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The greater use you can derive from this kind
of presentation, therefore, is an introduction to a host of intricacies
of your relationship that you likely did not know were there. Once these
intricacies are spotted, you have the opportunity to take better advantage
of what is already going for you and more effectively grapple with problems
that were hidden or only partially-revealed before. Perhaps the greatest
benefit of all may be an expanded awareness of the structure of relationships
and the realization that you have a great deal more power over how they
proceed than you might previously have thought. Herewith are some of the
most elementary tools for exercising that power; use them well and they
will lead you on to higher planes of human interaction and personal empowerment.
The Composite Chart
Although most successful astrological techniques have long histories of
usage which may go back as far as the ancient Greeks and Babylonians, the
composite chart is by these standards brand-new. It probably has its origins
in Germany in the 1920's, but it only came into use when John Townley introduced
it in America in the early 1970's. Unlike the plethora of other new and
often doubtful techniques which were being tried out during this period,
the composite chart turned out to be so consistently and often brilliantly
revealing that it was taken up by virtually every astrologer and a generation
later has become a standard technique for analyzing personal relationships.
The concept is so simple it's a wonder no one thought of it earlier. A composite
chart is simply a horoscope made up of the mutual midpoints between the
natal charts of two different persons the composite Sun is located at the
midpoint between the two natal Suns, the composite Moon is at the midpoint
between the two natal Moons, and so on. What results is a new, artificially-produced
horoscope that literally describes the interface between the two personalities:
the shoreline where one leaves off and the other begins. Like any coastline,
it may be even and easygoing at one point and convoluted and forbidding
at another. And, like any shore, it is subject to fair and stormy weather.
This astrological "weather" is the repeating transits of the planets
and Lights which, as in the case of physical coastlines, have literally
created the shape of the coastline to begin with. It is a mathematical phenomenon,
described by the numbers themselves that are used to construct the composite
chart to combine the two personalities. For instance, we know each person
experiences regular daily, monthly, and yearly transits to his/her natal
sun, giving that point a rising and falling rhythm. The composite sun is
precisely that point where any of these rhythms shift over from one person
to the other, shift from relative increase to decrease and vice-versa, one
to another. It is really a critical, phase-shift, handshake point where
one person (usually without knowing it) hands the ball to the other with
a mutual shift of energy and responsibility. It is a point of mutual empowerment,
the swing point where one gives over to the other at the most primal level.
As the transits roll by, the individual solar rhythms continually recreate
this transfer point establishing a separate, mutual rhythm unique to the
relationship. This happens not only to the two individual's natal Suns,
but to all their other natal bodies as well; and when you connect the points,
you begin to describe this composite shoreline.
Like any natal chart, this physical/mathematical combo takes on a life of
its own which may be quite different from that of the two individuals from
which it has sprung. Two persons who both have easy aspects between the
Lights may find they have a composite Sun/Moon square which may be quite
difficult to deal with difficult in ways with which the two are natally
quite unfamiliar which makes them wonder just what is going on. Conversely,
persons who may have quite a struggle by themselves in certain areas, may
find that the relationship all by itself seems to magically free them to
function better than either could alone. It is here that the relationship
does indeed become revealed as more than the sum of its parts.
Since the composite chart (and by extension the relationship itself) is
created by the combination of repetitive individual cycles and their mutual
exchange, the longer two people are together, the stronger the effect of
the composite chart as it ingrains itself and achieves a momentum of its
own. This makes good aspects more reliable and makes bad habits repeat themselves
and very much contributes to the long-term strengths and weaknesses of a
relationship. Since both strengths and problems in most relationships tend
to sustain themselves at an unconscious level and are thus often difficult
to control or change, the composite chart becomes a matchless tool for throwing
light on the workings of the relationship and opening it to conscious development
and growth. It is probably the first thing both partners should look at
when establishing a relationship. They should continually refer to it as
time goes by during which they will become much more in control of how the
relationship develops and will be less likely to be carried away by circumstances
outside of their understanding.
It may be said that some marriages or partnerships were meant to be and
others not meant to be. Composite charts most certainly indicate this immediately,
but using them to begin with gives both partners a kind of control they
previously would not have had and enables them to fix to some extent that
which should otherwise have been avoided and to maximize benefits that might
otherwise have been taken for granted. It enables both partners, if they
are willing to take the individual responsibility, not to be controlled
by this strange third party, that a relationship itself becomes, but to
step in and out of it to their mutual advantage. This is actually quite
a modern, revolutionary idea, particularly where marriages are concerned.
In the past, both partners have been considered to be slaves to the marriage
which must by agreement dominate their lives, however well it is working
out. The Reformation's message was: if it doesn't work out, divorce. This
new view of relationships, in recognizing that any two persons are dealing
with a powerful but manipulatable third party made up by the interaction
of the two of them, allows both to slip out and become individuals when
it is better to do so and to ride the power of the relationship when both
will benefit. Just as the composite chart itself describes the subtleties
of mutual empowerment, the use of the technique further empowers those involved
and allows them further control over their lives which otherwise would have
been unwittingly denied them. In astrology, as elsewhere, knowledge is power:
blind fate is the child of ignorance, and destiny is an afterthought of
what you should have considered (and acted upon) in the first place.
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