Introduction
This report is a short edition of your and your partner's
Partner Horoscope.
It is meant as a sample and advertisement for the full version of the Partner Horoscope which can
be
ordered from Astrodienst as a downloadable E-Horoscope of about 20 - 30 pages.
Further horoscope reports
The profound analysis of your relationship, by Liz Greene.
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In the short edition only a few but nevertheless important aspects of the composite chart are
considered. The short version concentrates more on the positive aspects of this relationship.
Sun in the Ninth House
Composite Sun in the ninth house indicates a relationship that involves the growth of
consciousness. Particularly in a personal relationship, the experiences that you undergo will
give you greater understanding and insight into what is going on in your world.
With the Sun in this position, a relationship between the sexes may tend to become platonic.
The two of you will be very interested in communication and the sharing of ideas. You may travel
quite a bit or at least be interested in foreign or distant places.
For a personal relationship the only possible defect of this placement is that the relationship
is likely to be more intellectual than emotional.
This position is useful in any type of relationship because it indicates that together you have
foresight and the ability to plan ahead for the long haul.
Sun Conjunct Mars
Composite Sun conjunct composite Mars is a very energetic combination. This relationship will
arouse strong energies within you, energies that can be used for getting a great deal of work
done or for making changes within yourselves.
You will have many discussions - about your relationship or other subjects that will border on or
actually be fights.
Do not suppress your legitimate angers and complaints because of a misplaced desire for peace and
quiet. This relationship can grow through creative conflict. If you do suppress your anger or
express it indirectly, the relationship could or turn into an endless stream of arguments.
Since Sun conjunct Mars is an indication of physical vitality, you should take part in vigorous
physical activity together whenever possible.
In a business or professional relationship this aspect can be an indicator that you will
accomplish much with dynamic vigor. But if the energy between you is very strong, it can
indicate disputes, disagreements, as well as destructive ego competition.
Moon in the Tenth House
The composite Moon in the tenth house indicates that you will share a concern for getting ahead
in life. You both want to get somewhere, and you feel that together you can do it better than
you could separately.
However, in a personal relationship, one factor must be kept in mind. Having an important element
of the chart in the tenth house indicates that you tend to see things too much in terms of
externals. The Moon, representing the feelings and emotions, is particularly damaged by this
tendency, because the feeling aspect of a relationship should be an internal concern.
There is a danger that you will look to factors in the outside world to explain problems that
arise between you. You may look out when you should look in.
In general, the tenth house is a good position for the composite Moon because it also gives the
relationship a dynamic, active quality that can prevent stagnation.
Moon Conjunct Mercury
The conjunction of the composite Moon and Mercury can contribute many strong and useful features
to a relationship. Very simply, it means that the two of you can talk about your feelings
instead of keeping them bottled up inside. The Moon conjunct Mercury may have two different kinds
of effects.
If the lunar tendency triumphs, you will be able to discuss your emotional situations, but you
will be very emotionally involved and subjective. On the other hand, you will really live and
feel your emotions, so that something real is communicated between you.
If the mercurial tendency dominates, you will be more detached and rational but also less
involved.
Obviously the best tactic with this aspect is to create some kind of balance between these two
extremes.
Venus in the Ninth House
With composite Venus in the ninth house, love and affection tend to be intellectual issues that
are discussed and pondered over rather than felt.
There is a danger that you may overintellectualize your feelings in this relationship.
However, in compensation, you both examine the nature of your feelings and are more capable than
most people of understanding what you mean to each other.
The experience of this relationship may also make both of you see more clearly and become more
aware of the world around you. Venus in the ninth house can signify love as an agent of
consciousness expansion.
Technical details
The Composite horoscope is a symbolic chart, derived mathematically and never represented by a
real planetary configuration on the sky. For all planetary pairs, for example both Suns in the
natal charts of the partners, the Composite Sun is determined as the mid-point in between. Also
the MC (Medium Coeli or cusp of the 10th house) is determined by this mid-point technique. So far
all astrologers proceed the same way to get a Composite.
For finding the Ascendant and the other house cusps in a chart two different techniques are used.
One school of thought, also adhered to by Liz Greene and other staff members at Astrodienst,
computes the Ascendant and the other house cusps with the same mid-point technique. In the very
rare case of an Ascendant falling into the west half of the chart, which is the wrong side, the
Ascendant is corrected by 180 degrees, so that it comes to lie in the east half where is must
naturally be.
The other wide spread school of thought uses a table of houses for the Ascendant. First a
fictious birth time is derived from the mid-point MC, then for this time the Ascendant and other
house cusps are read from the table. Because house table entries vary by geographical latitude,
the latitude of a reference place is used here. The geographical longitude (east/west location)
of the reference place is not taken into account, so that Naples, Italy and New York, NY result
in the same Composite chart, because both cities are near 40 degrees northern latitude. The
technique is called reference-place technique.
In his book 'Planets in Composite' Robert Hand describes both methods; we have decided to use the
mid-point method with AstroText Partner, because the Relationship Horoscope by Liz Greene also
uses this technique and many readers might be unnecessarily confused if we offered two kinds of
partner horoscopes containing different Composite ascendants.
Mercury and Venus can sometimes have an unnatural position in the Composite Chart. In nature,
Mercury is never more than 30 degrees from the Sun, Venus never more than 45 degrees. In the
Composite, however, each of the two planets can also be in opposition to the Sun. In such cases,
some Astrologers mirror the planet into the opposite sign. Robert Hand takes into consideration
both possible positions. Our Astrodienst reports follow the method of Liz Greene, who does not do
such a mirroring.
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