A Davison
Chart
shows many things about a relationship
as a whole. But how many cases are there of one person wanting the
relationship and the other wanting out? How many relationships where one
person benefits and the other winds up holding the short end of the
stick?
A few years ago, I started doing "Synastry" between the charts
of each person involved in a relationship with their Davison horoscopes. As I mentioned in Synastry
(Chapter 25.0), that frequently
gave better results than comparing the charts of the two people
themselves.
That was when I got the following idea.
You can compare the horoscopes of two people aspect by aspect (synastry)
and you can make a Davison chart for the relationship.
Now if you can
also compare each chart with that Davison horoscope (more synastry),
could you then make another 揇avison chart?from each person's
horoscope with the original Davison
chart?
First of all, what would such a chart mean? Well, it could
show you how the relationship affects each person individually.
I tried it in over two dozen cases and it 搘orked?
Not a statistical sample, to be sure. However, I haven't yet
seen a case when this technique gave incorrect information. In my
opinion, these horoscopes supply the missing piece to relationship
readings. Naturally I had to name them after myself.
To repeat, the Davison chart is made from by taking the
midpoints of the birth dates, birth times, and birthplaces of the two
people involved in the relationship. It shows what happens to the
relationship as a whole. The Marks Chart is made by taking the midpoints of the Davison chart
with the horoscope of each person. Marks charts show what happens to
each separate individual in the relationship.
To do a complete relationship reading, you have do the
following:
(1) Look at the between the two horoscopes. This tells you something (but not
everything) about potential strong and weak points in the
relationship.
(2) Check the Davison
chart. This shows what the relationship itself (as an individual
entity) will tend to be like.
(3) Compare the aspects of both person's horoscopes with
the Davison chart (more synastry). This can indicate more strong and
weak points between the two people.
(4) Check the Marks
charts to see how the relationship affects each person.
(5) Put it all together and get the complete picture.
Can you take it
further?
Can you make another midpoint chart for each person with the
Marks chart? Or how about a midpoint chart for each Marks chart with the
original Davison? In that case, we would be on our way to an
搃nfinite regress?because we could then make midpoint charts from
these charts, and so on, and so on.....
But this couldn't happen. All we have to ask is 揥hat
would such charts show you? What information would they give??The
answer is they wouldn't tell you anything. They would have no meaning.
A
Davison
chart tells about the relationship as a whole. A Marks chart
shows the effect on each individual. Nothing is shown by making other
horoscopes. Marks charts are the limit of this technique. They are as
far as it goes.
Let's take a
look at some examples;
Phil
Hartman's Marks Chart with Bryn: shows the effect the relationship
had on him.
(1) Notice a T-Cross involving Pluto (extremes, obsession,
all-or-nothing, death, rebirth) in the 8th house (sex, death, rebirth).
Pluto is the ruler of the 8th sign, Scorpio so it would gain strength in
the 8th house.
(2) The
Sun is
the heart of the horoscope. The Moon shows the feelings, emotions, and
instinctual drives. Pluto making stress aspects with both indicates that
as far as Phil was concerned, this was more of an obsession than a
marriage.
The Moon rules
women in general. That square between Pluto and the Moon shows the woman
involved to suffer from extreme mood swings.
(3) Neptune, planet of illusions, is high in the chart and
conjunct the
Mid-Heaven
(career, public image). In this case, that can
give a public image which is an illusion. They seemed to be the perfect
couple. Until she killed him.
(4) Finally, Pluto is Singleton.
It is the only planet in a Fire
sign. The sex may have been great (this
was probably one thing that kept them together) but the relationship was
tumultuous, going from one extreme to another (I love you, I hate you)
until it finally ended in a sudden volcanic eruption.
Bryn Hartman's Marks Chart With Phil:
shows how the relationship affected her. Remember that Bryn's own
horoscope wasn't too stable to begin with. Now we have a Marks chart
that has afflictions on its afflictions. Where do we begin? How about....
(1) Saturn (difficulties, obstacles, ambition) making a
conjunction with her Sun? This is a very strong tie, not always easy to
live with, but difficult to break. And it is part of a T-Cross.
(2)
Pluto and the Moon
are opposite. This means that the
relationship will make Bryn's emotions go from one extreme to another
(I love you, I hate you) and this can happen in a flash.
(3) The
Sun/Saturn
conjunction makes square aspects with both
the Moon and Pluto. Saturn wants 搒ecurity?but the square to Pluto
keeps tearing it down. Saturn making a square with the Moon adds
depression to those Moon/Pluto emotional swings.
(4) The empty leg of the
T-Cross
points to the
8th house
(sex,
death, rebirth). A positive solution would have been intensive
psychotherapy. The negative solution was murder and suicide.
(5) Mars and Neptune make a conjunction aspect right on the
Ascendant. Mars is action, Neptune is drugs.
(6) Now here is a case where the so-called 揼ood aspects?
the sextile and
trine, can be no good. Mars and Neptune both make
sextile aspects with Pluto and trine aspects with the Moon. This means
that Mars and Neptune can 搈itigate?that stressful Moon/Pluto
opposition. By using Mars and Neptune, those emotional swings can be
calmed down. Bryn chose to do this with drugs.
(7) The sign of
Aquarius is on the Nadir (bottom) and so it rules the home and, the
揺nd of the matter.?Uranus (sudden, unexpected events) is the ruler
of Aquarius. It is right at the top of the chart making a conjunction
with the Mid-Heaven (career and public image). The end of the
relationship and the home was sudden. Whenever we feel threatened in the
area ruled by Uranus, we tend to suddenly 揺ject?from the
situation. Uranus also makes a minor stress aspect, a sesquisquare
(135 degrees) with the Moon's North Node. Again, an instinctual urge
to eject from unpleasant situations, and to do so suddenly without thought.
(8) Last, but not least, the planetoid Chiron was right at the
bottom of the horoscope, conjunct the Nadir and opposite Uranus. Chiron
indicates problems that never seem to go away. Remember that Bryn was
born with Saturn on her nadir. She thought that her problems would be
solved by marrying Phil. Chiron kept them coming back again and again.
The next example is the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship.
Bill
Clinton's Marks Chart with Monica has:
(1) The
Sun and Moon
together in
Taurus, a stubborn sign. Each
makes a square aspect to Pluto (extremes) which is in the
5th house
(romance). This wasn't a relationship as far as Bill was concerned. It
was an obsession.On top of that,
Pluto
is both the natural
ruler of sex (it rules Scorpio, the sex sign) and the accidental ruler (it rules the sign on the
8th house
cusp, which
happens to be Scorpio).
(2) Always check out the Angles
of the horoscope, the Ascendant,
the Mid-heaven, the Descendant, the Nadir, and
their ruling planets. In this horoscope, Venus planet of love, is making
a conjunction aspect with the Ascendant. Not bad. That shows an
attraction. Unfortunately, Venus is making three stressful aspects.
(3) First of all, it has a Square
Aspect with Uranus (sudden,
unexpected events). This is not a stable aspect, but it is exciting
while it lasts ---which is usually not long.
(4) Venus is also
forming an opposition aspect to Neptune (illusions and delusions).
Neptune is both the natural and accidental ruler of the 12th
house.
That's the house of self-undoing. No comment is necessary here.
(5) Venus is also
opposite Saturn. I have found from personal experience (don't ask for
the details please) that Venus/Saturn stress aspects usually work out
better for friendships than they do for romances. When it comes to love,
there is usually an obstacle (like Hillary!) and it tends to end badly.
(6) Now put all this together. Venus (love) is afflicted by
Uranus (sudden attraction) and afflicted by Neptune (delusions and
self-undoing), and Saturn (difficulties, obstacles, and tends to a bad
end). On top of that, Saturn rules the Marks chart Mid-Heaven (career
and public image) and Saturn is almost exactly
in conjunction with Neptune (self undoing). Hmmm. I wonder what the
effect would be on Clinton's public image with this one?
(7) So what if Venus makes a favorable aspect to Pluto? That
just made Bill more hot to trot. In this case, that was not a good
thing.
(8) Oh yes. The Ascendant is ruled by Mars (action) which
makes a quincunx (a 150 degree aspect) with the Mid-Heaven. The quincunx
is a strange aspect. It's off, it's on. It's good, it's bad. It
just keeps switching around, going in and out of phase. In this case, it
helped to bring the affair before the public. As did Mercury trine the Mid-Heaven. Trines are lucky. That was probably one of the few things
that helped Clinton avoid being removed from office.
Monica Lewinsky's Marks Chart with Bill Clinton:
Also has the Ascendant in Aries and Capricorn on the Mid-Heaven.
(1) Saturn, ruler of the
Mid-Heaven
(career and public image)
is in the
12th house
(self-undoing). Did Monica's reputation suffer at
all? Well, she did come (no pun intended) within a hair's breath of
being indicted for perjury. And Saturn (difficulties) makes opposition
aspects to both Uranus (sudden, unexpected changes) and Pluto (sex).
(2) There's
another element here. Uranus rules the sign of Aquarius. In this Marks
chart, Aquarius is on the cusp (beginning) of the 11th house (friends).
Uranus is opposite Saturn (difficulties) which is in the
12th house. The
12th house not only rules self-undoing. It is also the house of hidden
enemies. What was the effect of friends on the relationship and the
effect of the relationship on friends? A friend (Linda Tripp) turned out
to be a hidden enemy by secretly recording the phone conversations she
had with Monica.
(3) The Sun makes a conjunction with
Venus. This isn't bad.
It shows affection and love. Unfortunately, Jupiter makes a square
aspect with both. When Jupiter afflicts like this, it leads to
overconfidence and a feeling that nothing can ever go wrong.
(4) Don't forget to look at
Sagittarius
the sign that
Jupiter
rules. It sits on the cusp (beginning) of the
9th
house. Long journeys?
No. Higher education? Well I抦 sure Monica learned a lesson. Legal
problems? Bingo.
Now on the basis
of all the evidence so far, if one of these people came to you and said
they were thinking of having a relationship with the other, what advise
would you give?
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