Understanding Your Soul Mate Situation

A couple meets. They find each other attractive. The conversation flows smoothly. They fall in love and get married and make 2.5 children and live in a big house with a white picket fence. Are they soul mates? Maybe.

A couple breaks up. Accusations and legal paperwork fly. They each try to make their children hate the other parent. Then one gets jealous over the other's new Significant Other. Are they soul mates? Maybe.

Above and beyond all the individual astrological factors that explain how Person A and Person B relate to one another, there's at least one definite indicator in your birth chart as to what you really need from a committed, lasting relationship: the sign placement of Jupiter when you were born.

The individual details of how your planet relates to that of the other person may determine how well (or not) the two of you relate to each other. 

How and when to find a soul mate –- or determining whether or not a specific person is "the One," is one of the most common questions an astrologer is asked. And often, it's the wrong question. A more constructive question is usually something along the lines of, "If I love this person so much, why is he/she such a jerk?" Or, "Why won't he/she return my calls?" Or "Why does loving this man/woman hurt so much?," or "Should I have kept working on my relationship with A instead of dating B -- and can you please choose one or the other for me?," or "Why aren't we having sex anymore?," or ...


We tend to idolize our loved ones when things go well,