Abstract

The synergistic nature of astrology or of astrological interpretation is predicated upon the fact that no particular placement within the astrograph can produce, by itself, what only the combined or concerted action of all can. Analogous to disciplines such as medicine, forensic psychology, and law, the combination of all elements provides for a result that transcends the mere aggregation of its individual components, a product for which none of the individual parts could account by themselves alone. Certainly, any isolated placement of any given birthchart is necessarily common to tens of thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands. Say, Saturn in the ninth house will not manifest identically or produce the same effects in the twenty or one hundred charts in which we find it lodged therein. Rather, the expression of Saturn will be contingent upon the rest of the birthchart composition, just as if different people contracted the same disease (i.e. it will manifest differently in each person). The aforementioned perspective suggests that astrological interpretation necessitates a composite analysis or a synthetic methodology (seemingly overcoming Niels Bohr’s complementarity principle) capable of generating what may be termed “astrological sequencing,” a concept that not only captures the spirit of the twenty-first book of Morin’s Astrologia Gallica (1661), but also allows us to establish specific distinctions between individuals (even those born within close temporal proximity). In our effort to inform astrological sequencing, we then distinguish between heterogeneous and homogeneous houses (types 1-6) and between two stages of astrological delineation: microsynthesis (in relation to a particular house) and macrosynthesis (in relation to the entire chart, i.e., the integration of all twelve microsyntheses).