Extensive collection of articles on the effects synastry, the study of relationships in astrology. Includes effects of cross-aspects and composite charts.
We read a lot about for North Node in synastry: how it pushes us out of our comfort zone, how it helps us learn the lessons we’re put on earth to learn, how planets in aspect to it can help up become the person we’re meant to be. This is great and important and shouldn’t […]
Aspects in synastry help us understand how each facet of our personality impacts and interacts with each part of our partner’s personality. But what happens when one part of our chart doesn’t aspect or interact with the other person’s chart at all? And what happens when that part is our Sun, the essential core of
There’s always a lot of interest in contacts between Venus and Pluto in synastry. Is it positive or negative? Can a relationship survive with placements like that? Who has the real power? As someone with Pluto on the Descendant natally, I live this energy every day, and I think I shed a little light on
When beginners start learning synastry, there’s a tendency to jump straight in and focus on Venus and Mars, and maybe even the Descendant. Which makes sense, right? Of course you want to be attracted to your partner. You want to be pulled toward them, for them to turn your head every time. But for real,
Two people cannot get far together unless they both want to go…” I wrote that for a client. Sometimes the message is just so damned simple. Think of two people with their legs tied together in a 3-legged race. If they don’t co-ordinate, they don’t get far.
Hi Elsa, How does it affect synastry when one partner’s personal planets land in the other’s 12th house? What does it mean, and how does it affect things? For instance, my Sun and Venus land in the 12th house of my ex/long term best friend. I’ve always been madly in love with him, and he claims he
Hi, Elsa I feel energy and chemistry in relationships, very strongly. It’s either there or it’s not. However, what baffles me is if you feel completely at ease with someone, romantically, and the energy is fantastic coming and going both ways. The other person acknowledges the strong connection… and then the other person decides to
A combination that doesn’t get much attention in synastry is Jupiter and Chiron. Jupiter is the planet of joy, optimism, expansion, and opportunity, while Chiron is the wounded healer, the place where we perennially ache, and through that find our own strength. Not exactly an intuitive duo, is it? So what happens when the two
