posted March 22, 2016 05:12 PM            

I would like to to know more about composite Ascendants. How do people view you as a couple? From your experience, would you say the rising sign describes that well? I know that we should also look to 1st house planets and aspects to Asc but for start, let's talk about Ascendant signs.

posted March 22, 2016 08:12 PM            

I can see why some people think sign placement doesn't matter in composite, I think the arguments are totally valid and have wondered myself but right now I'm of the mind that it matters. The degree at which the midpoint falls is energetically right in between the two personal planets, and the energetic midpoint is astrologically and symbolically in the sign which falls in the middle of the two. It's strange magic but it really seems to work.

My s.o. and I have Aquarius rising. It fits us I think... We are a very unconventional pair of people, definitely interested in social justice, and planning on establishing a unique off-grid community for weirdos to just be themselves :P Very Uranian, Aquarian, utopic.

posted March 23, 2016 12:22 AM            

For example, me and this guy have our composite ascendant in sag our chart ruler in the 9th house. We met in Music University and we still go to music school together and we both are strongly opinionated and we also have strong common beliefs. the ascendant is in sag and jupiter in leo in the 9th house. me and him also have strong 9th house/saggy personalities in both of our natals. people see us as wild and adventurous and enjoy being in large crowds with creative minded people.

posted March 23, 2016 12:28 AM            

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Originally posted by CapriciousCapricorn:
I don't have exact tob for all my married friends and their husbands unfortunately. But I do have one composite chart with exact times. They are a Libra Asc couple and I would think Libra should describe a perfect couple on the outside. A couple that you see and say 'ahhh they look so good together, they're so right for each other'. Well, not the case. They look all right together but nothing special. More like a functional Virgo Asc

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well where is the chart ruler? what aspects is it making? is it in the 6th house? maybe the ascendant is possibly in late virgo....sometimes the TOB can be a minute or two off possibly even more, my mother's birth time was totally off and that was back in 1957, my grandmother remembers everything she's got the best memory in the planet you'd be surprised lol

posted March 23, 2016 08:32 AM            

If I want to describe us as a couple, the first thing that jumps to my mind is that we are a good team.

I'm reluctant to use the word "karmic". But considering the way our lives are weaved together, and the events that occurred before and after we met, it seems that the word "karmic" describes our relationship well.

posted March 23, 2016 12:30 PM            

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Originally posted by Ceridwen:
I`ve been one of those saying that composite signs don`t matter, for the reason they highlight aspects and configurations. But just lately I was wondering even about natal midpoints, I would treat them as an axis though, however, it IS obvious how there is a lumping of midpoints happening on certain areas in many charts. I wouldn`t think it matters a major great deal, but enough to keep an eye on. After all if someone else has a planet in THAT sign and degree they activate the midpoint for us, and they certainly bring the sign background, unless we want to do away with signbackgrounds totally.

I do think the Aquarius-ASC fits Mr Sag and me very well. But it probably has to be seen in context with the chartruler which is Uranus in Scorpio in 9th house, conjunct the MC and being the boomerang-point of a boomerang Yod of Neptune-Mercury-Sappho sextle Pluto, quinkunx Eros-Priapus on the IC in Taurus.

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Yeah that midpoint lumping in certain signs is difficult to ignore, and I see it again and again in natal charts, often a concentration on three or four signs, and others conspicuously totally absent. It seems to describe something about the natives, this focus on certain signs with the midpoints. Maybe not major--but maybe so? Transits through those signs/cascading midpoints will be particularly meaningful and the energy of those sign backgrounds is definitely going to be at play in the activation of the midpoints through transits/other people/etc... unless, as you say, we do away with sign backgrounds altogether but I've seen enough evidence of the veracity of signs to hold onto them Although... personally... my background and focus has been much more on aspects for most of my astrological learning and much less focused on signs, and there are good reasons for that I guess. They're really useful and telling though, there's no doubt about that.

posted March 23, 2016 12:44 PM              

I agree with you I notice in my chart I have those lumping midpoints even in a close area, so transits will REALLY hit there, and so do progressions and directions.

Like this area here:

Moon/Mars 11.08 Cap
Moon/ASC 12.03 Cap
Moon/Neptune 13.31 Cap
Moon/Node 13.38 Cap

and then

Mars/Jupiter 23.11 Cap
Jupiter/ASC 24.06 Cap
Jupiter/Neptune 25.34 Cap
Jupiter/node 25.41 Cap
Moon/Venus 26.36 Cap

or this Sag area

Venus/Neptune 23.02 Sag
Jpuiter/MC 23.05 Sag
Venus/Node 23.08 Sag
Moon/Uranus 24.13 Sag

posted March 23, 2016 01:19 PM            

We are both used to Pluto energy. I am Scorpio ASC and he has Pluto in the 1st house.

We are rather intense, charismatic and compelling even. We also empower each other and have a tremendous impact on each other.

posted March 23, 2016 05:39 PM            

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Originally posted by angel4845:
well where is the chart ruler? what aspects is it making? is it in the 6th house? maybe the ascendant is possibly in late virgo....sometimes the TOB can be a minute or two off possibly even more, my mother's birth time was totally off and that was back in 1957, my grandmother remembers everything she's got the best memory in the planet you'd be surprised lol

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posted March 23, 2016 05:57 PM            

Pisces - weird couple, total mismatch but really into each other..and drugs

Taurus - couple that likes eating out, with sophisticated tastes

Libra - fake, show-off couple. Perfect on the outside with lots of problems behind closed doors

Gemini - chatty couple that never gets old. Always fresh and lively, doesn't get stuck in the rut.

Scorpio - couple that can't get their hands off each other, literally: either excessive PDAs OR physically abusive

posted March 24, 2016 12:45 PM            

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Originally posted by thegrinning_cat:
Scorpio ASC conjunct Mars and Neptune

You could call it "Fatal Attraction".....in the best and the worst sense.

Our relationship is a secret and it's obsessive....the few who know about it are divided between seeing it as deeply uncanny or immensely romantic.

For me, the ASC describes the rhythm of a whole being, not just the way it is perceived from the outside.
My ASC is Capricorn and although my Gemini Moon flashes me up and down - there is a steady need for grounding that got me out of many complicated situations.

It's like my pace through life.

So I would agree that the Composite ASC must have a relevance

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