Navigating Relationship Light and Shadow

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** To receive your Zoom invite for this event, if I do not already have your birth data and full name, email them to me Gerald, organizer, berkeleyprofessor@gmail.com:

full name and user name for Meetup
birth data: mm/dd/yyyy, city, time

Join discussion during the event. We apply the astrology concepts to the participants’ charts — you choose whether or not to discuss your chart.

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Relationship of all kinds: romantic, marriage, friends, work, family, activity partners, etc. offer positive light experience and challenging shadow experience. We will study two relationship factors that give us some understanding about how compatible and positive a relationship can be:

1. How we treat each other
   ** View the 2 hr interview with John and Julia Gottman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3bfCt0K88
2. Composite Chart - midpoints of the same planet in each person’s chart to create a single chart that represents the relationship.
   ** Listen to 10 minute audio by Steven Forrest introducing Composite charts https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zsj5oq14sfbc51tbkx34j/Steven-Forrest-Composite-intro.mp3?rlkey=ezp1imoq1bfwze39zk85n5kxp&st=xg4p0hmz&dl=0

A well-known saying often ascribed to Aristotle suggests that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’. In essence, this is the nature of the Composite Chart, in that the alchemical combination of two individuals can create a relationship greater than the two. The secret is in working together to create this possibility. Hence, like the individual birth Chart, the Composite Chart holds the potential for fulfillment and each individual either takes hold of or rejects this potential. In many cases, the potential of the Composite Chart never manifests because the individuals involved are not working together to ignite the possibilities of their relationship. It’s also true that not every relationship is a positive one, much as this might be the wish. The Composite Chart can shed light on the true nature of each relationship.

** Send Gerald, organizer, berkeleyprofessor@gmail.com, birth data (date, time, city/state) — at least a few days before Meetup — for one or two people you are in a relationship with; any kind of relationship: romantic, marriage, friends, work, family, activity partners, etc.

** View your Composite chart and computer generated report; (see samples for the Gottmans and Gerald + Ellen)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0et0a4amdkl4pyrtb0u6v/AI6nxhKh2NE1mz8xl8KweVE?rlkey=jakfbhez9j7znokqiqrylsw0u&st=66lzcs4l&dl=0