posted August 30, 2017 12:17 AM            

My Venus and Sun are in
the same declination with my Pluto, Natal. I read up on that and it seems very accurate.

My reason for posting was to
ask a few questions about
 declinations and OOB objects.

-Does it only count in tropical or are the other (sideR, Drac, Helio, Harmonic, progression etc) charts applied with the declination comparison as well?

-How big an OOB is considered unusual?

-Are they mostly useful in synastry?

-Should we consider a stronger or weaker energy when we see the declination of an OOB object? Including asteroids?

This is all I can think of now.
I'm hugely intrigued with them and look fwd to learning more. Thank you so much for any answers.

posted August 30, 2017 01:47 AM            

Important: the Sun's path is not actually a boundary. It is a path. So I don't emphasize OOB, rarely even using the term in interpretation unless the planet's position there is at least in aspect with one other planet.

My interpretive perspective on OOB is ... that planets found there indicate drives that may be subject to the x-factor effect in which one is urged to color more creatively with those energies rather than follow convention ... to follow your own light in those things ... but that does not necessarily mean that planetary energy is 'stronger', nor does it mean 'weaker.' I imagine this would be another one of Edgar Cayce's Uranian-like factors.

Declinations are the movements of the planets northward and southward as they move in longitude. Therefore it does not matter what sign system is used in longitude. They always matter.

The degree of OOB for a particular planet varies according to its orbit. The Moon is more often OOB since its long phase takes it past 28° north or south. That movement is pretty quick, lasting around 5 days at each end (Gemini-Cancer north, Sag-Cap south).
http://www.fallonastro.com/text-solilunarmatch.html
Planets like Mars will be OOB longer, but that also means a less personal meaning to this. It becomes more like planet-in-sign specificity.

It's not about 'stronger' or 'weaker' when interpreting a planet in OOB, which does not define a planet's relative strength (which is defined by strength/emphasis of aspects, nearness to the correct Asc or MC of native's birth chart, relative closeness to earth in orbit).

posted August 30, 2017 04:00 PM            

Another way of putting it is to remember that when a planet goes outside the ecliptic (Sun's path), everyone born then has it in their chart's regardless of hemisphere or locality. In other words, it is not a real specific factor, more like planet in sign.

Also note that these extremes of declination can only occur when the planet is in the signs of Gemini or Cancer northward in declination, or Sag or Cap in southern declination.