The traditional method of examining a relationship is to
compare the aspects of planets
in one horoscope with those in another. Additionally, the astrologer
looks at the house positions
of each person's planets
as they land in the other person's chart. This method is called Synastry
and some astrologers swear by it. I swear at it.
Synastry fails at the bottom line. This method simply cannot
tell you the most important thing about a relationship, and that is if
it will work or not work. I have seen numerous cases where synastry
broke down. Two of those were from my own life. One was my ex-wife.
The only thing synastry can do is indicate some points of
attraction and repulsion, areas where the two people can work together
or tend to clash, places where the two of you can get along easily or
need to work things out. Now this is important, but it won't tell you
if the two people will stay together or even get
together. It also won't tell you how the relationship affects each
person individually. Please keep that in mind as you read through the
following lessons which list the inter-horoscope aspects.
So what will tell you if the relationship is go or no go? No
one thing. There are several steps and you have to go through them all.
No shortcuts.
(1)
Before you even start to compare the horoscopes,
you have to look at them separately. Check out their 7th
houses, the
partnership house. What kind of relationships are indicated? Let's say
that one person has Mars there and it gets squares (90 degree angles)
from Uranus and
Saturn, and the other has a 7th house Saturn which is
making a square Venus. Do you think that Any
favorable aspects between those charts would make for a happy
relationship? So step number one is to see what kind of relationships
and partnerships each person tends to have individually.
(2) Now compare the interaspects between both
horoscopes. Check them all.
Beginners frequently jump to conclusions based on one or two indicators.
That's a great way to reach the wrong conclusion. Check everything
with one exception. In general, you can ignore aspects between the outer
planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto since they move so slowly. For
instance, it can be very important
if your Uranus aspects their Venus or your Pluto squares their
Ascendant. But if your Pluto's are in conjunction, all it means is
that you are born the same year.
(3) Next, check out the Composite
chart and the Davison horoscope (also called the Relationship horoscope or the
Davison composite).
a: The Composite
chart is made by finding the Midpoints
between similar things in the two horoscopes. For instance, if one
person has the Sun at 10 degrees Aries and the other has it at 20
degrees Gemini, the composite
Sun will be at 15 degrees Taurus. The same procedure is followed
for all the planetary pairs (composite Moon, composite Mercury, etc.)
and for the angles.
b: The Davison
horoscope, named after it's discoverer, Ronald Davison, is an
actual horoscope and not just a collection of midpoints. First you
find the midpoints between the birth dates and times of the two people
involved. Then you find the midpoint of their birth places. Form that,
you calculate the horoscope in the usual manner.
Don't worry. Nowadays the computer does all the math. All
you have to do is enter the birth data.
The two methods frequently give similar results. However, I
tested both out on relationships for several clients. Every time the two
methods gave different answers, the Davison chart won out. This was by
no means a statistical sample and I do not offer this as 損roof.?
The best procedure is to use both and see what results you come up with
over a period of years.
This still doesn't tell us how each person is affected by
the relationship, or if the relationship will go or not.
(4) The next step is to compare the charts of both
people to the Davison chart. In other words, do synastry for each
person with the relationship! This method almost always gives a better,
more accurate picture of what is going on in a relationship than doing
the synastry between the charts of the individuals. Why? I don't know.
Perhaps the Davison chart has more of an effect if the two people
actually have a relationship going. It could be that the whole is more
than the sum of its parts here. A bunch of cells behave differently if
they are swimming around separately in a flask than they do if they are
linked together in an organism.
The organism has a life of its own, apart from the individual
cells. It's possible that something similar (not identical of course)
could be going on with relationships. A relationship could somehow have
traits of an individual entity.
(5) Now if this is the case, why not do two more Davison charts for each person's horoscope with the original
Davison chart! That should show how the relationship affects each one
individually. After all, many times the two people involved are affected
differently. Perhaps one wants to continue the relationship while the
other wants out.
Or one benefits from the relationship while the other
gets the short end of the stick. I抳e tried this in dozens of cases
over the last few years and I believe this is the missing key to finding
out whether or not a relationship works. I modestly call it a ?b>Marks
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To do a complete job, all of the above steps must be
followed. The first step is very important because if someone's birth
chart shows relationship difficulties, they will be having problems no
matter what the comparison says.
Give a greater weight to the Davison
and Marks
Charts than to the synastry because these horoscopes get to the
heart of the matter.
Be certain to have accurate birth times for both people or
the analysis could be thrown way off. The horoscope angles (the
Ascendant and Mid-Heaven) are extremely sensitive to birth time (a four
minute difference will change them by one degree) and these are vital to
getting accurate results. So be careful here. I frequently have people
come to me with the birth date of someone they met, and they want to
know if a relationship will work out. I tell them that the synastry can
show some things, but without the other person's time of birth, no
definitive answer is possible.
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