What is a separating aspect?
The exact angle has already passed and the faster planet is moving away from it, so the aspect is loosening rather than tightening. In a birth chart it is read as something largely worked through, or a theme that was loudest early and has since settled. In a transit it means the peak is behind you. The opposite is an applying aspect, which is the one still building, and most astrologers give an applying aspect the greater weight.
In the reference library: Separating aspects: the widening angle, how it is told, and what it means
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Aspects, and the arithmetic that decides whether one counts.