition which is in the Trapeze is also included in a T-square, a seemingly strong basis can collapse with a crash.

J.Negus reckons the Trapeze is basically a harmonious configuration demanding some balance. The Trapeze indicates aid from the outside which at critical moments appears in the right place at the right time."

(Source: www.cafeastrology.com/articles/aspectpatterns.html

And here's another, including what a Cradle looks like (this link also has good graphics of what all the different Chart Patterns look like) :::

"Cradle. Traditionally, this has three sextile aspects plus an opposition, but it can involve any kind of aspects, as long as there is a string of the same aspects at work and at least four points to it. It can also be four sextiles and one trine. Either way, there is a strong nurturing, brewing, hatching tone to this form, in which the new comes into shape, or the old is creatively enlivened: the midpoint of the largest empty space in the configuration will show the hidden integrative ingredient, the key or missing link. This is a facilitative formation. If populated by sextiles, it gives birth to a set of skills and gifts – capacities which have the potential for stimulating great progress and impetus, naturally rooted and innately 'right'. With a formation of three semisquares plus one sesquiquadrate, or four semisquares with an opposition, skills and formulae are developed through focused effort and a sense of overview: there is a timeless aptness and poignancy to what happens with cradles, when they form – which is very occasionally. Cradles act as a receptacle for a strong surge of energy and change."

(Source: www.isleofavalon.co.uk/GlastonburyArchive/time/lit12.html