Introduction to synastric astrology. Absalom Underwater.
Introduction.
Synastric astrology is the art of interpreting a pair of natal charts. Depending on the era, its purpose is different. In the era of Pisces, a client, coming to an astrologer, asked a question, for example, like this: "Will my chosen one and I be happy?" or in this form: "Well, tell me, finally, where can I go from him?" (option: "How do I get it?"). In the Age of Aquarius, relationships between people will be seen as part of the overall group evolutionary work, and the question will probably sound differently: "What should we do?" However, regardless of the era, three, so to speak, objects always appear in paired relationships: two personalities and some “we”, that is, a paired egregor that creates a certain tension around this pair, which at other times attracts partners to each other, in others it repels, and constantly creates various situations and meditations that one has to somehow live through. What is couples meditation? This is such a state of space around the partners, which makes each of them feel the presence of the other and coordinate their actions with him. The simplest example of pair meditation is a fight, well known to almost everyone since early childhood. Unfortunately, many people die without knowing any other types of meditation that are qualitatively different from this common pastime. The main problem of human relations is at first the inability to understand what program the paired egregor is materializing at the moment, and then the inability to find an adequate embodiment for it. Many difficulties are also due to the fact that people, as a rule, are very different from each other, and the paired egregor, of course, takes this into account, but they themselves most often do not, resulting in colossal misunderstandings. This is especially true for positive initiatives in communication, when one of the partners seeks to please the other, putting himself in his place and discovering after a while that their tastes diverge in the most inexplicable way. A characteristic misconception in interpersonal relationships is the projection of guilt and, conversely, merit onto a partner. Each person receives from the outside world and, in particular, through a partner, exactly what he is entitled to according to his evolutionary development - but this is terrible it’s hard to accept when the visible and obvious reason for my sorrows and joys walks right before my eyes, and it seems that if she behaves a little differently, all troubles will disappear, and happiness will rush like a waterfall. Alas, this is not at all the case, and it is difficult to find a more capricious and light-winged bird than the happiness of pair relationships: here, as nowhere else, the basic principle of the uniqueness of the Absolute's creativity is clearly manifested: tomorrow is similar to today only in a nightmare of everyday life.

The reader should by no means think that one can become a synastric astrologer by studying a certain amount of literature. The interpretation of the synastry (pair chart) is an art, which is based on a good understanding by the astrologer of the psychological (as well as magical and energetic) outline of human relations - then the synastry will help him clarify and verify something for himself, and also, with careful study of it and the corresponding prompted by a fortune-telling egregore, will give a direction for a conversation with a client who, if, of course, it is the will of God, may turn out to be somewhat constructive.

A paired egregor arises in the subtle world until the moment the couple meets and for some time prepares each of the partners for the meeting. However, after it has taken place, both partners begin to influence not only each other, but also directly on the paired egregor, sometimes helping him to implement his programs, and sometimes greatly hindering him. In the worst case for an egregor, partners enter into a coalition with each other directed against him, and successfully destroy him - to great damage both for the subtle world and evolution as a whole, and for themselves. And here, it must be said, the worst enemy of the paired egregor is often the general social egregor, which recognizes (at least at present) a very limited set of possible plots and meditations in paired interactions, and not only prohibits everything else, but completely ignores it, considering it non-existent. Blessed are the spouses who were united in a lawful marriage in their youth and out of first love, who lived a long life in complete harmony and unbreakable fidelity, who raised five children and an incalculable number of grandchildren, and who never cast an interested heterosexual glance into the surrounding social environment ... but, alas,, such a fate is the lot of a few paired relationships, and besides, the question of how much satisfied with the Cosmos working off family karma by our virtuous couple, remains open: social and cosmic ethics sometimes diverge quite strongly, and one of the goals of this book is an attempt to describe cosmic views on the ethics of paired relationships. For astrology willy-nilly interprets the view of the Earth and its inhabitants from the Cosmos, and the view, moreover, is always interested.

Pair interactions are excellent material for working out your own chart, since in personal communication with other people the properties of the planets of the natal chart are very clearly manifested. In theory, synastric astrology should be simpler and clearer than personality astrology, since in the first stimulus and reaction often refer to different people, while in the second we are talking about the interaction of different principles within the same person. For example, interpreting the synastric conjunction of the Moon in a female horoscope and the Sun in a male one, the astrologer will say simple and understandable things to the client: this is a natural marriage aspect, since the initiative of a man (his Sun) will be precisely aimed at caring for a woman and fulfilling all her desires and whims (until they are across his throat), or something like that; at the same time, the connection of the Sun and the Moon in the natal chart is no longer interpreted so clearly and requires a certain psychological culture from the client, not to mention the astrologer. Similarly, in order to better understand your personality, its limits and ways of opening, it is very useful to observe yourself while being in personal contact with a partner whose Sun enters your first house (do not just look for it specifically). If you are interested in deepening your personality, pay attention to interactions with a partner whose Saturn falls in your first house, if you want to expand it - look for a partner with Jupiter in your first house, but still do not hope that the expansion will happen for free: all-after all, this is his Jupiter, not yours, and he takes you on a tour of the Tuileries, but is unlikely to straighten your residence permit there. If you have an empty twelfth house and you do not understand what religious feeling and impersonal service are - find yourself a partner with the Sun in your twelfth house, and after a while you will understand exactly how God manifests himself in your life and (approximately) what He is wants from you... but don't be too direct in interpretation, otherwise you run the risk of buying the wrong grades of rope and soap in the hardware store that are required of you. When communicating with a partner whose Sun or Mars falls into your eighth house, you may after a while suspect that he has been sent to your death - but again, this will be too rough an interpretation, and you can look for more subtle effects that can turn out to be very interesting; and, of course, you will not be bored with it.

Speaking of partners, this concept should be clarified and a few words should be said about the ethics of their choice. Partners in this textbook are understood as a pair of people between whom at some point an important relationship arose for both; usually such relationships are accompanied by paired and specific single meditations, when one of the partners meditates on the other (that is, mentally imagines him, talks, etc.). In the occult language, partnership means the presence of a paired egregor, which organizes meetings and gives energy to paired (and directed single) meditations, meaning the materialization of its program; however, both the success of its implementation and its level largely depend on the people themselves. From a karmic point of view, partners are considered to be people who are entrusted with some common program, that is, a task that they can handle together, but none of them alone is able to complete it. This program most often has five aspects: each of the participants must do something with himself and with the other, and in addition, both of them together - with the outside world. The normal sequence of events in this case is as follows: first, the main emphasis is on the inner work of each of the partners, which consisted in studying the other and adapting to it, then the partners are able to do something for each other, and only after that they have the opportunity to do anything for the world. However, whole links can fall out of this sequence, in any case, they can be almost invisible; but even if careful observation reveals them all, their value, both to partners and to