How Viki explains the complex in plain words
Through everyday analogies, not definitions. An orb is how far planets can drift apart and still hear each other. Houses are where in life a planet works. Retrogradation is overtaking a car in the next lane, when it seems to roll backwards. Ask for exactly that: «explain through an analogy».
A few examples
- Sign and house: the sign is how you do things, the house is where you do them.
- The orb: how far the planets have drifted while still hearing each other. Half a degree — a conversation; eight — mumbling through a wall.
- A retrograde planet: you overtake a car in the next lane and it seems to move backwards. Nothing in space turned around.
- A transit: the natal chart is a photograph of the sky at your birth; transits are today’s sky laid over that photograph.
- A square: two of your needs pulling opposite ways, and both are yours.
- A stellium: three planets in one house is like three people in one room — noisy, and always about that topic.
- An empty house in the chart: the sphere isn’t missing, it’s just not overloaded.
How to get an explanation like this
Say it straight: «explain through an analogy», «as if to a beginner», «as if to a five-year-old». Works both pointwise and for the whole conversation.
Why analogies work
A definition is remembered for a day, an image for years. And an analogy shows a concept’s limits at once: where the comparison stops working is exactly where the real complexity begins.
You may argue
«The analogy doesn’t land, I don’t get it» is a fine reply. Viki will invent another. Sometimes it’s the third attempt that clicks.
Say «make it simpler» — and it comes out human.