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Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Synastry


Astrology Compatibility or Synastry is the comparison of the charts of two (or more) persons for purposes of assessing relationship. Very accurate predictions, encouragements, and well-considered warnings based on planetary aspects can me made. As with aspects in general, the most weight is given to the conjunction, followed by the opposition, the square. The other aspects weight roughly equally. The harmonious aspects of trines and sextiles are pleasant and helpful. Conjunctions and oppositions will be where the most relevant action is.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Synastry Aspects


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Conjunctions
Conjunctions show where two or more factors go together, and the sign where this occurs may indicate of how that operates. "Attraction" in relation to conjunctions, refer to all kinds of interest between people, not just romantic ones.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Oppositions
Oppositions show where one person opposes the natural thrust or way of being of the other. Sometimes oppositions can be complentary- at their optimal expression - most times they are stressful. It's hard to move forward in life
when one is constantly opposed by another, when one's valid goals and life impulses are being sabotaged or thwarted.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Squares
Squares in Synastry are pesky irritations that may never go away, but are not necessarily problematic. Squares often involve issues of "rightness," and emotional security that may be jeopardized by disagrees. They also provide "spice" and other viewpoints to consider.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Trines
Trines of suns, moons, venus (and in the same element of earth, air, fire, or water) add greatly to the potential for attraction and harmony. This is especially true of the luminaries (Sun and Moon).


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sextile
Sextile aspects add slightly to potential for communication and friendship, the possibility of building together, and helping each other to achieve goals.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun
Another's planets conjoining our Sun tend to get our attention and are hard to ignore. There are issues of respect,
power, admiration, authority, identity, self, health and vitality, well-being, self-confidence, radiance, and success.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Moon conjunct Sun
Usually a strong attraction, lots in common, quick bonding and mutual understanding, openness to each other.
Even if not a tight conjunction, having Moon and Sun in the sa sign in any degree is a very important aspect
in Synastry, and usually makes for high compatibility potential and attraction if not mitigated by other astrological
and social/ethical/therapeutic factors. Moon opposition Sun usually brings out the complentary nature of both,
and is actually a positive aspect in relationship most of the time.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Mercury conjunct Sun
Communication, ideas exchanged, ideas or approaches in common, lots to talk about, curiosity about each other.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Venus conjunct Sun
Pleasant, harmonious, helpful, possible attraction, admiration, goodwill, artistic and hobby interests in common.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Mars conjunct Sun
Stimulating, possibly sexual, high energy, warring, and conflict. The Mars person may perceive the Sun person as authoritarian,
overbearing, or egotistical. The Sun person may perceive the Mars person as argumentative, touchy, and stuck on differences.
Can be good for the short term affair to get early sexual experience. Young women often unconsciously seek out a man whose
Sun is in the same sign as their own Mars for infactuation and early sexual experiences. These relationships almost never work
out long term - too many disagreements, Hopefully the choice for marriage will be astrologically quite different from their
earlier Sun-Mars choices.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Jupiter conjunct Sun
A general blessing for both parties, and financially beneficial for the Sun person. A most auspicious aspect.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Saturn conjunct Sun
May begin as mutual admiration, but works to the detrint of the Sun person as time goes on. Good for intellectual pursuits
and admiration among colleagues or peers, and for demonstration of mastery. Both share high standards of excellence
and ethics. After a while the Saturn person will resist the Sun person's efforts and presence, and the Sun person wil
l feel he can't do anything right, that even his very best is not good enough. Danger for the Sun person is loss of confidence,
loss of vitality, loss of sparkle, golden life turned black, depression, regrets. If criticism, intellectual gas and one upsmanship,
or competition co into play, the Sun person can feel quite overwheld. Can be a very deeply bonded connection, good for
lifetime friendship, professional colleagues if not competing against each other, useful in cooperative ventures involving
design and construction. Difficult in romantic or marriage relationships, and likely to put a damper or inhibition on sexual
relations early on.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Uranus conjunct Sun
The Sun person is stimulated on many levels, and slightly unnerved or made nervous by the presence of the Uranus person.
The Sun person can never fully relax in the presence of the Uranus person. The Uranus person gives full permission
for the Sun person to be an individual, bright person, entrepreneurial, spiritually aware, alive, and socially unconventional.
A stimulating relationship for friends and associates, but could be too hard on the Sun person's health and nervous system
to be around the Uranus person all the time. The Uranus person keeps the Sun person slightly off balance, which can be
good at times for shaking up the status quo, troubleshooting, and a proverbial whack on the side of the head, but not
all the time. The Uranus person can make the Sun person more accident prone.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Neptune conjunct Sun
A gentle, intuitive, refined, spiritual quality. Shared spiritual or aesthetic interests. Telepathic rapport likely. Relationship
needs several reality checks if you're planning to do anything important together, as these two together can be unrealistic
or ungrounded, over-optimistic and starry-eyed at times.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Pluto conjunct Sun
A powerful and possibly explosive influence, one that will be deeply transformative, and may involve life an death matters,
with high intensity. For the Sun person, it's like sitting on top of a rumbling volcano, and getting your deepest fears and
subconscious stirred up where they were not before. The Sun person is likely to feel a bit intimidated and uneasy around
the Pluto person, yet there is the potential for deep telepathy and mutual empowernt. The downside is power plays and
manipulations by the Pluto person, and more intensity and pressure than the Sun person can handle long term. Always
intriguing, and not for the timid!


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Chiron conjunct Sun
The Chiron person will work magic in fascination, however the Sun person will usually have most of the power in the
relationship. The Chiron person however may prevail and succeed in life longer than the Sun person, should Sun ever
reject Chiron. Chiron bring surprises to the Sun person and tries to heal him. If the other resists the opening for healing
created by the Chiron person, the relationship breaks down, and the Chiron person may get rejected. Chiron person
will try to fascinate, and the Sun person wants to be noticed and admired. Mutual admiration, high idealism, and open
ness to effective healing work best here.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Moon
Planets aspecting our Moon deal with our natural open receptivity, needs for unconditional love and nurturing, emotional
well-being, comfort, and security - very fundamental areas of life that must be taken into account. Most aspects to the Moon
are similar to that of the Sun above.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Moon conjunct Mercury
One of the best aspects to have in any kind of relationship, fostering mutual interest and ease of communication.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Mars conjunct Moon
Exciting and irritating, and a woman's Moon conjunct a man's Mars tends to result in stress and tears for her sooner or later,
though there may be many other compatible factors. Mars tends to co on too strong, does not take the Moon person's needs
into account, and fosters emotional pain.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Mercury
Aspects have to do with communications and shared ideas. Communication is a make-or-break factor in any relationship.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Venus
Aspects lend harmony, idealism, pleasantries, ease, shared values, beauty, attraction and sotis love.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Mars
Aspects are exciting, stimulating, energizing, and sexual, but also provoking, willful, argumentative, disagreeing, loud, blaming,
accusing, and sotis violent.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Jupiter
Aspects are expansive, allowing, prospering, blessing. In Jupiter oppositions, beware of bad judgnt due to another's influence.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Saturn
Aspects are initially admiring, impressive, focusing, but later beco squelching, denying, rejecting, oppressive, critical, narrow
minded, blaming, accusatory, controlling, to the point of cold hearted cruelty - resulting in depression, apathy, hopelessness,
depression, inhibition. Saturn tends to add longevity, glue, and concrete to relationships; Saturn Conjunctions can be very
difficult to get away from, yet they sap life force and often must be gotten away from even though that's the last thing the
non-Saturn person wants to do. Saturn aspects are what the Magi Society and as well as self for many years have
called "the heartbreak aspects." No matter what the non-Saturn person does, it is rarely ever enough, rarely right, rarely good
enough to co up to the Saturn person's expectations or standards. More than speedbumps, the Saturn conjunctions especially
all too often end up being disastrous despite the best efforts of the non-Saturn person. Saturnian associations that remain
on an intellectual or more formal level with minimized contact can succeed and retain the mutual admiration.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Uranus
Aspects are exciting and stimulating on many levels, awakening, enlightening, shocking, unconventional, surprising.
Situations can begin quickly, then are over just as quickly and steriously. Useful for giving a broad variety of life experiences.
Uranus can be a shattering, explosive, and highly destructive influence if the Uranus person is so inclined. Issues of the will,
individuality, and the right to have one's own viewpoint qua viewpoint (rather than a focus on what is the truth of the matter
or best way to do sothing after fairly weighing all input).



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Neptune
Aspects are idealized, beautiful, telepathic, spiritual, feel like "soul mates." One's spiritual/religious path seems to be more
symbolized by Neptune in Synastry than Jupiter. Possibility of falsehood, lies, non-confront, oblivion, or "rose colored glasses"
on the material plane.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Pluto
Aspects are powerful, intense, stir things up at a deep level, and encourage both parties to co into their full power
in this lifetime. Full honesty, authenticity, truth told with love in a way the other can receive, ethics, and effective
therapeutic process are required to make the best use of Pluto. Courage will be needed to hangin there. Not for the timid!



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun North Node
The North Node person brings challenge, struggle, and effort to the other person's planet, whatever that planet represents.
Pay particular attention to the tight conjunctions! So people like the challenge, especially those who are bored, and others
don't like it and consider North Node Conjunctions a major bother and distraction from what they'd rather be doing.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun South Node
The South Node person brings ease, a sense of deja vu, and spirituality to the other person's planet, whatever that planet
represents. There may indeed have been a past life connection with the two of you regarding thes of that planet. Sometimes
the South Node brings worldly losses with regard to the planet in question, but most of the time it is just an easy and
comfortable connection, especially for older souls on the spiritual path.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Chiron
Aspects bring attraction and fascination, also bizarre reversals, and this can go both ways or applied to both parties.
In the circumstances of ordinary life, Chiron aspects are a mutual monkey wrench in the works and often backfire.
The Chiron dance is a fascinating, treacherous one, sort of like watching a slow train wreck - you can see it happen,
but can't stop it, and can't take your eyes off it. There can be an obsessive, hypnotized quality to Chiron connections.



There's always potential for healing with Chiron, and where effective healing is rejected, things tend to become chaotic,
with new wounds inflicted. Chiron aspects eventually 'hurt' both parties in a more involved relationship feeling very
wounded and regretting ever getting involved with the other, whereas just the fascination aspect remains in a more
detached yet humanly caring relationship.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Juno
Aspects (conjunction) tend toward the parties wanting to cooperate and partner with each other. Oppositions make partnering more difficult.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Ceres
Aspects (conjunction) tend toward Ceres unconditionally loving and nurturing the other person. Ceres conjunctions are
very helpful in relationship. Stressful Ceres oppositions tend to thwart the Ceres person receiving the nurturing and
unconditional love they need, a very bad situation. Ceres is always positive and giving and a blessing (sort of like
Moon-Venus-Jupiter all rolled into one), and having one's own Ceres stressed or opposed is not conducive to well-being
or relationship longevity.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Pallas
Aspects (conjunction) deal with the pallas person's ability to plan, make goals, intuit, and strategize for himself or others,
and how others contribute to or detract from pallas' plans. Oppositions deal with opposition to Pallas' plans or modus operandi,
a key factor is the Pallas person has strong ideas about what he wants to do and how he wants to go about it.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Vesta
Aspects tends to be an idealizing influence, shared ideals, and the warm fuzzy feeling and comraderie around shared
values and ideals, and building sothing in life based on those. Vesta oppositions deal with opposition to and frustration
of one's ideals.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Part Of Fortune
Conjunctions act like a mild Jupiter influence. I use only the conjunction for the Part of Fortune, as well as the angles (below).



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Ascendant
Conjunctions contribute to or detract from the Ascendant person's image in the world, how they project themselves in the world, and health.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Nadir
Conjunctions contribute to or detract from the Nadir person's roots, comfort, and sense of security, what happens around their home environment, and may have something to do with end of life circumstances, or life and death circumstances.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun MC
Conjunctions contribute to or detract from the MC person's reputation, especially professional reputation, standing in the world, career path, professional openings and success, fame.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Descendant
Conjunctions contribute to or detract from the Descendant person's way of being in relationship, how relationships go for them, not just with that individual but tends to spill over into all other relationships the person has as well.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun Vertex
Conjunctions are similar to Descendant aspects, sometimes even more important. The Vertex point is a mathematical
point that functions as a very sensitive secondary descendant point. Conjunctions to it by another's planets can be very
significant in committed relationships of all kinds.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sun in others' houses



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun through Y's houses
Where Person X's Sun falls into Person Y's Chart is of paramount importance, and cannot be overemphasized,
showing something of the ultimate gift, role, and emphasis that X is likely to play in Y's life.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 1st house
This is good for Y's confidence, bringing him out of his shell, giving him carte blanche to be whatever he wants
to be in life, "permission" to express himself freely. Very good for all kinds of relationships.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 2nd house
The focus is on shared values, money, and possessions. X will generally be an expensive proposition for Y,
but what X brings to Y's life may be well worth it - only Y can be the judge of that.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 3rd house
It will generally be what I call "a big talking relationship," lots to talk about, shared ideas, short trips, books, new information,
going here and there, cars and other vehicles, phone calls, more mental and sibling-like after any initial passion wears off.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 4th house
X will tend to come to live with Y, they will manifest housing and real estate together, make a nest together, examine
the dynamics of family relationships, and what makes for stability in life. Can be very good for marriage, this will tend
to be a stable and reliable relationship long term, or at least Y will prefer it as such. X becomes a "rock" of Gibraltar to Y.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 5th house
X is a lot of fun for Y and probably vice versa. 5th house is famous for love affairs. If Y wants to have children, especially many
children, X is a candidate mate to bring Y one or more children. These two may enjoy hobbies, sports, artistic pursuits, special
interests, or vacations together. Emphasis on the 5th house is about creativity, sponteneity, and celebrating the joys of life.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 6th house
The emphasis for Y is on health, work/job, service to others, and the daily routine. X can make a good employee, support staff,
headhunter, health professional or colleague for Y, but 6th house marriages can be focussed on job, health, and the daily grind
without much fun. 6th house friendships mayfocus on the healing process, workplace dynamics, and life transitions.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 7th house
One might expect this would be a great partnership or mate, however the interest may be short lived. The parties bring each
other new viewpoints to consider. X is usually the one to withdraw and lose interest, or burn out, even exhibit something of
a "scorched earth" policy in leaving a relationship, or just withdraw quietly and steriously so as not to cause a fuss, even though
Y would welcome having X around longer.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 8th house
X brings deep psychological understanding and presence to Y's life. There can be property caretaking, taking care of business
and estate issues, awareness of life and death matters, rejuvenation, renewal, and a sense of the deep richness of life.
There are sexual overtones to the relationship that may or may not be acted out, are often kept at a level of subliminal awareness.



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 9th house
X brings philosophical and religious issues, high mindedness, long distance communications and travel, books and publishing, opportunities to learn and teach and do marketing. There is usually a broad tolerance of each other's viewpoints on a wide variety of subjects. Mid-life and later-life marriages are often 9th house.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 10th house
the focus is on career openings and advancent for Y. X makes a good mentor, door opener, introducer, boss, teacher, publicist, and champion for Y. X is the more powerful and makes things happen in the world. Y tends to admire X. Because of the power disparity, normally the 10th is not the best house for marriage, which needs more of an equality to be fully successful. 10th house marriages may run aground when Y cos into his own power after being mentored by X for years.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 11th house
the focus is on friendship and more impersonal connection. Perhaps the two parties t through a common organization they belong to. It's difficult to have much long term very close connection past good friendship with soone whose Sun falls into your 11th house. The two can help each other achieve their goals and dreams in life, and make key introductions. Later-life marriages are often 11th house, but early-life 11th house marriages seldom last as these need closer connection and more intimacy. In retrospect, there can be a feeling of ships passing in the night with 11th house relationships, never quite fully connecting, or only briefly connecting.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | X's Sun falls into Y's 12th house
the focus is on metaphysics, psychology, spirituality, mysticism, intuitive developnt, the hidden undercurrents of life, causation, therapeutic process, and past lives. Sotis there is also an emphasis on long term health care, and complementary dicine. It's rare to see anyone marry successfully into their 12th house unless there's a soul agreent for long term health care with one of the parties being chronically ill, or the parties mistake a feeling of familiarity that cos with shared past lives for a sign they should be together as mates - which is not necessarily true, is actually rarely true.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Moon in others' house
X's Moon through Y's houses show an interest and a possibility that either party may entertain regarding the house in question and the relationship. Mostly it shows how Y would like to be supported in life by X, how Y wants X to contribute to or be in his life. However, so interest and a little exploration and action may be all that results, followed by sothing of a withdrawal by X. Moon in the houses is not a big factor long-term in Synastry, as a general rule, rather is more of a factor in relation to early interest and shorter term interaction.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Mercury in others' house
X's Mercury through Y's houses bring conversation and learning in the area of X's rcury sign and Y's house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Venus in others' house
X's Venus through Y'S houses brings pleasure, grace, and ease to Y's house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Mars in others' house
X's Mars through Y's houses tends to bring a bit of stimulation, commotion and noise, conflict, action, and energy into Y's house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Jupiter in others' house
X's Jupiter through Y's houses tends to bring blessing, expansion, and prosperity short term and/or long term to Y's house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Saturn in others' house
X's Saturn through Y'S houses tends to bring order, desire for organization and simplification, inhibition, a dampening effect, a minimizing, and an econo to Y's house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Uranus in others' house
X's Uranus through Y's houses tends to bring an upsetting, surprising, unconventional, exciting, enlightening trend to Y's house in question. There can be sudden changes for good or ill. Sudden changes for ill are hard on Y's nervous system.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Neptune in others' house
X's Neptune through Y's houses tends to bring an effect of subtlety and telepathy to Y's house in question. Fine distinctions are made via a more "right-brained" or gestalt awareness.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Pluto in others' house
X's Pluto through Y's houses tends to bring a deep empowernt and potential for transformation, birthing a new world directly or indirectly. When Pluto can be nurturing, intuitive, informative, mentoring, and uses power for mutual benefit and win-win, results for Y are very positive.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | North Node in others' house
X's North Node through Y's houses bring challenges, struggles, efforting to Y regarding the house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | South Node in others' house
X's South Node through Y'S houses tend to make things easy in that house for Y, though it does help for Y to get rid of the old and outworn, simplify in that area for best long-term results.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Chiron in others' house
X's Chiron through Y's houses can be an attraction factor with regard to Y's house in question, but also a monkey wrench full of unpleasant surprises and reversals of what you'd expect, in terms of how can things go wrong and not in the desired or usual direction. A lot of potential for healing and help, but also a possible minefield. The houses with Chiron are not usually as upsetting as the Conjunctions.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Juno in others' house
X's Juno through Y's houses can be a focus where partnership and connection operates well and often, and where Y expects to be supported by X.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Ceres in others' house
X's Ceres through Y's houses can be an area the Ceres person wants to give unconditional love and nurturing to Y. Simple and comfortable. Do not take Ceres for granted! Validate Ceres, and life is grand.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Pallas in others' house
X's Pallas through Y's houses can be an area the pallas person wants to apply strategy, planning, intuition and design to Y's house in question.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Vesta in others' house
X's Vesta through Y's houses can be an area where X gives Y unconditional support and trusts him to do the right thing in that area of Y's chart.


P.S. The composite chart is a different kind of relationship analysis technique. It's the 3rd chart ford by taking the near midpoints of the parties' natal charts. It can be read as a chart of the relationship.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The Sacred Marriage


Each of these astrological pairs offers us another way to evolve and to reveal our true nature as Love. In each pair, both sides of the equation are equally required. This is a sacred marriage. When we exaggerate one side and deny or condemn the other, we are playing the game of the illusion of reality. In actuality, each side points us back to the middle-back towards Love. Our lives vacillate between these poles in the dance of Creation. The length of time it takes to swing from one extreme to the other determines our degree of wisdom. The faster the swing and the more narrow the angle of swing, the more wise we are. As the swing approaches infinite speed (the speed of light) and zero angle, we experience Love; we have solved the zodiac and gone beyond paradox into a new concentric sphere of understanding and consciousness. A marriage or partnership is the ideal environment for the solving of the zodiac paradoxes-for the revealing of Love. Contrary to popular belief, however, your perfect partner-your soul mate-is not one who is like you in every way. It is one who is perfectly opposite to you in every way! This is because Love is birthed from the synthesis of opposites-of dualities. Until you have worked through each of these zodiac pairs, through many lifetimes, you are not ready for your true soul mate. In the meantime, you are in training with each and every partner you have, learning to love all aspects of yourself equally. Each aspect acts as a beacon pointing towards your true nature as Love and light. Your partners reflect the ways in which you are not Loving yourself and you reflect their issues back to them. The more you can see yourself in your partners and love yourself for what you see, the more your true soul mate will ‘appear’ in your current partner.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The Astro Investigators’ Marriage Synastry Research Project



Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Astro Investigators Hypothesis
The "Gators," have undertaken this research in the interest of beginning to unravel the complex astrological chemistry of Synastry in birth data between two persons who make a commitment to "officially" marry each other. In this particular study, we have defined "marriage" as a legal pronouncement of marriage occurring between a man and a woman, regardless of how long their marriage may or may not have lasted. Our hypothesis is that there is much more to observe statistically through researching Marriage Synastry than what can be described in simple, common statements like, "There must be a Venus-Mars or Sun-Moon-Angle contact or a strong 7th house between two people for a marriage to occur."


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Data and Research Considerations



Our birth data comes from various verified sources: data that is readily available to the astrological community, data solicited by us through the questionnaire on our Gators’ website [www.astroinvestigators.com], and data donated to us. We would like to thank all of the people who have contributed data to this project.


The research program that we are employing for all of our research is "Astro Investigator" by AIR Software. The current design of the software uses a precisely timed Natal chart for the reference or "inner" chart. The Synastry or "outer" chart is treated as a "noon chart" in relation to the reference chart. Using the analogy of looking at a bi-wheel chart, we use the reference chart and its house cusps as the central chart, and place the planets of the Synastry chart, calculated for noon, around the outside of the reference chart. Thus it is possible to research aspects and other events involving faster moving points like the angles (Ascendant and Midheaven), Vertex, Part of Fortune and Moon in the reference chart without using those points in the Synastry chart. We can accomplish an accurate Synastry study even if an exact time is known for only one of the two partners by putting the untimed chart around the outside of the chart with a known time.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Using the following Astrological Points in this study of Marriage Synastry



For the inner, reference charts: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Lunar Mean North Node (hereafter referred to as the North Node), Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Ascendant, Descendant, Part of Fortune, East Point and the Vertex (21 total) For the outer, Synastry charts: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, North Node, Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta (15 total) Other parameters we have defined for this study are:


Using only the 5 Ptolemaic aspects (conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition) Using a 7-degree orb in our aspect studies Using the Placidus House System when incorporating houses Setting the critical limit for chi-square at 2.0 or above to be considered as having a statistically significant influence Setting the critical number of occurrences in our analyze group at 20 or above in order for an aspect to be considered as having a statistically significant influence Using a large number of control groups, generated using a random distributed age algorithm, to compare against each of our two data files being analyzed – 15 initially and later 20 for a second run of the study We used two gender-specific data files to create our "analyze group" (the group of files to be tested). One file contains 749 charts of men (Rodden Rating "B" or better) with birth dates ranging from Jan 29, 1874 - July 13, 1978, coupled with their female partner’s charts, calculated for noon, whose birth dates range from Nov. 28, 1873 to May 13, 1987. The other data file contains 829 charts of women (Rodden Rating "B" or better) with birth dates ranging from Mar 20 1831 - July 21, 1983, coupled with their male partner’s charts calculated for noon, whose birth dates range from May 22, 1813 to June 24, 1980. Both data files include instances in which persons may have been married more than once and may therefore be coupled with more than one spouse in the study.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Sharing our Results



One of our goals is to share our research results with the community at large in order allow astrologers and other researchers to view our findings to see whether or not they support common astrological axioms with statistical validity.


We are making the following tools available for free on The Gators’ website so that everyone can easily sort and analyze all of our results for themselves:


an EXCEL spreadsheet (zipped) containing all of our result data a link to download Microsoft’s free EXCEL Viewer, in the event that you don’t have EXCEL installed on your computer AIR Software’s AlmaFont to be able to view the astrological glyphs present in the EXCEL sheet, in the event that you don’t have an AIR program installed on your computer. a 20-minute NetU2 MediaCam video showing the numerous ways you can filter and sort through the results in our EXCEL spreadsheet to find the statistical information in which you are interested a link to download the NetU2 MediaPlayer, in the event that you don’t have this player installed on your computer Introduction to Our Observations


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The Astro Investigator program



Developed by Alphee Lavoie and Sergey Tarasov, allows for a vast variety of chart factors to be analyzed and compared to a number of test groups that the program generates. Comparing to each group is like a "roll of the dice." In assessing what factors occur more often, or more seldom (which is also telling) to an extent which is "greater than chance" for a given population, those rolls represent "chance." The program lets you choose how many times you want to roll the dice. We ran the program’s calculations on our file of married people initially with 15 rolls. Some of the Gators had already reported their observations based on those results before the study was run a second time with 20 rolls. We present results from both studies, noting whether the source of the findings was the15-roll or 20-roll set of results. At the conclusion of our reports, you’ll see a discussion of the differences between the results of the two studies in the section entitled Duplicating The Study.


What we look for are not merely phenomena that occur with a high frequency, but a high frequency compared to what would be expected in a random population. That’s what constitutes "statistical significance," or "greater than chance" occurrences. The extent to which a factor is present in a certain test population versus the control group(s) to which it is compared is measured on a scale known in statistics as "chi-square." The higher the chi-square number, the greater is the likelihood that the factor didn’t occur coincidentally.


The Astro Investigator program generates random control groups by creating fictitious birth data from the same range of dates and places as the births of the data file of the group of charts being tested, referred to as the analyze group.


The program reports the results as the number of occurrences in the analyze group and then lists the average for the control groups as well as the range of occurrences in the control groups. For instance, the husband’s Juno conjunct the wife’s Juno occurred 61 times in our test group and on average 41 times (with a range of 31 to 52 times) in the 15 control groups. The program also designates whether the test group’s occurrence number is considered "Often", "Seldom" or of "No Influence" and what the chi-square number is. We can have high chi-square numbers for either Often or Seldom occurrences, but No Influence would, by definition, have a very low chi-square number. The program also expresses the degree to which an occurrence (whether Often or Seldom) is greater than chance in terms of a percentage. There is a direct correlation between the chi-square number and the Percentage Above Chance. The percentage is just another way of expressing the same concept, in terms that the average person can understand better. Chi-square is something that statisticians use but not usually the lay public. In the example above, it would say "Often" with a very high chi-square number of 9.8, for a "percent greater than chance" of 99.8. Thus we know it’s much more than chance for that Synastry aspect to occur in married couples.


The program lists the results but is not at present designed to allow sorting of the results by individual criteria. For that, we export the results into a spreadsheet.


We purposely set aside aspects between slow moving planets such as Neptune sextile Pluto, which was present in the charts of people born for decades from the early 1940s through the remainder of the 20th Century. Using a 7-degree orb and considering that many people marry partners fairly close in age, the extremely high frequency of this aspect renders it less meaningful as a significant personal factor in Synastry. For example, in our second running of the study (with 20 control groups), the wife’s Pluto sextile the husband’s Neptune scored Often with a whopping 27.7 chi-square, reflective of the high number of people born in that date range. Also due to generational aspects, the husband’s Pluto conjunct the wife’s Neptune is in the Seldom category with a high chi-square of 8.4.


The vast majority of the aspects from one partner’s chart to the others that we analyzed (2,338 of 3,126 = 75% in our first running of the data) showed NO INFLUENCE. Their occurrences were not significant statistically on either an Often or Seldom basis. But that leaves the other 25% to analyze.


As we went into this study, we hoped to see which of traditional astrology’s expectations for Synastry hold up under the scrutiny of statistical analysis. Is there a strong likelihood for couples to have aspects between their Suns and Moons, or between their Mars and Venus placements? Do the Nodes factor in? What about the Ascendant (and thus the Descendant, by implication), or the Vertex? (That’s the intersection in the west of two Great Circles, the Prime Vertical and the Ecliptic, thought by L. Edward Johndro and Charles Jaynes to indicate relationship circumstances that seem beyond one’s personal control.)


Our observations from our initial round of research are listed below. We plan to continue with follow-on studies. For instance, we did not check placements of one spouse’s planets in the other spouse’s houses, so that will be in the next round. This first project focused specifically on the Ptolemaic aspects between marriage partners’ natal planets.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Gators’ Observations of Ptolemaic Aspects in Marriage Synastry



Most Aspected Chart Points (based on the 20-roll study)


After Pluto, the ASC was the most "OFTEN" aspected point in the Male Natal Chart File. The trine occurred as the most "OFTEN" aspect in our Male Natal Chart File. The 3 most aspected "SELDOM" points in our Male Natal Chart File, in order, are: Uranus, North Node and Mercury. The square occurred as the most "SELDOM" aspect in our Male Natal Chart File. The top 4 most "OFTEN" aspected planets in our Female File were: Neptune, Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. Sextile and Trine were the top 2 most "OFTEN" aspects in female natal charts. The infamous "marriage" asteroid, Juno came in as the lowest of the most "SELDOM" aspected points in our Female natal chart file. The Sun came in the highest. The square was the highest of the most "SELDOM" aspects in the female file, followed by the sextile. Sun – Overall, there are more aspects to the Sun than to any other planet. 1 There are 15 Often aspects and 13 Seldom aspects. Of these, there are 11 Often occurrences to the wife’s Sun and 9 Seldom occurrences to the wife’s Sun, compared to 4 Often occurrences to the husband’s Sun and only 4 Seldom occurrences to the husband’s Sun. It would appear therefore that the Sun is more significant an indicator for marriage in a woman’s chart than in a man’s. Neptune, Mercury and Juno are involved in the greatest number of aspects to the wife’s Sun. Mars, Uranus and Pallas are involved in the fewest number of aspects to her Sun.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | After the Sun, Juno is the next most aspected heavenly body.



After the Sun, Juno is the next most aspected heavenly body. There are 10 Often occurrences and 5 Seldom occurrences. The occurrence frequencies are divided more evenly than the Sun’s; Juno is a significant indicator of marriage for both men and women. The wife’s Sun and Mars Often oppose the husband’s Juno; the husband’s Venus, Mars and Mercury Often trine the wife’s Juno.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The planet receiving the third greatest number of aspects is Jupiter.



Jupiter -The planet receiving the third greatest number of aspects is Jupiter. There are 12 Often occurrences, 9 aspecting the wife’s Jupiter. And there are 12 Seldom occurrences, 7 of which are aspects to the husband’s Jupiter.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Moon, Mars and Venus are all significant in the husband’s chart.



Moon, Mars and Venus are all significant in the husband’s chart, more so than the wife’s, as indicators of marriage: 6 of 8 Often occurrences for the Moon, 7 of 10 Often occurrences for Venus, and 8 of 10 Often occurrences for Mars are aspects to the husband’s natal planet.


1 Neptune-to-Neptune and Pluto-to-Pluto conjunctions are excluded here.


Top Often and Seldom (based on 15-roll study)


Analyze Group Control Avg.(Range) Chi Sq. %


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | OFTEN - top 10 from husband’s chart to wife’s chart.



his Vertex conjunct her North Node 41 23 (15 .. 28) 14.1 100.0
his Asc square her Ceres 68 45 (29 .. 59) 11.8 99.9
his Juno conjunct her Juno 61 41 (31 .. 52) 9.8 99.8
his Pluto trine her Ceres 81 58 (50 .. 69) 9.1 99.7
his Pallas conjunct her Pallas 56 38 (28 .. 52) 8.5 99.6
his East Point sextile her Neptune 63 44 (30 .. 52) 8.2 99.6
his Saturn sextile her Ceres 75 55 (45 .. 69) 8.0 99.5
his Pallas sextile her Jupiter 77 56 (42 .. 65) 7.9 99.5
his Sun conjunct her Sun 45 30 (20 .. 37) 7.5 99.4
his Pallas conjunct her Sun 41 27 (20 .. 38) 7.3 99.3


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | OFTEN - top 10 from wife’s chart to husband’s chart.



her Vesta sextile his North Node 87 62 (53 .. 71) 10.1 99.8
her Pluto opposite his Chiron 66 45 (37 .. 55) 9.8 99.8
her Vertex opposite his North Node 39 24 (17 .. 36) 9.4 99.8
her Ceres conjunct his Ceres 50 33 (17 .. 41) 8.8 99.7
her Part of Fortune conjunct his Pluto 41 26 (18 .. 37) 8.7 99.7
her Vesta opposite his Pluto 51 34 (29 .. 43) 8.5 99.6
her Venus conjunct his Pallas 47 31 (24 .. 47) 8.3 99.6
her Saturn trine his Vesta 83 61 (50 .. 74) 7.9 99.5
her Saturn square his Pallas 85 63 (54 .. 73) 7.7 99.4
her Moon sextile his Sun 87 65 (52 .. 83) 7.4 99.4


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | SELDOM - top 10 from husband’s chart to wife’s chart



his MC conjunct her Sun 7 23 (13 .. 32) 11.1 99.9
his North Node sextile her Saturn 36 57 (48 .. 66) 7.7 99.5
his Mercury square her Juno 39 60 (40 .. 72) 7.4 99.3
his Uranus sextile her Vesta 40 61 (44 .. 76) 7.2 99.3
his Saturn opposite her Mars 15 29 (20 .. 38) 6.8 99.1
his East Point square her Sun 29 46 (37 .. 61) 6.3 98.8
his Jupiter conjunct her Uranus 18 32 (21 .. 40) 6.1 98.7
his East Point opposite her Saturn 12 24 (15 .. 33) 6.0 98.6
his Saturn square her Saturn 35 52 (42 .. 69) 5.6 98.2
his MC square her Pallas 32 48 (37 .. 59) 5.3 97.9


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | SELDOM - top 10 from wife’s chart to husband’s chart



her Saturn sextile his North Node 41 66 (48 .. 82) 9.5 99.8
her Vesta opposite his Vesta 15 32 (20 .. 39) 9.0 99.7
her Asc square his Jupiter 29 50 (39 .. 65) 8.8 99.7
her Vesta sextile his Uranus 44 68 (54 .. 76) 8.5 99.6
her Vesta opposite his Pallas 17 33 (24 .. 47) 7.8 99.5
her Saturn square his Mercury 42 64 (51 .. 78) 7.6 99.4
her Sun opposite his Chiron 19 35 (28 .. 45) 7.3 99.3
her Venus opposite his Neptune 17 32 (23 .. 39) 7.0 99.2
her Jupiter sextile his Mars 45 66 (59 .. 79) 6.7 99.1
her Mars opposite his Saturn 16 30 (21 .. 38) 6.5 99.0


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Comparing Our Results to Classic Assumptions (based on the 20-roll study)



The classic assumption in astrology is that there must be a combination of Venus and/or Mars contact to one another’s charts for good Synastry between two people. The Gators study found only three Venus-Mars combinations with a chi-square of 2.0 or greater (our cut-off point) and they were either a sextile or trine:


Analyze Group Control Groups Chart 1 (Primary) Aspect Chart 2 ( Synastry) Occur-rence ChiSq % above chance
75 58 (46..72) Husband's Venus sextile Wife's Mars Often 5.0 97.50%
67 55 (43..72) Husband's Mars trine Wife's Venus Often 2.6 89.40%
77 65 (56..78) Wife's Mars sextile Husband's Venus Often 2.2 86.30%


The late John Willner was one of many astrologers who was quite outspoken about the absolute necessity in Synastry for there to be at least one strong conjunction of either Sun-Moon-ASC in one chart to the Sun-Moon-ASC in the other. Since the set up for this research project cannot use fast moving points like the Ascendant, the Midheaven and the Moon in the second chart, let’s take a look at the results for the second chart’s Sun making a conjunction to any point in the primary chart. Here are our findings in order of the highest chi-squares:


Analyze Group Control Groups Chart 1 (Primary) Aspect Chart 2 ( Synastry) Occur-rence ChiSq % above chance
38 24(18..32) Wife's Vertex conjunct Husband's Sun Often 8.2 99.60%
41 28(18..36) Husband's Pallas conjunct Wife's Sun Often 6 98.60%
45* 32(23..45) Husband's Sun conjunct Wife's Sun Often 5.3 97.80%
42* 31(24..40) Wife's Sun conjunct Husband's Sun Often 3.9 95.20%
33 24(20..30) Wife's ASC conjunct Husband's Sun Often 3.4 93.40%
33 24(16..34) Wife's East Point conjunct Husband's Sun Often 3.4 93.40%


* See the Data and Research Considerations section above for the explanation of why the results for husband’s Sun conjunct wife’s Sun can differ from those for wife’s Sun conjunct husband’s Sun.


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Since the publication of The Key to Success in Love



and Money by the Magi Society, there has been much curiosity about Chiron’s role in marriage Synastry. Here are the significant aspects in our results between Chiron in both charts and those points moving quicker than Chiron (in order of the highest chi-squares):


Analyze Group Control Groups Chart 1 (Primary) Aspect Object 2 ( Synastry) Occur-rence ChiSq % above chance
36 25(18..32) Wife's Part of Fortune opposition Husband's Chiron Often 4.8 97.20%
72 57(44..67) Husband's Chiron square Wife's Ceres Often 3.9 95.30%
67 53(41..69) Husband's Chiron trine Wife's Pallas Often 3.7 94.50%
76 62(51..76) Wife's Pallas trine Husband's Chiron Often 3.2 92.40%
41 31(21..41) Wife's Vesta conjunct Husband's Chiron Often 3.2 92.70%
67 54(33..64) Wife's Chiron sextile Husband's Saturn Often 3.1 92.30%
69 56(41..68) Husband's Chiron sextile Wife's Sun Often 3 91.80%
70 57(47..70) Wife's Saturn square Husband's Chiron Often 3 91.50%
71 58(46..70) Husband's Vesta trine Wife's Chiron Often 2.9 91.20%
67 55(46..66) Husband's Chiron trine Wife's Jupiter Often 2.6 89.40%
58 47(36..65) Wife's ASC sextile Husband's Chiron Often 2.6 89.10%
82 69(55..85) Wife's Chiron trine Husband's Vesta Often 2.4 88.20%
73 61(45..84) Wife's Mercury sextile Husband's Chiron Often 2.4 87.60%
77 65(54..82) Wife's Sun sextile Husband's Chiron Often 2.2 86.30%
80 68(56..87) Wife's Chiron trine Husband's Mars Often 2.1 85.40%
39 31(18..40) Wife's Chiron conjunct Husband's Venus Often 2.1 84.90%
39 31(21..42) Wife's Chiron conjunct Husband's North Node Often 2.1 84.90%
31 24(17..38) Husband's Chiron conjunct Wife's Mars Often 2 84.70%


Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | From the study using 15 rolls:



Seldoms that defy conventional astrological teachings (although not very high chi-square):


his Venus conjunct her Sun 23 31 (25 .. 36) 2.1 84.9
his Venus trine her Mars 47 60 (48 .. 80) 2.8 90.7





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Astrology has taught us that strong Synastry should exist with aspects like the following. How did they stack up? (O = Often, S = Seldom, N = No Influence)



his Moon conjunct her Sun N 32 29 (22 .. 36) 0.3 42.3
her Mars conjunct his Venus N 29 32 (22 .. 37) 0.3 40.4
her Mars trine his Venus S 52 67 (54 .. 77) 3.4 93.3
her Mars sextile his Venus O 77 63 (46 .. 79) 3.1 92.2
his Venus conjunct her Venus N 32 33 (21 .. 43) 0.0 7.5
her Venus conjunct his Venus N 38 32 (23 .. 43) 1.1 71.1
her Mercury conjunct his Mercury O 39 29 (23 .. 38) 3.4 93.7
his Mercury conjunct her Mercury N 31 30 (23 .. 42) 0 8.3
his Asc opposite her Sun N 23 23 (14 .. 37) 0.0 0.0
her Asc opposite his Sun O 32 26 (21 .. 33) 1.4 76.1
his Asc opposite her Mars N 22 20 (13 .. 34) 0.2 34.6
her Asc opposite his Moon (2nd person’s chart isn’t timed, so can’t compare*)
her Asc opposite his Venus N 22 26 (18 .. 35) 0.6 56.5
her North Node opposite his Moon (can’t compare, see above)
her North Node opposite his Venus N 29 30 (20 .. 39) 0.0 8.3
his North Node opposite her Sun N 24 30 (22 .. 41) 1.2 72.7
his North Node opposite her Mars N 35 29 (22 .. 36) 1.2 73.5
his North Node opposite her Juno N 24 29 (20 .. 37) 0.9 64.7
her North Node opposite his Juno N 39 34 (24 .. 47) 0.7 60.9
his Venus conjunct her Mars N 24 29 (19 .. 37) 0.9 64.7
his Mars conjunct her Venus N 27 28 (18 .. 41) 0.0 8.9
her Saturn conjunct his Venus O 39 30 (19 .. 40) 2.7 90.0
his Saturn conjunct her Venus N 30 29 (14 .. 36) 0.0 8.6


* The Moon moves 12-15 degrees in a day, so with a "noon chart" for the second person and a 7-degree orb, we do pick up aspects for the Moon [read: throughout the day, but we don’t want to treat them as definitive.





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Here are the results for some aspects classic astrology would expect to occur Seldomly (none turned out to be Seldom):



his Saturn square her Venus N 54 56 (48 .. 69) 0.1 17.7
her Saturn square his Venus N 59 67 (58 .. 75) 1.0 67.1
her Chiron conjunct his Sun N 33 30 (19 .. 40) 0.3 41.7
his Chiron conjunct her Sun N 28 28 (19 .. 37) 0.0 0.0
her Chiron conjunct his Venus O 39 30 (22 .. 39) 2.7 90.0
his Chiron conjunct her Venus N 30 26 (18 .. 33) 0.6 56.5





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The Descendant (opposite the Ascendant) represents marriage and one’s partnership potential. What factors scored high?



her Asc opposite his Pallas O 39 27 (17 .. 33) 5.3 97.9
her Asc opposite his Pluto S 14 23 (17 .. 30) 3.5 94.0
his Asc opposite her Ceres O 33 24 (17 .. 32) 3.4 93.4
her Asc opposite his Chiron S 19 28 (13 .. 37) 2.9 91.1
his Asc opposite her Jupiter S 16 23 (16 .. 29) 2.1 85.5





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The asteroids seem to warrant a place in Synastry!



Juno (mythologically the wife of Zeus) is said to be a marriage indicator. Is it?
his Juno conjunct her Juno O 61 41 (31 .. 52) 9.8 99.8
her Juno trine his Venus O 85 66 (56 .. 82) 5.5 96.1
her Juno conjunct his North Node S 20 32 (23 .. 39) 4.5 96.6
her Juno trine his Mars O 77 61 (47 .. 79) 4.2 95.9
his Juno trine her Vesta O 69 55 (49 .. 67) 3.6 94.1
Juno holds up to its traditional reputation well.





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Uranian astrologers see the Nodes as points of association or connection between people. What are the most significant Node aspects in our study?



his North Node sextile her Saturn S 36 57( 48 .. 66) 7.7 99.5
his North Node square her North Node O 46 31 (19 .. 40) 7.3 99.3
his North Node opposite her North Node O 32 20 (15 .. 25) 7.2 99.3
his North Node square her Uranus S 43 61 (52 .. 79) 5.3 97.9
his North Node sextile her Vesta O 75 58 (46 .. 65) 5.0 97.5
her North Node sextile his Pallas S 50 68 (54 .. 75) 4.8 97.1
her North Node trine his Venus S 41 57 (44 .. 70) 4.5 96.6
his North Node conjunct her Juno S 18 29 (24 .. 41) 4.2 95.9
her North Node square his Juno O 79 63 (53 .. 75) 4.1 95.6


It is interesting to note that although his North Node square her North Node occurs significantly Often, the reverse is not true!


her North Node square his North Node S 54 69 (57 .. 91) 3.3 92.8]
North Node Often
In looking at the highest chi-square, we find the husband’s Vertex conjunct the North Node of the wife, with chi-square of 14.1. The opposite – the wife’s Vertex opposing the husband’s North Node – was the third highest nodal chi-square at 9.4. The North Node of one partner square or opposite the North Node of the other partner score high, 7.3 and 7.2, respectively. (This study did not discriminate between waxing or waning in the square aspect.)
North Node Seldom
The top five chi-squares are trines and sextiles to the Node: Saturn sextile 9.5, East Point sextile 5.6, Vertex trine 5.4, Uranus sextile 5.2, North Node trine 4.5. The North Node’s highest Seldoms – three of which are Vertex, North Node and East Point – involve contacts with points derived from Great Circles.





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | The Vertex is said by some to be an important factor in Synastry. What influence does it have? Here are the top 10 results:



his Vertex conjunct her North Node O 41 23 (15 .. 28) 14.1 100.0
her Vertex opposite his North Node O 39 14 (17 .. 36) 7.8 99.8
his Vertex trine her Ceres O 64 46 (36 .. 55) 7.0 99.2
her Vertex conjunct his Sun O 38 26 (18 .. 33) 5.5 98.1
her Vertex trine his North Node S 37 54 (44 .. 64) 5.4 97.9
his Vertex opposite Vesta S 13 24 (17 .. 32) 5.0 97.6
his Vertex sextile her Ceres S 32 47 (39 .. 63) 4.8 97.1
his Vertex conjunct her Uranus S 13 23 (18 .. 29) 4.3 96.3
her Vertex square his Venus S 40 55 (46 .. 63) 4.1 95.7
her Vertex opposite his Mercury S 15 25 (15 .. 35) 4.0 95.5


The Vertex-Nodal involvement appears to be significant with the conjunction and opposition aspects but not with the trine. With the Vertex, there is the Anti-Vertex opposite it, just as the South Node is opposite the North Node, so we’re dealing with an axis with their conjunctions and oppositions, whereas that is not the case with the trines or sextiles. Her Vertex opposite his North Node means her Vertex is conjunct his South Node, a point that we’re taught has to do with past life connections. The Often occurrence of her Vertex conjunct his Sun fits well with traditional teachings that Sun can represent a significant male in a woman’s life.





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Duplicating the Study



For our initial study, we used a set of 15 random control groups. We re-ran the study using 20 random control groups, essentially duplicating our own study, to determine if our initial results were consistently repeatable using the same test group of charts and, if not, to determine how many random control groups are needed to achieve reliable results. Control groups are generated fresh for each running of the study, so the control group average and range numbers change from study to study, impacting the chi-square number and "percentage above chance." If the second study’s results closely mimic the initial results, it indicates that the significant factors found in the initial study are indeed greater than chance since there were a lot more "rolls of the dice" to compare against.





Astrology Love Marriage Relationships | Here are the top five husband and wife winners from the 15-roll study compared to the 20-roll study:



15 rolls ; 20 rolls
Chi Sq % Chi Sq %


husband’s Vertex conjunct wife’s North Node 14.1 100.0 14.1 100.0
husband’s Asc square wife’s Ceres 11.8 99.9 8.3 99.6
husband’s Juno conjunct wife’s Juno 9.8 99.8 41.3 100.0
husband’s Pluto trine wife’s Ceres 9.1 99.7 < 5.0
husband’s Pallas conjunct wife’s Pallas 8.5 99.6 5.5 98.1
wife’s Vesta sextile husband’s North Node 10.1 99.8 < 5.0
wife’s Pluto opposite husband’s Chiron 9.8 99.8 7.7 99.4
wife’s Vertex opposite husband’s North Node 9.4 99.8 7.8 99.5
wife’s Ceres conjunct husband’s Ceres 8.8 99.7 12.1 99.9
wife’s Part of Fortune husband’s his Pluto 8.7 99.7 11.6 99.9


While some of the chi-square numbers in this comparison differ quite a bit, their "percentage greater than chance" numbers are often quite close. For each gender, 4 out of the 5 top scorers in the 15-roll study are also highly significant in the 20-roll study, a good indication of the reliability of the results.