As a classical astrologer, you look with caution at the deluge of novelties that modern astrology produces. The vast majority of these novelties are meaningless and usually only create confusion. Still, you have to remain sharp, because every now and then there is something of great value among those innovations, it is mainly chaff but the wheat is not completely missing. Astrology is a living whole and that means that it is constantly developing and that includes openness to new developments.
Interaction
One of these novelties is the so-called combine cahart,calculated by taking the middle of the time, date and place of two birth charts. Thus, you will get a new chart showing the interaction between two people. That chart has to be interpreted with the help of classical techniques, only then you will get the most out of it, if you interpret it in a modern way, you will as usual only see a very small part of what the horoscope has to offer. It is important to realize that a combine is much more than a love chart , it shows more generally the interaction between two people.
Andromeda
The combine is interpreted classically, i.e. concretely, it shows the context of an interaction. A good example is the combine chart of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, of which the MC immediately gives a clear picture of the situation. The MC features the star Alpheratz, the head of Andromeda. Andromeda is the princess chained to an island who is besieged by the sea monster, which is of course Trump attacking the princess. Alpheratz is the head of the princess, so the controlled coolness, the seamonster is the unbridled emotional vehemence.
Al Jabba
Lord 10, indicating the public dimension of a relationship, is equally clear. It is Mars of battle conjunct the Sun of power, and that Sun is conjunct Pluto, yes it is a titanic battle. The Lunar Mansion shows the essence of the interaction, this is Al Jabbah, the mansion of which Regulus is one of the main stars. Regulus is the Heart of the Lion, so the essence of power. The Pars Fortunae indicates hunger, the PF is under disposition of the Sun, the hunger to be in control, the PF also conjuncts the star Praesepe. Prasesepe is the Heart of Cancer, the essence of desire that wants everything, Prasepe has to do with a strong lust for power. It’s the Empty Manger, the king isn’t in it (yet). Finally, Uranus on the Ascendant shows that it ends with castration of the sky god, one of the two will in inevitably bite the dust.
On Saturday, October 5, I will give a workshop in Gorinchem in which, among other things, the classical interpretation of the combine will be discussed, in addition to other techniques that have to do with the spatial dimension of astrology. The results are nothing short of amazing.