Relationships and How to Survive Them

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