In Western Astrology, each star sign is thought to come under 4 separate elements. Fire is Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Earth is Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Air is Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, and Water is Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.

So what does that actually tell us? Well… Fire is thought to love freedom. Air is considered to also desire freedom (but slightly differently than ‘fire’) Earth is considered to love security Water is considered to need security (but slightly differently than ‘earth’).

Now, in sun signs comparisons, it is generally considered that you gel best with others who share the same element as you, or are from a ‘complementary element’ i.e. as above, fire and air are complementary with eachother, and earth with water. Therefore, you could be forgiven for assuming that everyone born under Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius would get on best with Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. Not so. There are those that believe it’s not as simple as that. The belief is that these signs that are considered to ‘get on the best’ can actually have one of two relationships. Either they will get on extremely well, or very badly. There is no ‘in-between’.

Let’s explore briefly, a few of the combinations.

Our first example is two Ariens in a relationship can often spell disaster. Ariens are typically proud individuals, and therefore unlikely to back down easily in an argument….you can imagine the rest.

Whereas an Aries with a Taurus is more of a match for different reasons. The calm laid back nature of the Taurean can be the perfect antidote to the fiery, impulsive nature of Aries. Needless to say, Taurus is an Earth sign, and Aries is Fire. But this isn’t to safe it’s a PERFECT match, all it says is that this partnership CAN work. A more likely successful joining however would be the Aquarius and Gemini relationship. This is considered a partnership that is able to be completely ‘into’ one another, and become lost in the others feelings and thoughts. Physically, Aquarians find Gemini’s extremely attractive, which undoubtably helps things! However, there is the potential for money troubles, as both are the types to not stay in one job for long.

Over at the Compatibility Horoscope blog, which you can find a link to in our profile, we have taken on the task of detailing each and every possible combination between the twelve star signs, and will be posting them for you over the coming weeks. Be sure to check there to find out if you and your partner (or potential partner) are a match made in heaven.

But remember, Compatibility Horoscopes aren’t always accurate. Quite often they can be innacurate….so where does that leave you? Well, why not follow your heart….life’s too short after all…why risk never getting together with the potential love of your life…

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Your Sun Sign position is what you’re really telling people when you announce — or admit — or have the information pried out of you by rude and relentless questions — that you’re a Scorpio, or a Capricorn, or a Gemini. (For different reasons, those are the signs least likely to give up that piece of self-revelation without a fight.)

This over-emphasis on Sun Sign traits as the basis of pop-culture Astrology is understandable. It’s a misconception based mostly on convenience. The Sun in its celestial travels follows a stable, predictable course. It stays in each sign approximately one month. It never retrogrades. It rises and sets day after day, season after season, very reliably. In fact everything about life as we know it depends on exactly that. The Sun … being there … doing its thing.

The Sun’s position on any given day is, as I said, almost always easy to determine — as long as you don’t run afoul of those pesky “cusp” days, the days close to when the Sun moves from one sign to another. Those vary in ways many people find confusing — even upsetting — again, because convenience drives common knowledge. Once you understand Astrology, these little questions and niggles smooth out nicely. But most people don’t want to go that far. They use Astrology in its elementary cookie-cutter form as a bit of light entertainment, barely scratching the surface of what this wonderful body of knowledge can give them … with their little hit-and-miss journeys into self-knowledge — through the vehicle of their Sun Sign description.

Sure, that list of Sun Sign qualities will hit the target more often than not — which is why Astrology remains such a staple of dime-store wisdom and newspaper feature forecasts. But there are sincere people who are not just cynics, nay-sayers, and wet blankets who can honestly say their Sun Sign description misses the essence of them by a country mile. Such instances fuel the opposition voices who call Astrology a superstition, a pseudo-science, a fraud … and point emphatically to the fact that Sun Sign analyses don’t always work. These people, too, have a point.

The Sun’s position in a horoscope, and what it says about the elements in a person’s character, is a very important piece of the picture, but it’s only that — a piece. And that’s the reason why Astrology as a whole seems to miss the mark badly in some people’s opinion. But take a picture of a beautiful woman, slice out a section that represents perhaps 3% of the total image … show it to someone, and chances are he will indeed wonder what all the fuss is about. (He may even wonder what he’s looking at. It may be hard to tell. Without that 3%, the picture is flawed and incomplete … but that 3% alone doesn’t begin to convey the whole experience.)

The trouble is … to get the whole picture of what Astrology can tell you about yourself, you have to learn the craft — or get someone who knows it well to interpret your horoscope for you. Meanwhile, Sun Sign Astrology, as a representative of the whole body of knowledge, continues to weave its way through the cultural awareness … mainly, as mentioned because it is quick and easy to get a person’s birthday and relate it to one of the twelve divisions of the Zodiac. People like things that are quick and easy. It’s why McDonald’s has sold billions of hamburgers that no gourmet would ever call “good food.”

People want their fun moments of light self-analysis to work the same. So they want their Astrology the way they want their drive-in meal: fast, hot, and familiar. (And if it’s also cheap … hey, that’s another plus.) Sure that hamburger will get you from breakfast to dinner. It will keep you alive. But it may not be nutritious, good for you, or even tasty. But at least when you step up to the counter and get your order, what you usually find in the sack is a complete sandwich. Consider instead how you’d feel if you got 3% of the sandwich … and had to make do with that. Kind of leaves you with an empty feeling doesn’t it? But at least it gives you something to think about — and maybe wanting more.

(c) 2007 Rebecca Brents, All rights reserved.

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Rebecca Brents writes on astrology, tarot, feng shui, and self-improvement at Enchanted Spirit: http://www.enchantedspirit.org/, and offers online lectures and classes on many New Age topics.

Astrology studies the celestial bodies affects on humanity. In particular human fate, destiny, and personality were described by the celestial influences of the stars and planets. The roots of Astrology can be traced back to the first or second century BC. Many ancient cultures such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Chinese practiced forms of Astrology. Although, the methods of Astrological forecast differed slightly from culture to culture there still remained many fundamental similarities between them.For example Chinese Astrology which evolved convergent to western Astrology had some major differences. The most fundamental difference being the use of the moons 28 day cycle through the heavens as opposed to the Suns* 365 day cycle around the earth(*Note: The Sun does not revolve around the earth but during this period it was the popular belief). The earliest Chinese zodiac divided the lunar cycles into 4 groups each corresponding to a different season and 7 sub groups corresponding to specific lunar mansions in the season. The seasons were given animal based names for example: Spring=The Green Dragon of spring, summer=The Red Bird of Summer, fall=The White Tiger of autumn, and winter=The Black Tortoise of Winter.

Even though the use of the moon in Chinese Astrology opposed the use of the suns movement through the celestial bodies in the Babylonian and Egyptian disciplines some similarities still existed. These similarities included the use of elemental attributes assigned to the planets. For example Saturn= Earth, Mars=Fire, Mercury=Water, Venus=Metal, and Jupiter=Wood. In addition to this similarity the Chinese zodiac also has 12 signs like its western counterpart.

The western use of the sun as the foci for Astrological studies stemmed from the pre heliocentric model of the universe. In particular Egyptians may have contributed greatly to the earth centered model of the solar system. They believed a giant dung beetle pushed the sun through the sky like a giant piece of dung. This earth centered model of our solar system coincidentally seemed to arise around 1.5 BC right around the time the Egyptian and Babylonian studies of celestial objects began.

As you may suspect there are different schools of thought on Astrology. These include Moon signs, Sun Signs, and animal signs. The popular horoscope used in your local newspaper for example is probably based on your sun sign. In contrast the Indian Vedic school of thought would be more concerned with your moon sign. While the Chinese system uses animal signs in their zodiac and is based on the twelve year Jovan cycle. Some even speculate that there may be correlation between Astrological studies and the Tarot deck.

In conclusion, Astrology has substantial scientific, historical, societal, and spiritual foundations. However you look at it the influences of the planets and constellations on our lives is evident in our every day lives. From the ebbing and rising of the oceans’ tides alone it should be apparent that the immense power of the moon has profound affects on our planet. In addition based on this it would stand to reason that as humans composed mostly of water the celestial bodies (ie the Moon) do have a profound impact on our moods, personality traits, and interactions with others. Wouldn’t it?

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Frederick Gimino is the founder of Free Psychic Network offering Psychic Readings and Free Psychic Readings for a better today. He hopes to provide individuals with psychic insight and enlightenment into the human condition.

On the surface, you may think you have great astrological compatibility on paper with two seemingly easy-going, compassionate people (signified in part, for example, by both having an abundance of Pisces and Cancer energy).

However, it’s discovered that one has very compressed, narrow, extreme right-slanted, sharp, angular, heavy pressure script with rigid baselines and downward slanting, weak-ending, pointed letter t-bars. Plus, strong patterns of over-balanced “8″ and “1″ energy are found in the comprehensive numerology charts. All of this with other corroborating information alerts the analyst to the strong possibility of that person being a domineering abuser.

The other person’s comprehensive charts involve, in part, lots of under-balanced “2″ energy which suggests dependency and self-deprecation. In support of these notions, that person’s script includes martyr/victim traits such as small overall script size, light writing pressure, close word spacing, excessively rounded and immature- looking writing, droopy rhythm and connectives between letters, pinched circle letters, low and weakly crossed letter t-bars back to the left instead of to the right, and x-formations where the letter x is not present.

In this case, a surface astrology interpretation would unfortunately leave open the potential for a very toxic, if not dangerous match.

An aside, psychology was not part of astrology until about 100 years ago. The approximately 2000 year tradition of the science of astrology involves mostly prediction instead of psychological character analysis. Unfortunately, in our view, most astrology found today in print or on-line is primarily modern, psychological astrology, and involves a frivolous and distorted approach to the science.

Astrology that’s largely for entertainment only (although usually not presented as such) includes, for example, Sun or Moon sign horoscopes, and readings done by astrologers who commonly promote falsehoods such as, “…(numerology or) astrology isn’t predestination or fate…how things play out is going to be up to you,” stated to cover a refusal to do in-depth delineation, or mask an inability to do accurate prediction.

Some popular modern astrologers even go so far as to offensively suggest escapism, wishful thinking, self- fulfilling prophesies, and a failure to take responsibility for one’s actions and life in response to the idea that some astrologers and numerologists (like us) say it’s possible to measure and outline personal fate (i.e., impart the general inclination of fate, and frequently, even precise future circumstances and events). Worse, they deny that fate exists, and also deny the reality that varying degrees of unavoidable adversity (which is also measurable) in people’s lives serves a divine purpose.

The truth is that their form of astrology or numerology isn’t about predestination or fate and that original ancient predictive astrology and numerology are absolutely about predestination and fate.

It’s ironic how fully embracing the concepts of karma and fate is directly related to taking responsibility for one’s actions and that much of the modern astrology found today offers mainly an escape from the hard realities of life.

Reviewing Sun Signs, Moon Signs, or any other individual aspect without considering the rest of the charts’ contents and patterns within those charts, will only give you surface insight. It tells you virtually nothing about the reality of the personality, or the compatibility between you and another person.

For example, the Sign of Aquarius is considered to be relatively harmonious with the Sign of Sagittarius. If you select ten random people with Aquarius Sun Signs and match them with ten people with Sagittarius Sun Signs, it’s entirely possible that none of them will get along with each other. It’s also entirely possible that all of them will get along.

The best romantic matches for a Libra Sun and Cancer Moon combination, for instance, depends entirely upon the health of the respective planets (strong and well, or involving afflictions including planets in detriment, badly aspected planets, weak house placement, retrogrades, etc.), their rulers and the health of those rulers, along with the rest of the several hundred aspects, and patterns comprised of those aspects, throughout the comprehensive charts of each person.

It’s possible for a person with a Libra Sun and Cancer Moon, for example, to have wonderful compatibility with a person with an Aries Sun and Capricorn Moon, both oppositions.

Oppositions are commonly considered to involve poor compatibility, but sometimes very close oppositions (opposing planets that are very tightly aspected by a degree or two, within the compatibility charts) offer more reward than challenge, especially if the remaining composite contents are harmonious.

Oppositions are as follows: Aries is opposed to Libra. Taurus is opposed to Scorpio. Gemini is opposed to Sagittarius. Cancer is opposed to Capricorn. Leo is opposed to Aquarius. Virgo is opposed to Pisces.

Conjunctions, same sign combinations, represent intensification of the sign’s energy, and is sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Generally, it’s a “hard” aspect, and not as easy flowing as trines and sextiles.

Although we feel that modern astrology places too much emphasis on Ptolemaic aspects, it’s good to have an understanding of them.

The basic, major Ptolemaic aspects include oppositions (180 degree angle), conjunctions (0 degree angle), squares (90 degree angle), trines (120 degree angle), and sextiles (60 degree angle).

Square aspects are combinations of signs that are of different elements (see below), like Taurus with Leo, and generally indicate challenge and tension. Trine aspects are combinations of signs that are of the same element, such as Scorpio with Pisces (both water), and are generally agreeable. Sextile aspects are combinations of signs that are of compatible, but different, elements such as Cancer with Virgo, or Leo with Libra, and are also generally favorable.

If you accept the trivial approach of reviewing only the Sun and Moon signs, which might offer a preview at best, then it’s good to look at the elemental combinations of the signs for some basic awareness.

On the surface, fire and air are harmonious, and earth and water are harmonious. In addition, each element commonly mixes well with itself (fire and fire, etc.).

Fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

Earth signs are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.

Air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.

Water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.

A surface approach will involve Libra Sun, Cancer Moon compatibility with an air or fire Sun, along with a water or earth Moon, but that’s just the beginning.

If you want to go a little deeper, yet still not get into comprehensive analysis, considering the nature of the sign is also helpful (Fixed, Mutable, or Cardinal), as is considering the masculine or feminine nature of the sign (fire and air are masculine, and earth and water are feminine).

We also strongly recommend contemplating each person’s personal timing when considering compatibility.

Personal timing, comprised of scores of short, medium, and long-term continuous and non-continuous numerological and astrological cyclical timing methods, regularly symbolically makes or breaks relationships. The collective cycles can be divided into groups that are the basis for pattern recognition.

Two people can seemingly have nothing in common aside from their current personal time cycles (some as short as a day, others as long as many years), and when those time cycles change, the relationship changes, or even dissolves.

It should be noted that we understand that it is possible for someone who has strong, solid psychic ability and a good, general understanding of astrology to successfully use Sun and Moon signs exclusively as psychic touchstones. But few have this talent where they can get consistent, accurate reads without a comprehensive approach.

Again, an astrologer must consider all comprehensive charts in determining compatibility, along with the comprehensive timing charts, and not just the Sun and Moon signs if one really wants to uncover existing compatibility. Again, we have found that you also must consider the comprehensive numerology charts, along with handwriting analysis (subconscious fears and defenses, etc.), if you want a high level of accuracy.

A skeptic saying that they “…don’t believe in astrology,” to us, is a reasonable and understandable statement if they have only been exposed to Sun Sign astrology, which is the basis for most astrology horoscopes today.

Comparing Sun Sign astrology to an in-depth analysis as referred to in the above paragraphs is like comparing conspiracy theory half-truths to confirmed CIA intelligence.

Copyright © 2007 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

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Scott Petullo and Stephen Petullo are identical twins and have been exploring metaphysics since the early 1980’s. They are experts in the fields of prediction, personal fate, love life, and past life regression, and are natural psychics and mediums. Get their free report: 13 Spiritual and New Age Myths and 11 Questions to Ask before hiring Psychic. http://www.mystictwins.com http://www.holisticmakeover.com

With only a little effort someone can read something that seems very relevant to themselves and seems to shed light on what the future may hold. There are even special interest horoscopes - how about a pet horoscope or a poker horoscope.

Its amazing stuff and if you want to find out a little about the science behind horoscopes this is a good place to start.

The newspaper and magazine horoscopes we all read are a very simplified forecast based on the positions of the sun signs - more about them later, though. In the meantime consider this. Professional astrologers use the words horoscope and ‘birth chart’ interchangeably and these charts are far more sophisticated than the simple horoscopes everyone reads in the newspapers.

A persons ‘birthchart’ is a diagram (usually a circle divided up into segments relating to the signs of the zodiac) showing where in the sky the planets were positioned at the date, time and place an individual was born.

From that it is possible to determine a great many of a persons characteristics and what the future may hold.

A sunsign is one of the most important elements in someones birth chart. The sun sign is the sign of the zodiac which the sun is travelling through when someone is born. Newspaper and magazine horoscopes simply reflect the influence of the sun sign but a proper horoscope takes into account the position of all of the stars and planets that astrologers are interested in. Lets look at what they are.

Firstly there are the sun signs:-

Aries     (March 22nd - April 20th)
Taurus  (April 21st - May 21st)
Gemini  (May 22nd - June 22nd)
Cancer  (June 23rd - July 23rd)
Leo        (July 23rd - August 24th)
Virgo     (August 25th - September 24th)
Libra      (September 25th - October 24th)
Scorpio  (October 25th - November 23rd)
Sagittarius (November 24th - December 23rd)
Capricorn (December 24th - January 22nd)
Aquarius  (January 22nd - February 20th)
Pisces  (February 21st - March 21st)

Secondly, astrologers need to be just as familiar with the Planets and their meanings as they do with sun signs. The planets are called Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Neptune, Saturn, Sun (yes, thats a planet too!), Uranus, Venus and Pluto.

So, altogether, astrology is a particularly complex discipline. A horoscope is easy enough to create as there are books and even software to practically do the job for you. However, learning how to interpret the resulting information accurately is a different matter altogether.