Wedding chart SSR?

[Jim Eshelman]

One secondary thing Marion's and my wedding May 27, 2019 is a new chance to study just how fundamental a wedding horoscope is. I've thought for decades (basically my entire time in astrology) that it's important to get a good chart because it's descriptive of the legal and personal entity called "the marriage" thereafter. I've also seen, in the past, examples of transits and progressions of such charts that seemed right on point, but these were one-offs - and you probably already know that I remain tentative about single examples.

I was very interested in our wedding's SSR yesterday because this next December has a convergence of chart factors for both of us that are outright dire. (The fact that both of us have such things at the same time becomes more concerning than if, say, my chart takes a sour turn and hers is fine.) The wedding SSR is another window on that time, i.e., the 12 months beginning yesterday.

The underlying question: Is a wedding chart "radical," i.e., acting as a base chart in the same sense as a nativity? Or was it just an event chart for something that happened in the past?

Before I had the chance to look at the wedding chart's SSR, we had to attend an event last night. This was a pretty terrible event. I don't want to go into details at the moment, but it left both of us feeling miserable in as "Saturn has landed hard on you and there is no Jupiter in the world" sense of things. We'll get through these events (and today's start of a week and a half road trip will be very useful) - they're circumstantial, not relational. But, given the timing, I wondered even more how the wedding chart's SSR would look.

As it turned out - it looks entirely opposite! It's a terribly positive chart dominated by two foreground Jupiters, SSR Moon 0°42' from conjunct natal Jupiter, also partile Moon-Venus. It's lovely! None of this is really close, but it's close enough (only natal Mercury is tightly angular). The only malefic involved is Neptune, and even then it's Neptune with Venus and Jupiter connections. Otherwise, malefics are background. I don't think anybody would mind having this SSR! (I'll paste it below.) - The chart occurred yesterday morning, May 27, at 6:24 AM PDT.

What does this mean? Well, I only see a couple of broad possibilities. One possibility is that the chart is indeed valid and all the stuff we learned about last night will sort itself out quickly and even turn out to be a good (happy, profitable) thing. The other possibility, of course, is that wedding charts aren't radical and don't have valid solar returns.

I suppose it will take a year to know the answer.

(At the very least, that Moon-Mercury-Venus-Jupiter-Neptune is quite on target for the road trip to Shasta and through four wine regions over the next two weeks.)

PS - Wedding chart: May 27, 2019, 6:01:44 PM PDT, 33N46'27", 117W00'18". Residence: 34N03'46", 118W18'47".

[Jim Eshelman]

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[SteveS]

The double whammy of angular Mercury makes me ask: Will there be out of the ordinary travel involved?

[Jim Eshelman]

The double whammy of angular Mercury makes me ask: Will there be out of the ordinary travel involved?

I did say "roadtrip," yes? Leaving this morning for most of two weeks. First target is Shasta for two or three days, then meander down through the start toward home, through four wine regions.

[SteveS]