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Hard Truths About Romantic Love and Determining Astrological Compatibility

Uh oh... I feel at least a couple of Jupiter rising sermons coming on...

I - Who Are You?
Hard truth number one is that any astrologer performing a personal, face to face, reading on your astrological compatibility with another person knows that - when the rubber meets the road - much of “compatibility” is based on:

• Who are you?
• What myth(s) are you currently living out?
• How hard are you to get along with?
• What sort of life lessons are you on the planet to learn?
• What is it that you need in your life that's causing you to draw in and attract the other person (or a certain type of person)?

All of the above adds up to who you are as an individual and most usually has very little to do with the other “magical” person or “the relationship.”

II - Love is Risky Business
Hard Truth number two is that no astrologer on the planet can provide you a blank check guarantee of success. Think about it for a second... if I were somehow clever enough to be the one astrologer on the planet that could provide a 100% (or even a 70-90%) guarantee regarding the ultimate “success” of a relationship - then I'd be charging the price of a medium sized country for my readings and people would be willing to pay for it.

In astrology it's thought it was sometime during the European Renaissance that romantic love affairs of the heart came to be primarily associated with the astrological 5th house of gambling - associated with the excitement of the gamble, the risk, the pleasure, and the youthful, playful awakening of new and young love…

Thus astrology as a wisened teacher judiciously attempts to instruct us that regardless of the many "safety nets" we attempt to construct in order to "even up" the odds... romantic love and attraction will always remain a gamble, an emotional risk, and a leap of faith that we must choose to take (or not) when entrusting our heart to another person.

After all... that's part of the joy, part of the torture, and part of the experience of the "thing called love."

III - Emotional Baggage – Damaged Goods
It's vitally important in every reading I perform to mention hard truth number 3 - that there are more than a few folks out there so very emotionally damaged (filled with anger and resentment) that they are literally incapable of maintaining and/or sustaining a loving soul bond relationship with you (or anyone else) that builds up and creates new life rather than tears down and destroys.

There are birth chart “markers” or “clues” of potential major emotional issues and/or baggage that the other person (or, for that matter, you) is dealing with in this lifetime.

However there is no way based simply on looking at the birth chart to determine or predict how successfully they (or you) have dealt with these issues in their (your) life.

My condolences if you have hooked up with one of these severely emotionally damaged individuals. It happens – and, when it happens, it would seem that all the soul bond connections in the world may not be able to overcome the damage and who they have become as an individual.

It’s painful when this happens. Trust me, I know… been there, done that…

IV - Honest Astrology doesn't claim to have all the answers
As astrologer extraordinaire, Liz Greene has often been fond of pointing out, there appears to be an unknown “X factor” at play when it comes to matters of the heart.

"The heart has its own reasons that the mind cannot comprehend..."
Plato

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