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.
Author(s): Liz Greene
Edition: 1.0
Publisher: CPA Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 266
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
