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Chart clues to Marriage—Will You or Won’t You?
©2009 by Donna Cunningham
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by Donna Cunningham, MSW |
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“What does my chart say? Will I ever marry?”
As a professional astrologer, I came to dread that question. I also seriously toyed with offering a substantial discount to any client who would pledge not to ask me when they would meet their soul mate.
Why, you ask, would I do that? Because those are the kinds of questions that lead astrologers down a path with so many potholes that we simply cannot help falling into them. It’s the astrological equivalent of the “do these slacks make my butt look big,” type of question.
If you say, “no, I don’t see a marriage,” then whether you’re wrong or right, the power clients attribute to such a prophecy can be devastating. Your words can wind up creating the very thing you’ve forecast—the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you take the coward’s way out and give the safe answer fortune tellers use (“you’ll meet him in two years”) then you feel like the fraud you are.
The Best Predictor of Marriage
Having followed many clients' and friends' charts' over the past 40 years, I’ve come to believe that astrology isn’t the best predictor of whether an individual will meet and commit to a partner. HISTORY is a better predictor, and the astrologer who doesn’t get a relationship history from the client is likely to prove inaccurate.
What I’ve observed is that there are relationship-prone people and people who are not relationship-prone. The person who isn’t relationship-prone could have transits or progressions that look ideal for love and not meet a soul, much less a soul mate. Relationship-prone people can have either the worst or the most piddling aspects for romance, and they fall head over heels and hook up with a partner. Go figure.
That said, the chart does tell much about the romantic obstacles to be overcome. In particular, there are differences among the outer planet aspects to Venus in their degree of willingness to commit to a partnership. Venus-Uranus types above all else want freedom and independence, and so they often engage in a seemingly endless series of short-term attractions until they find someone who can give them room to keep growing and exploring themselves and their potential.
Like most aspects involving Pluto, Venus-Pluto people can fit into one of two extremes, either totally, compulsively joined at the hip with a partner or—having been badly burned—totally turned off to the idea of having a relationship at all. Venus-Neptune types don’t just want to commit, they want to merge, so they can become addicted to love and immerse themselves in one codependent relationship after another.
People with Venus-Saturn aspects are gravely reluctant to enter into a partnership for several reasons. For one, they would find it a binding agreement that entails a lifetime commitment and tremendous responsibility. Second, they are extremely conscious of roles in general and the traditional male-female roles of spouse and parent in particular, and so in committing to a partner they would also be committing to a role that they may or may not wish to fulfill.
For many of them, their career represents a deeper level of soul commitment and entering into a relationship and parenthood would detract from it. Finally, Venus-Saturn individuals believe that you have to earn love by working hard at it and generally don’t believe that they are inherently loveable. To avoid the rejection they anticipate, they may retreat behind walls and focus on a career.
Although Libra is supposedly the sign of committed relationships, potholes on the road to marriage have gotten in the way of eternal love for many Librans born between 1941 and 1984. Those obstacles are represented by the same slow-moving planets we’ve been discussing: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. One by one—and sometimes in pairs—they’ve spent years traveling through Libra:
Neptune in Libra from 1942-55, paired with Saturn in 1950-53
Uranus in Libra from 1968-75
Pluto in Libra from 1971-1984, paired with Saturn in 1982-3
You’ll get more details about these placements in another article I’ve got in my to-do stack. (One of these days. Before Saturn leaves Libra this time.) But what you’d be looking at in the chart would be any conjunction the outer planet forms to another Libran planet, especially the Sun or Venus or the 1st/ 7th house cusps (i.e. the Ascendant or Descendant.) In those cases, the aspect would be similar to a Venus aspect to the outermost planet in question. For example, Neptune conjunct a Libra planet would have a flavor of a Venus/Neptune aspect.
What Can a Person do When the History Says No?
When an individual fits into the not relationship prone category, healing work is often needed to change a decision about relationships that they have made at a very deep level. There are many articles about healing methods under Healing Tools–Essences, Light, etc. and Relationship Help.
One major barrier to a relationship in this lifetime is a current or past life vow of either chastity or eternal commitment to a particular soul. Such vows may not be conscious ones, but they hold great power and need to be revoked consciously and explicitly in some form of ritual in order for a new relationship to be possible.
For instance, I often find that at a very deep level, people with Venus in Virgo or Virgo planets in the relationship houses (7th, 8th, and 5th) take their wedding vows extremely seriously and remain faithful, even long after a divorce. Doing a conscious revocation of the vows can shift the situation so that they are once again available for a commitment.
If you suspect that you are still bound by vows that have outlasted their relevancy to your life, you may need to make a conscious re-decision about that before you can allow yourself a second marriage.
To do so, you might use the technique of writing a canceling-out and reprogramming statement 70 times a day for 7 days--something like, ‘I revoke the vow of eternal fidelity I made to my mate.’ Finish the process with some sort of symbolic act or ritual like burning the paper it was written on. (An article that would shed additional light on this process is Pay-as-You-Go Karma–One Path to Peaceful Relationships.)
"The 1st International Astrology Day Blog Carnival
Welcome the Aries Ingress
The Cardinal T-Square:
Personal Challenges - Practical Solutions
A 3-Day World Wide Web Blog-a-Thon
March 19-21, 2010
Keys to Effectively Handling the Cardinal T-Square Challenges
Find out how you and your loved ones may be affected by the T-Square!
A blog carnival is an internet-based event featuring a large, permanent collection of informative articles on a given topic. Several blogs host pages with article descriptions linked to sites where articles are posted. This particular carnival celebrates International Astrology Day and presents a variety of useful essays about ways individuals can contend with the cardinal T-Square during 2010-14.
The three host bloggers showcase articles on how transiting Uranus, Saturn, and Pluto will affect individuals’ lives and what they can do to integrate the useful side of each of these energies. Authors for each day give readers ideas and problem-solving tools to tackle the inevitable challenges and get back on solid ground.
Friday, March 19:
So you’ve STILL got Pluto Problems?
Saturday, March 20
Take Care of Saturn and Saturn Will Take Care of You
Sunday, March 21
Uranus in Aries: Claiming a Self-Reliant Future
For more information or to submit articles, contact: either of the Coordinators:
Donna Cunningham at moonmave@spiritone.com
CJ Wright at auntiemoonmail@yahoo.com.
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Donna Cunningham,
Astrologer
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Donna Cunningham is an internationally respected astrologer and the author of 19 books on metaphysical topics.
She has been an astrologer for almost 40 years.
Her newest career direction is to lead writing seminars for those who wish to write about astrology, metaphysics or self-help subjects. See her summer offerings at www.moonmaven
publications.
com/writingseminars.html.
Donna Cunningham has a dual background in astrology and psychotherapy, with a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience as a professional astrologer. She considers doing the astrology charts of children to be a sacred trust. It is a way of knowing who these Indigo children are on their own terms rather than as their families, teachers, and society expect them to be.
In these sessions, she focuses on typical childhood concerns such as family and peer relationships, the best educational approaches, and the child's special gifts and abilities. She can be reached for consultations at (503)291-7891, by email, or at her web page. Ask about her special rate for children's charts.
Donna is also co-editor of Vibration and a frequent contributor. She has written fourteen books on astrology and other metaphysical topics, including her Flower Remedies Handbook. Astrologers who want to know the special considerations involved in doing children's charts can read the chapter on this topic in Donna's text, The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook.
Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC.
email:
moonmaven @spiritone.com
Phone:
(503)291-7891.
Donna teaches astrology classes online at:
Academy of
Astro-Psychology:
www.astropsychology.
org/index.asp?pgid=1
Donna Cunningham, one of astrology’s best-known authors and teachers, is now offering a 14-lesson correspondence course by e-mail. If you’ve already studied the signs, planets, houses, aspects, and transits but don’t know how to put the pieces together, Astrology Chart Interpretation and Synthesis is for you. See details at: www.moonmaven
publications.com/
correspondancecourse.html .
For the past 20 years, she has worked with the flower remedies, and she is co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly at:
essences.com/
vibration/
Donna has 17 books available, including 7 ebooks with more to come! See them at:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
This series is reprinted with gracious permission from Donna Cunningham.
©2002 Vibration Magazine/The World Wide Essence Society
PO Box 285
Concord, MA 01742
978 369-8454
www.moonmaven
publications.com
If you are interested in ordering a copy of Donna's ebook:
"Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us,"
It is $15, available at Moon Maven Publications:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
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