posted on March 10, 2001 02:58:44 PM new her moon (Gemini, 9th house) is square mine (Pisces, 5th house). I mean SQUARE. Deviation less than 2 degrees. And her Venus (Scorpio, 3rd house) square mine (Leo, 11th house), again with about a 2-degree orb.
So on the Venus - your tastes clash. On the Moon, what makes her feel good leaves you cold.
If you have any motivation to get along, you can give her some of what she wants (Venus) and needs (the Moon. Just commenting..
her Pluto conjunct my Venus and her Mars my Mercury
Pluto is an attack on Venus. Venus want so be pure and pretty and NOT spoiled, and Pluto wants... uh... the opposite.
Anyway, when someone's pluto is on one of your personal planets, your are sucked and repelled but never ever neutral. It is a sure sign that there is subconscious play in the interaction with roots deeper than you can imagine.
On Mars and Mercury - you talk (Mercury) and she gets pissed off (Mars) wants to challenge / fight (Mars)
Your response is intellectual (Mercury) which further incites her Mars...
And at last the question - is the composite method indeed the standard way of looking at relationships? And in your experience, how accurate is it?
It is definitely not standard for me.
I look at composites as a 3rd resort.
First I do like above with the aspects.
2nd I overlay the charts.. Draw their planets in your chart to see how they impact you.
Example, people with a bunch of their planets in your 8th house are going to disturb the hell out of you.
If you are a Scorpio this will be intriguing.
If you are a Gemini, you will run for the hills.
I have never read anything on the astrodienst site and so hard for me to comment, other than to say computers are computers and have their limits.
There is a really good book on overlaying the houses that I never hear of. It also covers aspects between charts and I think it is the best all around book on the subject by a shot. Every time I say this I pull my head out of the sand to find that in fact the book is renowned at this time and no one told me.
Anyway it is
Planets in Synastry by E.W. Neville
The other thing I wanted to offer was this database.
It is billed as a free online astro course but is really a database, and a comprehensive one for fast accurate interp:
Oh... and on the composite charts.
They do work but consider what it is... Two charts merged. To become valid the two people really need to be in close association - a marriage / partnership. If nothing like that is formed then their is no composite. You are looking at the chart of a relationship that does not exist.
Now if the two of you were put on an island the composite would be a map of the relationship that you would be forced into forging, but as it is you have two separate entities interacting and so the aspects are going to show you the picture over the composite. Make sense I hope.
posted on March 20, 2001 08:43:38 AM new
VeryModern, my husband (the double Leo, Mr. Set in His Ways) is talking lately about retiring to a small community in the desert southwest. For some reason, even though I love that part of the country, this is unnerving me.
There is a branch of astrology that deals with relocation charts. I see two of them listed on Amazon: "The AstroCartography Book of Maps," by Jim Lewis and Ariel Guttman (out of print), and "Planets on the Move: The Astrology of Relocation," by Maritha Pottenger and Zipporah Dobyns. Is either of these okay, or is there another you can recommend on the subject?
posted on March 20, 2001 08:51:19 AM new
Hi Silk Moth - I'm sorry but I know very little about reading the maps. I am familiar with the first book, have thumbed through it and know that it is a standard - but Maritha Pottenger and Zipporah Dobyns are both awesome astrologers, so I would say you could go either way.
Sorry I can't offer more.
On the desert SW - I lived there for almost 30 years. Where does he want to go? VeryModern Space Junk
posted on March 20, 2001 09:18:18 AM new
Northern New Mexico. He would like to be close enough to some of the Anasazi ruins to be a volunteer at one of the parks.
We've talked about the area between Santa Fe north through Taos to the Colorado border. I love the land there, especially around Taos, but that would put him pretty far from everything except Bandelier.
He mentioned White Rock (just outside Los Alamos) but I am very uncomfortable with White Rock. Again, I don't know why.
Las Vegas NM is another choice, but that puts him even farther from the ruins.
I didn't much like Farmington or Bloomfield, the closest communities to Chaco.
We are talking about spending a couple of weeks there this summer, to look for property. I need to get a grip on what's bothering me before then.
posted on March 20, 2001 11:31:05 AM new
Silk Moth - I am from AZ,don't know NM..
On the other I peeked at your charts and he has T Uranus exact sq his Sun and so wants a big change but it may pass - just be an impulse. I don't see an obvious big move at all in his chart.
As for you -- Saturn is coming to sq your Moon and so you want to hunker down - don't feel safe. I don't see a move for you either until possibly T Uranus to the Moon which is a couple years at least.
A major move is generally shown in both charts - transit to the Moon and usually the 4th house too (or an angle that aspects the 4th house).
Last you can look at transit to the ruler of the 4th (he has T Pluto sq Venus ruler of his 4th) but I think that is pushin' it.
I think what he wants is a new life and N Uranus is in the 12th and so he doesn't know exactly how to get it. The volunteer thing is good btw.. Break out and SERVE, there is just no need to move states. I am thinking it is a little bit like "I am going to go join the circus..."
See what I mean?
It is what you say you are going to do before you do what you are really going to do.
I see that N Uranus that is triggered at the moment, is in Cancer, so perhaps this is why the impulse to move home is coming from. Still think it misguided and not real enough to become reality. Just don't want you up late at night for nuthin'
If I were talking to my husband who I just talk to, I would say "the guy isn't goin' anywhere."
He is shocking your Venus though and quite nicely VeryModern Space Junk
