posted July 09, 2009 05:41 AM         

I don't know about you guys but composites always confuse me.

What are your favourite and least favourite aspects in composites and do they fall in any particular houses please?

Maybe everyone can also write anything about composites they have learnt so we may learn off each other?

The only think i know is that fixed AC means long-lasting and that sun/mercury/venus conjunct is sweet?!

posted July 09, 2009 07:33 AM         

I'm not very fond of scattered charts as it signifies that the relationship doesn't have a focus. Unaspected planets are also a bad sign (especially if the planet is the Sun, Moon or Venus) because they are not integrated in the relationship.

posted July 09, 2009 08:01 AM         

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Presumably venus/uranus hard aspects are not good either?

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posted July 09, 2009 08:18 AM         

Sun square Uranus on the other hand, means that the relationship itself comes and goes.

Composites with a definite pattern/geometry are good.

posted July 09, 2009 08:21 AM         

I take it Saturn-Node links are binding as they are in synastry?

posted July 09, 2009 08:40 AM         

Must be a combo of aqua AC with the moon/venus/nn/saturn conjunct i guess.

posted July 09, 2009 09:35 AM         

Hard aspects to Uranus brings excitement but it can be unstable. Hard aspects to Neptune, it depends.. it seems that if it's with Venus/Mars, it could indicate unfaithfulness; with Mercury, can be deceptions; with Saturn, can mean that the man is deceptive, and with Moon, can mean the woman is insecure/unsure.

Pluto seems to have to do with cruelty, deep issues and sexual impulses without emotional attachment, but also deep compassion and feelings if well aspected.

Nice aspects to Jupiter seems to bring happiness, commitment and joy/warmth. Maybe even hard aspects does. X3

Also, midpoints seems to be relevant, although it's a bit hard to understand the meanings. But well, I'm not keen at analyzing composites anyways.. What I've stated are just what I've observed from another skilled astrologer's composite analysis.

posted July 09, 2009 10:51 AM         

SKYSCRIPT says:
Jupiter opposition Saturn
The opposition between Jupiter and Saturn suggests difficulty in recognizing personal limitations. In one sense this is good. You continue to plod forward in the face of just about any adversity, and you may face a good deal of adversity. This aspect often shows success coming in the later part of life. There is a tendency to compare yourself unfavorably with other people. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/jupiteraspects.html

lol i like the plod along bit

posted July 09, 2009 10:54 AM         

I don't necessarily believe that the Sun/Mars = Man, Moon/Venus = woman because composites aren't always drawn up for a man and a woman and they're not always romantic.

posted July 09, 2009 12:16 PM         

More annoyingly, composites seem so mathematical to me...I feel like if in synastry/real life, A's stellium falls into B's 9th house and B's stellium falls into A's 11th house, the composite will give them a massive 10th house stellium, which isn't necessarily at all what the relationship is about. If A's Venus is in Cap and B's is in Pisces, they'll have this Sadge Venus that probably isn't what they're playing out at all.

My composite with my ex always felt sooo inaccurate...it made us a Virgo Sun! He's a typical Libra, I'm a typical Leo, and in a way, ALL of my relationships (family, friends, romantic, sexual) are 8th house Leonine, and ALL of his relationships are 11th house Libran...Virgo is a mutable sign, and our relationship as we perceived it or as others did felt like it had no Virgo qualities at all.

My composite with the guy I have a crush on now is very similar...our Sun nudges into Libra because he's a Scorpio, but I feel like the caluculation is just sort of a mathematical default, especially with all the planets converging right in between where each of our natal planets are.

I've looked at composites with probably 20 friends or lovers, and they ALL feel that way...Neptune on the ASC when the relationship isn't really Neptunian at all, Sun, Moon, Rising signs that really don't capture the feeling of the relationship or how others see us.

I mean, Libra + Leo just does not equal Virgo! Pisces + Taurus does not equal Aries! To me this methodology is a real problem.

posted July 11, 2009 03:16 AM         

As a Leo, none of my relationships with anyone feel Virgoan, but having a Virgo Sun for the relationship with my Libra Sun/Leo Venus ex really felt inaccurate. We had a very splashy, public, kind of Leonine relationship--the signs that would have fit it (how others perceived it, how each of us perceived it) could have been Leo, Libra, or Sagittarius (that might've been most accurate)...possibly Aries or Gemini.

I feel like the only reason the Sun Sign for our relationship as its own entity comes out as Virgo is because of the mathematics of the midpoint method...NOT because of any energies inherent in either of us, in the relationship as its own discrete entity, in the moment of our relationship's inception, or in any of the energies that it expressed.

In contrast to, say, a natal chart, which is connected to the positioning of actual astronomical entities at the moment of first breath...there's no relationship at all between actual planetary positions and the composite chart, so it's not an actual horoscope.

(horoscope="a chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, the astrological aspects, and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth"...synastry shows the interactions between two horoscopes...even horary uses an actual horoscope method, with connections between actual planetary/angle placements and the moment of the question)