posted January 24, 2006 12:25 AM
My vote:1.Synastry
Synastry is what I thought was the entire branch of astro dealing w/chart comparison 4 relating. Might be wrong. Here Im using it as just the aspects that two people share, how their energy relates to each other, what they might bring out in one another. These are the "direct effects."
2.Comparison
Comparison as I understand it is plotting another's planets in your chart to see in which houses they fall and vice versa. I still think there's confusion regarding how that person's planet affect you when it falls in this or that house in your chart. A lot of synastry relates to how you're dealing with your own chart, your own life and therefore what you bring to the other person vis a vis your actions/reactions etc.
3.Composite
Composite can be charted using either the midpoint method between same planet to planet, ex the mp's of the mercuries, the neptunes, or the date/time/place that amounts to the space in time between the partners' birth data. Im referring to the 1st since i have no exp w/the 2nd. Composites are what the two people involved add up to during the course of their relationship. Alone, each person has their ways of acting/being etc, the composite doesnt care about that, it shows the "entity" that is created, a new type of energy field that is separate from their regular aspect [synastry] comparison. Theres disagreement over whether composites and their energies are immed apparent when 2 people meet or if they come into play only when couples have an "established" relationship.
Hope I thoroughly confused you