Good piece – straight forward and to the point!

This made me look up our composite chart – Mars in Sag in 3rd. Makes sense to me since we drag our kids to every museum, take hikes to teach about nature, and generally encourage them to use every form of communication to learn about the world around them..Gosh, this stuff really works *amazed look*!

for some reason, Satori, while the composite station makes sense mathematically, and I get how you arrive there via map, I have a sticking-point with it on an intuitive level, almost as if it’s an artifical aspect.

This finding the mid-point, I don’t know. That MY Venus in Sagittarius, for example, meeting YOURS in Gemini makes OURS Libra – am I getting this right? – seems to me on a gut level, like I said, something almost made-up.

Not arguing, of course, just saying. Thanks for listening. Maybe I’d be better off making this a separate thread.

I’m with Bob here. I love looking at a synastry chart with the man who interests me, but a composite chart seems to me too much like a ‘noon’ natal chart – an artificial compromise.

But clearly people who have more experience may see it differently – and have examples of it working out (says my Libra Neptune/Jupiter!)

Mars in scorp in the 12th conj neptune & merc, sextile Pluto/MC and trine nodes.

As a couple: Mars in Libra.
Me: Mars in Leo
Him: Mars in Sagittarius

Wow that makes a lot of sense. I’m usually very decisive and he’s a bit more laid back. Together, we’re VERY VERY laid back and for some reason, it works. It’s never driven this double Aries crazy… ever.

Sagittarius Mars in the 4th house. Makes sense. Creating a comfortable home base is something we excel at. We moved together after knowing just for 6 months, I that may seem long for some fire couples, but we both have Virgo Rising, so that was a bold move. A dream appartment – for both of us – was available. Our taste for home decoration is uncanningly similar, and as I’ve noticed after reading Annalisa’s articles, very Sagittarian. We don’t argue about household chores – we may slack for a while, but we usually see it’s time to get something done about it the same time, and get them done.

I suppose that if/when having kids becomes the priority, we’ll be “efficient” on that front too.

Our composite has Mars in Virgo in the 12th (along with almost everything else). Which strikes me as ironic, as we’ve both got such significant Mercury vibe but our composite is packed in 12th house Virgo…how could it be hidden?

We do present a very rational, orderly front when we send in the Mars, though, and others definitely underestimate us on that front. If the two of us attack a problem together, we’re virtually never off base.

I didn’t know that the composite planets were calculated like this. I always thought the ASC was necessary for the composite, but it’s like a noon chart if you don’t have both people’s ASC. This is very interesting because my Leo Mars squares his Sadge Mars but the composite Mars is in Libra, so sometimes we act indecisively when making decisions together.