posted February 10, 2011 08:13 AM            

The Composite, the Synastry, the progressed synastry or the Davison for example? Just looking at the chart of a couple of friends/lovers and they have a Venus sextile and Venus Square Pluto in their synastry yet the composite and the Davison give a Venus conjunct Pluto. The Psynastry gives a great deal of strong connections too so it's as though the astrology are saying these two are stronger together with what they create (the relationship) than as individuals (the synastry)?? Have you noticed that in your relationships and how has it played out?

posted February 10, 2011 02:02 PM            

Composite I don't use at all--it's just sort of mathematical averages. It's like saying "20 people in this room are six feet tall, and 20 are 4 feet tall; therefore, EVERYONE in the room is 5 feet tall!" Noooo, it doesn't work that way. It's still, NO ONE in the room is 5 feet tall. My 14-year relationship with a Libra was a Leo-Libra relationship, you can't average it into Virgo. Our composite was deeply inaccurate. And composites end up with huge stellia in houses that are irrelevent to the relationship.

I use the natals first because, in synastry, 100% of our planets will hit the chart of every single person (or place, or event) on earth. But we will certainly not have a relationship with everybody, even with everybody where our charts make a lot of tight contacts. Meanwhile, each of us expresses our natal in EVERY relationship.

If I have a Sun-Neptune conjunction in Pisces in the 7th and Mars-Venus in Sag and I'm just unfaithful in every relationship, lots of synastric contacts with someone won't override my natal patterns. (Note: that's not my chart, just an example.)