Elsa Panizzon, author and creator of the astrology blog Elsa Elsa.com describes a Composite Chart this way,
"As for calculating a composite chart, there are various ways but most common is to take the midpoint between the two Suns and that becomes the Composite Sun. The midpoint between the Moons becomes the Composite Moon, etc. I like this method probably due the Libra in my chart as the two individuals meet in the middle and this becomes the relationship. :)"
Why Astrology?
The short answer is why not.
Astrologer Liz Greene from Astro.co presented a seminar given on April 27, 1997 "One and one equals three Relationships and how to survive them." I found the seminar in print while researching this article for VardoForTwo. The entire seminar on The Composite Chart by Liz Greene can be found here. Part of Greene's work is used here to set the stage for viewing the relationship that includes the challenges of living with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities). Greene said:
The composite doesn't seem to describe what either person feels about the other...When we are looking at a composite chart, we are not exploring what two people activate in each other or feel about each other. We are interpreting the energy field they generate between them. The composite chart is like a child, a third entity which carries the genetic imprints of both parents but combines these imprints in an entirely new way and exists independently of either of them...My motives for digging into the composite chart as a form of navigation stem from the very real and often times confusing cross-roads Pete and I find ourselves at over and over again. One of my favorite readings from the book Courage to Change reminds me that confusion can sometimes be a gift. "Looking back on instances when I felt desperately in need of an immediate solution, I can see that often I wasn't ready to act. When I became fully ready, the information I needed was there for the taking."
We are not a young couple starting a new relationship. We are instead a couple in our 60's who came together late in life, and with us we brought a life-time of energy and history, and modes of thinking and behaving. Seven years ago, a boatload of challenges pulled up with our names on it. The boatload is often more than we can understand or tolerate without help.
It has been my choice to seek out astrology as a compass when inner guidance seems mis-placed. Since the intent of the Composite Chat/Report is to 'interprete the energy field (two people) generate between them' I saw this as an opportunity. All relationships generate an energy field between them. The added dimension of a relationship coping and managing the effects of MCS with its changing manifestations deserves all the insight available. Astrology and the Composite Chart of two people living with the choices of others (and who among us doesn't) is a means to make sense of things that are beyond our control, and like all spiritual paths, there are so many ways to get there from here. Rather like redirecting the energy we have used trying to fight the illness, tools like this Composite Report aids in recovering and shoring up from the effects of the illness.
The bones of this article is the Composite Report prepared for Pete and me by Elsa Panizzon from the astrology blog ElsaElsa.com. Elsa did not calculate and narrate the report personally. She uses the software available to her to do the composite, and provides this service at a price affordable for many, including us. I have culled the report and used particular aspects, planet positions and narration to shed light on the way our relationship might respond to episodes, exposures and challengres specific to our journey with MCS.
Our journey in VardoForTwo is a boatload of experiences that could benefit from insight we might otherwise mis-understand as oppression without cause. The Composite Report that follows points out and lays out the combined energy and talents from a broad view. It helps to see what others see in you, sometimes it's tough to get that vantage point when you're busy bailing water.
