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A Synastric Consultation
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Many people are under the impression that the comparative analysis of two horoscopes is the prima fascia “proof” or validation of a relationship. “Look at that. His Jupiter sits on her Sun. That’s good. She is always going to feel good around him!” “Well, your Saturn squares his Venus. Sex and romance between the two of you will be a constant challenge that you will have to work at.” “Your composite horoscope has an exact conjunction of the Moon and Venus on its Ascendant with Jupiter in the 7th. This is a relationship made in heaven.” These and many more are the kinds of comments and the line of thinking that many astrologers are presenting to their clients to support or discourage relationship potentials. What’s wrong with this line of thinking is that the people are left out in favor of astrological symbolism. This is unrealistic and is not very practical.
I always like to do a full analysis of each person separately so that astrologer and client are on the same page and so that each person fully understands how they are representing their horoscope in life. I, then, bring the two together to discuss what we talked about individually. In this way, there is more of a full, complete understanding gained.
Example
When it really comes down to it, self-worth considerations make or break every relationship. When there are unmanaged esteem issues, relationships suffer. It is not that a relationship cannot exist but when self-worth issues are unmanaged, it is very difficult to have a rewarding, fulfilling relationship. I have seen this over and over and over again so in my synastric practice, the first thing I do with each horoscope is look to see what each person brings to his and herself in terms of self worth.
This is “her” horoscope. Right off the bat, we see that Neptune conjoins the Moon in II, both squared by Mars in XI. This suggests an uncertainty of worth in relationship to how lovable or attractive she feels she is or is not that directly impacts relationships since Mars rules VII. It doesn’t matter whether or not another person’s Jupiter is on every planet and Angle in her horoscope because this issue is within her and no planetary relationship from another horoscope will resolve it. She has to resolve it. In addition, Pluto squares Jupiter, a fine symbolism of success but, in this case, corroborates self-worth tension since Jupiter rules II. Sexuality is involved as well since Neptune rules V and that leads to Venus, which is unaspected in Virgo in XI. Venus rules VIII, the other House dealing with sexuality. An unaspected planet demands a lot of attention in terms of its symbolism in relationship to the Sign it is in and/or the House(s) that it rules. In this case, we see more of the dimensions of the 11th House being emphasized, very important since Venus is the ruling planet of the horoscope. She is going to find or lose herself in the 11th House, and this is mightily corroborated with the Nodal Axis (associations) at the Aries Point. How lovable she is and her friendships are going to be a dominant force in how she orients herself in the world, always challenged because of the uncertainty of worth. And all of this is corroborated by horoscope’s eastern hemisphere emphasis – we know that these initial deductions will operate through an orientation to the world that needs to be defensive and self-protective.
The blend between the Sun and Moon tells us that the focal energy for emotional security is expressed in a fiery way through a personality that needs to be strongly opinionated. The more there is insecurity, the more opinionated she will become. And all of this is expressed through the charming, socially conscious Libra Ascendant.
“Jane” arrived at my place for the consultation with her beau. I brought her in first. She is a tall, attractive woman who has a suspicious look about her. My first statement to her was, “Jane, I have spent a lot of time in analysis of your horoscope, as well as your fiancé’s. In order for relationships to work, it is important that each person has self-understanding and that the other person has an understanding of you. Nothing is better for this understanding than astrology and I am glad that you are here. I am going to go right to the point. Your horoscope suggests an overall orientation to the world that is self-protective and defensive. I think this is because you are insecure of your worth, especially in terms of relationships, friendships and perhaps how lovable you are to others. And we can see this spilling over into sexuality where I wouldn’t at all be surprised to find dysfunction. These are things we need to talk about and come to an understanding of before we move on.”
Jane spoke: “I have a problem with trust. It is hard for me to trust anyone, especially when I am in a relationship…...” (My eyes glanced to the horoscope to see if a parental factor is involved) I interrupted, “No one is born distrustful. This is something that you learned along the way, usually from a parent. However, I do not see anything severe here in terms of parental development.” She continued, “I can believe that. I had a lot of support growing up. My parents were there and they were together. But somewhere along the line, into my teen years, he started having affairs and that’s when I started seeing things differently, I guess.” (I did a quick visual and saw SA Pluto at her Ascendant at age 14 or so). I asked, “Was there a dramatic change in the way you looked at things around the age of 14?” She confirmed that it was and it was coupled with her first personal experience of relationship duplicity (note again that Mars, ruler of VII, is squared by Neptune).
We discussed much more, only for perhaps 20 minutes or so. I leaned forward and asked, “Jane, with all that we have discussed in terms of your difficulties with trust, your sensitivity to rejection from significant people in your life, etc., tell me how this helps to have a fulfilling relationship? Tell me how all of this fits into to contributing to a healthy relationship.” There was silence. There were tears forming in her eyes. Checkmate!
What’s important to note here is that there was absolutely no consideration of her man’s horoscope. It didn’t matter because there wasn’t going to be anything in his horoscope that would help to resolve or manage her issues. She had to take a look in the mirror, address the issues and get them managed… easy for me to see – harder for her to do.
After we got all of the internal considerations out of the way, I wanted to look ahead to see if it is indeed tine to get married. The marriage is to occur later this year of 2007, precisely with her Saturn Return. It is typical for marriages, as well as divorces, to take place during the Saturn Return. However, the transit conjunction of the all-important Venus, with the transit of Uranus in opposition to Mars while Saturn conjoins it, suggested difficulties because Mars rules VII. I felt that I would hold off on revealing this until after talking to “John.”
His Horoscope
Again, I started with the 2nd House. Mercury, ruler of II, is opposed by Pluto, ruler of VII. As is the case in her horoscope, there is a link between self-worth concerns and relationships. We obviously see Uranus there in VII closely opposed by the Sun, the opposition squared by Mars in IV, an emphatically temperamental aspect that suggests identity and relationship concerns in relationship to a parent or to something within the early home life. With Pluto’s opposition to the Moon and Jupiter’s square to the Nodal Axis, I knew that the parent in focus would be the mother and if the father was no longer on the scene, she would be smothering, he would be accustomed to that and that would be how Jane fit into his life. It would give him an opportunity to marry his mother!
The hemisphere emphasis here is northern, suggesting the sense of bringing forward into adulthood the unresolved issues from the formative years of development. We’ve already seen it corroborated through the T-Square. The Moon, ruler of IV, is opposed by Pluto. There is no doubt about it that there is something significant to talk about to John in terms of his parents.
The Sun-Moon blend of Taurus-Aries shows the core concern with structure and security needing to be expressed by a personality that should have the sense of ego about it. However, in the 12th House, “blocked” by Pluto, how does the ego need get out into the world, especially since it is insulated within in its position of the Fire Grand Trine. He would need to be about dedication to work since Pluto in VI is the outlet to the Grand Trine. However, with the Grand Trine and the prominence of Taurus, I had the sense of being withdrawn, self-sufficient, held back, etc. all in the name of organization and structure.
I felt that the relationship capacity of the horoscope was challenged. The Uranus-Sun opposition, couples with Pluto’s tension to suggest an improper orientation, perhaps a wrong perspective, to relationships. By itself, Uranus in VII, at best, suggests a marriage to a highly individualized person and Jane does have Uranus in her Ascendant. However, it is a high marker of relationship instability and divorce, as well. It was just at that moment that I spotted something. I noticed that his Venus and her Venus were separated only by two degrees in Mutable Signs. So if she is going to receive a Saturn transit to her Venus, then so would he. They would both be entering into a marriage where there is a Saturn Return followed by a heavy transit to Venus. In his case, this would be exacerbated by the Solar Arc of Pluto to conjoin that Uranus-Sun opposition! This is not a good sign. I honestly felt like these were two people entering into marriage for the wrong reasons and, with the high volatility of both people, that there will be concerns that challenge the marriage beyond their abilities to handle it. These were part of the notes that I made to myself in preparing both horoscopes.
I had asked Jane to leave and I asked John to come in. I gave him the same explanation of our purpose together as I had given to Jane. “…….so John, can you identify with this parental factor that is so strongly suggested in your horoscope?” He responded, “Oh yea. My father, who knows where he is and I really don’t care at this point. Whether he is or isn’t around won’t ever be important but when it comes to my mother, she is everything. I am who I am because of her.” I interrupted, “….and who is that, John?” He responded, “Well, I am on my way to being a doctor (the 6th House factor which is the Grand Trine emptying out into a service outlet) and it’s my mother who made that possible.” I responded with, “So when you say that she is everything, is that the totality of what you mean, that she worked hard to finance your education?” He responds, “Oh, no. She taught me a lot about life and about relationships. I wouldn’t feel right if she didn’t approve of the person I married and she really approves of Jane.” (I thought, “now we are getting to the core.”)
“John, would you say that your mother leads you helpfully? Is she possessive in any way?” He responded quickly, “ Yea, I would say that she is possessive but….” (defenses always follow criticism of the parent that one loves dearly) “…she always has my best interest at heart, you know?” Wanting to get to the heart of the matter, I asked, “John, how is Jane like your mother?” I stated it as a fact within a question and he was quick to respond that he thinks the reason why his mother likes Jane so much is because “she reminds her of her.” And I asked John if that was true in his eyes too. He responded, “Yea, I think so.” To make a long story short here, John had never been away from his mother for long. He has never had a chance to individuate and define himself apart from what his mother thinks and his is a horoscope, with Uranus in close opposition to the Sun that needs to be in high awareness of individuation potential. Though it has not kicked in yet, there is no doubt that this need will manifest and when it does, it is going to be a threat to his relationships.
My private consultation with John lasted for 45 minutes. Almost all of it centered on the importance of his mother’s influence in his life. At the conclusion of the discussion, I asked, “…..so, John…..we have talked a lot about your mother and her influence. We’ve seen how she is much like the woman you now want to marry. Tell me something. How does all of this contribute to you having a healthy, fulfilling relationship? You are going to be a person with a highly individualized expression in life. This change of perspective will probably take place as soon as next year. When there is a highly individualized focus, marriages are threatened. If your reason for wanting to marry Jane is that she is so much like your mother whom you love so much, what will happen as you grow into the identity that is really yours, to your marriage?” In denial, he responded, “I will always love my mother SO I will always love Jane.” I asked him if Jane knows of this reasoning and he responded, “Oh, no. I don’t think she would like that too much. If we can avoid it, maybe we could omit that from things here today when she comes in to join us.”
The big consultation will be continued next month!
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Basil Fearrington,
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Basil Fearrington is the author of "The New Way To Learn Astrology." He has been a professional astrologer for 22 years.
Basil's articles have appeared in the leading astrological publications around the world. He was the Inaugural Chairman for the MilleyDome project in Johannesburg, South Africa and taught astrology there for one year.
Basil has twice been a faculty member of UAC and spoke at Astro 2000. In addition to his work in astrology, Basil is a professional musician who has toured with and/or recorded for artists such as Stevie Wonder and George Benson.
He was on a team of composers who did the music for a network show called "New York Undercover." The same team won a Grammy award in 1980.
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