The Sibling Constellation

Brothers and sisters are potentially our only life-long companions; they are the touchstones to our earliest memories, co-participants in our familial history and witnesses to our rites-of-passage. Myth and folklore have always recognised the sibling bond, yet in early psychoanalytic theory, this relationship was overshadowed by a hierarchical orientation to the parent. Now, astrology honours the sibling relationship and reminds us of the sibling archetype through the constellation of thetwins, and in the symbolic interactions of planets, signs and houses.