A Piece of the Action
2005. It is Holocaust Memorial Day, the Mars-Pluto conjunction has taken over my Q(uotidian) IC, and all I want to do now is research into the cosmic roots of human brutality. I want to look again at Q-charts, first introduced in Small World, and push them to the astrological limit. So my Nazi file is filling up - and every pair of Q-charts is delivering. Time after time, setting up one chart for the other’s time and zone brings planets onto the angles fundamental to the roles the two people play in each other’s life. With Hitler and his henchmen, almost always these are Saturn, Uranus, Pluto or the Nodes; Nazism is all about power and a mighty spiritual hubris. Most of the data is in Lois Rodden’s AstroData and the Clifford 2000, so you may be able and inclined to explore for yourself. And when you apply the same simple technique to your own partnerships or battles, the reasons for the persistence of this one, the intensity of that one, or the other that never got off the ground will become crystal clear.
What You See Is What You Get
Q-Charts give ‘WYSIWYG’ a whole new spin. Whether it is a passing day in your life you are looking at, or a day whose patterns manifest as your lover, your boss or your child, whatever other synastry you share, you can only attach yourself to it at one point - the moment of your own birth-time. That is literally the angle from which you see that person or the day’s events. If there are planets on Meridian or Horizon, the bond will be all the more meaningful; if there are none, then nothing intense is going on - you aren’t bringing out any particular quality in them, or demanding anything specific from them; nothing is expected and nothing projected. Angular planets in Q-charts mean expectations, projections or demands on the part of the ‘Timer’ that invariably elicit a planetary response from the ‘Dater’, bringing out in him or her the very qualities that the ‘Timer’ sees in them. This is why we so frequently ask, “What does she see in him?” or “What’s in this for me? What do I get out of this relationship?” This is why “One man’s meat is another man’s poison”. This is why embattled celebrities complain, “everyone wants a piece of me!” and the lively grab for “a piece of the action”. This is why it can be so difficult to shift attitudes towards people that seem to fly in the face of reason.
We can make some useful statements about Synastry as a whole now, I think, to set Q-charts in their context.
SHARED SIGNS or SIMILAR PATTERNS show our likeness to, hence liking for, each other.
MUTUAL ASPECTS show our comfort/discomfort with each other.
COMPOSITES show what we mean to each other.
MUTUAL MIDPOINTS show what we turn on in each other.
DWAD synastry shows what we secretly feel and think about each other - the hidden truth.
DRACONIC/TROPICAL synastry shows our compatibility or otherwise of belief, principle, and mission.
SIDEREAL/TROPICAL synastry shows the social roles we may play together.
X-CHARTS ... are for later! Manipulative, and fascinating.
Q-CHARTS show what we uniquely see in, demand of, and/or bring out in each other; hence the nature and destiny of the bond.
I want to mine this rich seam far more thoroughly later on, but a few brief examples may whet your appetite:
* A severe migraine meant I should cancel an appointment, but a colleague bullied me into his car and on to the venue where I had an apparently successful but physically miserable evening. He then drove someone else home before me, while I was almost weeping in the back seat. His birth time on my birthday was Sunset; this promised a boost to my interests - but the enterprise collapsed with Neptune at the IC. He uniquely tapped into both my strength and my weakness! As for my time on his day - a culminating Mars/Uranus (conjunct my own Saturn) tells the whole sad story.
* By contrast, the British comedy-writing team responsible for the classic “Dad’s Army” and “Hi-de-Hi!”, Jimmy Croft and David Perry joyously exchange Jupiters! - David bringing the laughter planet to Jimmy’s Ascendant, and Jimmy drawing David’s Jupiter to his Meridian, at the IC.
2005. It is Holocaust Memorial Day, the Mars-Pluto conjunction has taken over my Q(uotidian) IC, and all I want to do now is research into the cosmic roots of human brutality. I want to look again at Q-charts, first introduced in Small World, and push them to the astrological limit. So my Nazi file is filling up - and every pair of Q-charts is delivering. Time after time, setting up one chart for the other’s time and zone brings planets onto the angles fundamental to the roles the two people play in each other’s life. With Hitler and his henchmen, almost always these are Saturn, Uranus, Pluto or the Nodes; Nazism is all about power and a mighty spiritual hubris. Most of the data is in Lois Rodden’s AstroData and the Clifford 2000, so you may be able and inclined to explore for yourself. And when you apply the same simple technique to your own partnerships or battles, the reasons for the persistence of this one, the intensity of that one, or the other that never got off the ground will become crystal clear.
What You See Is What You Get
Q-Charts give ‘WYSIWYG’ a whole new spin. Whether it is a passing day in your life you are looking at, or a day whose patterns manifest as your lover, your boss or your child, whatever other synastry you share, you can only attach yourself to it at one point - the moment of your own birth-time. That is literally the angle from which you see that person or the day’s events. If there are planets on Meridian or Horizon, the bond will be all the more meaningful; if there are none, then nothing intense is going on - you aren’t bringing out any particular quality in them, or demanding anything specific from them; nothing is expected and nothing projected. Angular planets in Q-charts mean expectations, projections or demands on the part of the ‘Timer’ that invariably elicit a planetary response from the ‘Dater’, bringing out in him or her the very qualities that the ‘Timer’ sees in them. This is why we so frequently ask, “What does she see in him?” or “What’s in this for me? What do I get out of this relationship?” This is why “One man’s meat is another man’s poison”. This is why embattled celebrities complain, “everyone wants a piece of me!” and the lively grab for “a piece of the action”. This is why it can be so difficult to shift attitudes towards people that seem to fly in the face of reason.
We can make some useful statements about Synastry as a whole now, I think, to set Q-charts in their context.
SHARED SIGNS or SIMILAR PATTERNS show our likeness to, hence liking for, each other.
MUTUAL ASPECTS show our comfort/discomfort with each other.
COMPOSITES show what we mean to each other.
MUTUAL MIDPOINTS show what we turn on in each other.
DWAD synastry shows what we secretly feel and think about each other - the hidden truth.
DRACONIC/TROPICAL synastry shows our compatibility or otherwise of belief, principle, and mission.
SIDEREAL/TROPICAL synastry shows the social roles we may play together.
X-CHARTS ... are for later! Manipulative, and fascinating.
Q-CHARTS show what we uniquely see in, demand of, and/or bring out in each other; hence the nature and destiny of the bond.
I want to mine this rich seam far more thoroughly later on, but a few brief examples may whet your appetite:
* A severe migraine meant I should cancel an appointment, but a colleague bullied me into his car and on to the venue where I had an apparently successful but physically miserable evening. He then drove someone else home before me, while I was almost weeping in the back seat. His birth time on my birthday was Sunset; this promised a boost to my interests - but the enterprise collapsed with Neptune at the IC. He uniquely tapped into both my strength and my weakness! As for my time on his day - a culminating Mars/Uranus (conjunct my own Saturn) tells the whole sad story.
* By contrast, the British comedy-writing team responsible for the classic “Dad’s Army” and “Hi-de-Hi!”, Jimmy Croft and David Perry joyously exchange Jupiters! - David bringing the laughter planet to Jimmy’s Ascendant, and Jimmy drawing David’s Jupiter to his Meridian, at the IC.
* You will not be altogether surprised then, I’m sure, to discover the following double Saturn - at the Ascendant when you turn the late Princess Diana’s chart to Prince Charles’ time, and at the IC when his chart is set for hers. At its best, a Q Saturn brings duty, discipline, structure and hard graft; at its worst a tale of unrelieved misery. Whoever thought these two could be happy together? The synastry between these two Q-charts on the right is quite spectacular, Charles new angles pulling Diana's Sun/Mercury, Moon, South Node and Chiron into a duty marriage which was doomed from the outset to its fatal Mars/Pluto outcome.
Camilla, however, offers Charles her Mars at the IC, and in return she gains his setting Moon. Charles' Mars is close to her new MC.Once again his new angles draw her Cancer Sun and Moon close to the MC, inviting marriage, and his Ceres is on her new Descendant. Camilla's Ceres is in Charles' North Node. All these years she has been his real wife in all but name. Thank heaven they are planning to make it official! The Solar returns of their Q-Charts for 2004 are delicious - bearing in mind they have to be precessed, as we are dealing with a public (sidereal), not a purely private (tropical) marriage. Charles Q Camilla: Uranus rises for his new status ... and culminating is the Moon, a new wife! Camilla Q Charles: Chiron is at the IC bracing her for a leap of faith, and opposite on the Midheaven is a New Moon, the wedding of man and woman. |
* Another triangle was formed in the mid-20th century when President John F. Kennedy, married to Jackie since 1953, embarked on an affair with movie star Marilyn Monroe. But look at these charts! JFK Q MM shows a man besotted; she draws both Moon and Venus onto his angles. Her own pattern is fully reciprocal - His angular Moon and Ceres land on her new Ascendant as both her Sun and his close onto her new Midheaven. Marilyn's Mars flirts with his new 7th cusp. He became her man, and he clearly adored her.
And Jackie? She relates to him through his Pluto (MC) and Chiron (setting); here is no tenderness at all, despite the presence (yet again) of her husband's Lights on her new angles and her Jupiter/Ceres now setting by his Gemini Sun, promising riches, motherhood, companionship, power and status. And grief. If you add the dwad to each of these charts you will see these same patterns richly accentuated. So what happened when Marilyn was found dead in August 1962? At the Solar Return of JFK Q MM furious Mars rides the MC, and Saturn with South Node conjunct Descendant mourns a grievous personal loss. I have seen this same pattern in bereavements time after time. (Robert Kennedy is a whole other story...) With results like this you may, like me, find that your synastry work will never be the same again! Not only do Q-Charts resolve many of our less tractable interpersonal dilemmas, you will find that they progress, and direct, and return, and composite, and fine-tune, and shift zodiac as eloquently as any radix chart. One day we’ll have to try unfurling a few ... |
DATA:
David Croft - 7th September 1922, 11h15 BST, Barnes, UK (autobiography)
Jimmy Perry - 20th September 1923, 02h00 GMT, Poole, UK (autobiography)
Princess Diana - 1st July 1961, 19h45 BST, Sandringham, UK (Clifford )
Camilla - 17th July 1947, 07h00 BWT, London, UK (Clifford)
Prince Charles - 14th November 1948, 21h14 GMT, London UK (Clifford/official bulletin)
Marilyn Monroe - 1st June 1926, 09h30 PST, Los Angeles, CA (Clifford/BC)
John F. Kennedy - 29th May 1917, 15h00 EST, Brookline, Massachusetts (Clifford)
Jackie Kennedy - 28th July 1929, 14h30 EDT, Southampton, NY (Clifford)
David Croft - 7th September 1922, 11h15 BST, Barnes, UK (autobiography)
Jimmy Perry - 20th September 1923, 02h00 GMT, Poole, UK (autobiography)
Princess Diana - 1st July 1961, 19h45 BST, Sandringham, UK (Clifford )
Camilla - 17th July 1947, 07h00 BWT, London, UK (Clifford)
Prince Charles - 14th November 1948, 21h14 GMT, London UK (Clifford/official bulletin)
Marilyn Monroe - 1st June 1926, 09h30 PST, Los Angeles, CA (Clifford/BC)
John F. Kennedy - 29th May 1917, 15h00 EST, Brookline, Massachusetts (Clifford)
Jackie Kennedy - 28th July 1929, 14h30 EDT, Southampton, NY (Clifford)