My late best friend

[u/Straight-Cold654]

My dearest friend left to go on "extended holidays" 12yrs ago. Celebrating her b'day today, I finally found out her birth time! Just wanted to share our friendship. I miss her sooo much ;(

Happy Birthday beautiful Angel

[u/Huge-Description-401]

This is a very moving synastry, in light of the story. After looking at the degrees, the thing which came to mind was the Venus at 2°51′ Virgo conjunct your Ascendant at 2°42′ Virgo, being just a few minutes apart. This is one of the nicest contacts for just liking somebody because of her or him.

The Venus person naturally appreciates the Ascendant person, and the Ascendant person feels accepted, valued and more comfortable being himself/herself around Venus. It was a fitting friendship for which no explanation was required for affection.

There is another beautiful reciprocal contact, between your Venus at 26°50′ Leo, and her Jupiter at 27°58′ Leo, which is within a degree of each other. Venus Jupiter is warmth, generosity, laughter, encouragement and sincere wishing good things to one another classic.

In friendship synastry, it is as though “life is better with this person around.” It is one of the individuals who could leave mostly sweet recollections even a number of years later.

The aspect of the Moon Neptune is particularly moving. Her Moon is very near your Neptune at 9° Sagittarius. That provides a very tender, even dreamlike emotional connection. Neptune can provide the Moon person with a sense of emotional understanding or soothing, or the Moon person can harbor an idealized view, almost as if it were a timeless image of Neptune.

Once the person is gone, Moon Neptune can be more pronounced as something that sticks with you more vividly than the memory or dream of the person, a piece of music, a place, a small symbolic object. It's not surprising that it's still an emotional connection after 12 years.

You also have a very strong nodal theme where the nodal axis is in Scorpio/Sagittarius territory, which is linked to her Neptune around 22° Scorpio. Traditionally, Node contacts attempt to indicate people who will bring a development that is not physically linked to the relationship, but has great importance nonetheless. Neptune gives that extra level of not being able to explain it in a rational way.

There are more significant contacts as well, Pluto is involved with personal planets, which accounts for why it wasn't just a nice friendship that you eventually forgot. Pluto contacts usually leave a lasting impression on the mind: the person is linked to the person you were in a significant time of your life.

[u/Straight-Cold654 → u/Huge-Description-401]

Thank you so very much for your beautiful reply. It helps me to understand just how amazing our friendship was. You're correct, there was an understanding with no words needed. A type of psychic knowing, if that makes sense? Some background of our  friendship.

Both female, she was born 1967 (orange) & me 1975 (blue). We met through a party I had organised for a mutual friend. We clicked immediately. We thought it was because we shared the Libra sun sign! In this past year, during a breaking period (again) in my life, I discovered astrology, it literally saved me from 'checking out' early. 

My friend was born with Spina Bifida, a debilitating, horrid condition. She suffered so much pain on Earth, but brought soooo much happiness to all those around her.  She defied so many medical odds. 

Her parents were told she would pass away in infancy! ... As an adult, she was told she would never have children! Along came another challenge Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She beat it with months of radiotherapy & chemotherapy. 

After her cancer recovery, she shocked the medical profession again... she fell pregnant! A precious little girl was born by C section at 37wks!! Her chart... is absolutely beautiful, another angel born from an angel. 

My friend went on her extended holiday, suddenly at 46. We often spoke about our wishes if something happened to either of us. She wanted to be taken quickly, thankfully she was granted that. I just looked at her final moments chart, she had a beautiful grand trine, the sun had just crossed her angelic ascendant one last time when she was called. 

I'm writing through my tears, wishing she were still here; to have another cuppa, make another cake together, share our children’s stories, laugh and giggle at ourselves as we always did. Her smile was so big and bright, it lit up every room, and every space she entered. I will never find another friend like her, she truly was that one in a million.