posted April 09, 2006 11:51 PM              

I bought Robert Hand's planets in composite recently and it's a really good read (although if you have used astro's astro*click partner, you'll recognize most of the interpretations).

Most composite interpretations seem to agree on:

- Venus/Mars as helper aspects to spice things up
- soft Venus/Uranus aspects encourage thinking outside the box and keeping things 'fresh'
- Venus/Jupiter aspects make love "happier" and induce mutual forgiveness
- Moon (hard aspect to) Venus get people together in the beginning
- Venus/Pluto adds depth and makes the relationship irresistable or "major"
- personal planets to Jupiter add a positive outlook
- Venus/Saturn plays an important role in attraction, most can't agree on specifics of this
- Mercury/Jupiter makes more rationalization that leads to solutions to a problem; works even better along with sun/mercury
- Sun/Mercury helps relationship problems be settled by talking instead of fighting
- At least a third of both harmonious and inharmonius aspects to keep the relationship alive and give a sense of fulfillment
- Sun and Moon/Saturn aspects tend to indicate marriage partner

posted April 10, 2006 07:02 PM              

- In real life, I have venus conjunct saturn in composite. The book from John Townley said that "...you will find that it will be difficult to get what you want in this relationship, especially the short run." I find that it is true. I have been waiting for 3 years to turn friendship into romantic relationship. So tired, anyway. "Important role in attraction"? Does the book say what role it plays?
- I agree with sun/mercury.
- We have moon trine saturn. I am quite happy if it indicate marriage partner Hope that it is true.

Do you use ASC midpoint method?

Have anyone here ever use Davidson method? Can we use the same interpretation for the aspects?

I found out that Davidson chart can forecast your relationship. I use solar arc method.

posted April 17, 2006 10:09 PM              

jkxx -

Thank you for that consolidated version, very nice.

posted April 18, 2006 02:05 AM              

Saturn represents authorities in astrology. A prominent saturn in a composite can give both individuals
this power of "authority" in a personal manner if they are willing to make the effort. This is only half-baked guesswork though
since I haven't had experience to prove or disprove it. Anyway, if true, it could be attractive if both are mature
enough to realize their potential and then take pleasure in actually doing it in reality.

Selena -

Rob Hand tends to use astro's orbs in most cases, check them out at astro.com (forget where the exact table is).

Personally I agree with Tim that you should give wider orbs to the disharmonious aspects and tighter ones to the harmonious
ones. Also check out my post about orb attenuation since that's not linear either. Another point to make is that aspect
powers are not static or evenly distributed in a chart. Said another way, that means that a square off by 4 degrees
in one chart will not be like an identical square (orb-wise) in another chart.

AJ -

posted April 21, 2006 12:02 AM              

Come to think of it, that same Opp might have a similar effect in Synastry... (my darn Neptune/Venus Aspects)...

posted April 25, 2006 02:55 PM              

My boyfriend and I (been together for 5+ yrs now) have a stellium in the 4th house: Sun, Mercury, Uranus, and Venus, all in Scorpio in our composite chart. I think that this makes us intense and very focused on our home/inner lives (we both also have 4th house suns natally too). I have read that a lot of 4th house focus in a composite chart works very well for marriage.

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`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll

posted May 14, 2006 01:04 AM              

Those are amazing energies in that Composite! That particular Stellium in the 4th, and both having Natal 4th House Moons, wow ... I'm a beiever!