Transits to a Davison relationship chart

This is not the same as a relationship forecast built on a composite chart, and the difference is worth knowing before you use either. A composite averages two charts point by point; it has no moment of its own, and its houses are equal divisions measured from a midpoint Ascendant. Transits to it are still read, but "Saturn is crossing the seventh" means less when the seventh is a construction. The Davison has an Ascendant and a Midheaven that belonged to a real sky over a real place, so a transit crossing them is crossing something.

The two charts also disagree about where the planets are, and both are right about their own question: an average of two positions is not the position at the average moment. So the composite forecast and this one are two readings of a couple, not the same reading twice. Where they agree, the case is stronger; where they differ, the Davison is usually nearer the timing and the composite nearer the feel.

Read the tightest contacts first. An aspect within a degree of exact is the loudest thing in the day, and the table here is ordered by orb for that reason. Then ask which planet is making it: the same aspect from Saturn and from the Moon are not the same event. A slow planet on a point of the relationship chart is a season the two of you are living through and will still be there next month; the Moon on the same point is an afternoon.

Houses matter as much as aspects here, which is the one place a Davison earns its keep over a composite. A planet walking through the seventh house of the relationship chart is working on the partnership as a partnership; through the fifth, on what the two of you enjoy together; through the fourth, on the home you make of it. This page lists every planet with the house it is passing through, even the ones aspecting nothing, because a transit through a house is doing something whether or not it touches a planet there.

Both birth times matter, for the usual reason. With both known the chart has genuine houses and angles and the report reads them. With one unknown the Davison is cast for noon on that side, the angles are guesses, and this page withholds the houses rather than printing ones it does not believe — you still get the aspects to the chart's planets, which is most of the day's weather.

A quiet day is a real answer. Some days nothing in the sky is within orb of the relationship chart, and the page says so instead of padding the table. Transits describe what a period is asking of two people; they do not decide anything, and a hard one is not a warning any more than an easy one is a promise.