Hi!
I'm from Finland and have visited your web site several times; a really great site it is and I'm interested to become a Synergist! Before I make a donation however, I'd like to know few things first:
1. What House system do You use to make the relationship compatibility calculations? I've had a few astrology reports done before and discovered that depending on the House system used, my birth chart information has varied regarding the House positions of different planets. Do You use Placidus houses or something else? A Finnish professional astrologer I contacted to find out which system he thought to be accurate, said that he relied on a system called Porfyrius. In his opinion it doesn't distort the house positions as much as Placidus does, when calculating the birth chart of a person born near Earth's polar areas (like Finland). For example, my Sun is in Leo, in the 8th House using Porfyrius, when Placidus puts it in House 7. Due to this kind of discrepancy I'm hesitant to order a full Astrological profile from you, since I can't be sure that the calculations would be correct (I'm a nit-picking 8th House Mercury-Virgo).
2. If You do use Placidus, would it still be possible to do a Relationship analysis or a full length Astrological profile with information I'd provide from my previous reports? Your analysis does seem a lot more thorough than some other sites I've been to.
3. Also, another thing which I'm curious about is how do You come up with the "ratings" in the relationship analyst report? How is it determined whose Passion is on the Cosmic level 5 and whose is only 1 or 3? To my surprise I learned that my favourite actor would have a cosmic passion of 5 for me (yeah, right) but my boyfriend only level 3? Are these levels very significant?

thanks in advance

Dyane

Dear Dyane,

Many thanks for your kind words and encouragement. This is what makes the Top Synergy project worth its while.

Indeed we normally use the Placidus house system for both the astrological profiles and compatibility (synastry) reports. However, we can as easily calculate your chart with ANY other house system, including Porphyry, or better yet - we can use Geodetic calculations with Porphyry intermediate cusps. You can also specify in your donation what type of coordinate system to use if the normal one doesn't match your requirements.

"Ratings" on the Relationships Analyst report are a derivation from calculating numerous aspects between plants, houses, and signs in each person's chart and between the two charts. The 0-to-5 scores are a populist mean to express far more complex data in its raw format.

The difference between score of ONE, THREE or FIVE should be regarded subjectively and viewed according to a given situation.

The score of ONE already shows cosmic energies in presence and intensity that are substantial and greater than the average. Difference in scores could be meaningful on two occasions:

1. Major gap between the scores of each party, i.e. one scores "0" passion while the other scores "5". While usually the mutual score in such case will be greater than zero, it still demonstrates an imbalanced situation that might need to be addressed sooner or later during the lifetime of this relationship.

2. A relationship that evolves in stressful situations, catastrophes, and hardships can use a greater than ONE score in its commitment department

Thanks for the opportunity to address these interesting topics. I hope that all your questions have been answered in full.

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Thank you so much for your answer Shlomo, the Geodetic calculations with Porphyry intermediate cusps sound great, I think I might go with that
I'll send you my donation as soon as I get past my problem with the paypal page...

Love,
Dyane

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