What is a Davison chart?
A chart cast for the midpoint in time between two people’s births, at the midpoint in space between their birthplaces. It is a real moment in a real place, so it has an Ascendant, houses and dates, and transits can be run to it. Astrologers read it as the relationship’s own nature, separate from either person.
How is the Davison chart different from a composite chart?
A composite chart averages each pair of planets, so its Sun is the midpoint of your two Suns and it never existed in the sky. A Davison chart is cast for a real date and place, so its planets are where they really were, and it can be progressed and transited. Many astrologers use both.
How is the midpoint in space calculated?
The average of the two latitudes and the average of the two longitudes, taken the short way around the globe. It can land in the sea; the chart does not mind. The calculator shows the coordinates it used.
Do I need both birth times?
For the relationship’s Rising sign and houses, yes, since the midpoint moment depends on both. With a time missing the calculator still casts the planets by sign and degree and says the houses are unavailable.
What are transits to a Davison chart?
Because the Davison chart is a real moment, the planets in the sky today make exact aspects to it, and those land on the relationship rather than on either person. The calculator dates Saturn and Jupiter reaching the relationship’s Sun over the next two years.