posted March 10, 2011 10:02 PM            

I also think Davison can tell you more about what will happen to a couple due to circumstances outside of the relationship, and how it will affect the couple as a unit. Bobmarksastrologer.com does a very good at pointing this out: http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/relationshipdavidson26.0.htm

A good way to point at the differences between the two: Let's say a couple has the Sun, Moon, and Venus in the eighth house in the Midpoint Composite Chart. This is going to be a very intense relationship is the couple becomes really close and allows the composite to start taking affect.(because for the six months or so it's generally just the synastry taking place) But then if I look at the Davison(and even though it would be unlikely) let's say their Sun, Moon, and Venus moves from the eighth house from the Midpoint Composite to the fourth house in the Davison. This means that even though the relationship is a very deep, intense, and probably very sexual relationship as the Midpoint Composite points out -- the actual focus on the couple is going to be on domestic issues, creating an enriching/comfortable home life, exploring the past and their foundations of who they are together, the kind of couple showing up at each others family events together(rarely alone), and providing each other with a lot of nurture. They also may be very adventures when apart, but somehow the relationship makes them become total housecats hiding behind close doors when they are together. But even all this is occurring in reality, they are still mutually feeling those eight house themes at play in the way that they are registering all that is happening around them and to them that the Midpoint Composite points out.

posted March 13, 2011 04:36 PM            

I know that an abundance in 'beneficiary' aspects can indicate more of a friendship rather than a relationship because the squares and opposition push us towards action and growth while trines are almost taken for granted.

posted March 13, 2011 11:51 PM            

I kind of wanna disagree though- in my experience squares in the Davison are kind of harder to deal with than in the composite. It doesn't feel so much about tension or forcing you to grow the way it would in synastry or a composite...to me it actually feels like the energies in question just clash kind of willfully in a kind of irreconcilable way. Just to stay on the example I've already used, the only square my friend and I have in our Davison is a Moon to Neptune. We indulge each other emotionally very often and encourage each other's deluded thinking. We get caught up in fantasies which end up being let downs and just perpetuate each other's moping around about it without forcing a reality check. In our case it's not detrimental to our friendship but my point is- this is a clear cut repeated course of action we participate in together. It doesn't help us grow or have any other implications beyond something we just do together.