Relationship Report for John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Interpretation text by Henry Seltzer
Copyright 1999 - 2006 AstroGraph Software

Contents

Introduction
Chart Patterns
Important Features
Angular Planets
Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features
Other Natal Planets
Other Aspects

Introduction

The Relationship Report for two individuals applies to any type of relationship. It focuses on the relationship itself, rather than on the individuals who make it up. First a composite chart (mid-point chart) is created. The composite chart represents the fusion of energy that two people create when they come together in relationship. It is a third being. Like a child, it inherits qualities of both parents, though it has a life all its own and exists independently of either of them. The following interpretations should be regarded as being for the relationship itself, taken as an independent entity.

In the following report, each planetary placement and aspect is examined to reveal the basic qualities of your relationship, with the most important factors described first. Please keep in mind that these descriptions are not meant to put limitations on the relationship, but merely to describe its inherent tendencies. Challenging aspects can become the greatest strength of a relationship if you can both learn how to successfully navigate those issues, with good communication between you playing a vital role. For definitions of astrological terms, please refer to the glossary at the end of this report.

Chart Patterns

Grand Trine

You have a Grand Trine in your chart. When three or more of your planets form a Grand Trine with each other, you will have an exceptional area of talent represented by the element in the trine, either Fire, Earth, Air or Water (usually these planets are in just one element). You will display a marked self-sufficiency and also will have good success in your endeavors in this area of life. You must also beware, however, of being lazy or complacent.

Grand Cross

You have a Grand Cross in your chart. At least four planets in your chart form a Grand Cross, in square with one another. Each planet in the pattern therefore becomes the focus of a 'T-Square'. With this pattern you have unusual determination and force of will. You will almost invariably suffer great trials in your life, and these trials will build your character. You will be able to rise above your circumstances to exceptional achievement in the areas represented by the four corners of the cross.

T-Square, focal planet Sun

You have a T-Square in your chart. With a this planetary aspect pattern, in which three planets or conjunctions are in square with one another, you have a high degree of motivation and drive. Your energies are most easily and habitually expressed by the energy of the focal point, the middle of the T-Square. You may also compensate for overdoing in the area of life represented by the focal point, by leaning toward the empty pattern element opposite the focal point, seeking to balance your activity. The lesson of this planetary aspect pattern is in learning to use your considerable energy wisely in the pursuit of your true goals. There is great tension represented by the focal planet or planets in your chart, where conflicting parts of your personality attain their focus and peak of energy, and you may observe compulsive behavior in the area of life represented here.

The placement of the composite Sun defines the core identity of your relationship, and the place where it finds its greatest vitality. It gives you a sense of the predominant flavor of the relationship.

The Composite Sun in the Twelfth House indicates a somewhat eccentric pairing that doesn't quite find its home in the real world. Perhaps you two don't have a lot in common, or differ in your opinions about lifestyle, goals or presentation. Or you may simply find your shared resting-place in otherworldly planes. In a romantic relationship, you may prefer to hide out in your nest together rather than be seen around town with each other. There is spiritual component to your sharing, and a powerful sense of idealism between you and you may be poetically or musically inclined as a couple. With your high ideals, you may sacrifice yourselves for a higher cause. As a partnership you tend to champion the underdog, and to remove yourselves from mundane affairs, preferring the quiet of a den or study to the noise of the street. You may concentrate on a shared fantasy rather than practical concerns. You benefit when you take your sense of idealism out into the open, making a stronger connection with the world around you and contributing to the betterment of society.

With the composite Sun in Sagittarius, this relationship centers on the principals of freedom, expansion and exploration. You almost always know where you stand with each other, and those around you know where they do, too. Regardless of how you operate on your own, this relationship will bring out your direct, good-natured and optimistic side. In a romantic relationship, you two are likely to enjoy adventure, sports and travel, perhaps gambling and risk-taking. You may find you spend a lot of your shared time in nature, and easily tap into an enthusiasm that can be contagious to those around you. You are high minded as a couple while remaining fun-loving and full of laughter, even at your own expense. As a partnership you go for the adventure of life and foster a sense of honesty and truthfulness with each other. The world is your playground; mentally, physically and emotionally. At the highest level, this relationship is concerned with understanding and joy in the service of high ideals for the benefit of mankind.

T-Square, focal planet Mars

You have a T-Square in your chart. With a this planetary aspect pattern, in which three planets or conjunctions are in square with one another, you have a high degree of motivation and drive. Your energies are most easily and habitually expressed by the energy of the focal point, the middle of the T-Square. You may also compensate for overdoing in the area of life represented by the focal point, by leaning toward the empty pattern element opposite the focal point, seeking to balance your activity. The lesson of this planetary aspect pattern is in learning to use your considerable energy wisely in the pursuit of your true goals. There is great tension represented by the focal planet or planets in your chart, where conflicting parts of your personality attain their focus and peak of energy, and you may observe compulsive behavior in the area of life represented here.

The placement of Mars in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared activity in pursuit of partnership goals, and where ego needs may be identified.

Mars in the Ninth House (or sign) brings a friendly and optimistic quality to the energy of this relationship, inspiring a spontaneous and impulsive drive for results. You tend to work well and joyfully together, with competition and jealousy at a minimum, although you are sometimes scattered in the application of your joint energies, and are perhaps best suited as a partnership in focusing on the big picture, and delegating the details. You are likely to explore sports or perhaps gambling when with each other. You tend to lead physically active lives together, and may find that the perfect day would be an outing in nature such as a hike rather than anything fancy. You two are idealistic, outspoken and honest with your opinions. You also have a synergistic propensity for growth, which makes this an ideal placement for joint learning and development, or for a student-teacher relationship. While your mutual perspective on the big picture comes easily, you benefit when you slow down, pay attention to details and concentrate your energies.

Composite Mars in Virgo (or the sixth house) brings out a kind energy with a strong, shared drive for work and service. Together, you possess a tremendous desire to be helpful to others, and make a practical and hardworking duo with an ability to hit the nail on the head. You may need to work through getting into conflicts over trifles. In a romantic context, there may be a tendency for unsynchronized timing to arise between you, such when one wants to be served by the other unequally, but these difficulties can yield to a well-developed patience and a sense of humor. In your relationship, fulfillment may come when you take turns serving each other. Much awaits you in this relationship as together you get over the hurdles and set your exacting sights on wider vistas. You benefit when you learn to see the forest as well as the trees, and to apply your tremendous efforts in ever broader ways.

T-Square, focal planet Saturn

You have a T-Square in your chart. With a this planetary aspect pattern, in which three planets or conjunctions are in square with one another, you have a high degree of motivation and drive. Your energies are most easily and habitually expressed by the energy of the focal point, the middle of the T-Square. You may also compensate for overdoing in the area of life represented by the focal point, by leaning toward the empty pattern element opposite the focal point, seeking to balance your activity. The lesson of this planetary aspect pattern is in learning to use your considerable energy wisely in the pursuit of your true goals. There is great tension represented by the focal planet or planets in your chart, where conflicting parts of your personality attain their focus and peak of energy, and you may observe compulsive behavior in the area of life represented here.

Saturn in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared experience where you will encounter limitations and build long-lasting success through trials of accomplishment.

Saturn in the Third House (or sign) brings out in this relationship a deepening and concentrating of your mental powers and your facility with issues of speech and communication. You may jointly feel a sense of limitation in this area. The success of your connection may well depend on how much focus you can muster for your shared communication systems. In a romantic context, you can trigger, and help heal each other, around subconscious fears of intellectual inadequacy and patterns of isolation and loneliness. You benefit when you work to develop your capacity to listen deeply and intently to each other, and to hold space for each other when the situation calls for it. Don't be afraid to write things down. These skills bring increased intimacy to your companionship and shrewdness to your business ventures. As a partnership, you may become adaptable to a variety of roles and professions, or long hours of concentration may produce brilliant scholarly co-creations. Your shared lesson is to learn faith in your mental powers and to cultivate a positive attitude regarding your capacity for mutual understanding.

Composite Saturn in Pisces (or the twelfth house) makes for an odd match, bringing a blockage or a concentration of energy to a power that is as vast and diffuse as the ocean itself. There may be a strong sense of hidden emotional currents between you that will bear further exploration in order to bring them to more conscious awareness. You also may find that you possess a joint focus on the mystical side of life. In a romantic relationship, you may trigger in each other, or help elucidate in each other, the feeling that life is too hard, or that it is beyond your conscious control. You two can be moody and introspective together, or simultaneously compassionate and sympathetic to each other's problems, and to the problems of those who cross your path. In the context of this relationship, you possess in concentrated form the urge for spiritual evolution that is present in all of us, and which requires detachment from the personal self in the quest for mystic union with all mankind. You seek stability in unusual ways with this placement, through the mastery of detaching from a need to rely on convention. You might to watch for a shared tendency to lapse into resignation or conversely, to try too hard to achieve control. Your true path of your partnership lies in a journey toward mystical transcendence rather than in the more mundane life of worldly events.

T-Square, focal planet Chiron

You have a T-Square in your chart. With a this planetary aspect pattern, in which three planets or conjunctions are in square with one another, you have a high degree of motivation and drive. Your energies are most easily and habitually expressed by the energy of the focal point, the middle of the T-Square. You may also compensate for overdoing in the area of life represented by the focal point, by leaning toward the empty pattern element opposite the focal point, seeking to balance your activity. The lesson of this planetary aspect pattern is in learning to use your considerable energy wisely in the pursuit of your true goals. There is great tension represented by the focal planet or planets in your chart, where conflicting parts of your personality attain their focus and peak of energy, and you may observe compulsive behavior in the area of life represented here.

Chiron in the Sixth House (or sign) indicates a relationship that provides an opportunity for you both to face and to heal deeply held wounds regarding finding more efficient ways to serve self and others. In this relationship, you two may find you are more or less compulsively drawn to the issues of organization, and personal sickness and health, as well as service to other people. You may experience some degree of suffering through ill-health, either real or imagined, or through over-doing for each other and those around you in some kind of a service role. You may experience painful realizations around the impossibility of perfection in this relationship, as you suddenly find yourself unable to stop obsessing about the perfect house, or body. These issues may stem from early childhood relationships, where an authority figure put you in a position of servitude against your will, or challenged you in your development of feelings of self-worth. As a result, the issue of making yourself available to others may have become both a habit and a source of painful memories in your adult life. On the other hand, these issues may operate more at the level of the fantasy and the imagination. It is important to use the circumstances of this relationship to get as conscious as possible, and to discover what actual events may have been essential to forming the painful constellations within your inner life. As long as these issues remain locked away in your unconscious, they will continue to toxify your healthy self-image, backfiring on you when you least expect it, and possibly leading to actual ill-health. As you become more conscious of the old patterns this relationship is activating, you can begin to heal and eventually be of true service to others, operating from a place of joy and well-being rather than from a place of resentment and frustration. As you two become more able to nourish yourselves with what you actually need, you will begin to truly help others as well.

Composite Chiron in Gemini (or the Third House) indicates a relationship that provides an opportunity for you both to face and heal deeply held wounds regarding the development of the intellect and the communication of one's ideas with others. With this placement you may both feel an almost compulsive curiosity regarding other people. You are likely to share a strong desire to communicate and to explore your world intellectually, but you may feel a barrier that separates you from each other and those around you at the same time. These feelings of being blocked in your ability to communicate can even manifest physically in the form of a very obvious breakdown in your communication. Though these problems may seem almost physical, the physical and the mental are so intimately related it can be hard to say. If there is a psychological reason behind difficulties in your communication, it is likely to be found in your childhood relationships, when it was quite important to communicate with your peers. Perhaps there was some group that you felt cut off from in the casual cruelty of that era, or perhaps you felt that you were not fully accepted by important siblings. In your efforts to gain acceptance and to get through to each other and those around you, you may overcompensate by being competitive or by desiring recognition for the extent of your knowledge. Whatever the nature of the childhood trauma that continues to give you difficulties in this adult relationship, it is important to try to understand and relate well to your earlier selves first. If you can learn to love and accept who you were then, as well as who you are today, you will come a long way toward full participation in your communication with others. In your quest for wholeness it is quite possible that together, you two will be drawn to helping others to communicate better as well.

Important Features

Composite Neptune in Virgo (17° Vir 33' 10") Composite Neptune in the Ninth House

Neptune in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared experience where you will encounter idealization and nebulous spiritual feelings that will lead you to self-discovery.

Neptune in the Ninth House (or sign) brings an impressionable, idealistic and highly intuitive quality to your relationship. As a partnership, you two are likely to be inclined to the mystical, and high minded, perhaps seeing life in terms of the poetic rather than the practical. You have a natural bent for philosophical discourse or perhaps teaching together, but you may need to guard against over-idealization. You are likely to share a belief in the unknown, and to have a great desire to explore, travel and experiment with new ways of doing things. In close interpersonal relationship, you can always enjoy the extra romantic edge that comes along with your shared adventuring. Together you may have an urge to get away from it all on a regular basis, and may be attracted to spiritual studies, or psychedelics and the like to achieve transcendent states. You benefit when you are careful not to get too carried away with your ideas, and when you find ways to ground your flights of fancy into concrete realities.

Composite Neptune in Virgo (or the sixth house) implies that there is apt to be both idealism and also confusion surrounding concepts of service and day-to-day work between you and highlights the distinction in your relationship between freely and reluctantly giving. This placement brings out a natural desire for you to serve each other, and to do so in a special way, which may originate in either a true inspiration of service to each other, or else from undercurrents of an unconscious motivation that borders on martyrdom. The trick is to make sure that your desire to help comes from a clear place inside you and does not have resentment, resignation or self-pity tied up with it. If you catch yourself complaining either inside your own your head or in conversations, it benefits you to shift this dynamic. Getting clear within your own mind is more than half the battle, and then you can face your partner more whole. Together, you may also share a talent in the healing professions, especially if this Neptune is powerfully aspected. You may need to be careful that whatever work you do together does not become frustrating or dissatisfying, and to heed these signs that it is time to stop the downward spiral and find a new way to relate. The more you both focus your concepts of service beyond the personal to the societal, the more satisfaction and clarity you will likely encounter as you work through these issues with each other.

Composite Jupiter in Cancer (17° Can 11' 36"R) Composite Jupiter in the Seventh House Angular planet - conjunct Descendant

Jupiter in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared experience where you will find mutual good fortune and faith in positive outcomes.

Jupiter in the Seventh House (or sign) emphasizes the refined and idealistic aspects of your relationship. You two tend to experience the relationship itself as the true source of your shared happiness and this placement is one of the very best for romantic relationships. Together, you work well with other people, and may become known for your fairness. You each grow when you engage in these kinds of activities. Together you are the type of partnership to relish championing both sides of a dispute and making sure that the underdog has his say. Your relationship also grows through exploring art and beauty wherever you find it. Ina romantic relationship, you may find enjoyment everywhere together. You benefit when you develop your shared capacity to stop and smell the flowers and follow your energy to serve each other and the relationship. Rather than pursuing the socially derived mandate to steam ahead, allow your focus to be on simply getting your boat down the river.

Composite Jupiter in Cancer (or the fourth house) magnifies the loving, kind and caring qualities of your relationship. Your connection with each other is likely to be friendly and sociable, generous and high-minded. You two have an instinct for nurturing others as well as yourselves, and find enjoyment, opportunity and growth in this type of tribal sharing. You share an inherent spirituality, which is thus displayed not in philosophy, but in acts of love and generous giving of yourself. You work well in partnership with the public, and are likely to be popular within your shared circle, and also to attract material rewards without seeming to try for them. You share a natural sense of security. You bring out the best part of each other's conditioning and relationship to the past. You may find a sense of contentment in simple chores. This relationship will help to expand the consciousness of each of you, and facilitates your shared exploration of the mystical and the marvelous side of life.

Composite Moon in Capricorn (7° Cap 20' 16") Composite Moon in the Twelfth House Angular planet - conjunct Ascendant

The placement of the composite Moon defines the core emotional focus of your relationship. It indicates the most sensitive area between you.

The composite Moon in the Twelfth House symbolizes a relationship with an emotional atmosphere that is very complex and mysterious. There may be unconscious motivations for one or both of you that you are not fully aware of, and your feelings may be equally hard to define, moment by moment. In a romantic context, it can become difficult to establish a solid sense of emotional bond. This connection may tend to bring up the unconscious parts of both of you, ripping off the scabs of long stored-up wounds and stirring you deep inside. And when you mix this complicated blending with sex, strange and obsessive patterns can result. It is possible that you will find yourselves in a swirl of doubts, anxieties, fears, worries, and other stressful emotions. You may feel the need to retreat from the world and sort things out from time to time. It is very important first and foremost that you be true to yourselves, and that you strive to view your inner process as one of movement toward greater spiritual understanding of yourselves as well as your relationship.

The composite Moon in Capricorn symbolizes a relationship with a serious and practical cast, and with great steadiness and staying power. Your relationship breeds terrific self-control and determination. You are likely to be committed to the emotional bond between you. You may need to explore your feelings together, but this placement indicates that it will be a fruitful exercise. Together you have the ability and the inclination to get to the core of your emotional process. With this placement also, you may find that you jointly need a certain amount of isolation from other people for shared alone time, which provides a sense of emotional security for you. As you two work through subconscious fears with each other you come to a truer understanding of yourselves and those around you in a way that brings enlightenment to all the situations you encounter. You may share an inclination toward the ambitious and acquisitive. You respond well to social motivations, so that there can be something of a power complex that arises when the two of you come together to achieve your aims, making for a particularly strong impact in the business world. Whether you two meet in the bedroom or the boardroom, your mission is to transform selfish motives into shared values for improving the structure of society itself. And it may help to remember that lightness and play can actually enhance the quality of long-term endurance that this placement brings.

Angular Planets

Composite Mercury in Capricorn (8° Cap 13' 29") Composite Mercury in the Twelfth House Angular planet - conjunct Ascendant

Mercury in the composite chart reveals the quality of the communication process in your relationship, and an area of your shared experience where intellectual compatibility is to be found.

With composite Mercury in the Twelfth House you have a relationship with an ability to talk about your emotions and mystical subject matter. You enjoy discussions with your partner, and these are likely to center on your feelings and the psychic dimensions of your inner reality. Since you have an inclination to go deep with each other, you may prefer to discuss matters between the two of you rather than with others around. You may even have a tendency to escape together into a secret world all unto yourselves. In a romantic partnership, your ease in discussing deep and heartfelt subjects gives you an edge on getting along together. You have a high level of effective non-verbal communication with each other, and tend to rely on what your partner is really feeling at any given moment in spite of what they are saying. It is important to be as honest as possible with each other, since the potential is there for imagining the response you are looking for or even for actual manipulation of the situation. You have a mutual fascination with themes of a mystical or numinous nature, with a foot in each world, inner and outer, and as a partnership may express yourselves poetically when you do communicate to others. You have an important spiritual basis together that serves you well in the conflicts and contrasts that you encounter in dealing with the more mundane aspects of reality.

Composite Mercury in Capricorn brings out a serious, practical and detached mentality in your relationship. You have good joint concentration and attention to detail, and tend to be determined and careful in your communication with each other and with those around you. As a partnership when talking with others, or when in discussion between yourselves, you tend to boil things down and choose the fewest words possible. This is a real gift in a world of endless words as long as you take care to elaborate once in a while when more words are necessary. Your thought process with each other can also tend to get stuck in a rut at times, and benefits from a regular updating and reality checks. Your relationship benefits when you lift your shared vision to the highest level by cultivating idealism and a sense of the possible.

Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features

Capricorn Rising

The composite Rising Sign is the image that this partnership presents to others and characterizes the nature of the relationship.

Capricorn rising relationships have an ambitious and practical orientation, with an excellent sense of social responsibility. Together, you tend to be aware than most partnerships of social mores, almost to the point of over-concern. Your relationship may appear controlling to other people, and your capacity to persist at achieving your goals is unmatchable. As dogged as you two may be in this relationship, you will often remain careful to do what others expect of you. Your natural caution allows the two of you to advance slowly and steadily to the top. Capricorn represents the accomplishments of the material world: prestige, honor and public success. Something about the relationship itself may put you under enormous pressure to perform, and in it, you may feel responsible for those around you. Your aloofness may also function as a way to insulate you from close contact with others. When your relationship is at its best, you find yourselves striving for others' welfare, as well as your own, and allowing the love you feel inside each of you to express itself in visible acts of kindness.

Composite Jupiter in strong opposition (within 2.1 degrees) with Ascendant

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. This aspect between Composite Jupiter and Ascendant signifies an optimistic and growth oriented relationship, with high ideals and good vitality. As a partnership, you are spiritually motivated, and possess a quiet strength which is invariably helpful to others and which takes you far in the world. This is an excellent aspect for success especially in a business relationship, or in a romantic relationship or friendship that has an additional career orientation. As a partnership, you might only have to guard against being overly optimistic at times, for your enthusiasm for life takes you far. Honors and material success accompany your union. You are attracted to higher learning, and the fine arts, and you are courageous in your approach to shared goals. You do not necessarily reach out to others, being content with your own society, although you will undoubtedly garner respect for your presence as a pair, and together you make loyal friends and few enemies. You are possessed of similar outlooks, and are likely to share a system of belief. Your philosophical common ground may prove to be a mainstay of your connection with each other.

Composite Neptune in trine (within 2.5 degrees) with Ascendant

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between Composite Neptune and Ascendant signifies a highly sensitive, visionary and creative relationship. Your partnership may well be founded on principles of an artistic or musical nature, and you are likely to be sensitive to each other to an extraordinary degree. You are very sympathetic to the needs of your partner. Together you possess an ethereal quality. In your relationship you may have problems in feeling free to assert yourself so that you evade decisions, or practice other forms of escapism. There could also be issues that come up within the relationship of illusion or even outright deception. Together, you feel a marked remoteness from ordinary reality that may find its natural outlet in poetic or musical expression. Your powerful connection with the spiritual dimension of reality is a wonderful ideal to adhere to and takes you far along your intended path, especially when you can manage to achieve a balance with the practicalities of ordinary life.

Composite Moon in weak conjunction (within 7.7 degrees) with Ascendant

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction between the Composite Moon and Ascendant signifies a nurturing and protective relationship. As a partnership you are subtle in your actions, rather than direct, and are likely to reflect the moods of those around you. You have possibly come together around issues of security and your home and family, for these are important to both of you. Others see you very clearly, and the connection between you, since when you are together you show your emotions readily. You also may experience some emotional ups and downs in your connection with each other, and one or both of you alternately could tend to be passive, preferring to immerse yourself in your feelings, while the other takes the lead in being cheery. Whether you find yourselves a romantic relationship or a friendship, you tend to act from an almost instinctual basis, and are truly protective of one another. Since you feel so cared for, there is a tendency for individuality and consciousness to get lost in the shuffle, and you benefit from shedding the light of conscious reason on your habitual patterns, and working toward greater focus on your individual goals.

Composite Mercury in weak conjunction (within 6.8 degrees) with Ascendant

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction between Composite Mercury and Ascendant signifies a relationship that is intellectually sharing. Your logical abilities as a team are excellent. As a partnership you highly value mental pursuits and clear messages, and you are rather fond of talking with each other. Your clear communication is a tremendous asset, especially in any form of romantic interaction, since it allows you to keep current with one another. As a partnership, you are quick-witted and glib, and you may turn to writing or public speaking as a way to share your enthusiasm for your ideas. You enjoy exchanging information with each other, and forging communicative bridges with others as well, although you may sometimes have trouble hearing opposing viewpoints to your own. Together you have your own way of looking at things, and you may inspire each other toward a truly visionary outlook.

Composite Uranus in weak trine (within 7.0 degrees) with Ascendant

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between Composite Uranus and Ascendant signifies an eclectic and exciting relationship. Within this relationship, you have a cosmic connection to a level of intuition far beyond the confines of the physical plane. This makes for an unusual and perhaps even eccentric partnership. Over time you need to decide what you want to get out of the relationship and adjust expectations to match what is actually available. In a business or friendship connection there will be plenty of good ideas floating around, and you will be constantly amused and challenged by the next horizon of what you are attempting to achieve together. However in a love relationship there will necessarily be some major adjustments that you will have to make. One of you may feel the need to pursue an individual path of growth that is totally independent from the other's input.

Composite Sun in strong square (within 1.1 degrees) with Mars

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect between composite Sun and Mars brings a rash quality to your relationship, and a creative tension. You may find that you are restless together, and that your individual tempers quicken. You may trigger each other so easily that you then act out impulsively, perhaps against your own better thinking. You will also likely find in yourselves a tendency toward argument based on a deep-seated need to be understood. On the other hand, your relationship possesses a forceful drive with the possibility of accomplishing great things. You two will never want for lack of excitement, and with each other you find inspiration to take risks you would not take on your own. It benefits you to learn to temper your strong physical drive together with calmness and discretion, and to develop creative outlets that make good use of your joint fire.

Composite Sun in semi-sextile (within 0.7 degrees) with Venus

The planetary energies attract each other, require effort, allow entry of new information. This aspect between composite Sun and Venus indicates affection and closeness between you with a potential clash of values. It is likely that you two bring distinctly different loves and tastes to your relationship. You are likely to experience each other with a fascination not unlike viewing an exotic creature up close for the first time. Here, what may be fascinating at first can get challenging later. Your affections for each other may be changeable, with periods of strong, passionate love followed by periods of discord, or unsettling indifference. As with all challenging aspects, the key is to develop patience and faith that the things that whither in one season will flourish again in the next. It can also be of help to create a communication system that allows you to gently address your differing needs in a way that they can be heard and responded to. You benefit when you learn to take turns with each other, to compromise and to experiment with weaving your differing ways into a wholly new and synergistic form.

Composite Sun in square (within 3.7 degrees) with Saturn Ruler of rising sign

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives a deepening and concentration, or a blockage, in the capacity for the relationship to express itself. You may find yourselves wondering from time to time, are we committed or not? This relationship tends to go through periods of low energy, when it seems to go nowhere, or when you just don't see each other much at all. Other times, you two can create one of the most ambitious teams around, and may actually leave some mark behind in the world. Look to the placement of the signs and houses involved as to how this ambition might materialize. When your relationship experiences a period of depression or dormancy, it benefits you to learn to let go and stay positive, trusting that it will pick up again when the time is right.

Composite Sun in square (within 5.3 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect between composite Sun and Neptune, your relationship has vision and creativity, with a high degree of sensitivity between you. You will find that your connection has an unworldly, ethereal side, a marked remoteness from the ordinary day to day. There could be issues of idealism or fantasy, perhaps even outright deception that you will mutually work through in the course of this partnership. In a romantic connection, your relationship may revolve around art, music or the healing modalities. You two have the propensity to provide an escape for each other, and you could make great drinking buddies. It benefits you to support each other's awakening rather than self-deceptive illusions. If you do, you may take advantage of the safe container this relationship provides to help each other to dive deeply into your emotional process, transforming fogginess into clarity, especially when you can form a sense of trust for the exchange of accurate and gently delivered feedback. If used wisely, the otherworldly energy of Neptune provides your relationship with a tremendous sensitivity and creativity that can manifest in both healing and artistic channels.

Composite Sun in opposition (within 4.3 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. With this aspect between your composite Sun and Chiron you have a relationship with a great degree of healing potential. You are likely to experience painful realizations through this partnership, and be able to heal important issues of your own as a result. Chiron is called "the wounded healer" because it represents the archetype of imperfection and loss which when integrated leads to compassion and understanding of your own and others' suffering. Its aspects, such as this one, crop up with great regularity in deep and profound connections such as marriage. There may be great difficulties that you will encounter with each other, but these same difficulties can lead to profound shifts in awareness. One or both of you is likely to have experienced pain and frustration related to your self-concept, perhaps through your relationship with your father or the same-sex parent. There could have been trauma in your early years concerning your parenting or parental protection may have been withdrawn too suddenly or misapplied, and this is the type of issue that you and your partner are striving to bring to conscious understanding in the context of this relationship. You may have suffered actual abuse in childhood or perhaps in later years such as in the period of adolescence, when you needed to make the transition to your own adulthood and may have been prevented from fully emerging into a more responsible and complete state due to external circumstances or your own lack or self-confidence. There will undoubtedly be painful situations to work through, but if you have patience and stay the course the results will also be entirely rewarding. You have the chance, through this partnership, by telling the truth at all times and staying available for your own feelings, to begin to integrate your past experiences, no matter how painful they may have been, and no matter how painful these feelings continue to be for you at present. Since you have come through the fires of difficulty you are likely as a partnership to be interested in the helping professions, and may eventually assist others, as well as yourselves, in reaching better levels of acceptance and integration of their dark places.

Composite Moon in strong conjunction (within 0.9 degrees) with Mercury

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction between composite Moon and Mercury brings a verbally expressive and affectionate quality to your relationship. You two have a gift for expression, both within the sanctuary of your private relationship and as a partnership in your dealings with the larger world. You share the capacity to deeply explore and express how you feel, which goes a long way toward creating mutual understanding, empathy and a sense of natural rapport. Your powerful thinking and fertile imagination lend a witty and entertaining twist to your joint expression, and you share a knack for putting your ideas into words. Your communication channel runs fluidly. You also may occasionally get lost in words, and miss the point of simple heart connection that requires no words. Sometimes silence between you speaks best of all. It may also be the case that at times between you thoughts and emotions will not share the stage, but one or the other will predominate. When thoughts take over emotions, emotional mishaps could occur and attempts to clear things up end by taking much longer than it took for the mishap to occur in the first place. When emotions take over thoughts, you may find yourself saying things with an uncharacteristic intensity that surprises you both, or you may also find yourselves trying to reform each other. The key here is to stay on top of difficulties each time they arise, and to be careful to take responsibility for your own issues. There is a creative tension to the verbal and emotional realities of your relationship that can be a force for powerful expression, as long as you can find necessary common ground in your shared desire for love, understanding and acceptance between you.

Composite Moon in strong trine (within 0.7 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect indicates a unique relationship with an energizing force, and a strong sense of intuition. Novelty and new horizons tend excite you two. Together, you enjoy meeting people and share an attractive enthusiasm. You may have a joint interest in studying occult realms of thought. You benefit from undergoing fundamental transformations of identity in your shared life, and are quick to take advantage of new opportunities. Together you are very original and individualistic and may have difficulties in settling down into any sort of regular routine. You can benefit from learning to balance your needs for security with the urge for freedom and experimentation.

Composite Moon in strong square (within 1.2 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect between composite Moon and the Midheaven, your relationship has a strong emotional basis with issues around the idea of a domestic or parenting focus. You are likely to have a strong emotional affect on each other, in friendship or a romantic connection. If the latter, you may have a shared vision of living together and starting a family, or there may be potential disagreements in this area. The Moon here indicates that the mothering and feminine side of each of you is a strong part of your relationship equation and that you have commonly held goals there. The sexual chemistry between you may not sizzle, but your union definitely percolates through your lives in many ways to enrich you both. This makes for a relationship with a. You will be prone to take care of each other through the course of time, and of others around you that you connect with as a partnership. You may work together to develop a vehicle for your caring and socially oriented values such as a plan to feed large groups of people. In any case you will be supportive of such values as may be in the process of emerging on the world scene.

Composite Saturn in strong trine (within 1.4 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between composite Saturn and Pluto brings a degree of forcefulness to your partnership, with issues of authority, power and control that are capable of great transformation over time. With this placement, you two may tend to share an ambivalent attitude about power, leading you to demonstrate a rebellious attitude toward an established external authority or the authority of one or the other of you. Or your relationship may become an authority unto itself, and together you two can tackle, and transform, just about anything that stands in your way. You make an unstoppable business team and are likely to be charismatic leaders together. In personal relationships, you may have to work through turning this immense force onto each other. You benefit when you learn to re-evaluate your shared urge for power and control, and to come to a deeper understanding of and more conscious and socially responsible use of your transformational powers.

Composite Saturn in strong square (within 0.7 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect in your composite chart you are likely to be engaged in a relationship in which there is difficulty and also great healing potential around issues of authority. It may be that one or both of you have had painful experiences as a child, when you were forced to submit to an arbitrary authority or limitation of some kind. Perhaps you had the experience of a bad father. The relationship with your father was damaged in some way; it was something you had to get away from, either from his overbearing nature or from his neediness and lack of presence. These wounds can manifest in adult life as an attachment and also great difficulty with authority. For example you may endlessly achieve positions of authority and then have second thoughts about it. As you continually work through whatever arises in your daily interactions with each other, these types of issues may come up for acceptance and eventual healing. Since the powerful associated emotions may lie below the level of your ordinary awareness, your relationship connection may help to bring them to consciousness, and eventually acceptance. As a partnership, you may also wind up working these issues with others. You may be the ones to re-work the structure of society itself in some way, or to become advisors or leaders in the social sphere, perhaps in connection with organizations devoted to new age healing techniques. You may feel the need to redeem yourselves and your families; to restructure what you have internalized from your heritage. A better level of integration is possible, producing a more self-assured and balanced personality, independent from parental influences or even of those of society.

Composite Venus in trine (within 3.0 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between composite Venus and Saturn brings a potential blockage to your relationship, as well as a deepening and a concentration of your powers. With this aspect, although you may notice you don't get what you want from each other, you are likely to have a strong sense of duty to the partnership, and to be very loyal with each other. You may feel as though you were working at cross-purposes at times. Especially in a romantic relationship, obstacles to do with distance, age, lack of availability or the like, may crop up on your joint path, making it difficult for you get to where you want to go with each other. Even in a business-oriented partnership, these types of issues may present problems and keep you from feeling as though you were entirely on the same page with each other. In the long run, or in a more business-oriented relationship, this aspect can provide a strong and steady structure that actually supports the manifestation of your shared dreams and desires. If you can work with the obstacles that may plague you at the outset, you will find this placement can eventually become your greatest asset, supporting the engine of your shared desires moving in a very specific direction.

Composite Mars in opposition (within 2.6 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. With this aspect between composite Mars and Saturn, your relationship has a responsible, centered and hard-working quality that also might be experienced as a blockage of activity. Together, you possess a strong desire for freedom of expression that does not easily find its realization. You may share a desire but become inhibited in the process of acting on it. You'll think of a great idea, and then share only half of it, or you'll know exactly what the job takes, but stumble in trying to demonstrate it. As frustrating and even despairing as this placement can be, when you can summon the strength of purpose to work through these difficulties you gain in strength and courage, and over time may gain a better foundation for action. It benefits you to be tolerant with the range of feelings that arise between you in this process, making room for shyness, stiffness, or a desire to control or lash out. As you support each other to cultivate both courage and compassion, you have the potential to overcome your fears of self-expression and come to a more loving understanding of yourselves and each other.

Other Natal Planets

Composite Venus in Scorpio (23° Sco 30' 01") Composite Venus in the Eleventh House

The placement of Venus in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared emotional focus and love and where mutual enjoyment and benefit lies.

Composite Venus in Scorpio indicates that in your relationship each of you has a deep affection for the other, with a propensity for doing whatever it takes to get the things you want. There are likely to be undercurrents of emotion and strong feelings of connection between you. The intensity of Scorpio gives the mild love energy of Venus the ride of her life. You are likely to be sensual in your simple affection for each other with love nature that is passionate and intense whether in bed or out of it, tending to make even casual contacts into something deeper. The transformation of Scorpio passion into a more spiritual and caring expression will be the challenge and the gift of your relationship. You may both grow and transform through the influence of this partnership. You benefit when you learn to change a shared drive to impose your will into a joint determination to create situations that benefit both of you as well as others in your milieu.

Composite Uranus in Taurus (8° Tau 02' 58") Composite Uranus in the Fifth House

Uranus in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared experience where you will encounter unusual and unexpected circumstances and where the relationship benefits from lack of structure.

Uranus in the Fifth House (or sign) brings an original quality to the relationship's creative expression in the world. It also brings out a determined, independent, impulsive nature in both of you, which may appear even in the very way you two came together. If romantic, you two may be unconventional in the way you express your sense of play and your sexuality. You can be very creative together, especially in the arts. Children are a source of great interest but you may have difficulties in giving them steady warmth and affection. You are likely to be able to support each other in the exploration and development of your individual talents. This placement supports innovation at the cost of stability, but stability may be overrated when things are this interesting. In any case, your relationship benefits from developing follow-through, focus and self-discipline in order to successfully complete what gets inspired at the start.

Composite Uranus in Taurus (or the second house) gives a relationship that is likely to be concerned about maintaining stability in what is almost guaranteed to be a changing environment. You may have shared possessions that you value at one point in your life, but this can change rather suddenly, and you may have to start over. Your shared income can also fluctuate. As a result of all this flux, you may find it easier to simply create your own set of values, or to experiment with alternative lifestyles. If yours is a working partnership, it probably values its autonomy and you may be motivated to start your own business. You two benefit from getting in touch with what you truly value, as opposed to what conventionality dictates. Then your efforts will allow new resources to evolve in your life and consciousness, which add to the greater good of society.

Composite Pluto in Cancer (27° Can 54' 29") Composite Pluto in the Seventh House

Pluto in the composite chart reveals the area of your shared experience where you will encounter your mutual drive for power and which will be transformative for the relationship.

Pluto in the Seventh House (or sign) gives an ongoing need and desire to actualize equality on all levels of your relationship, especially in the amount of giving and receiving. In this relationship, there is a calling to learn all about the nature of your partner's needs and expectations, and there may also be power issues to contend with as you begin to develop an understanding of when and when not to give to each other. This transformation toward balance may at first manifest as an unconscious acting out of traditional roles. As you begin to resist playing out old patterns with your partner, a powerful love/hate response may arise in either one of you. Getting to the point where your will becomes harmonized with your partner takes time, but eventually the two of you will develop the ability to at least partially begin to "act as one," as power struggles give way to a shared love and a natural respect. Gaining the courage to begin to confront these patterns becomes the challenge. You benefit when you allow time for shared reflection when your needs are not being met. Much self-knowledge may be generated through discussion once you can learn to really hear each other.

Composite Pluto in Cancer (or the fourth house) correlates to a couple that has a mutual desire to create a tightly structured reality through which to feel safe and secure. This shared desire for security may manifest as an obsession for a home environment that can be completely safe and secure, or controlled. It can also manifest as an intense desire to merge on an emotional and psychological level. Sometimes, other family members, such as parents, in particular, may challenge this security. You have unusually clear insight into your own unconscious motivations, as well as into the emotional depths of each other, partly because you may have suffered similar wounds in your early family life. There can be a tendency for one of you to express dictatorial behavior on the home front, though this struggle can be avoided through a deeper understanding of what is truly needed on an emotional level. Evolution occurs when each of you begins to accept responsibility for yourselves and to own your emotional dynamics without blaming the other. It benefits each of you to become emotionally secure within yourself. When you work to stay rooted in your spiritual awareness even as the impurities of old emotions arise, you make a powerful move away from codependence into self-reliance.

Composite N Node in Sagittarius (24° Sag 24' 45") Composite N Node in the Twelfth House

Lunar North Node in the Twelfth House (or sign). South Node in the sixth house or sign. This placement in a composite chart signifies that within this relationship you each have an emphasis on spiritual rather than worldly concerns. Although the practical matters of everyday life come easily to you, you do not find your true happiness together in the pursuit of mundane affairs, but seek constantly to expand your horizons mentally and spiritually to a larger and more inclusive context. This may be difficult, for the pull of everyday life is very strong in you, and in many ways it is what you do best. In the past, you may have made much of refining your abilities in the practical world, dealing mainly with issues of personal health or of the welfare of others in small but important ways. Now, in this context of this relationship, your focus gradually shifts to a higher plane of activity. The two of you find your purpose not so much in day-to-day routine, but in sacrificing yourself to a higher raison detre, to advancing beyond the material world, perhaps even manifesting a disregard for your own well being. By giving up personal ego-involvement in your actions, you are each learning how to relate to others around you with true compassion. You find yourself going deep within the wellsprings of your partnership to bring forth a renewed understanding of how to serve others, as you seek to become exemplars of a more spiritually based society,

Composite Lunar North Node in Sagittarius (or the ninth house). South Node in the third house or sign. This placement in a composite chart signifies that within this relationship each of you will likely focus on some aspect of higher mind activity, teaching or learning or perhaps travel that enhances your understanding of moral or ethical belief systems. You may have tended to scatter your energies in the past, as you concentrated on a variety of superficial connections within the everyday world. Although curiosity regarding details and enjoyment of a multiplicity of points of view comes naturally to you, you must now learn to see the forest instead of the trees. Now in the context of this relationship, your purpose seems to be to lift your attention toward a synthesis of higher consciousness. Together you will find great joy in pursuing the broader picture, whether in terms of educational perspectives or perhaps participation in cultures other than your own. One important emphasis in this partnership will be the pursuit of higher knowledge and a deeper understanding of the motivations of others that was meant by the phrase "to understand all is to forgive all." A true philosophy of compassion, for yourselves and for each other, is your goal.

Other Aspects

Composite Mercury in strong trine (within 0.2 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between composite Mercury and Uranus brings to your relationship an unusual communication style and mental acuteness, with a unique ability to grasp new concepts. As a partnership you enjoy the exploration of new ways of thinking and being, and are visionary in your shared outlook, intellectually straying far beyond conventional attitudes. You may need to tone down your wild excesses with a dose of practicality, but in general you exhibit a skill for innovation and a strong mental acuity that lends itself to clear and original expression, and work very effectively in the classroom and in the professional sector as well as with more personal connections. In the best of your productions, you can share your ideas with others in a way that inspires rather than overwhelms. You may also gravitate toward inspired realms of thought, finding that you go further together than you do alone. Whether your relationship is personal or professional in nature, others value your ability to get to the core of an issue and find workable solutions quickly. You often communicate in flashes of insight, and are able to see things from a holistic perspective. You benefit from bringing discipline and persistence to the practical realization of your shared visions, which ultimately serve both the relationship and the larger world that surrounds you.

Composite Mercury in strong square (within 0.4 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect between composite Mercury and the Midheaven, your relationship has a strong mental focus with the potential for heady conversation. You undoubtedly have a strong communication orientation in your relationship, and likely converse on many topics together. In a romantic relationship you may feel the need to balance your head with your heart. The excellent communication that you share will compensate for many difficulties, but a strong emotional basis must also an important component of your shared connection. As a team you have a terrific ability to reach out verbally to the world outside your partnership, either in spoken or written form, with a restless curiosity that touches on many subjects. You may enter into a joint writing project or encourage others to do the same. Leavening your wit and wisdom with an emotional depth and sharing it in that way with society around you gives you the best of both worlds.

Composite Venus in strong sextile (within 0.4 degrees) with Mars

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This aspect gives a warmly affectionate and lively relationship with a sense of self-assurance and the means to fulfill a strong, shared passion. Regardless of the kind of relationship you two share, this aspect indicates a classically high level of chemistry. There is likely to be a good balance between you of individual and shared goals. You may together posses a lively appreciation for the arts, especially singing and dancing, or other musical forms. As a partnership, you possess an innate kindness and demonstrate a love for your fellow beings on the planet that makes you well liked and well trusted by those around you.

Composite Jupiter in strong sextile (within 0.4 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This aspect between composite Jupiter and Neptune brings a highly imaginative and deeply spiritual quality to your relationship. You tend to bring out a friendly and unassuming energy in each other, and make a practice of kindness and consideration of others. You may find yourselves together naturally falling into the role of spiritual leaders in your larger community although you also prefer to do your work behind the scenes, not seeking personal glorification from your actions. You do what you do because it is helpful to others, and because it feels good to do it. As a partnership you are inclined to the mystical, seeing life in visionary and poetic terms rather than in the practical. When you enjoy your shared sense of imagination without letting it cloud your powers of judgment, you benefit as your relationship moves to a more practical and reality-based center.

Composite Mars in sextile (within 4.0 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. With this aspect between composite Mars and Pluto, your relationship has a passionate intensity. There is a powerful connection between you based around the concept of self-assertion, either yours or your partner's, and one reason that you have come together at this time is to heal this issue in your lives. This aspect also signals a tremendous drive for power and transformation of self, forged in the combined energies of your partnership. Acting together as a team, you may appear strong-willed, almost to the point of ruthlessness, with enormous energy and endurance at your disposal. In a romantic connection, your sexual magnetism and activity is likely to be strong, as well as the issues of power and control that may crop up from time to time between you. One or both of you may compensate for feelings of insecurity by being forceful, compulsive or even obsessive about achieving their will, leading to confrontation. These issues will come up in the course of this relationship for the ultimate purpose of working them out and eventual healing. It is of course quite helpful when you both stay as conscious as you can regarding the underlying dynamic of your reactions. In its more positive manifestation, your relationship can exhibit a dedication to higher ideals and a willingness to be a channel for healing yourselves and society. When you focus on moving away from feelings of insecurity, separateness and loneliness, toward a deep acceptance of the other's needs and opinions you generate wholeness and forgiveness, and a relationship that rests on a mutual foundation of self-worth.

Composite Mars in square (within 3.3 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect in your composite chart you are likely to be engaged in a relationship in which there is difficulty and also great healing potential with expressing anger, exerting personal will or standing up versus knuckling under to authority. It may be that one or both of you have had painful experiences, perhaps in your early childhood, with violence or potential violence on the part of someone close to you. If so, you may fear the power of your own anger, or seek to placate your opponent in situations where a direct confrontation is brewing only to subtly retaliate later on, the hallmark of a "passive-aggressive" attitude. As you continually work through whatever arises in your daily interactions with each other, these types of issues may come up for acceptance and eventual healing. Since the powerful emotions associated with such woundings hover below the level of consciousness it is often the case that your self-awareness around them truly begins to manifest only in your relationship connection. You may also be called upon as a partnership to exert a beneficial influence regarding these issues on others around you. When you become more conscious and accepting of these patterns in yourself, as you work through them in the course of this relationship, you will less and less need to act them out either suppressed with passivity or with bluster. A better level of integration is possible, producing a more self-assured and powerful personality.

Composite Uranus in inconjunct (within 0.5 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. This aspect between composite Uranus and the Midheaven brings to your relationship and its purposeful intention a sense of eccentricity and the unconventional. This relationship will be one that must go its own way, apart from the strictures of society or even whatever ideas that you each had before going into it. There may be some higher purpose that has brought you together, but it lies in wait for you to discover through time. In a romantic connection, you benefit when you do not seek to put any rules down for what you mean to each other. You will do better when you allow things to develop in their own way and give credit to your evolving mutual intuition of where the two of you are headed. Your joint ventures with each other carry a seed of going against the grain of consensus thinking.

Composite Pluto in semi-sextile (within 0.8 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies attract each other, require effort, allow entry of new information. With this aspect in your composite chart you are likely to be engaged in a relationship in which there is difficulty and also great healing potential around issues of power and control. There may also be compulsive behavior on the part of one or both partners that comes up for greater acceptance and eventual healing during the course of this relationship. As a result of your life experiences before coming together, one or both of you may have a tendency to plunge into the depths of despair or the heights of manic madness as a form of compensatory reaction to over-indulgence in one form or another of a compulsive desire nature, perhaps expressed in terms of sexuality or abuse of power. Potent healing abilities are ultimately indicated with this placement, but you must first work through some tough issues, and this relationship can be life changing in that regard. Of course the relationship will be an important testing ground where power and control issues emerge, and where a tremendous increase in consciousness around them may result, but that is only the first step. There is a lot of work that needs to be done, and the nature of this work is that a good deal of it must be done alone. However, the safety zone of a mutually agreed conscious relationship can be an invaluable asset in pursuing such rewards. There are great depths of passion within each one of you, likely the result of painful experiences from early childhood, and there is tremendous benefit to be gained when these experiences become better integrated. When you become more conscious of these patterns you have a huge capacity to heal yourself and even others in your circle. As a partnership you have a keen intuition for each other, and great power to transform not only yourselves and your relationship but the larger collective surrounding you as well.

Composite Moon in weak opposition (within 9.9 degrees) with Jupiter

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. This aspect between composite Moon and Jupiter gives your relationship an optimistic and emotionally nurturing quality. You tend to see the best in each other and in the ideas your share, serving as both cheerleaders for each other's process and teammates working toward a shared goal. On the other hand, Jupiter's enthusiasm could have you two signing up for things before you have blinked twice, and before you have had time to carefully think through the consequences of your decisions. It benefits this relationship to take everything more slowly than your knee-jerk reaction would dictate, commit carefully, and then fall back on all your good vibes with each other when things get bogged down with the inevitable snags that come along with day-to-day reality.

Composite Moon in weak square (within 10.9 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect between composite Moon and Saturn, your relationship has a responsible, centered and hard-working basis that also might be experienced as a blockage of emotional connection between you. Regardless of how either of you behave on your own, you may find that together, you respond to each other in unusually formal, or even rigid, ways. Watch for a tendency to withhold feelings, or to stop yourselves before completing a thought or an action. This formality tends to work well in a professional environment. In a romantic relationship, it benefits you to consciously work through this potentially strange sense of rigidity, putting extra effort into the enthusiastic mining of your feelings You may reflect for each other problems you both experienced with the parental care and guidance received as children. You benefit when you learn to cultivate a deeper understanding of yourselves and to discover the roots of your being. This leads to real security and true self-acceptance. When you feel a tendency to slow down or stop in your expression with each other, it benefits you both to push forward. You will likely be surprised at just how much more you get out of the relationship, and of life, in the process.

Composite Moon in weak trine (within 10.2 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. With this aspect between composite Moon and Neptune, your relationship has a powerful emotional basis stemming from a high degree of sensitivity between you. This aspect primarily indicates an emotionally sensitive, idealistic and loving relationship, although there could also be illusions or even deceptions between you. Together you possess an ethereal quality, noticeable to others, and a strong imagination with a propensity for withdrawing from the world from time to time into internal fantasies of your own making. You may also share powerful psychic abilities. You are likely to take tender care of the vulnerability that mutually arises between you, bordering at times on self-sacrifice. You bring out a softhearted quality in each other, and together you tend to sacrifice yourselves for the good of others, so that you may need to be careful not to deceive yourselves about what is going on between and around you, or to forget to take care of the practicalities of life on this planet. You benefit by clearly applying your joint high ideals and from striving to ground the emotional sensitivity that you share into the world of logic and fact that must be negotiated as an important part of living here.

Composite Moon in weak opposition (within 10.2 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. This aspect in your composite chart symbolizes a relationship in which there is difficulty with the feminine and nurturing side of life, and also great potential for healing these areas as you work together. Of course the important early model for the feminine is mother, and it is likely that one or both of you experienced some degree of painful episodes there. If there were such traumas in your early relationship with your own mother or significant female parental figure, in the course of this relationship these may be helped toward resolution. In a marriage partnership, there may also be issues to be healed with your children, and the mothering and nurturing that they require. Role models may also come into play here, as you expand your understanding of who you really are in the context of this relationship. Issues with mother are of course endemic in both modern and ancient culture, as typified in mythology. Perhaps you had a close relationship, but yet your needs were somehow not met, resulting in unconscious resentments which only surfaced later in your adult life. Or there may have been emotional or physical abuse. These experiences are so painful that they are often suppressed from consciousness, and buried deep in the psyche. It is important as you progress through life to move past the resentment caused by early wounding into a more conscious and compassionate reconciliation with the walled off parts of your own nature. In order to make progress here, deep psychological process of some variety is strongly indicated, perhaps through therapy, and the issues that come up in close interpersonal relationship often represent a catalyst and provide guideposts for constructive change. Of course it does take work. If you shrink from the task, you may take heart in the fact that these issues will remain, and eventually you will find the way to deal with them. The effort is enormous, but the rewards are just as great. Once you have begun to make conscious the pain and alienation surrounding events from the long buried past, through the agency of this relationship, you can begin to truly be of help others as well as yourselves.

Composite Venus in weak trine (within 6.3 degrees) with Jupiter

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between composite Venus and Jupiter indicates a relationship with a warm feeling of affection between you and brings joy to your dealings with each other. There is a refined and idealistic nature to your relationship. You are likely to share a great love of art, beauty, and culture. You naturally support each other's health and well being and this connection tends to benefit each of you and your individual lives. In a romantic connection, you two tend to see life as a joyous game and play it well. Together, you generate both abundance and generosity. You two tend to be incredibly optimistic, and see opportunity in everything. Whatever you set your sights on growing, chances are, it will flourish. It benefits you to stay focused and in touch with what you really want. Your relationship may also bring out a cheerful restlessness in both of you that spurs you on change and adventure.

Composite Venus in weak trine (within 4.4 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect brings a strong magnetism to your relationship with a shared focus on forming a close emotional attachment. Together, you two are charismatic and intense, and seek to break through any barriers that stand in the way of your closeness. Whereas other more challenging Pluto-Venus contacts can make a relationship ripe for power struggles, the harmonious blending of these two planets in your composite chart has a different affect, often lending a powerful faith to your joint activity. Here, you two may find you experience a high degree of trust in each other, and in your joint goals. Consequently you two will not waste precious energy waiting, watching and worrying about things. With this shared faith, if becomes easy to transform the partnership energy into a growing and conscious act of sharing.

Composite Mars in weak conjunction (within 6.3 degrees) with Neptune

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction between composite Mars and Neptune brings to your relationship a strong idealism and psychic sensitivity together with an inclination to mysticism and the arts. Although you are drawn in this relationship to the subtle and the ethereal, and your action and goal orientation within the partnership may border at times on unreality, when you put your full attention on it you find you really do know how to strike a balance between the practical and the ideal. In developing this awareness you may initially experience a great degree of illusion and confusion, so that you may be able to fool yourselves into thinking you are doing the right thing when in fact you are blind to your more selfish motivation. As a partnership you also are likely to display a powerful magnetism, and be able to influence images in the minds of others. You can therefore seem to be different things to different people, so that you may actually begin to question your own understanding of yourselves and the nature of your relationship. You benefit as a partnership from clarifying your aims, and learning to focus your intention in order to become a channel for its higher use in your own life and the life of society around you.