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Finding Family Relationship Patterns
With the Help of Astrology

Relationships have many faces and dynamics and people connect and gather in many ways, as friends, lovers, co-workers, clients, victims, team-players, group members, neighbors, ... but also as family members.

All interactions between human beings tend to follow certain (cyclic) patterns and this makes lots of sense too because of the applicable Universal Laws, one of which is the Law of Rhythm/Cycles.

It also makes sense that relationships don't happen by chance, even though at first sight people will talk about coincidences and even won't 'think further.'

When looking at horoscopes of people that are connected one way or the other (for whatever reason), certain astrological configurations will always be found in the chart comparison (synastry) of the individuals even though it may be stated that such configurations can happen by chance as well.

Indeed, there will always be certain planetary patterns at work between people even though these are not necessarilly meaningful.

Confirmation bias always plays a role when doing research and it's critical to take lots of control groups to find out which configurations stand out after all and which ones do not.

While in the chart comparison between people (called synastry), conjunctions between each others' personal bodies (the Sun and Moon, for example) and/or personal points (the Ascendant and MC) frequently happen, these alone are not always telling the story.

But analyzing family patterns based on a larger group of people together and finding common threads is another story, entirely and a more difficult one too.

In the past, some statistical research was conducted to find out common patterns and the most important one is the study by Michel Gauquelin, a French statistician who wanted to find out if there was a father/child or mother/child match with certain planetary placements.

Some results were found to be statistically significant (called planetary heredity) even though later studies contradicted the outcomes.

All these studies only took a fragmented look at the chart comparison (like the Sun's position in signs or houses) and only looked at parent/child combinations, which is actually an erroneous assumption and wrong starting point.

Family dynamics are more complex than inter-personal relationships and are about group dynamics, horizontally and vertically so that parent/child relationships can never describe the family dynamics fully.

In this way, talking about a family tree makes lots of sense because there are tons of 'branches', vertically and horizontally.

But how to analyze such a tree and keep all the trees out of each other with their own characteristics?

The first thing to do (and it's quite simple) is looking for planetary geometry in synastry: are the mutual planets between all the family members building a geometrical pattern in a horoscope wheel of 360°?

When looking at the different Suns, for example, do they build a geometrical pattern? Or is a 'leg' missing?

Is that 'empty leg' waiting to be filled up?

Combining lots of natal horoscopes together to find common signatures is not easy, even when some newer astrological methods were introduced, that were told to be able to combine different horoscope wheels, among others the Group Horoscope by Christof Niederwieser, the Multipersonal Composite Charts by Dieter Koch and Alois Treindl and the Multi–Davison Relationship Chart by Ronald C. Davison.

Secondly, a very rewarding way to analyze family members (a family tree) is looking for common astrological affinities/connections/analogies based on the planets in signs, houses, aspects, midpoints, degree areas etc.

Often, family members tend to have the same planetary affinities or analogies.

Without software, using this method is quite a hassle though, but this method is highly promising and also based on Harmonics (the division of the horoscope and based on principles of resonance, like overtones).

Another way to assess family dynamics is looking for important events (marriages, career switches, important moves, divorces, pregnancies etc.) that happened among the family members and noting the dates.

Then, check the biographies of the (great)(grand)parents and (grand)children and look for similar events.

Often, such events repeat in the family from (great)(grand)parents to (grand)children (and beyond) in specific intervals that follow specific cycles and ratios, especially the Golden Mean ratios (in other words, these events are 0.616 or 1.616 years and multiples apart; like 1.6 - 3.2 - 6.4 - 9.6 etc...).

Hence, the family tree often reveals a thread of identical life events and themes that go beyond the own existence and that have their roots in a very far past (from the ancestors) and that follow specific cycles that seem to span many generations.

There are other rhythms/cycles too though but the Golden Mean is an important one for sure.

It's especially this last method that may point to a life thread that spans generations of family members, part of the same family tree, all experiencing the same cyclic 'fate' for whatever reason.

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