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The Composite Twelfth House

Basically, the twelfth house represents repressed thoughts. It signifies once-conscious ideas that have been eliminated from the waking mind because the mind has chosen not to deal with them.

The problem with repressed ideas ist that they give rise to unconsciously motivated actions that are often harmful to an individual or to a relationship. Because the actions are automatic, they are often inappropriate to a given situation. Even when a couple makes a great effort to deal with problems consciously and openly, there is often a lot going on that is raw, intimate and heavily psychological.

But there are those who benefit greatly from intense, day- to-day psychological encounters. And there are individuals whose unconscious actions dovetail with their partner's so perfectly well that they are indispensable to each other.

Sun in the Twelfth House  12th hs

Composite Sun in the twelfth house is a significant position, but it presents challenges that many people find difficult to deal with.

It indicates that through this relationship both of you will encounter aspects of your inner selves that you would normally keep hidden from yourselves as well as from others.

The most difficult result of this Sun placement is that it may make the relationship self-defeating for both of you, particularly if you are not completely honest with each other. Unless you disclose all secrets, they will cause one or both of you to behave in a way that will undermine not only the relationship but your own self-esteem as well.

In any personal relationship, this placement demands that you thoroughly search your innermost selves to understand how previously hidden psychological traits are operating within the relationship. This encounter will make each of you grow as individuals, and the growth it can bring about is more important than your survival as a couple.

Sun Conjunct Saturn  

Sun conjunct Saturn is a very powerful aspect in a composite chart. It indicates that you have come together to have an important learning experience.

The experience of this relationship may expose you to truths about yourselves that you would rather not face. The point is not to judge yourselves or each other, but to see clearly and with detachment and then try to make changes where necessary.

In many respects you may find this relationship confining and limiting. It may well be that you do need this discipline and that you are not facing your responsibilities. If you need this experience, the relationship may last a lifetime. But if it is really too confining, it will probably not last very long.

Sun Opposition Venus  

This is one of the strongest indications of a love relationship between two people, even in a friendship. It does not primarily indicate a sexual relationship; instead it signifies love, pure and simple. The attraction indicated by this aspect is so powerful that it can bring together people who are incompatible by ordinary criteria.

If the relationship is laden with conflicts, even a strong feeling of love between you may turn to hatred. In most cases, however, this will be a very fine personal relationship.

Sun Opposition Moon  

Sun opposition Moon is capable of bringing about much good or much difficulty, particularly in a love relationship. With this aspect, there may be tremendous polarity, which results in either-or situations that can cause great tension. On the other hand, this aspect can bring together two radically different elements of your lives and make a higher and more dynamic entity of the two of you.

In a love relationship, you can expect this aspect to generate a lot of energy. You will be tremendously attracted to each other, but you will not feel entirely at ease, because there is a tremendous energy imbalance between you.

Much the same interaction will be found in the chart of friends. In all situations this is a very energetic but unstable combination.

Sun Sextile Mars  

Sun sextile Mars in the composite chart will bring about great energy within your relationship. Being together will make you feel more vigorous and active. You will find that your egos complement each other very well and that you will be able to work cooperatively on most things.

Physical activities will be important when you are together, even if you are not physically oriented as individuals. You should avoid sitting around and doing nothing, although that is not likely to be a problem.

In doing any kind of task together, your ability to work cooperatively will be especially useful, as will be the balanced relationship between your egos. You will save your competitiveness for people outside the relationship rather than exhibit it toward each other.

You are very likely to discover that together you have an excellent sense of timing and that you are good at recognizing and taking advantage of opportunities.

The Composite Fifth House

The fifth house in the composite chart has many of the same meanings that it has in a conventional chart - love affairs, children (where this is appropriate), creativity, self-expression, etc. The interpretation of self- expression, however, is especially crititcal in a composite chart.

The composite fifth house represents, first of all, to what extent the relationship provides a setting for the individuals to be themselves in the most genuine and honest way possible. Many relationships survive only because each partner puts up a false front to the other. The fifth house signifies the ability of the individuals to be real in each other's presence.

The fifth is also the house of love affaires and friendship. But the very nature of this house means that it is not for people who are trying to operate as a single unit. In a fifth house relationship the two people are together but still individuals.

Moon in the Fifth House  5th hs

The composite Moon in the fifth house suggests that your relationship exists because it makes you both feel good, especially emotionally.

Obviously this is a good position for any kind of personal relationship, especially a love affair. You will enjoy each other's company immensely.

The major deficiency of this position is that you may find it difficult to settle down to anything serious. This can be especially difficult in a marriage or long-term love relationship, for you can't always have fun and games; at some point you have to work at the serious business of building a relationship together.

Moon Conjunct Venus  

The conjunction of composite Moon and composite Venus is a most positive aspect for any personal relationship. It indicates a strong feeling of love between you that you will express openly. The relationship may even have something of a dreamy quality, as if it were too beautiful to be true.

The basic inner strength of this relationship should be great enough to overcome all but the worst problems.

In general, this is one of the most positive and useful aspects that a composite chart can have for a successful personal relationship.

Sun Opposition Moon

Moon Square Neptune  

Be very careful if you have the square of Moon and Neptune in your composite horoscope. This aspect creates a great danger that one or both of you will deceive yourselves or each other, either about the nature of the relationship or about outside matters that affect it. It can produce a situation in which one of you has come to "help" the other with a very difficult psychological problem, such as alcohol or drugs. But with a Moon-Neptune square, the so- called helper is often motivated by the desire to escape from some personal problem by relating to someone whose problems appear to be worse.

The relationship may also take on a very unreal idealistic tone, with the two of you creating beautiful illusions about yourselves and each other.

Disappointment of one's ideals is perhaps the greatest danger presented by this aspect. Its negative effects can be prevented only by the most hard-nosed, pragmatic, and practical evaluation of the relationship. And unfortunately, that is the very thing that the Moon-Neptune energy tends to block.

Moon Trine Uranus  

The trine of the Moon and Uranus in the composite chart signifies that both of you must be free in your emotional expression in order to bring out the best in this relationship. Even the relationship itself may take on very unusual forms. You should have the courage to deal with each other in different and exceptional ways. Otherwise you will have wasted an opportunity for growth.

By the same token, this relationship is likely to have a strong consciousness-altering effect upon both of you, changing your attitudes about your own and your partner's emotions. Your world-views and philosophy of life may very well be changed.

Certain attributes of a conventional relationship, such as stability and predictability, may not exist here. Yet despite the unpredictability, there will be much of value. And the more freedom you allow each other within the structure of this relationship, the more you will get out of it.

Moon Trine Mars  

The trine of composite Moon and composite Mars is a sign that the two of you have a great emotional involvement in this relationship. This would not be a very good aspect for a professional relationship that required mutual feelings of detachment. The combination of the Moon and Mars, even in a trine, implies that the feelings evoked are strong enough to make the relationship extremely subjective and personal.

This aspect acts most positively in a love relationship, where it can make an otherwise quiet and subdued affair into something much more emotionally rich and involving. Also, in a sexual relationship, the energy of the Moon combined with Mars helps to stimulate physical sexuality.

One point must be kept in mind, however, and that is that neither of you must repress the other. If held in too long, the energy of this trine would probably come out in an explosive way.

Mercury in the Twelfth House  12th hs

Composite Mercury in the twelfth house indicates that the two of you will do much thinking and talking about the inner psychological aspects of your relationship. There will be considerable mental probing of yourselves and each other. You will try to work out whatever problems you have within the relationship without appealing to outsiders.

However, ceaseless probing into each other's minds can degenerate into playing games with each other's emotions. Be careful how you use the understandings you gain. If you use them to manipulate each other, you are likely to unleash forces that can undo the relationship. In particular, you may stop communicating and start keeping everything secret from each other.

Mercury Conjunct Pluto  

Mercury conjunct Pluto in a composite chart combines the mental and intellectual functions of Mercury with the powerful transforming qualities of Pluto. These planets together indicate that this relationship is likely to have a strong effect on the way you both think. This aspect is an indication of acute psychological awareness, which is very helpful in a relationship if it is not overdone.

But there is a more difficult side to this Pluto-Mercury combination that you must watch for carefully. It can give rise to mental power struggles between you; that is, one of you tries to totally dominate the thoughts and opinions of the other.

Another possible effect of this aspect is that its energy may be turned outward. When this happens, the two of you may find that you are able to influence other people's opinions and ideas. This aspect would be especially useful in the composite chart of people who have to influence public opinion, such as those in advertising, public relations, or politics.

Mercury Conjunct Saturn  

Mercury conjunct Saturn in the composite chart has great potential and also great dangers. Both possibilities are equally likely, and the two of you will have to choose your own course.

Saturn is the principle of limitation and discipline. At its worst, it can have a narrowing and inhibiting effect upon anything it is connected with - in this case, thought and consciousness as symbolized by Mercury. With this aspect, the attitudes and opinions that you hold jointly about the outside world and about yourselves can become fixed and rigid. As a result, you could fall into ritualized games and patterns of behavior that gradually have less and less connection with reality. While you are standing still, reality is changing.

This aspect is not good for successful intuitive communication, so say what you mean. If as a couple you can do these things, you should be able to reap the benefits of this aspect.

The positive side of this aspect is that your communication with each other should have a great deal of form and discipline. You are able to plan for the future more effectively than most, because you consider every possibility. Together you plan very carefully, thoroughly, and methodically.

Mercury Conjunct Jupiter  

The conjunction of composite Mercury and Jupiter is an indication that the two of you are very compatible intellectually and mentally. More than other couples, you two will have the capacity to put your relationship into proper perspective and see what is really important and what is not.

Also, you will find that your relationship enormously stimulates the development of your consciousness; that is, you will become more and more aware of the world about you and your place in it. If the two of you do any extensive planning for the future, this aspect will help you greatly.

Being together may very well stimulate an interest in philosophy, religion, or metaphysics; or it may bring about opportunities for travel.

Mercury Sextile Neptune  

Mercury sextile Neptune in a composite chart indicates that the two of you are seeking some intellectual or mental ideal within this relationship. At its best this aspect can bring about, a direct intuitive understanding of each other's mind. At its least productive, this aspect can mean that one or both of you is overidealizing the relationship.

However, this is not a particularly difficult aspect to handle; even in the most overly idealized fantasy, there is likely to be enough real communication between you to prevent crushing disappointment when the fantasy vanishes.

Idealism will always be a strong element in this relationship, even if you keep your feet on the ground about most things. There is nothing wrong with your idealism, because sometimes just believing in an ideal can help make it happen.

Venus in the Fifth House  5th hs

Composite Venus in the fifth house is one of the stronger indications that this will be a relationship of love or, at the very least, friendship.

It denotes a relationship between two people who really enjoy being together and who make each other feel good. You will share a great love of pleasure and doing things together.

The fifth-house Venus is a light-hearted position. Perhaps its only real flaw is that it does not provide the energy needed for a serious day-to-day relationship. If you can overcome this lack of seriousness, a fifth-house Venus guarantees that this will be a pleasant and loving relationship for both of you.

Moon Conjunct Venus

Sun Opposition Venus

Venus Square Neptune  

The square of composite Venus and Neptune requires that the two of you be quite wary about the true nature of this relationship. If you are not careful and unless you evaluate yourselves thoroughly, you could experience great disappointment. With this particular Venus-Neptune aspect, you may believe that you have met the ideal of your life, especially in a romantic sense. The love of your life is here!

Neptune is the planet both of illusion and the ideal, and under its influence you are likely to find it very difficult to tell which is which. You must ascertain whether each of you is for real; that is, are you relating to each other or to some idealized fantasy? Is the spiritual element that you see in each other and in your relationship real or not?

You must examine this situation very closely, for you cannot afford to live in a fool's paradise. Your relationship may be either very good or very unreal, and you must find out which it is.

Venus Trine Uranus  

The trine of Venus and Uranus can be very beneficial in the composite chart of any kind of personal relationship, as long as you both are willing to strike out against the conventional paths and find a path of your own. For this relationship has a flavor that others would consider unusual, even eccentric.

A sexual relationship with this aspect is likely to be very open. There are countless other ways of being unusual as a couple. The point is that if you don't want to follow the customary script for your relationship - love affair, friendship, marriage, or whatever - then you don't have to.

Uranus is the planet of freedom and unconventionality, but it can also mean instability if forced to follow conventional modes of expression, because it is the planet of rebellion.

At the very least this aspect will allow you to experience a relationship that is different from any you may have known before. Allow yourself this experience, and it will be good.

Venus Trine Mars  

Venus trine Mars is one of the better aspects to have in a composite chart. Much like the sextile, it means that there is a balance between your individual ego drives and your need for the relationship. In fact, you will find that this relationship helps both of you to express yourselves more fully.

This aspect fulfills itself most clearly in relationships between the sexes, for the sexuality of the two planets is then expressed easily. The trine of Venus and Mars strengthens the need for physical sexual expression and makes it satisfying. You truly complement each other.

Complementarity is one of the benefits of this aspect for any kind of relationship. Each of you is strong where the other is weak, so together you will be stronger than you are alone.

Jupiter in the Twelfth House  12th hs

The twelfth house rules the forces that are working unconsciously and their influence on the success or failure of the relationship. It also rules the actions that each of you may take that can affect your future as a couple. These are usually unconscious actions or actions that you refuse to acknowledge unless you are forced to.

Fortunately, Jupiter in this house is an indication that unconscious actions are less of a problem than in most relationships. You are not destroying your relationship in the manner that so many are destroyed. Although you may have troubles at times, at least you can bring your problems out into the open.

The presence of Jupiter makes you conscious of your actions so that you don't alienate people simply by being yourselves. Quite a few of the problems that can occur in a relationship are alleviated by this placement of Jupiter.

Mercury Conjunct Jupiter

Jupiter Conjunct Pluto  

Jupiter conjunct Pluto in the composite chart indicates that you have come together in order to accomplish something. They are symbolic of a strong drive to succeed and to accomplish important objectives.

Your relationship may have many different goals - love and affection, security, friendship, or whatever - but in any case it exists to do something. This is one of the best aspects for any kind of business relationship, because the two of you are able to work well together and accomplish a great deal of work. It is a strong indication of success and of financial gain, if that is an objective.

In a love relationship this energy is expressed as an exuberant desire to make changes, to grow, and to expand your world. The growth you help each other achieve will be positive, as you will recognize from the very beginning.

Jupiter Conjunct Saturn  

The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the composite chart may have more than one effect. On the one hand, it can make a relationship very unstable and changeable. In this case the two of you seem unable to go forward or backward on any issue, so that you constantly vacillate between the alternative possibilities.

On the other hand, in a reasonably stable relationship, these two planets can achieve an equilibrium. The outgoing, expansive quality of Jupiter can be checked by the carefulness and caution of Saturn, so that you become cautiously optimistic in your dealings with each other.

At the same time, since the idealism of Jupiter is tempered by the pragmatism of Saturn, you accept each other as you are and do not make too many additional demands. You may not think that this relationship is perfect, but on the other hand you don't really believe such perfection exists, so you do not demand it.

By itself, this is not an aspect that can make or break a relationship. It will strengthen a good one and make a weak one more unstable.

Jupiter Sextile Neptune  

The sextile of Jupiter and Neptune in the composite chart is an indication of an idealistic relationship. The idealism is not likely to be destructive but will give the two of you a spiritual quality that can carry you out of the mundane world into your own world of beauty. This aspect indicates deep friendship, even in a sexual relationship. But in such a relationship it can cause difficulties, because it tends to make a love affair platonic. Its energies are so removed from the physical world that they don't combine easily with physical sexuality.

In dealing with everyday practical matters, this aspect can present certain problems, but they are not insuperable. The two of you must learn not to indulge in contempt for mundane reality. Remember the concerns of the world around you, even though this relationship enables you to escape from it.

Saturn in the Twelfth House  12th hs

The twelfth house is one of the more difficult positions for composite Saturn. This placement implies that you find it difficult to deal with each other in an open and direct manner. You may often ask each other, "Now what made me do that to you?" You may also feel that as a whole the relationship is very cramping to your individual styles. You feel repressed and put down by the experience.

First of all, recognize that many of the subversive tactics that you use against each other are not intentional. You seem to trigger in each other mechanical "programs" that run even when they are not appropriate to the situation. Therefore, you both must become very tolerant of these patterns - not only your partner's, but also your own.

If you can learn to be tolerant of these patterns, you won't take their effects so seriously either. That, in turn, will help you learn to understand what lies behind them and how to deal with them.

Sun Conjunct Saturn

Mercury Conjunct Saturn

Jupiter Conjunct Saturn

The Composite Second House

The second house of the composite chart refers to values - what the two people value, and their relationship to what is valued. This can operate on two different planes.

The second house can indicate the role that value-systems play in forming the relationship, that is, to what extend two people come together because they value similar things or ideas. If the second house contains difficult aspects, disagreements over values may be a major source of conflict. Similarly, positive aspects indicate that the couple has compatible values, which helps to bind the relationship together.

On another plane, clearly related to the first, the composite second house refers to whatever finances and property there may be in the relationship. If a relationship does not have any common property or finances, only the first manifestation will have relevance.

Neptune in the Second House  2nd hs

With Neptune in the second house of the composite chart, there is likely to be some confusion between you about what you hold to be important, for the second is the house of whatever one values.

But Neptune in the second house may also signify a great confusion about managing your money and possessions. The two of you may have serious misconceptions or be totally ignorant of how to deal with what you own. Yet because of Neptune's double nature, you may also share an uncanny sense of where to find money and have the ability to sniff it out in very unlikely places.

One of two situations will apply to you. In the first, material possessions are not very important to the two of you, in which case you should have no problems with them. On the other hand, if they are important, they should not be to such an extent, and then you probably will have trouble with them.

Moon Square Neptune

Venus Square Neptune

Mercury Sextile Neptune

Jupiter Sextile Neptune

Neptune Sextile Pluto  

These two planets move very slowly. In the second half of the 20th century they were running at the same speed and formed a sextile for many years, which many living couples have now in their composite horoscope. An individual interpretation of this aspect would not be appropriate.

The Composite First House

The first house is the "persona" of a relationship. It indicates the kind of impression the relationship will make on its surroundings and how it will be viewed by others. It tells to what extent a couple will be regarded as a unit in their own right rather than as two seperate individuals.

The first house describes the impression the relationship gives rather than what it really is. A strong first house can be an indication of a relationship that is all show and no substance. Nevertheless, a strong first house is usually a sign of a significant relationship that will have a great impact on the lives of those involved. These relationships tend to be important ones.

Uranus in the First House  1st hs

With Uranus in the first house of the composite chart, your relationship will have a strong drive for freedom of expression. At the very least it will be a highly individualistic one.

It may be that this relationship will begin very suddenly. Or perhaps the two of you would not ordinarily be expected to come together. In either case, being together will have a revolutionary effect on both of you. It will reveal aspects of yourselves that you never even knew existed.

The danger of this placement is that you, or those around you, will try to make this relationship conform to established patterns of behavior. This usually triggers the negative side of Uranus, which results in instability and unconventionality for its own sake.

Only if the two of you are willing to approach this experience with a totally open mind, free of expectations, will you get the maximum benefit from it. That benefit will be a challenging experience that will enable you to grow and expand your consciousness for as long as the relationship lasts.

Mars Conjunct Uranus

Venus Trine Uranus

Pluto in the Twelfth House  12th hs

Composite Pluto in the twelfth house signifies that this relationship will expose all kinds of previously hidden psychological characteristics, which will necessitate a strong inner psychological transformation in both of you.

Another effect of this position is a kind of "leaking out" of energy, so that the two of you unknowingly radiate an intense and powerful energy. But others react to this and often become afraid, because they do not know what the energy signifies. This situation often causes people to work against you behind your back.

The twelfth is traditionally the house of secret enemies, usually generated in the way described above. To deal with this it is necessary to be straightforward in your dealings with others and make clear to them exactly what you intend to do in any situation.

Mercury Conjunct Pluto

Jupiter Conjunct Pluto

Neptune Sextile Pluto

Pluto Conjunct Ascendant  

The conjunction of composite Pluto and Ascendant is a sign of a profound relationship. Powerful forces are at work here, which can manifest themselves either in a very positive way, a very negative way, or in some combination of positive and negative.

At its most positive, this relationship will bring out forces in each of you that will completely transform your lives and set you on a totally new path. You will feel a tremendous fascination for each other that pushes aside all other considerations.

Sometimes the fascination is felt as a sinister force leading you down an evil path, and often that sense of evil is the source of the fascination.

There is a negative side of Pluto that you may experience, particularly if this is not a very sound relationship in other ways. It can signify intense power struggles between the two of you, in which one partner feels an irresistible power emanating from the other, which deprives the first one of freedom of will. Such a relationship may be destroyed by the efforts of one partner to break away from the spell of the other.

Obviously the energy in this relationship is powerful. Unless you use this energy wisely, it could create great difficulties for both of you. Yet it is also a great opportunity to experience a relationship that can change your whole life.