This was for a client. I was looking at a potential relationship:
“There is definite affinity and attraction here as well as long term potential provided both parties want that and are willing and interested in overcoming impediment to being with another. Notice I said “another” not “each other”. This is because the problems that exist are in each individual, rather than something that comes up when the two of them relate…”
It occurred to me this is probably a best case scenario and I’ve never seen it in this light before. Am I making sense? She’s got challenges and he’s got challenges but they do not necessarily give each other challenges. There is support and stimulation between the charts but they do not burden each other.
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1 Minute Astrology: Synastry, Love And Relationship – How Do Others Affect You?
Astrology in real life
From 2007…
Hi Elsa, I’ve been noticing lately that when in discussions with friends their Sun sign brings out my house placement. For example my Moon is in Leo in the 4th house. When talking to my Leo sun sign friends we end up always talking about our early families: our parents , our grandparents, aunts and uncles and siblings. Same with Libra ruling my 6th House. With my Libra Sun sign friends we invariably end up talking about our health issues.
What do you make of this? Can others relate? Or is this so obvious and basic astrology?
Australia
Planets in Synastry: Astrological Patterns of Relationships (The Planet Series)
1 Minute Astrology – Synastry: What Happens When Love Natures Are Mismatched In Relationship?
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From 2007 – Synastry In Real Life: What if two people love each other but have love natures that are not compatible? Is this resolvable?
Relationships: Saturn, Structure And Security
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
–Khalil Gibran
Saturn contacts in synastry are relationship glue, attachments that hold it together. They also show restriction and pressure, restriction to the energy of the planet they aspect and pressure to learn and mature. Sometimes pressure will mold things into a more mature form and other times it crushes or pushes away. In any case it brings serious attention to whatever it touches.
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A reader asks:
“In your style, do you feel composite charts are more, less or just as significant as synastry? I know that every astrologer has a different style & preference. Just wondering what your take on it is. Are they both different but hold just the same weight of importance?”
I think they are both significant but for different things. Synastry shows how two people interact. She feels thwarted by him. He feels supported by her. They butt heads all the time, or whatever.
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Open Question: Astrology and Relationship – Is Scorpio Compatible With Scorpio?
A reader asks:
This question has been racking my brains now for many weeks, you see, there is this wonderful and caring friend of mine. We seem to get along really well and both understand the things we as friends both need. We rarely disagree with each other and we have NEVER had a fight.
But I just wonder how that is possible because I am a Scorpio and she is also a Scorpio. I have heard that two Scorpios don’t get along at all and they just make disaster when they are with one another, is this true? Do Scorpio and Scorpio get along??
Yes Scorpio gets along with Scorpio because they understand each other. But as far as romantic relationship, while I have read that Scorpio frequently partner with each other, I have not seen it. This is a gross generality but I think Scorpio is cagey enough that they are more comfortable in close relationship with a non-Scorpio
In my experience, the Scorpio wants to be the Scorpio. Basically, they want to be the one holding these specific power cards, so while there is a definite respect for other member of the same sign, there is a tendency to maintain some distance. It’s like a turf thing!
This is not to say two Scorpios cannot get together and last a lifetime. I am sure there are plenty of examples out there but I have personally never seen a (long or longish term) Scorpio/Scorpio couple in my life and I think this is why.
Does a spider build a web to catch another spider? Er… no.
Anyone else got ideas?
Understanding Yourself In Relationship
“Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove, dance me to the end of love.”
–Leonard Cohen
Today Annalisa started a thread on the boards, When Did You Know Your Partner Was “The One”? Love At First Sight? I was thinking really hard about the answer to that question and realized it was truly exemplary of the reasons behind my blog on the first step in analyzing synastry, understanding each individual’s natal chart as a stand-alone.
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Analyzing Relationships: Synastry, The First Step
“Know thyself.”
–Ancient Greek Maxim
Synastry is the name given to the technique of chart comparison. You put one chart alongside another and compare how the charts interact, what interaspects the planets and angles make to each other and how they fall into each other’s house system. Examining the meaning behind each individual relationship of chart elements and their blended meanings gives the basis for understanding how these two individuals will interact and their impact on each other. But this is not the first step in synastry.
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Pluto In Hard Aspect to Saturn In Synastry
“They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.”
–Dorothy Parker
I was recently asked a question about Pluto aspecting Saturn in synastry, chart comparison. Since both are slower-moving outer planets I tend not to look to them as a primary focus. Their effects on each other are more generational. They move so slowly that a whole slew of people in that person’s age group would also share that aspect. What it does show would be the “generation gap.”
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You Down With OPP?? Other People’s Planets
Rufus T. Firefly: “Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.”
Chicolini: “I’ll tell you what I’ll do: I’ll take five and ten in Woolworth.”
–Duck Soup
Elsa has mentioned that the effect of other people’s planets aspecting your chart is like a permanent transit. This is an excellent concept to keep in mind when looking at they synastry between two people. It’s as though you’re looking at how the energy in the sky at the moment of their birth affects you, and how yours affects them.
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