love astrology

The native who has never been in a relationship usually arrives with a question about themselves, and the chart answers a different and better one: which of ten reasons is in the chart, and when it changes. An empty or afflicted fifth that gives no romance, a weak Venus that gives no attraction, Saturn on the fifth or seventh that starts late, Ketu there that does not need it, the fifth or seventh lord in a dusthana, a Moon that does not reach out, or, most often of all, no sub-period of the fifth lord, the seventh lord or Venus having run yet, so that the chart has simply not had its season. The ten reasons in a table with what each means and when it changes, the difference between no romance and no marriage, since the arranged-marriage chart may have both a silent fifth and a full seventh, the late starter and the first relationship after Saturn’s return, the chart that does not need a love life and is not lacking one, whether love is ever denied outright, and a worked chart of a Virgo lagna whose first relationship came at thirty-three in the seventh lord’s own period.

The question after a divorce is asked in the same words as before it, will I find love again, and the chart answers it in three parts that the questioner has usually run together. The aftermath, the twelfth lord’s or Ketu’s season that follows the ending and has to pass before anything else can begin, which the reading dates so that the native stops trying to skip it. The rebound, the relationship of the eighth lord’s or Rahu’s sub-period, sudden and intense and real, which is the crisis’s own relationship and not the second beginning, and which the reading names so that it is enjoyed for what it is. And the second beginning itself, read from the second house, the family rebuilt, which this site reads as the second spouse’s house, timed by its lord with the seventh lord and Venus and by Jupiter over the second or seventh, and described by the second lord’s placement as the first spouse was described by the seventh’s. Nine signatures in a table, the children and the former spouse as houses in the new relationship, the native who does not want a second bond and is not lacking one, the second beginning that is better and the one that repeats, and a worked chart of a Taurus lagna whose second beginning came in the second lord’s own sub-period, six years after the decree.

A relationship begins when three layers of the chart meet, and the reading of “when will I find love” is the reading of those three. The carrier, a planet that can bring a relationship at all: the fifth lord, the seventh lord, Venus, a planet in the fifth or seventh, the eleventh lord for the meeting through friends. The carrier’s sub-period, the season of one to three years in which it acts, found on the dasha table. And the trigger, Jupiter’s transit over the fifth, seventh or eleventh or over natal Venus as the year, Venus’s own transit over the fifth or seventh as the month. The carrier’s house adds the answer to the question underneath, where, since a carrier in the tenth meets at work and one in the ninth on a journey, in a twelve-row table; the sub-period’s length says how long the relationship lasts; Rahu’s windows are read as sudden and real but not lasting; and the reader is shown how to find their own next window in twenty minutes. A worked chart of an Aries lagna who met her husband at work in the eleventh lord’s sub-period with Jupiter over her fifth.

This page is written for the single person in a relationship with someone who is married, and it is written without a lecture, because the reader has heard the lecture and has come for something the lecture cannot give, which is what their own chart says. It says four things. What draws them to the unavailable, the fifth lord in the twelfth or eighth, Venus with Rahu or Ketu, Rahu on the fifth, which is a pattern of the houses and a season and not a verdict on their worth. Which house the relationship lives in, the twelfth or the eighth, and what that house does to relationships that live in it. Whether their own marriage window, the seventh lord’s sub-period that would carry a bond of their own, is passing while they wait, which is the reading’s most useful and least welcome sentence. And what the other person’s chart can say, which is whether their marriage is ending on its own schedule, and cannot say, which is whether they will leave for the native, since a chart reads a marriage’s seasons and not a person’s choice. Eight signatures in a table, the third party’s houses in the native’s own chart, the horary form of the question and the thing it reveals about who the question is about, what the reading refuses to time, and a worked chart of a Virgo lagna whose relationship lived in the twelfth for two years while her own marriage window approached.

Venus is the planet of how a native loves and how they need to be loved, and it is read for relationships in four layers, in the same order every planet page in this cluster uses. What Venus rules for the ascendant, which decides what the Venus period brings, a bond for Aries and Scorpio where it rules the seventh, a romance for Gemini and Capricorn where it rules the fifth, and something else entirely where it rules the sixth or the twelfth. The sign, which is the love language, what the native gives without thinking and needs without asking. The house, which is where the love lives and where it is met. And the condition, exalted in Pisces, debilitated in Virgo, combust, retrograde, or in the company of Saturn, Rahu, Ketu or Mars, each of which changes what the native’s love is like from inside. The twelve-ascendant table, the Venus period for relationships, Venus retrograde in transit, the weak Venus and what does and does not help it, and a worked chart of a Libra lagna whose exalted Venus in the sixth loved through service.

The question after a breakup is how long, and the chart answers it as a season with a length, which is more than the friends can offer and less than the native fears. The months after an ending are the remainder of the sub-period the ending fell in, and sometimes the next, and they run in three phases that the houses name: the loss, the twelfth’s work; the transformation, the eighth’s; and the rebuilding, the second’s and eleventh’s. The chart reads how long the season runs, by the sub-period’s dates; what lengthens it, Saturn over the Moon, and what lifts it, Jupiter over the Moon or the fifth, Ketu’s detachment, the next carrier’s arrival; what helps this particular chart, by which houses are strong, the friends of the eleventh, the words of the third, the work of the tenth, the journey of the ninth, the home of the fourth; the pull back and its dates; the grief that is thinner than expected after a fade and the one that does not lift and is for a counsellor as well as the chart; and when the heart is next available, which is the find-love page’s question. An eight-house table of what helps, and a worked chart of a Libra lagna whose season ran eleven months and lifted in the eleventh lord’s sub-period, among her friends.

Mars is the planet of desire, initiative and the fight, and a relationship without it is a friendship; a relationship with too much of it is a war. The chart reads Mars for relationships in four layers. What Mars rules for the ascendant, which decides what its period brings, the bond for Taurus and Libra where it rules the seventh, the romance for Cancer and Sagittarius where it rules the fifth, and the quarrel for Gemini and Scorpio where it rules the sixth. The sign, which is how the native wants and how they fight, hot and fast in fire, slow and held in earth, argued in air, sulked in water. The house, where the heat lives, with Mangal dosha read as what it is and not as a curse, the partner who is a match rather than a comfort, and the cancellations that the classical rules give. And the condition, exalted in Capricorn, debilitated in Cancer, with Venus, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu or the Moon. The twelve-ascendant table, the Mars period and its short hot seasons, Mars’s transit over the seventh as the quarrel window, the line where heat becomes harm and the reading stops, and a worked chart of a Cancer lagna whose dosha was a yoga.

Most people who ask about a relationship do not have a birth time, or have one that was rounded to the hour, and the answer they are usually given is either a full reading on a guessed time, which is a reading of the wrong chart, or nothing. There are three honest routes, and this page sets out what each can answer. The day chart, the planets by sign for the date alone, which reads the Moon’s sign on most days, Venus and Mars by sign, the nodes, and most of the synastry between two people, and cannot read the houses, the seventh lord, the Navamsa or the dasha dates. The horary, a chart cast for the moment the question is sincerely asked or from a number between 1 and 249, in which the querent is the first house and the other person the seventh, which answers a specific question, will we be together, will they come back, is this the one, with a timing, and cannot describe a life. And rectification, which recovers the birth time from dated events and gives back the whole natal reading. A table of which relationship questions each route can answer, the sincerity rule, the Moon in the horary, the KP form with its cusp sub-lord and the Parashari form with its lords’ reception, timing from the horary, the two-person question with only one time known, and a worked horary for “will we be together” that answered no for now with a date.

Venus is how a native loves, and the Moon is what they need in order to feel safe while loving, and most of what two people who love each other cannot explain to each other lives in the second. The chart reads the Moon for relationships in the four layers the planet pages use. The house the Moon rules for the ascendant, one house for each, which decides what the Moon’s period brings, the partner for Capricorn, the romance for Pisces, the home for Aries. The sign, which is the emotional need itself, to be felt in water, to be safe in earth, to be admired and left free in fire, to be talked to in air. The house, which is where the need is met and by whom. And the condition, exalted in Taurus, debilitated in Scorpio, with Saturn, Rahu, Ketu or Mars, waxing or dark, which decides how easily the need is felt and said. Moon-to-Moon compatibility, which is what the classical matching was measuring all along, the Moon period’s seasons of the heart, the twelve-ascendant table, and a worked pair whose Moons were four signs apart.

Everything on this site about relationships before and outside marriage begins here. The three questions a relationship reading answers, what draws you, whether this holds, and when it changes, and the order they are asked in. The crisis pages, the ex who may return, the breakup and which endings hold, the one-sided love, the relationship that harms, and the season after an ending. The love marriage and the other person, the double window, whether they feel the same, the family, the partner who will not commit. The shapes a relationship takes, at a distance, in secret, with someone married, across an age gap, on the karmic axis, and after a divorce. The beginning, for the native who has never been in one and the one who asks when. The six planets, Venus, Mars, the Moon, Rahu, Saturn and Ketu, each read for love. The technical layer, the fifth and seventh together, synastry, which dasha carries love, and the transits. How a reconciliation reading is done and what to do without a birth time. A table of all thirty articles, how this cluster stands beside the marriage pages, and an hour’s method for reading your own chart for love.