When I do synastry in tropical western astrology, I spend less time on the birth charts than on the 2ndary, tertiary, and minor progressed return charts. These charts show the challenges that th individuals in question are currently facing as opposed to what it might have been like when they were deeply in love at their marriage. The 2ndary progressed return chart shows the general challenges; the tertiary progressed return chart shows challenges as filtered through the emotions and feelings; the minor progressed return charts shows planning challenges and thought challenges generally generated in the minds of the people(or person) involved. To do this properly and accurately, the quotidian bija MC method must be used. Anything else is hit or miss.
Next, I use a concept called astrodynes(which was developed over 30 years from 1919 to 1949, using many thousands of charts and statistics, and a 79 page questionnaire about the life of the person whose chart is held) to determine the Power and the Friction of the planets, the houses, the signs, and the aspects. This is especially important because without it one doesn’t know whether the impact that is seen is the power of a grain of sand on your head or the power of a bowling ball falling on your head.
I then look for each chart: the highest friction—post powerful planets of one in the highest friction—most powerful houses of the other one; and vice versa; and the aspects between the two where the planets are both high friction-high power. These combinations are the ones that will produce the most fireworks between the two people, and the challenges that are most likely to split them up.
In both cases, the most powerful and highest friction planet for both wife and husband is Mars. The outer chart in this case is the husband, and the inner the wife.
Her 8th house is her second most powerful/high friction house, and his most powerful high friction mars is in it. This may tend to cause: plotting and intrigue to be part of the relationship. Both of them can expose each other to danger; in extreme cases, this could result in death for one or both. This is a dynamic combination because of the natural Scorpio connotation of the Eighth House, as well as the astrodyne factors. This can make it quite scary for the wife as she does not have the feeling that her husband will protect her, and care for her. Additionally his High power/high friction Mars conjuncts her High friction/moderate power Saturn:
If it was a low friction relationship, then she would be able to positively assist in restraining the impulsiveness of her husband. But in this case, this is very unlikely to happen. He is much more likely to lash out in anger because of what he feels are unreasonable restraints imposed by his wife. And since this is all happening in the 8th house, she will be afraid of what he might do. She is likely to regard her husband as overly impulsive, unwise, inconsiderate, and a threat to her position, status, and especially personal security.
More…..tomorrow.
