The Art of Synastry, Volume II: Into the Wildlands of Love and Relationships

The Art of Synastry is a body of writing that explores the mystery of relationship – the meeting place between us, the dance between destiny and hands, fate and free will, attraction and intimacy, and the inner landscapes that each of us carries into love.

Through deep dives, lyrical essays, astrological techniques and lived stories, I explore not only why we meet the people we do, but what happens within us when we meet them; what shapes us and what we begin shaping. There’s you, there’s me, and then, there’s the relationship – a land born of us, a soul of its own, with its own soil, nutritive needs, temperatures, and seasons.

Relationships begin long before two charts meet. We arrive carrying our own memories, histories, desires, ways of loving and being loved, and natal vows and promises that shape what we seek and what is seeking us.

Drawing from decades of my work, study, research, lived experiences, intuitive insights, and my professional work as a spiritual astrologer and guide for clients worldwide, this collection brings together Western, Vedic, Esoteric and Shamanic approaches to relationship astrology, alongside spiritual teachings on love, intimacy, destiny and the soul.

Here, synastry isn't merely a technique for measuring compatibility. It is an art of seeing and an art of loving — a way of understanding ourselves more deeply through the people we love, the relationships that change us, and the mysterious spaces that open when two inner worlds meet.

The Art of Synastry takes us into the wildlands of love and relationships: into the gardens and wild natures, the unknowns, uncharted lands and untamed places, the thresholds and rooms and corridors of the houses we live in, the seasons of closeness and those of distance. Synastry is a living landscape of a relationship – where we continuously enter, create and become together.

And in these lands, sometimes we’re water, sometimes fire, sometimes vows before our time; and sometimes, when we are out in the wilderness, we re-learn to make fire of sticks, and find our way back to each other.

The Art of Synastry, Volume II enters our living space – as we move deeply into specific synastry aspects. We now see what happens when we merge, love one another, touch one another, create together.

Through the living planets and the aspects they form in both synastry and the composite, this volume explores attraction and affection, desire and restraint, tenderness and conflict, devotion and distance, illusion and awakening. We explore difficult aspects, such as edges of fire and bedchamber perilous, learning how to navigate through these challenges with wisdom and discernment of heart.

From Venus and Mars to Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, the lunar nodes of destiny aligning us, and the hidden terrain of the twelfth house, we explore the bonds that may feel romantic, karmic, transformative, haunting or strangely familiar. Through soul links, karmic and soulmate astrology, and the invisible threads holding us, we explore the subtle ways another person's planets may touch places within us that words cannot always explain.

Filled with real life stories, examples and lived experiences, this volume approaches aspects not as fixed definitions but as living relationships, showing the nuances of love through its various seasons and phases. In a way we’ve never entered relationship astrology before, The Art of Synastry is a living art of life and love.