Relationships and How to Survive Them

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Relationships are and always have been the greatest of human mysteries and the chief source of both our joy and our suffering. Astrology offers many profound insights which can help us understand why we become involved with particular individuals, and why we sometimes enact compulsive patterns which work against our conscious wishes and expectations. The two seminars in this volume, although different in focus, both explore the enigma of relationships from an astrological perspective. The first seminar explores relationship through the composite chart, examining the ways in which this “third” entity carries within it a particular pattern of development independent of the two individuals involved. No existing work on composite charts examines the subject in such psychological depth. The second seminar discusses the archetypal dilemma of the eternal triangle: why we become involved in triangular relationships and what factors in the horoscope might suggest a predisposition to this kind of relationship dynamic. Triangles have been the subject of great literature and art throughout history, and while no relationship experience causes us such conflict and suffering, no human experience is so common and familiar to us all. Part One: The Composite Chart The meaning of the composite chart Technical matters One plus one equals three Relationship as an entity Freedom and fate within relationship “Inside” and “outside” the relationship Consciousness and orbs An example: Sun-Uranus in the composite Heimarmenê Working with the composite The zodiacal signs Transits in the composite chart The manifestation of a relationship Synastry between the composite and the natal chart Transits which trigger both composite and natal charts Separations The progressed composite chart Progressed composite planets to composite planets Progressed to other progressed composite planets Progressed composite planets to individual natal planets The progressed composite Moon An example Family inheritance in a composite The purpose of the relationship The emotional life of the relationship Composite Moon in a yod The “vocation” of the relationship The meaning of the composite Sun The meaning of composite Saturn The meaning of composite Mars Saturn’s limits Composite planets to the natal chart Playing out the composite: division of roles Composite Mercury The progressed composite When does it begin? Hard aspects in the composite Composite Nodes A composite from the group Pat and Phil Composite Sun at the IC: settling down Composite Sun square Pluto: They’re out to get us Composite Saturn in the 9th: moral and religious issues Composite Saturn conjunct Neptune: the quest for the ideal Composite Ascendant in Aquarius: an eccentric couple Composite Moon in the 1st: playing to the audience Bonds that endure Composite Mars-Saturn aspects Composite Uranus-Chiron The composite Sun in the houses Composite Sun in the 7th Composite Sun in the 10th Composite Sun in the 8th Plutonian composites Composite Sun in the 1st Composite Sun in the 6th Bibliography Appendix to Part One Part Two: The Eternal Triangle The universality of triangles Adult sexual triangles Other kinds of triangles The points of the triangle The Betrayer, the Betrayed, and the Instrument of Betrayal Types of triangles The family triangle Oedipus and other tales Helpful Oedipal hints: Venus in the parental houses Venusian rivalry “Split anima” and “split animus” Split families Divided loyalties Alienation from one’s own sex Saturn, Chiron, and sexual insecurity Midlife Oedipal antics The unobtainable parent: astrological significators Oppositions between 4th and 10th Triangles and society Sexual exclusivity Polygamy, Neptunian communes, and other amusements Triangles and sexual abuse Mars and triangles Power triangles Pluto and power Venus-Pluto: loving too much An eye for an eye Fear of intensity Defensive triangles Saturn and the repetition of rejection The psychic “payoff” of rejection Chiron’s defences The convoluted psyche The pursuit of the unobtainable Neptune’s triangles The quest for perfect love Uranian triangles Triangles which involve unlived life Connie: the Betrayed Uranian eruptions Fathers and lovers The Instrument of Betrayal The Scorpion and the Centaur The archetypal nature of betrayal Repetition compulsion Integration and forgiving Close encounters of the Uranian kind Parental significators as embodiments of unlived life Weak or missing elements Hard aspects More charts from the group Luis: mother-love A defensive triangle Interlude: archetypal planetary dichotomies More charts from the group (continued) Catherine: the invisible rival Bibliography