Skip to main content

Western Astrology

Synastry Beta

How two charts meet — the inter-aspects between your planets, where each person falls in the other's houses, the composite midpoint chart, and a compatibility score.

Choose two people to compare

Synastry compares two charts — you'll need at least two saved profiles, each with a birth place.

Date

Birth date for both people

Time

Birth time for houses and angles

Place

Birth place with timezone

Manage profiles

What is synastry?

Synastry compares two birth charts to read a relationship — how one person's planets touch the other's, where there's chemistry, and where there's friction.

It doesn't reduce a couple to a single number. It maps the specific contacts: your Venus to their Mars, your Moon to their Saturn, and what each tends to feel like.

How to read it

Inter-aspects are the heart of it — aspects between one chart's planets and the other's. Sun–Moon and Venus–Mars contacts build attraction; Saturn contacts bring weight, commitment, or restriction.

House overlays show where one person's planets land in the other's houses — the life areas they light up for each other. The composite chart treats the relationship itself as a third entity.

Key ideas

Inter-aspects

Angles between the two charts' planets — the direct chemistry and friction between you.

House overlays

Where your planets fall in their houses, and theirs in yours — the areas you activate for each other.

Composite

A single midpoint chart for the relationship as its own being, apart from either person.

Davison

A relationship chart cast for the midpoint in time and space between two births — a real chart, not a construct.

Common questions

Where it comes from

Comparing charts for relationships is old, but detailed synastry — and the composite and Davison methods — took their modern form in the 20th century, alongside psychological astrology.