It looks like our second house Psyche at 9 degree Libra is sextile our 4th house Neptune at 23 degree Scorpio, Is this accurate?
Hi BB,
Let’s clarify the contacts first. Your comp Psyche is 9 Libra, comp Eros 15 Capricorn and comp Neptune is 24 Scorpio. (rounding up for simplicity).
1. Eros and Psyche are 96 degrees apart—an allowable orb for the 90 degree square.
2. The midpoint is 27 degrees of Scorpio, although we generally do not look at midpoints of midpoint charts—so this is not a critical degree. If it were in a natal chart, anything between 26 and 28 degrees of Scorpio AND Taurus would be “on” the midpoint. As it stands in the composite chart, it’s not relevant.
3. Psyche and Neptune are 45 degrees apart or Semi-Square. (planets in sextile are 60 degrees apart) 45 degrees is, of course, in an allowable orb for the semi-square. It is exact.
4. Eros and Neptune are 51 degrees apart—6 degrees outside the exact semi-square. This is wider than the standard degree allowed, and why an Eros/Neptune delineation did not appear on your Eros report.
Our second house Psyche in Libra implies some kind of emotional pain or sensitivity to the worth of being an artist or worth of owning inner beauty; some sort of emotional issue revolving around money, security and self worth.
You made a wonderful and articulate effort at interpretation. Thank you for putting the time into it.
Let’s look more at Psyche in the 2nd.
Where a planet is by house is WHERE it naturally expresses. The second house of the COMPOSITE chart is an indication of the couple’s values together. Remember this is not your 2nd house and his 2nd house…it is not about you two as individuals; it is the 2nd house of the RELATIONSHIP, an entity of its own.
We know the second house traditionally has to do with tangibles like items of possession and intangibles including personal values, talents and latent abilities. In the composite chart, it represents the substance of the relationships, the values, finances and aptitudes that insure the survival of the two as a pair. What supports the couple’s existence together? The 2nd house. Planets here can indicate support and tolerance as well as antagonism and conflicting values. Planets in the composite 2nd express something about what the couple finds of worth, what lends support to their purpose.
Psyche there says that it is the deep connection to each others “soul loveliness” that feels like a bedrock of support. If you suspend labels like “painful” you’ll get to the core meaning faster. Being sensitive is not the same as emotional pain. Psyche is sensitive, full of longing to connect and in tune with the natural process of merging energy. This can be a painful experience at times, but that isn’t what Psyche needs, or wants or has to offer.
Psyche needs deep extrasensory connection. Psyche wants to merge in an energy of pure love. Psyche offers us the sensitivity to do such a thing. In Libra in the composite 2nd, she suggests that what you value as a couple, your sense of beauty and artistic appreciation, social refinement and culture and possibly more mundane things like how you gain finances together, supporting yourselves together, is laced with unity, premonition, psychic connection and love.
You can see that your interpretation is quite on track. Just avoid jumping to conclusions that because it’s linked to Neptune it is going to be painful. Pain may be the result of what you DO with the energy or how you experience it, or what happens next, but the ENERGY of psyche (or any other body) is just that: Energy just as it is. Suspend judgment.
Psyche exactly semi-square Neptune adds a kind of spiritual longing and connection to the divine. It INCREASES psychic sensitivity. It increases artistic refinement. It adds a feeling of the ineffable. “This cannot be touched”… Yes, memory can be included, but we can not say it will be painful. It may be quite rarefied, quite beautiful. Often pain associated with Neptune is our inability to accept that the quality of what we experience is too profound to “last” in the world. We focus on a feeling of loss as opposed to the beauty we glimpse. Can you see the difference here?
Our 5th house Eros in Capricorn: strong, but internally controlled, passions, Need to accomplish something together playfully, creatively, anything that activates and enlarges the heart.
You have described Eros in the 5th in Capricorn quite nicely. Remember also that when you, as a couple, “do” the 5th house, you evoke Eros. If you two play together, create together, work with children together, have a love affair together, feel special together, speculate together, well, you are going to awaken the god of love. You are going to have some very intense, passionate and compelling desires! (this clearly isn’t news to you!)
I still wouldn’t read Eros semi-square Neptune. It’s too far out of orb for me. I did think, when I did your Composite Eros Report, that this was an interesting point. Neptune doesn’t bring its fog, at least not into the erotic nature of your relationship. I don’t feel you are confused about that! Neptune is sextile your comp Venus/Pluto, trine comp Mercury, opposite the comp MC, bringing all that mystical imagery and longing that seems like a drowning sometimes, like fog rolling in to obscure “reality”. Eros, however, remains clear.
I am fascinated by your experience with the “past life” woman. (and also not too certain how I feel about such things). I am sure there is plenty between you two in this life to keep the spirits animated.
Tell me, please, exactly what you mean by “drawing the link to reunite Psyche and Eros”.
Thank you for putting so much energy and thought into these interpretations. It is quite elucidating.
Warmly,
Kim
