Synastry

Composite chart readings

A composite chart is built from the midpoints between two people's charts, so it is one chart for the pair rather than a chart for either person. These readings say what a placement in it stands for in a pair's shared chart.

The midpoint of each pair of planets, and of the two Ascendants and Midheavens, gives the composite its own planets, signs and houses. It is read the way a birth chart is read, as a description of the pair as a whole.

None of this is a verdict. A single placement never describes a whole relationship, and astrology is a tradition of interpretation rather than a body of established fact.

Draw two charts or read the house overlays.