DEFINITION
When the two main significators do not aspect but each applies by major aspect to a third
planet, this third planet can act as a transmitter and collect their light bringing them
together as if in major aspect. Whether the planets apply by direct or retrograde motion
to the transmitting planet is of no importance. Furthermore, the transmitting planet is
able to collect more than one pair of significators provided they are within the moiety of
orbs.
Although the three outer planets are never used as main significators, they can be
involved in collections of light.
Examples
Example 1: Mars ruler of the ascendant at 8 degrees Taurus does not aspect Venus ruler of
2nd house of the quesited at 5 degrees Aries, but Jupiter at 9 degrees Cancer will receive
a square from Venus and a sextile from Mars therefore collecting their light and bringing
perfection.
Example 2: Mars ruler of the ascendant at 9 degrees Gemini does not aspect Venus ruler of
the 7th house of the quesited at 7 degrees Capricorn, but Saturn at 11 degrees Libra will
receive a square from Venus and a trine from Mars therefore collecting their light and
bringing the planets together so that perfection will take place.
Example 3: Retrograde Mercury ruler of the ascendant at 7 degrees Cancer and Venus ruler
of the 2nd house of the quesited at 4 degrees Leo are not in major aspect to each other
since they are in adjacent signs, but Jupiter retrograde at 5 degrees Scorpio will receive
a trine from Mercury and a square from Venus therefore collecting their light and bringing
the planets together so that perfection will take place.
The usual description of a collection of light which has been handed down throughout the
ages is that when the two significators do not aspect each other, but both aspect a more
weighty planet than themselves and they both receive it in some of their essential
dignities, then that planet will collect both their lights and bring the thing asked about
to perfection.
Example 3 above does not conform exactly with this description but since the cosmic laws
or rules are based on major aspects, then Mercury even though at a later degree and a
lighter planet than Jupiter, is still applying by trine to Jupiter, therefore fulfilling
the cosmic law. Whether or not the planets are in each others essential dignities is
irrelevant as an absence of essential dignities cannot overrule the power of the major
aspects.
Example 4: The Sun at 10 Taurus does not aspect Venus at 12 Gemini but Jupiter at 15
Aquarius receives a square from the Sun and a trine from Venus therefore collecting the
light of both planets and uniting them as if in Major aspect.
At the same time, Mercury at 11 Aries signifying a third person in the question does not
aspect the Sun but applies to Jupiter by sextile which then collects the light of the Sun
and Mercury bringing them together as if in major aspect. In the meantime, Mercury applies
to Venus by sextile.
Example 5: If Mars at 13 Aries was added to example 4 then Jupiter would collect the
following pairs of planets:
(a) The Sun and Mercury.
(b) The Sun and Venus.
(c) The Sun and Mars.
Meanwhile, Mercury sextiles Venus and conjuncts Mars, and Venus sextiles Mars.