posted June 09, 2015 03:05 PM            

From Dawn "The Inner Wheel"

Synastry Studies: When Angle Hits Axis

It has been said, and backed up with research, that the single most common signature for long term partnerships is not a link between Sun/Moon or Venus/Mars or Moon/Saturn or any of the common planetary partnerships. In fact, planets have nothing to do with it. The single most common long term signature, which is borne out by my experience, is angle to nodal axis.

This is baffling to a lot of people, many of whom don’t quite relate to either their angles or their lunar nodes, let alone figure out what they’re doing in their partnerships. They aren’t anything solid, they’re a point in space and time. How can a point influence a point? Moreover, how can they interact? Although astrology has always placed an importance on planet-to-angle in synastry, it was always thought that the planet, the solid body, was influencing the passive angle. How can a node do the same?

This is missing the astrological boat entirely. Our angles are what define us, and have everything to do with our material existence. Our angles anchor the infinite symbolism of our charts in space and time. Without angles, the chart has no dimension. You can read a chart without angles, but it’s lacking a crucial element–reality. A bundle of energy without a container.

But our angles provide much more than a frame upon which we hang our souls. Each angle is a defining point where spirit and matter interact. In this way, they are much like the nodes. But where the nodes display our soul direction, how the past becomes the present and future, the angles provide a gateway for our inner being to meet the external world. The angles turn the old astrological catchphrase, “As above, so below…” into something relatively new to astrological thought: “As within, so without…”

We cannot conceive what is not already within us, in nascent form. Astrology declares that our lives are not the result of random occurrences, but reflect what energies are already there within us, waiting to evolve (with the progressed chart revealing what is of evolving spiritual importance at any given time). Our angles are the pathways of this energy exchange between inner and outer, the bridges of the evolving Self. They provide the forming connection between the restless energies of the spirit and the denser layers of matter. They are highly sensitive, almost electrically charged, the finely tuned antennae of being and becoming. When planets hit our angles we feel them acutely. When we have natal planets on angles, the planets’ energy becomes magnified and focused, and are certain to play a starring role in our internal drama. By association, our angular houses carry a power that the other houses do not. Each angular house, in it’s own way, carries the initiating (cardinal) energy of Aries, the thrust from the unmanifest to the manifest.

So, no surprise then, given what we know of the nodes (see the series on the Nodes, which begins here), what happens when the lunar nodes of one chart hit the angles of another. The nodes represent the evolving consciousness; they are almost like the arms of the Moon, reaching out to embrace experience. To the Node person, the experience of the angle person’s manifesting life, the dizzying traffic of that spiritual bridge, is like a potent drug. The Node person can feel the excitement of the angle person’s evolution as the power of the chart flows through it. The Node person is attuned to the direction and intention of the angle–it feels familiar to the South Node side, and stimulating to the North. The Node person feels as if this is where they should be for their own balance and development. There is a natural affinity and a mutual direction.

For both people, the contact runs deep, and a real empathy is possible. The angle person, in particular, feels to the depths the Node person’s struggle to evolve, and these people are very aware that they are on some kind of path together. They have a mutual investment in one another’s growth, and may feel very comfortable moving forward together in life. The angle person’s experience of life is enhanced by the conscious awareness of the Node person. The Node person senses that evolution and balance is easier and more rapid with the angle person around.

The drawback to having this contact comes at times of hard aspects to the angle/axis. Transits via conjunction and square will bring challenges to both (and at the same time), but any planet moving into an inconjunct position to the angle/axis can be disruptive in the extreme. it will take much effort by both parties to assure that they evolve together, rather than apart. The themes of the inconjunct planet will have to be brought into the relationship and worked through in a conscious way. Another difficulty may come when one person’s progressed planet forms hard aspects to the position–that will signify a long period where the person with the progressed planet will need to examine the role the planet plays in the relationship, and how the relationship is reflecting that planet’s development. These can be times where the planet person may want to take a step back from the relationship to get perspective.

The other drawback to this position is one that occurs in all relationships, but the angle/node couple will be more prone to it–simply assuming that we’ll always be together and that things are always okay. This contact may cause us to feel so familiar with one another that we forget that the other person is a developing entity in his or her own right, and may not feel as we do in all circumstances and situations. It’s very important with this contact that we have a perspective on our relationship and acknowledge our partner’s independence. Just because we’re on the same road together doesn’t mean we can’t take detours now and then.

posted June 09, 2015 03:06 PM            

His AC taurus@21.14(my 8th house)
My NN scorp@21.44(his 7th/my 2nd)
His Neptune scorp@23.45
His Pluto virgo@21.24(his 5th/my 12th)
My Moon virgo@18.35
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His NN aries@10.48(his 12th house)
My AC libra@7.05
My Pluto libra@11.05
My Neptune saggy@11.15 (his 7th/my 3rd house)
His Moon pisces@8.59 (his 11th/my 5th)
His Jupiter virgo@10.00
My Jupiter aries@15.05
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On top of this we have....
His Vertex libra@23.06
My Vertex ariea@21.23

Any thoughts or opinions on what these aspects mean?

posted June 09, 2015 03:50 PM            

My NN conj. his SN (and vice versa obv.)
My IC conj. his DC (My MC conj. his ASC)
My NN conj. his ASC (My SN conj. his DC)

ASC's squared.

Orbs range from 3-6, not sure if that's too wide..

posted June 09, 2015 04:04 PM            

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Originally posted by Voix_de_la_Mer:
I think I have what you are asking about:

My NN conj. his SN (and vice versa obv.)
My IC conj. his DC (My MC conj. his ASC)
My NN conj. his ASC (My SN conj. his DC)

ASC's squared.

Orbs range from 3-6, not sure if that's too wide..

Is this what you mean?

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posted June 09, 2015 04:35 PM            

His ASC conjunct my South node exactly
My MC conjunct his North node 1.5 degrees

With my best male friend:

posted June 09, 2015 05:36 PM            

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Originally posted by Gabby:

That's awesome synastry such fated aspects. Are you together with this person?

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Yes, for 3 and a half years. We also formed a band together.

posted June 10, 2015 03:04 AM            

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Originally posted by Aubyanne:
Indeed. My husband's ASC/DSC overlay my NODES. As does my mother's.

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I have this aspect as well, with my boyfriend. I think I've stated before ... this is IT, I think. I don't know. Maybe. It definitely never happened to me before. I've looked up the synastry with past boyfriends and it was not even close.

I've read that Inner Wheel article and I agree with the concept of a "shared path" -- it definitely feels like we are on the road together. It is truly strange how much I feel that I "recognize" him and how much neither of us want to screw it up, because if you simply looked at the facts it would just be two people being nice to each other when, given our individual histories, there was no real reason to be so other than the fact that this "fits."

Also, his NN is square my Sun, but the important axis connection on his end is that his NN is conjunct my IC and opposes my MC. So we have two of these: my NN on his Asc/Desc axis, and his NN on my MC/IC.

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Originally posted by Gabby:
I have this with someone....I'm trying to gather information on this!

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posted June 10, 2015 04:59 AM            

He has changed me in way more ways than one. It is a feeling of going somewhere, yes. A feeling that it hasn't started NOW, it has started centuries or even thousands of years ago and it will continue. I think it is not merely karmic, it is a soulmate sign. /we also have my BML on that IC-SN conjunction of ours/

posted June 10, 2015 09:16 AM            

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Originally posted by geminigal2805:
With my husband,
My Asc & NN on his IC (Desc & SN on his MC).This is the most exact aspect in our chart.
His Vertex & NN conjunct my Mars n IC(a bit wide).
My IC n Saturn (my R7) on his Desc & Pluto (his R8)
Vertex conjunct his Desc
Anti- vertex on his Asc n Sun
We are together since the day we met Gabby.

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That's so cool!!
I just realized my kids all have AC/DC is on my NN...interesting
They are not exact, but still this is interesting!!