Chapter 1
A Comparison of Temperaments and Life Styles
that Affect Your Ability to Harmonize with Each Other
Dante’s Sun in Leo and Joy’s Sun in Libra
This can be a very warm and mutually fulfilling relationship. Both of you are romantics at heart and tend to be 'in love with love'. You both need and love romantic gestures, the giving and receiving of gifts, etc. Personal appearances and attractiveness is important to both of you as well, and you both are somewhat vain.
Dante is more decisive and very clear about personal preferences and desires, while Joy is more flexible and will compromise graciously in order to please Dante. Dante is more self-absorbed or self- centered than Joy. Of the two of you, Dante is the stronger individual, and the balance of power in your relationship may be somewhat lopsided. However, Joy has a highly developed sense of fairness and equality, and will protest sooner or later if Dante begins to expect obeisances all of the time.
Dante’s Moon in Aries and Joy’s Moon in Libra
The two of you are opposites in many ways and you are each drawn to the qualities in your partner that you lack.
Joy doesn't really feel complete without a love partner, and instinctively knows how to share, blend with, and harmonize with people, while Dante is more self-reliant and assertive, and often rather inconsiderate of others' needs and desires. Dante instinctively takes charge and tends to run the show, while Joy is the conciliator and compromiser in your relationship.
Joy depends a great deal on others' approval, often lacks a strong sense of self or personal direction, and may simply go along with Dante much of the time, for Dante has stronger preferences and less willingness to accommodate a partner's wishes. Joy wants togetherness, while Dante needs time to go off alone and be a free agent sometimes. Also, Dante is rather impulsive and volatile, and is prone to outbursts of temper, while Joy is more rational and often avoids unpleasant emotions, especially anger. Therefore, Joy may appear to be the nice, likeable 'good guy' in the relationship, while Dante is cast in the role of the trouble maker.
When personal problems arise, Joy wants to discuss them with a counselor or friend, is open to suggestions and others' opinions, and wants to negotiate a fair, equitable solution. Dante is less likely to seek outside help and may have little patience for talking and airing the problem, unless some clear, concrete change results.
The two of you will have to do considerable adjusting in order to live with these differences between you, even if other astrological aspects indicate harmony and compatibility.
Chapter 2
Major Themes in the Relationship: What Brought You Together
You will both be changed, even transformed, if you have the courage to confront the difficulties that arise between you, though you may feel at times that it is quite a struggle.
Facing the dark, painful, or serious side of life is a focus in your relationship. Work, rather than play or skimming along on the surface of life, is emphasized and this may be inner, psychological 'work' or some all-consuming personal ambition.
Dante’s Mercury trine Joy’s Neptune orb 2° 10’
You enjoy discussing any subject that has an imaginative or mystical quality - art, music, fiction, theater, or religion. You kindle each other's imagination and ideals. You work together well in the arts, and humanitarian and religious areas. You have a strong intuitive and psychic rapport and often understand each other without need for words.
Dante’s Mercury sextile Joy’s Pluto orb 0° 13’
You enjoy deep, probing conversations with each other. Your conversations are rarely light and superficial - you enjoy digging beneath the surface and you make an excellent research team, investigators - or possibly gossips who cannot resist discussing every one else's business!
Dante’s Mars square Joy’s Sun orb 0° 56’
This is a passionate relationship, but also a rather aggressive and combative one at times. Sex may be a bit rough, crude, or insensitive as well. You stimulate each other both in sexual and non-sexual ways, but you are also inclined to irritate each other. As long as you don't end up fighting and competing with each other, you can accomplish a great deal together. However, the aggressiveness of this relationship is prone to foster anger and hurt feelings - so be careful not to incite hostility in each other.
Dante’s Jupiter sextile Joy’s Moon orb 0° 24’
There is a light-hearted, jovial quality to your relationship. This relationship tends to bring both of you 'out of the closet'. You enjoy going out together and entertaining friends at your home. The friendly, harmonious quality of your relationship is contagious and, as a couple, you are likely to have many good friends and a happy domestic life.
Dante’s Uranus sextile Joy’s Mercury orb 1° 15’
You spark each other's wit and imagination, and you probably enjoy joking with each other. You bring out creative, inventive ideas in each other, and you develop original and creative ideas together.
Chapter 3
Other Themes in Your Relationship
Dante’s Sun in Joy’s 12 house
Even if you have been together for many years, Dante will continue to be intriguing and somewhat mysterious to Joy. You have a knack for uncovering each other's hidden or repressed traits, and there is a deep, mysterious, perhaps even mystical quality to your relationship.
Joy’s Sun in Dante’s 3 house
Joy openly shares thoughts and ideas with Dante, and the two of you love to share ideas, perhaps even gossip together.
Dante’s Moon in Joy’s 8 house
As your relationship develops, a powerfully emotional bonding develops. Your feelings for each other are intense and can also be rather complex. Jealousy is possible and if things go wrong, you can hate each other with the same intensity that you once loved each other. If you marry or pool your resources but later separate from each other, you will have an extremely difficult time disentangling your mutually owned property, and you are likely to argue intensely over proper division of your joint assets.
Joy’s Moon in Dante’s 3 house
There is a natural smoothness and ease with which Joy can express ideas and concern to Dante, which fosters a warm friendship between you.
Dante’s Mercury in Joy’s 1 house
Dante is able to talk to Joy in a very open, candid, uninhibited manner, and Joy appreciates Dante's point of view. This, however, can be taken to extremes, and Dante may sometimes try to persuade Joy to agree with, and follow, a certain point of view.
Joy’s Mercury in Dante’s 3 house
The two of you love to chat, and often it requires effort for the two of you to be together without talking, even if there is little to discuss. Try to avoid the tendency to gossip with each other.
Dante’s Venus in Joy’s 1 house
Regardless of how others view Dante, Joy finds Dante to be a very attractive and a beautiful person. Joy sees a great deal of charm and sweetness in Dante and is willing to go to great lengths to please Dante.
Joy’s Venus in Dante’s 3 house
Your conversations are generally pleasant and enjoyable. You argue with each other much less than you do with other people.
Dante’s Mars in Joy’s 12 house
Dante has a strong desire to know Joy in a very intimate way, and often pressures Joy to reveal innermost, hidden traits. Joy, in turn, reveals more to Dante than to others. You enjoy times alone together, when you can be more intimate and less inhibited with each other.
Joy’s Mars in Dante’s 5 house
The two of you make a great match for games, especially outdoor sports. Joy also encourages Dante to develop creative talents, and you may become involved together in creative projects.
Dante’s Jupiter in Joy’s 4 house and
Joy’s Jupiter in Dante’s 4 house
This is a very warm and caring relationship. You bring out the warm, nurturing side of each other, and you enjoy taking care of each other. If the two of you live together, it is likely that you will enjoy a high level of domestic harmony. You enjoy your times at home together and both of you contribute much to making a pleasant home life together.
Dante’s Saturn in Joy’s 3 house and
Joy’s Saturn in Dante’s 3 house
You have a nasty habit of interrupting one another in order to correct what you perceive to be erroneous. You can easily get the habit of being one another's 'editor', always finding false assumptions, correcting logical inconsistencies, and interrupting one another in the middle of a sentence in order to point out a flaw in the other's argument. Neither of you may have this tendency with others, but it does happen frequently in your relationship. The positive side of this tendency is that often you are able to communicate in a deeper, more honest fashion, and get to the heart of the matter at hand; the 'editing' is sometimes successful and helps to clarify issues. If handled properly, you can be good at solving problems together.
Dante’s Uranus in Joy’s 4 house and
Joy’s Uranus in Dante’s 4 house
You challenge one another's deeply ingrained attitudes and many of the habits and personal tastes that are developed from early childhood. You often encourage one another to break free from the past. If you are married or live together, there is a good chance that both of you may move away from family and not maintain strong ties, which can be good for a time, but in the long run may make you feel disconnected and unsettled.
Dante’s Neptune in Joy’s 5 house and
Joy’s Neptune in Dante’s 5 house
The two of you often act childish and silly when you get together. You enjoy playing games with each other, and there is also a strong element of fantasy and imagination in your romantic and sexual life.
Dante’s Pluto in Joy’s 3 house and
Joy’s Pluto in Dante’s 3 house
You tend to frequently get into heated debates. You provoke each other to express yourselves forcefully and boldly, and both of you may feel that your partner is too narrow-minded on many subjects. If you are able to put aside differences of opinion, then the two of you can work well together in areas that require concentration or bold presentations such as research, marketing, etc.
Dante’s Sun sextile Joy’s Mercury orb 2° 49’
The mental rapport that you two share is a big reason why you enjoy each other's company and are good friends. Communication is open and harmonious. You work together very well on practical affairs, daily chores, problem-solving, and business activities.
Dante’s Sun trine Joy’s Uranus orb 4° 20’
Playfulness and a zest for newness infuse your relationship. You really spark each other's imagination and creativity. This quality is especially welcome in a long-term relationship because you will not fall into a lifeless routine. You spur each other to explore, take risks, and develop new creative outlets. You encourage each other's independence. There is an electric, spontaneous quality between you , and your sexual relationship is lively and exciting as well.
Dante’s Moon opposition Joy’s Mercury orb 3° 15’
Lively, insightful conversations are frequent in this relationship. You love confiding in each other, pouring out your deepest concerns, fears, and hopes to each other. You also enjoy discussing and analyzing issues at length. In general, these conversations are enjoyable and enlightening, but occasionally they may degrade into gossip and Joy may sometimes take an overly intellectual, cool, detached approach to Dante's feelings.
Dante’s Moon trine Joy’s Uranus orb 4° 46’
There is an upbeat, enthusiastic, spontaneous quality to your relationship. You spark each other's imagination, creativity, and wit. You feel loose and uninhibited with each other, and you enjoy exploring life and sharing new experiences. Also, if you both enjoy dancing or playing music, you have found a wonderful dance and/or music partner. You spark each other's sense of rhythm, and you can work together very spontaneously, yet gracefully - an indication of sexual compatibility and satisfaction as well.
Dante’s Mercury sextile Joy’s Saturn orb 2° 8’
You communicate with each other very clearly and you are able to 'talk each other's language'. This astrological influence, for example, is an excellent one for a student-teacher relationship, scientific research, and business pursuits. It also facilitates successfully handling of day-to-day problems that arise.
Dante’s Mars square Joy’s Venus orb 4° 6’
This is likely to be a stormy and fiery relationship. The romantic attraction between you is very strong, but your feelings are often not in tune with each other. One of you (typically Dante but sometimes Joy) may feel sexually aroused by the other and consequently be too aggressive in approach, while the other person feels great love and affection, but is not feeling as sexually attracted. Jealousy and possessiveness are also likely. Feelings can swing back and forth and you may not realize how much you love each other until you are away from each other.
Dante’s Mars square Joy’s Saturn orb 4° 0’
In your partnership, Dante is the eager, passionate, active and impulsive one, and Joy frequently puts on the brakes or tries to control, play down, and restrain Dante's desires and drives. This may be true in your sexual relationship, your approach to achieving goals, or both. Dante is likely to feel very frustrated, angry or discouraged if Joy expresses disapproval or caution too often, and this can be a source of considerable friction between you. Joy feels overwhelmed and envious of Dante's intensity and assertiveness, but instead of trying to hold Dante down, Joy should confront the fears and inhibitions that Dante's directness evokes.
Dante’s Jupiter sextile Joy’s Mercury orb 2° 50’
Friendly, enthusiastic conversations are frequent. You enjoy joking with each other and you inspire each other to take an optimistic view of life. Communication between you is open and candid as well. The mental rapport between you is very strong and fosters a very harmonious, fulfilling relationship.
Dante’s Saturn conjunct Joy’s Saturn orb 3° 39’
You have similar fears, insecurities, or weaknesses and it is difficult for you to get an objective perspective on yourself in this relationship, since you both have the same limitations or Achilles heel.
You are often very uncomfortable when your partner displays weaknesses and difficulties for they make you see your own unresolved problems in the very same area.
However, you do understand one another's struggles, and can offer one another a sense of solidarity and a safe haven in which to deal with the darker or more problematic aspects of your lives.
Dante’s Neptune square Joy’s Moon orb 4° 37’
You spark each other's imagination and fantasies, but the tendency to deceive each other is also very strong. You fascinate and intrigue each other, clouding your vision and causing you to often misunderstand each other. For example, you tend to project fantasies and hopes on each other - this is not necessarily bad because these fantasies can become a rich source for imaginative, inspiring works of art or music. Do not rush into a serious relationship too quickly, though, because you need time to make sure that you haven't got caught up in a romantic, idealistic vision of each other, from which you will later wake. If either of you has a major problem of a psychological, alcohol-related, or drug-related nature, this relationship can become a partnership in dissolute, self-destructive, negative habits.
Dante’s Neptune sextile Joy’s Saturn orb 2° 7’
You are capable of dedication to one another's spiritual needs or unselfish giving to one another, as there is an underlying sense of inner purpose and commitment between you. No matter how your relationship changes, you are likely to remain friends.
Dante’s Pluto sextile Joy’s Neptune orb 2° 10’
Your spiritual values and strengths harmonize with one another and this is a subtle but positive force in your relationship.
Dante’s Ascendant sextile Joy’s Mercury orb 2° 20’
Harmonious, open, and clear communication is so ingrained in your relationship that you probably take it for granted. You enjoy long talks and it seems that no matter how well you know each other, you continue to enjoy having time for long discussions.
Dante’s Ascendant trine Joy’s Uranus orb 3° 51’
Dante's originality and creativity is sparked by Joy's enthusiasm, eccentricity or 'crazy' side. You are both more impulsive when you are together, and more willing to take risks and appear foolish. At the least, this can be lots of fun; at best, it can be very freeing and liberating.
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