posted August 16, 2012 06:07 PM            

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Originally posted by Lotis White:
Apologies for the assumptions. Your first post came off to me as a generalization, so I responded as such. I see your point of view about the stats.

Yeah, I’ve seen such statistics before and I have mixed feelings about them. They are based on the Sun sign alone to the exclusion of everything else in a person’s chart. You could do the same thing based on which Venus signs marry which other Venus signs, or which Moon signs marry which other Moon signs, and come up with different results. I have a hard time taking stats like this at face value. I’m not saying it’s impossible that there are some forces at work here, just that I’m skeptical on this one. Of course you are entitled to your own opinion.

The stats show that it is common to marry your own sign… I strongly suspect that this has a lot to do with Mercury and Venus. I’ll explain…

If the Sun is in Capricorn for instance, then it increases the likelihood that Mercury and Venus are also in Capricorn because they are never far from the Sun by sign…. And if Mercury and/or Venus are also in Capricorn, while the Sun is in Capricorn…. It increases the likelihood that a planet in the sign of Capricorn will be ruling the 5th, 7th or 8th house cusp. There are more opportunities that a planet in the same sign as the Sun will be ruling a relationship house, which in turn increases the likelihood that they will be drawn to a member of their own sign at some point. This has little to do with the Sun sign itself however. The more planets a person has in any sign the more likely they are to attract that sign (in the Sun, Moon, Asc, Mars or Venus sign of their partner) because there is an increased likelihood of a planet in that sign ruling a relationship house.

Even though I’m a Capricorn Sun I’ve got a stellium in Sagittarius, which increases the probability that a planet in Sag will be ruling the 5th, 7th or 8th house cusps. My Dsc is Gemini ruled by Mercury in Sag, so in my case this did happen. Could have been different though. If I had a Cancer Dsc ruled by my Moon in Cancer, and Taurus on the 5th house cusp…. I’d have been more into Earth/Water types of guys, rather then the outgoing types I like based on the chart that I actually did get.

I think a better study then which Sun sign marries whom, would be to compare the Sign of the Dsc ruler to the Sign of the partner’s Sun, Moon, Asc, Venus or Mars, and to see how many ‘hits’ occurred. Now that’s a study I’d love to get my hands on. Same thing with matching the Dsc cusp sign, or planets in the 7th, to the partner’s chart. But you need birth times for this so such a study would be hard to do on a mass scale.

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I agree, I think the whole chart and the DSC are extremely important. I also think the nodal points and Saturn tell us a lot about longevity. My understanding is that sun-moon conjunctions and oppositions have also been tied to longevity in a study. So I wouldn't discount them. Having said this, I will always maintain that the sun sign matters and doesn't get enough credit among true students of astrology - I think they're so eager to dismiss it because they feel that it has stigmatized or discredited astrology as a whole from its widespread usage (everyone knows their sun sign). They shouldn't forget that sun sign astrology has also brought a lot of people into full, true astrology's fold because they identified with their sun sign.

When Anna Faris (Sagittarius) married Chris Pratt recently, I guessed that he was a Cancer and it turned out I was right. .

posted August 17, 2012 01:31 PM            

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Originally posted by RegardesPlatero:
it could go a little something like this:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8109zJtEb1qjxggpo1_500.gif

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