I wasn't going to use the negative word!!!
Anyways, I just went onto Astrodienst' free chart service, http:www.astro.com, and you can now do a relationship chart. Well, I did one, but I can't read it!!!! What does it mean??? How do I read it? I am soooooo curious........Could anyone give me a few hints or clues so I don't have to buy a book? Thank you, thank you, thank you

Jovette,

I have not looked there, but a relationship chart is a chart between two people, and it is a blending of their birth dates, times and places, i.e., what one does (and a computer is the only really accurate way to do it) is to take the mid-point of those times and places.

I will give an example. Person A was born on January 1, 1999, at 6:00 AM (and we will assume for the moment they are born in the same place). Person B was born at 10:00 AM on January 5, 1999.

So the chart is cast for January 3, 1999 at 8:00 AM - halfway between both of them. Now, if one were born at 40n00 75 E 00 and the other at 40s00 75 w 00, then the longitude and latitude would be 0n/s 00, 0 e/w.

The author of this technique was Patrick Davidson, and there is a book out on it, and there are others also.

By the way, there is another technique that is similar, called composite charts - and in this case, the planetary positions are added and divided by two. Robert Hand has an excellent book called Planets in Composite which details this methodlogy.

Of the two, the relationship method is the better of the two, for it midpoints time, and not space (which in the cases of some planets there will be some difference because of orbital mechanics which I will NOT go into), and once the chart is done using the relationship method, Rob's book can be used for interpretations.

Dave

Jovette,

If it's a composite chart, Robert Hand has the best book out there that I've seen. His material is kind of dry but an excellent source to learn from. If it's a composite chart, it's probably best to bite the bullet and buy the book. I'll check the site out in a little bit and see if they're doing comparisons or composite charts.

Auriel

Sorry Jovette, but that site is tedious and not user friendly in the least. Give me the exact url where you can get the relationship report and I'll look at it. What exactly are you looking for? I know of a site that'll do comparisons chart for you but not the composite charts. What's your purpose for the charts? That'll have a lot to do with which chart you actually want.

Sorry,
Auriel

The url is http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/ade.cgi to order a relationship chart for 2 people. I was curious of a chart between me and a certain person, to see what our "ties" are, if we have certain aspects that mean we are meant to be together, etc.
Thanks everyone for responding. (I do have Robert Hand's Planets in Transit and do look up my daily transits.)

Jovette,

A quick comment - relationship and composite charts are a way of combining the energy of the two people in question. There is another facet of this called synastry, in which the two charts are looked at for astrological connections between the two.

If you are really serious about looking at the relationship, then it is best to do both the relationship/composite chart AND the synastry (and there a number of books out on the synastry).

BTW - if you are doing this, then you should share that with that person, and let him (I'm assuming) know what you find out.

Dave