posted January 14, 2015 06:05 AM            

oops, I posted this on the general astrology 2.0 board, but I think it's better placed here.
I'm trying to get my head around a question, maybe you can help or would enjoy to just brainstorm with me....

If you compare two birth charts with the possibility of a soulmate or karmic connection in mind, how do you rate the individual karmic lessons?

In this concrete examble: There's two people I know with a very heavy composite 12th house including sun, mercury, part of fortune, north node, juno and several more asteroids. The ruler Saturn is retrograde in the 5th house. In synastry, there's lots of oppositions, including sun-moon double whammy, a multiple Osiris/Isis/axis-connection, Vertex-Saturn double whammy, more Saturn connections...and so forth. Overall, this looks like a karmically heavy synastry/composite. I'd say it would definetely point towards a soulmate connection. Possibly even twin flames.

What confuses me is the fact that in their individual charts, they seem to have shared karmic patterns. Both are very heavy on Mars/Saturn issues and both have indicators of having karmic connections to children aswell. I'm confused about this particular aspect of twin flame theory... So what do you think: Would twin flames have similar or rather exakt opposite karmic life lessons?

Twin souls are supposed to complete each other. Fill each others gaps, so to speak. I would say it could make sense to assume that they can only do that if they have contrary issues, thus complimenting each other.

On the other hand, sometimes we see our own gaps clearer when we see them in others. Law of attraction would also more likely attract people into our lifes who have similar issues.

So what do you think? What would make YOU assume a twin flame connection - similar or opposite patterns?

posted January 14, 2015 04:49 PM            

Yes I always look at real life manifestations first, that's what initially pointed me towards the possibility of them having some sort of strong karmic connection. There is some things between them that can't be explained with chemistry and some similarities in their life paths that are highly unlikely considering they come from very different cultural backgrounds and have a seven year age gap.

I don't know him very well yet so I can't really be certain at this point in terms of shared patterns... but one things's for sure, their big life events seem to follow a similar rythm. It makes sense considering that they have a striking number of opposite aspects and also AC's in opposite signs, so big transits would affect them at the same time... the events were mostly of different nature though.

Having said that, different events can still create the same effect in people's lives...

For example: He became a father right around the time that she experienced her first and pretty painful love... so even though they were different events, they both had the experience of new emotional depths and giving up a part of yourself to give to another person.