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Holistic Synastry
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Synastry is arguably the most popular topic in astrology, especially to the mainstream public. People want to know who they are compatible with, what the potentials of a particular relationship are, etc. One of the most frequently asked questions that I get is, “When am I going to meet a man?” Human nature is driven by the need to give and receive love and that is why synastry is such a popular area of astrology.
Through the years, there have been scores of astrology books published on the topic of synastry. In the great majority of them, the methodology is one in which person A’s planet, Angle or point is measured to person B’s planet, Angle or point with the compatibility being thus determined. What happens is that if in someone’s book, a certain planetary relationship from A to B is seen as being difficult, it is a strike against the relationship. The problem with measuring relationship potential this way is that it limits the potentials of people to what’s written in a book without taking into consideration that people respond differently to the same situation. People relate to each other in relationships, not horoscopes. People are not planets. In real life, you do not know really know how person B will react to person A’s Saturn being on her Ascendant. You can deduce that because Saturn represents a control factor and the Ascendant represents one’s identity that the Saturn-Ascendant relationship in synastry will or can be debilitating for person B. And it very well might be but it might also be one in which the Ascendant person is mightily stabilized by the Saturn person. Any measured aspect in synastry has to take this kind of thinking into consideration. We must think holistically.
In synastry, the analysis of each individual horoscope, coupled with meeting and knowing the people involved, forms the foundation for the analysis. It is the people who put the “face” on what’s seen astrologically, not the other way around.
Example
In this example, the male has been a friend of mine (I have written about this couple before in this column but the example deserves repeating) from childhood (age 2) so I obviously know him very well. This is very beneficial when it comes to his horoscope, shown here:
The Sun-Moon-Ascendant blend here suggests a very practical man who needs structure, needs to be security oriented, needs things to remain the same, and needs to be in a position to make things happen, to administrate, to run things, etc.
Saturn is retrograde, a signature that must always open one’s eyes to the father relationship, usually in a challenging or even debilitating light. Saturn opposes the Sun, ruler of IV, so there can be no doubt of the father concerns and that the mother was there to give support to him (Uranus conjoins the Nodal Axis) in terms of his individuality. There is no doubt about it and I know it to be true. His father was a man who was all discipline and no compassion, coupled with a drinking problem. Without any knowledge of astrology, common sense tells you that there is a great likelihood that this man would be affected by the parental situation early in life. When this occurs, we expect concerns with the development of identity and with self-worth.
In my opinion, if the 2nd House of a horoscope is stressed, and self-worth tensions have not been managed, the person cannot function in a healthy relationship for long. I always look at the self-worth profiles first in synastric analysis. Here, we see that Mercury, ruler of II, is squared by Uranus, one of the parental axis rulers. This is anxiety about worth because it was never supported or endorsed by his father. Venus, ruler of the Ascendant, is squared by Pluto so both the self worth and identity profiles are stressed. Entire books have been written on the manifestations in life of a person whose self worth and identity profiles are stressed. There is almost always under or over-compensation for private feelings of inferiority. Since I know this person, I can tell you that the way out for him has been through an over-indulgence in sex and anything amorous. He has sought security in relationships and has allowed himself to focus everything around them for better or worse.
Hard aspects of Pluto to any planet suggest that planet in its extreme manifestation. The Pluto-Venus contact takes Venus to the Nun or whore levels. It is either way too much or way too little of all that Venus stuff that you know about. And it was so. When we were growing up, my friend could never say “no” to any amorous or sexual advance so by the time he was a senior in high school, he was a father and this led to an early marriage that lasted through ten years of terrible tension. Four children were born from that marriage. There was one child born with another woman before his marriage and accusations of yet another child fathered with another woman while he was married. There can be no question that the reality of his life is symbolized largely by the Pluto-Venus square.
It was years after his first divorce that he met the woman who would become his second wife. He came to me for my opinion before I had even met the young lady. I told him that I never made decisions about relationship potential based on astrology alone without having at least met or talked to the person. But as somewhat of an astrology student, he still wanted my insights. Her horoscope is shown here.
Two things caught my attention instantly. There is an upper hemisphere emphasis, suggesting a pulling away from the home out into the world in order to find identity. Such a person is open to victimization and the sense of being pushed around because the search for identity finds opportunity in almost any person, place, or thing that promises identity endorsement. And with this, the concentration in the 11th House suggested a very, very strong need for love and attention. You can creatively deduce that this need is related to having not received enough love early on in life. I quickly looked to the parental axis and saw that Venus, ruler of X, is squared by Saturn, co-ruler of the Ascendant, connecting identity tension directly to a parent. And quite naturally there would be 2nd House tension (Uranus, ruler of II, squares the Moon and Mars with Mars ruling IV).
Going further, with Neptune conjoining the Sun, there is a suggestion of idealism at the base of life-expression. This is corroborated by the Venus to Mercury conjunction in X. Finally, three quintiles in the aspect grid cinched it – she must have an artistic career or at least an artistic hobby. I saw all of this in an instant and asked my friend what his new lady does. He said that she was about to graduate from a very well known college as a music and theater major. He added that he felt that they were headed for marriage.
My feeling was that this woman needed a public career in the arts as a way to express her idealism and get the attention she needed. She needed to put herself in a position to receive attention from others through her art. The best places to live for that kind of expression are in New York or Los Angeles, not in the city in which they were going to live. I saw her as not being able to get the applause that she needed and that this need would eventually drain the relationship unless he would be willing to fill the void on a constant basis.
None of these deductions were based upon measuring any of the planets in one horoscope to the other. The deductions were made through a brief, separate analysis of the horoscopes involved with corroboration of the deductions linking to common sense about life. Here were two people about to join hands in matrimony. Both were insecure. Both came from parental situations that were not in the least bit endorsing. She found the man who would give her the attention she craved (for the wrong reasons) and he found the woman who would feed the Pluto-Venus in him. Nowhere in the equation was a thought given about the vision that each had for themselves in life and whether or not they were willing to endorse, support, or share a vision beyond what they provided for each other in the thrill of a new relationship. For the most part, decisions were made based upon sheer lust (for him) and receiving so much attention (for her).
It is now 22 years later and the divorce is almost final but not without having had 7 children!!!!! He is in his early fifties; she is in her mid-forties and their lives somehow need to begin anew, separately, with the consideration of their children. It is far less than an ideal situation. She had become frustrated with her situation (working a job that had nothing to do with her needs) and reacted by spending long periods of time out of and away from the home, which left my friend having to both work and see to their children. He carried the financial weight while she went away trying to promote and make various non-money making endeavors that would feed her need for the attention that was no longer forthcoming in the marriage since she no longer fed his Pluto-Venus need for sex and romance in overdosed measurements.
The point here is that I spent less than 10 minutes of analysis to determine a probable outcome of a union that eventually happened as I more or less said that it would. The end result of the marriage was exactly what I had anticipated. He did not want to hear what I tried to say back then. Neither did she.
Regarding synastry, you do not always need to measure your Jupiter, Sun, Uranus, etc., to his her planets. You need to first know how to analyze a single horoscope and see the important, meaningful things in a horoscope because in relationships, the two separate realities of people are trying to function together. You have to see each person reflects their horoscope and then put that together. If you can analyze a horoscope with sophistication, your analysis should take 5-10 minutes. You, then, simply think about what you have learned from both horoscopes and you make common sense deductions. There is nothing in astrology that will tell you whether or not two people will have a fulfilling relationship (go back in your past and see how many old boy or girlfriends that you had promising astrological synastry with on paper only to have the relationship break up). That is up to the people involved and the decisions they make in the relationship. Astrology shows potential. As the counseling astrologer, what needs to happen is that you make the highlights of each person’s horoscope known to the other. It is then up to the people involved to then make a decision, not astrology. That said, I cannot imagine not having the horoscope of a person I am in a relationship with as it might take many years to learn what the horoscope shows me quickly in analysis of that person’s potentials.
In next month’s essay, I will show you the horoscopes of two people that I just had in for a synastric consultation.
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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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