The Compatibility Of The Sun Signs
In case you are by now wondering about the compatibility between your own Sun sign and that of your loved ones, my experience has shown that there are no hard and fast rules. In general the signs within their own element get on well with each other and also with the signs in polar opposition in the zodiac, for example Earth and Water, Fire and Air. Because there is an underlying harmony between each set of two elements, the energies of the signs involved enjoy working with and responding to each other. Water gets on well with Earth, Air with Fire, and vice versa. Whenever two of these elementary forces work together and find the golden point of balance that lies halfway between each set of two extremes, each can give of their best.
Signs that are not in polar opposition to each other can have difficulties, but they do not have to. In loving relationships where there is good will and two people are seriously making an effort to get on with each other, in my view, it should always be possible to find some common ground and work things out to each partner’s satisfaction.
Bearing in mind the nature and energies of the signs, it is hardly surprising that the least compatible of all signs are the ones next to each other in the zodiac, for example Scorpio and Sagittarius or Taurus and Gemini. It will come clearer to you why this should be so, when you study my interpretations of these signs and especially their energies. Familiarising ourselves with the characteristics of the Sun signs can save a great deal of heart-ache in all relationships. A sufficient awareness of the characteristics and energies of the signs involved I find most helpful when I am trying to find out whether someone new who is coming into my life is going to be compatible with me.
Let me illustrate this with an example that is based on observations of a real life situation. If a Scorpio woman had known beforehand about her loved one’s strong thirst for freedom, many of their problems could easily have been avoided, one way or another. If you were in her shoes, armed with this knowledge you would be able to make a conscious decision whether you are willing to put up with this need for freedom and roaming the world. All would be well if the woman also had Sagittarius in a prominent position in her chart, for example if her Moon or Ascendant were in this sign, because in that case she too would require lots of freedom. Because we are magnetic beings who can only attract in our partners what we are ourselves, the old saying that like attracts like is true.
Each one of the twelve signs of the zodiac has a different temperament and the two signs next to each other are usually of a profoundly dissimilar nature. The approach to life of Sagittarius and Capricorn, the two signs side by side, are as good an example of this as any, because they could not be less alike. Driven by their freedom loving energy, Sagittarians look into the future and are looking for new pastures where the grass greener than where they are at present. Whether they are consciously aware of this or not, they are in search of ways out of any entrapment that rears its head, even if it is only an imaginary one.
In contrast to this, Capricorn clings to tradition, the past, home and mother. Above all things, Sagittarians want to be free. But it may take them a surprisingly long time until it dawns on them, through their own life’s experiences, that the only true freedom that can be had in physicality is that of becoming aware of spiritual free will. That is the freedom we are all trying to find, but the need for it is certainly accentuated during a lifetime in Sagittarius.
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The above is a chapter from ‘Astrology As A Lifehelp In Relationship Healing’.
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