Love Match Charts

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A love match chart can tell you who you're likely to be compatible with based on your astrological signs.

About Love Match Charts

If you're curious about whether you'd be compatible with your crush and you know his or her birthday, you can find out more by looking up your astrological signs on a love match chart. If you're already in love, find out if you and your partner are meant to last forever by taking a look at how your signs interact in relationships in the long run. If you're single, you can still keep in mind which signs you're most likely to click with so that when someone tries to ask you, "What's your sign?" as a pick-up line, you may actually be able to make use of the question.

Beyond the Sun Signs

While looking at two sun signs (or zodiac signs) is a basic way to look at the fate of your love, there are other things an astrologer will look at when deciphering your future with another person based on when you were born.

  • The ascendant sign: This is the sign that was rising in the east when you were born.
  • The 5th house: This house is responsible for romance.
  • The 7th house: This house is responsible for partnerships of all kinds, including marriage.
  • The midheaven: This is the 10th house, partially responsible for your goals in life, and also 90 degrees from the horizon.
  • Placement of Venus: This planet influences attraction and romance.

In many ways, opposites attract, so the outlook is good when:

  • Your ascendant sign is your lover's sun sign or vice-versa.
  • Your sun sign is 180 degrees (directly opposite) your lover's ascendant sign or vice-versa.
  • One person's sign is in the other's midheaven. You'll share several of the same goals and ambitions if this matches up.

When these aspects of the love chart match up, it means not only that you and your love interest will likely want the same things from life but that you'll also truly understand each other. In addition to that, you'll want romance, of course, and quite possibly a marriage. To decipher that, your astrologer will take a look at the 5th and 7th houses for each sign. If one person's sign is on the cusp of the other's 5th house, there will most likely be plenty of romance in the relationship, although marriage is not inevitable. If one person's sign is on the cusp of the other's 7th house, the relationship will most likely be long-term and possibly result in marriage.

Skipping the Consultation with an Astrologer

Not everyone has access to an astrologer or a desire to have a full love chart drawn up and analyzed. Sometimes finding out if you and your love interest will be compatible comes down to finding out if you are a fire, water, earth, or air sign, what your partner is, and determining how those two types match up.

  • Fire signs include: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
  • Water signs include: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
  • Earth signs include: Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn
  • Air signs include: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

The elements influence the temperaments of those who fall under each sign. In general, people are most comfortable with other people from within their own element (although not necessarily their own sign), such as Cancer and Scorpio or Gemini and Aquarius. Other good matches include those with complementary elements, like fire and air or earth and water. Examples would include Aries and Libra or Virgo and Pisces.

Making a Relationship Work

If you and your love interest don't match up perfectly on a love match chart, who says you can't be the rule-breaking couple that defies the odds and lives happily ever after? And if you do look compatible on paper, you'll still have to work at the relationship, factoring in priorities, money, and more to make things work out. Use a zodiac chart as one of many tools to use in order to analyze your love match.

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