posted October 27, 2006 10:36 PM         

To me, the idea of a composite seemed nebulous. I mean why should the mid points calculated using two individual charts be an indicator of how the relationship would me. If anything, a new chart should be drawn up, for the moment say when the relationship first began. (Of course this is again very complicated!!). I had noticed tht the composite of me and the guy I am interested in has a lot of oppositions, and it troubled me a little, but i didnt give it much thought.

Now after i read all these posts about the composites, esp the fact tht there can be major trouble in spite of hving a very good synastry, as i gather is in the case of BornUnderDioscuri, I am really scared. Can anyone shed some light on the matter?

posted October 28, 2006 11:13 AM         

To make you feel better though, my boyfriend and I have really good synastry, but our composite is full of oppositions. Actually, it's mostly all conjunctions, squares, and oppositions- barely any trines or sextiles. That doesn't mean the composite chart is bad, though. It just means that energy (whatever planets are opposing each other) is more apparent when you two are together. It doesn't mean it's a BAD thing... conjunctions, oppositions, and squares have more energy and are more apparent then trines and sextiles in a composite chart, just as it has more energy in a synastry chart.

But you have to remember that the synastry chart is how you two affect each other, and the composite is how you are TOGETHER, as a couple- and how you present yourself to others.

posted October 28, 2006 03:58 PM         

I think it is important to use astrology as a tool to see possible pit falls or negative behaviors in ourselves or others that need work. I also think it is useful for understanding certain needs the other might have that would otherwise not be visible off the bat. However, I think you should always trust your instincts and your heart when it comes to love and not worry so much what the chart says. Just my opinion.

posted October 30, 2006 06:09 AM         

Of course love can overcome all odds!

posted October 30, 2006 06:48 PM         

A Synastry chart is how you two affect each other. That will always exist regardless of how wonderful a composite it. Have you ever seen two people that are so incredibly different, yet somehow make it work? Or how about two people that seem to fight all the time, but they have this intense connection?

I look at the individual chart first when I do decide to do a chart on someone I am with. I did not do my husbands chart until I knew I had deep feelings for him. Once I look at the individual, I look at synastry. What causes us to talk for hours, spend lots of time together and everything else disappears? His Pluto conjuncts my ascendant and My Mercury trines his Venus / Mars while forming a sextile to his Moon. His Mercury trines my Sun / Moon and Venus and we are both Virgo risings. Mercury is significant in our individual charts and in our synastry.

In our Composite chart we have a grand square between Pluto - Saturn - Moon / Mars and Neptune. We also have Sun conjunct Mercury - another communication aspect.

But the chart only works when we are together. Right now he is in Germany, so we are expressing more of our individual and synastry charts. When we are together we seem to attract drama and a good number of weirdos (Sun conjunct Uranus and Mercury).

At least for me, while I like Composite charts, I prefer to look at synastry - especially since no two people really are ONE person, we may feel as one, but we aren't. WE still have our individual identity and our own transits to deal with