Cowbird & Raven
How Cowbird (Ward) and Raven (Niece) meet, their two charts compared with each other, not with yours. This is cross-aspect synastry: every planet in one chart measured against every planet in the other, to find the angles between them.
This is a reading of how Cowbird and Raven’s birth charts meet, a comparison of the planetary placements and angles between them, aspect by aspect, to see where their natures find ease and where they might need to work a little harder to understand each other.
The strongest thread between them is Cowbird’s Mars, which governs drive and how we assert ourselves, in Gemini forming a nearly perfect trine, a harmonious angle, to Raven’s Moon in Aquarius, which holds their emotional nature and inner needs. This same ease flows through Cowbird’s Rising sign, the face they show the world, also in Gemini, and Cowbird’s Saturn, which teaches us through boundaries and time, both connecting gently to Raven’s Moon. What this tells us is that Cowbird’s way of moving through the world, quick, curious, restless, lands softly with Raven. There is a natural permission here, a lack of friction in how they approach each other.
Yet there is also a bright square, a challenging angle, between Cowbird’s North Node in Leo, the direction their soul is being drawn to grow, and Raven’s Sun in Taurus, their core self. This is not unkindness, but a real difference in what calls to them. Cowbird is learning to lead, to shine, to take up space with confidence; Raven is grounded in steadiness and the real, tangible world. They may sometimes wonder why the other cannot simply see what matters most. And there is an opposition, a pulling-apart, between Cowbird’s way of relating and Raven’s Mercury in Gemini, which governs how they think and speak. Two Gemini energies can sometimes talk past each other, each believing their version of quick and clever is the only true one.
What matters most is that the ease between them is real and deep. When you watch them together, notice how Raven seems to relax in Cowbird’s presence, and how Cowbird finds something steady in Raven they may not find elsewhere. The friction, the places where they truly do not naturally agree, is the gift. It means they can teach each other. That is the work of love between people who are not quite the same.
The Aspects, In Detail
The 40 strongest links between their charts, tightest first. A smaller orb means a stronger one.
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Cowbird's Mars in Gemini (1st house) △ trine Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Rising in Gemini (1st house) △ trine Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Descendant in Sagittarius (7th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Sun in Gemini (12th house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Mars in Gemini (1st house)
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Cowbird's Saturn in Sagittarius (7th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's North Node in Leo (2nd house) □ square Raven's Sun in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Sun in Gemini (12th house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Sun in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Descendant in Sagittarius (7th house) ⚻ quincunx Raven's Rising in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Descendant in Sagittarius (7th house) ☍ opposition Raven's Mercury in Gemini (1st house)
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Cowbird's North Node in Leo (2nd house) ☍ opposition Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's South Node in Aquarius (8th house) □ square Raven's Sun in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Imum Coeli in Libra (4th house) △ trine Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Rising in Gemini (1st house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Mercury in Gemini (1st house)
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Cowbird's Rising in Gemini (1st house) ⚻ quincunx Raven's Descendant in Scorpio (7th house)
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Cowbird's Mars in Gemini (1st house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Jupiter in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Mars in Gemini (1st house) ⚻ quincunx Raven's Descendant in Scorpio (7th house)
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Cowbird's Mercury in Taurus (11th house) □ square Raven's Midheaven in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Mercury in Taurus (11th house) □ square Raven's Imum Coeli in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Sun in Gemini (12th house) △ trine Raven's Midheaven in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Saturn in Sagittarius (7th house) △ trine Raven's Jupiter in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Mars in Gemini (1st house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Mercury in Gemini (1st house)
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Cowbird's South Node in Aquarius (8th house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Descendant in Sagittarius (7th house) △ trine Raven's Jupiter in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Imum Coeli in Libra (4th house) △ trine Raven's Mercury in Gemini (1st house)
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Cowbird's Midheaven in Aries (10th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Saturn in Sagittarius (7th house) ⚻ quincunx Raven's Sun in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Mercury in Taurus (11th house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Venus in Taurus (12th house)
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Cowbird's Venus in Aries (10th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's North Node in Leo (2nd house) ☌ conjunction Raven's Jupiter in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Chiron in Pisces (9th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Sun in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Sun in Gemini (12th house) □ square Raven's Jupiter in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Midheaven in Aries (10th house) ☍ opposition Raven's South Node in Libra (6th house)
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Cowbird's Imum Coeli in Libra (4th house) ☌ conjunction Raven's South Node in Libra (6th house)
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Cowbird's Imum Coeli in Libra (4th house) ☍ opposition Raven's North Node in Aries (12th house)
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Cowbird's Midheaven in Aries (10th house) ☌ conjunction Raven's North Node in Aries (12th house)
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Cowbird's Sun in Gemini (12th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Imum Coeli in Leo (4th house)
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Cowbird's Midheaven in Aries (10th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Mercury in Gemini (1st house)
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Cowbird's Saturn in Sagittarius (7th house) ⚻ quincunx Raven's Rising in Taurus (1st house)
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Cowbird's Uranus in Aries (10th house) ⚹ sextile Raven's Moon in Aquarius (10th house)
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Cowbird's Pluto in Capricorn (7th house) △ trine Raven's Venus in Taurus (12th house)
Aunt Starling's reading above covers these together rather than one line each, with everyone you might add, writing every pair out separately would grow faster than anybody could read it.
Written by AI from your astrological chart, for reflection and entertainment.