One major difficulty people face when interpreting charts - whether they are transits, natal charts or sets of synastry charts - is BIAS.

Personal bias is something that is a struggle to get past in any situation. We all have our blinders and we all have our stories and litanies that we like to replay in our own heads over and over ... attempting to match new situations to what we are used to.

The first step is knowing what your biases are and admitting them to yourself/ being honest about them.
How do you identify your own biases?
Have you ever felt that you received an extremely biased reading from an astrologer?

Jupiter might represent some biases that you might hold.
Past experiences with individuals with certain placements might create bias.
Stereotypes might be another source of bias.
Another source of bias might come from the assumption that the way your chart works or your own personal experiences would be the same as another person's experience.

What biases are you aware of in yourself? How do you get around these biases? Or do you just accept them?

Here is something I have been experimenting with when I have time:
When interpreting a chart I look at the synastry between myself and the person whose chart/charts I am looking at. This tells me what that person's affect on me may be and it gives an idea about the different ways that we might relate with each other effectively (or what challenges might be involved in our communications).

But this is my question for other people involved in astrology - I have only experimented with this method so far because I am concerned that this might amplify bias! On the other hand I would hope that it might help identify bias ... which is the first step of dealing with it.

What do people think about this method?