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How to do Compatibility Astrology – Primer
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Here are the essential basics of how to do compatibility based on the mutual relationships of the signs of two people.
Start at Taurus, call it “1″, say the signs in order, numbering each one, till you get to “7″ (from Taurus it will be scorpio) This sign is always the most COMPELLING attraction and compatibility.
Start over and do the same thing, this time note the signs that are numbered “5″ and “9″ (from Taurus it is Virgo and Capricorn). These signs are always RELIABLE compatibly.
Start over again and note the signs that are “3″ and “11″ (From taurus these are Cancer and Pisces) These signs are nice relationships, just rather mildly positive.
The signs just before and after the one you start at (2 and 12 – from Taurus these are Aries and Gemini) are incompatible… not terribly, mildly. *Here is the one you are asking about, Taurus/Aries. More on this after I finish up this number pattern.*
The signs just before and after the one “7″ signs from where you start (6 and 8 – from Taurus these are Libra and Sagittarius) are more strongly incompatible, reliably, constantly not good.
There are only two signs left now, these are the ones “4″ and “10″ from wherever you start (from Taurus this would be Leo and Aquarius) these are the biggest compatibility clashes, the most incompatible.
Now, thats the THEORY. You also have to know how to apply this theory.
a) you have to do it for the signs of your ascendant, moon, sun AND venus – and weight the results all together (or separately to reveal separate aspects of compatibility)
b) you have to do it for the interactions between these four signs. (for example, Moon in Taurus and the other persons ascendant in Scorpio is very good for compatibility).
c) You have to consider the degrees, not just the signs. When two bodies are close together by degree, their positive or negative compatibility effect is much more pronounced than if those two bodies are far apart.
Hope this helps! =)
Thanks,
Vic DiCara
PS – This pattern system I described doesn’t at all contradict an element-based way of understanding compatibility and incompatibility. In fact the pattern arises because of the compatibility of the elements and modes of the signs.
I use this as the fundamental system of my compatibility readings (along with another, more traditional Indian system) and the results are very, very reliable and useful.
On Destiny vs. Freewill
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You ask, “if everything the that the body does and experiences happens in material nature – then what blame or glory is there for the soul? If everything is predetermined and I have no freewill, then I am not responsible for my actions.”
Right. If you have no freewill, you could not be held accountable for your actions. If everything that happens in the world happens only in matter, and has nothing to do with spirit – then the soul can never be blamed for anything bad it’s body does (nor praised for anything good).
However it is wrong to believe that you have no freewill and that your soul is not the origin of all the actions your body performs and everything it experiences. Very wrong.
This whole chapter [referring to Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13] is about how spirit combines with matter and what happens as a result. “Matter changes form constantly and easily. This attracts the spirit soul who wants to shape it’s world into forms that s/he finds personally enjoyable. Thus the soul becomes welded to matter, bound to it, braided into it.”
From this, and from all the rest of the information in the chapter, we learn that this material world is a combination of matter and spirit – it is a cooperation of matter and spirit. Your question is based on a wrong definition of this combined cooperative relationship: the idea that the soul is a passive observer of matter. That is not what we hear from Krsna here in the 13th chapter. What we hear, in fact, is just the opposite! That the soul is the active principle, and that matter bends and shapes itself around the soul, and the soul’s desires. The soul is an interactive participant in matter. That is what we should learn, if nothing else, from the 13th chapter.
Your question is answered at this point. I am not sure how clearly I could explain it. I am sorry about that. If its unclear perhaps you could reread it a few times, and feel free to ask for clarification.
A little bit more to say…
Karma is the marriage of freewill and destiny. The soul desires something (freewill). It exerts this will towards matter which, being inferior to the soul, must attempt to comply. However the physics of the system of matter entails cause and effect, and inter-dependence. Therefore as the soul pushes matter in one direction with its will, the psycho-physical nature of matter itself generates a ripple, and we experience that ripple as “destiny.”
Different desires push matter in different ways into different shapes, and these generate lots of different types of ripples in the material energy – all these ripples interact with one another to make destiny (and the reading of it – astrology) a very, very, very complicated thing.
Once you throw a stone into a pond, the ripple moves on its own accord. However it is the stone, not the ripple, which caused the movement on the pond. Similarly, destiny appears to be “predetermined” – moving on its own, but actually it is the will of the soul which moved the lake of the material world and caused the ripple. Once the ripple is caused it is very difficult to stop (though it can be done by cancelling it with other ripples and withdrawing from agitating the pond, etc.). The ripple has its own force, sometimes becoming like a tidal wave. And that force seems to be, and is, beyond our control. Thus it feels like “predestination.” But it is our own desires which caused us to interact with the world and disturb the surface of the lake.
I have an article on this subject which more patiently and simply describes the relationship between destiny and freewill, and their interdependence and marriage in the concept of “karma.” Here is the link, I hope you will read it and it will be clarifying for you.
http://www.vicdicara.com/prep_karma.php
- Vic DiCara
Does Rahu in the 7th Spoil Marriage? Sri Krsna’s Horoscope
Recently I replied to a question, “Will Rahu in my 7th house cause me a bad marriage or no marriage?”
It depends very much upon the strongest aspect to Rahu, and the condition of the dispositor of Rahu. Rahu in the 7th house in and of itself merely indicates that the native must learn how to relate cooperatively with other individuals.
Sri Krsna for example has Rahu in the 7th aspected by Guru from the 11th with Mars (7th lord) exalted in the 9th house. Sri Krsna has 16,108 wonderful marriages. Sri Krsna is the husband of every soul.
Sastra says, “Eko bahu syat” – the One felt that it should be many. This is Rahu in the 7th house of Krsna’s chart. Ketu is in the 1st. Ketu in the first means that “previously” Krsna was atma-rama – self-absorbed, only ONE. But the purpose of existence manifesting eternally from Krsna is Rahu in the 7th house – that the one wants to develop relationships with other individual beings. Why? “Raso vai sah” Because he is full of ecstatic joy (Rasa) and wishes to expand that joy by sharing it with other individual beings.
This is the nature of Rahu in the 7th in the context of the birth chart of the Supreme Pesonality of Godhead, Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krsna.
- Vic DiCara
