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Composite

The relationship as a third chart, from the midpoints of two.

The midpoint chart

There is no one to compare with yet

A composite arises from two charts: the midpoint of each body. Add someone under People to make one.

To People →

A calculated chart

This chart belongs to no one: there is no moment at which the sky looked like this. It is an average, not an observation, and that is the first thing to know about it.

Midpoints are ambiguous

Between two points on a circle there are always two midpoints, directly opposite each other. Astrae consistently takes the nearer one, so the same two charts always give the same composite.

Why it is used anyway

Tradition reads it as the chart of the connection itself. Anyone who finds that a step too far has enough in synastry, which stays with what actually stood in the sky.