Monthly Aspects - Tropical aspect calendar for an entire month
post_astrology_aspects_monthlyGet every planetary aspect that perfects during a given month, across the 13 non-lunar Western bodies: the Sun and Mercury through Pluto, both lunar nodes, Chiron and Black Moon Lilith. Detects nine aspects, five major (conjunction, sextile, square, trine, opposition) and four minor (semi-sextile, semi-square, sesquiquadrate, quincunx), each with its own traditional orb, and returns the exact date and time of closest approach in your timezone along with the nature of the aspect. Calculated on tropical longitudes. The Moon is excluded because it forms hundreds of aspects a month and belongs in a daily view rather than a monthly one. Omit year and month to get the month in progress, so a published calendar stays current without a redeploy. Essential for monthly forecast copy, transit calendars, electional timing, and newsletter automation. Monthly aspect calendar API, exact aspect times, planetary aspect ephemeris, transit timing. Verified against NASA JPL Horizons.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lang | No | Response language (BCP 47). Supported: en, tr, de, es, hi, pt, fr, ru, zh-Hans, zh-Hant. Defaults to en. Coverage varies by domain, and a field with no translation in the requested language returns English. | en |
| year | No | Year for the aspect calendar (1900-2100). Defaults to the current year (UTC). | |
| month | No | Month number (1-12). Defaults to the current month (UTC). | |
| compact | No | Set true for the same data in a compact shape: arrays of same-shaped objects arrive columnar as {"__cols":[names],"__rows":[[values]]}. Lossless, typically 40 to 52 percent fewer tokens. | |
| nodeType | No | Lunar node convention. "mean" is the smoothed average node, which always moves retrograde; "true" is the osculating node, which tracks the real perturbed node, oscillates up to about 1.5 degrees either side of the mean on a 173-day cycle, and can briefly turn direct. Neither is more correct and they almost always fall in the same sign. Applies to the North and South Node. True is the osculating node and the default, because it is what most Western chart software reports; mean is the smoothed node preferred by several evolutionary schools, so pass "mean" to match one. Nothing else in the chart changes, and the two agree on the sign except when the node sits within about 1.8 degrees of a cusp. Defaults to "true". | true |
| timezone | No | Timezone offset from UTC in hours. Event dates and times are reported in this zone, which is what makes a published calendar read correctly for its audience. Defaults to 0 (UTC). |