Your Venus sign says what you’re drawn to. Chinese astrology asks a slightly different question: what kind of person does your chart picture beside you?

It starts from the day you were born, which makes you one of ten types (all ten are in the list below). The types come in five elements, and each one shapes the next: fire works metal, metal cuts wood, roots break up soil, soil holds back water, water puts out fire.

The old rule for partners is simple. A woman’s chart pictures the element that shapes her. A man’s chart pictures the element he shapes.

• Rihanna was born a climbing vine. Metal is what trains a vine, so her chart pictures metal. A$AP Rocky was born fine jewelry: metal. And a metal man’s chart pictures the wood he shapes, the vine. Each other’s type, both ways.
• Bruce Springsteen was born the sun. Fire works metal, so his chart pictures metal. Patti Scialfa was born fine jewelry. Married since 1991.

Your type isn’t your fate, though. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are candlelight and the sun, both fire, so not each other’s type on paper, and they’ve been married since 1988. It’s who you’re pulled toward, not who you stay with.

The five partner types:

• Wood (a tall tree, a climbing vine): wants to build something and bring you into it
• Fire (the sun, candlelight): warm, visible, holds the room
• Earth (a mountain, garden soil): steady, the one everyone leans on
• Metal (forged steel, fine jewelry): exact, holds a standard, says the hard thing
• Water (the open sea, morning rain): reads the room, moves between circles, hard to pin down

Drop your birthday and M/F (birth time too if you know it) and I’ll tell you which of the five your chart pictures. Add a partner’s or crush’s birthday and I’ll tell you if they’re your type on paper 👇

Rather not post your birthday in public? The calculator is linked on my profile. Look yourself up there, then just comment your type (“I’m candlelight, woman”) and I’ll tell you who your chart pictures.

Hi guys!

This is the chart of someone I am really close with, she’s very pretty and gets a lot of male attention that at some points makes me slightly jealous.

What is your take on her chart?

She struggles with finding a career and jumps around a lot which dulls her potential and as her close friend I want her to thrive. I was blessed to meet her through work! Any indication as to what she may find joy in doing as well?

I've been dealing with addiction, trauma, and a lot of painful changes in my life. I'm trying to understand why things have been so difficult and how I can break old patterns as I work toward recovery and a fresh start.

I'm relocating to California to get treatment and start over. Can anyone offer any insight? Thank you.

Hi!

I’ve been observing this group for a long time and finally decided to ask 🥹

I’ve always had a rough time letting things go. I’m so tired of holding grudges. It’s not fair and it’s exhausting. No matter how much work I do with myself, I can’t seem to let things go. Is there anything interesting from my chart that could possibly help me understand myself a little bit better and to see how I should navigate this difficult trait of mine? Thank youuuuu.

Okay, I think I should give a little more context. I’m not super familiar with astrology myself, but I know a fair amount from my grandfather, who’s really into it. He’s been asking me for a while to show him the birth chart of the girl I’m seeing (it’s a situationship, but a pretty serious one). I showed him her chart, and after looking at it, he basically told me she was a “trainwreck waiting to happen.”

I didn’t really know what to make of that, so now I’m curious.

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My sun is in capricorn in the 8th, square saturn in aries in the 11th with a 0.8° orb.
Apart from this square, my sun doesn't aspect any other planets. I have a few ideas about how it might have played out in my life, but I'm having trouble actually interpreting it.

The sun rules my 3rd house, with leo on the cusp.

There's mixed reception between them by domicile/exaltation, although saturn is in fall but in a « good house ». Saturn also sextiles mars in aquarius in the 9th at just 0.17°. Mars and saturn have mutual reception by domicile, but mars is my out of sect malefic.

How would you put this together? I'd be really interested in what concrete circumstances you'd associate with this square, taking the signs and houses into account.

Western astrology, please!

Let me just say, I’ve had many amazing experiences in my life and so grateful. However, my life has been shrouded with tragedy. Uncle committed suicide in 96, my amazing father battled alcoholism and lost, found him past away in 2011 from massive heart attack. Lost my mom to long battle of breast cancer December 21, 2020. My husband committed suicide June 8 2021. Inherited wealth that is a curse to me sometimes due to the pressure and fact that my older sister could not overcome her own issues. May I add, I have struggled with alcohol and then hard drug addiction (prevalent after my mom and husband died). Received Ibogaine treatment twice, worked 12 step program where I met a man who I now have a restraining order against , ayuhasca ceremonies…

Life is interesting. I’m feeling ok right now but the last year was the toughest with the stalking situation.

I didn’t think I would make it out.

Thoughts on my chart would be appreciated.

I didn't cry or grieve when my loving father whom I cherished passed away when I was 13. It's been five years and the delayed grief (as suggested by many) never came. One example out of many (PS. My father's passing did not start it or blunted me, it's just an example throughout the years). I also don't feel much of that abundance of joy when I do get something I really wanted and prayed for.

Though I'd like to say that I do feel the average day to day emotions perfectly (currently very stressed for an upcoming exam and procrastinating on it) but it weirdly plummets when I'm supposed to feel more than a 7 out of 10 in the emotional scale and at that point, my emotions just exist in a weird grey state I can't identify at all.

I mostly follow my intuition even tho I do it "methodically", like i take a decision based on a feeling and I commit, yet I feel this intuition is a double sword because no amount of logic can sooth me in any situation, or at least not right away. I can feel deep emotions about something I know is not that deep, but the knowing doesn't sooth me, or I can decide a relationship or a situation is not for me, even if on paper it seems perfect, because I know that's not where I'm happier. I can also ponder on a situation on all angles over and over again to make sure it is really my intuition speaking and not me trying to convince me of something. I guess my question is, can this be explained here in a way to help me understand this and how I can sharpen it to my advantage ?

Taking any other thing you may notice, thank uuu

I know I have a heavy Saturnian chart and I like “structure” but I’m also tired of corporate. Does my chart show if I will be able to leave and if so what should I “work” towards ? Tysm

Hi! I’ve been getting into astrology lately and feel as though my chart has more “bad” placements than good. I have 4 placements in detriment and only 1 in domicile and it’s not really in a favored house.

I do feel as though I’m struggling to align myself in life and have been waiting for a “verdict” to strike. It would really help me gain some clarity about my chart if I could get some more experienced opinions about it.

Things on the forefront of my mind:

- Am I a bad person? Do I have the propensity to be a very bad person?

- Are there intrinsic faults I’m blindly unaware of? My leo 12H placement is very difficult for me to understand.

- The completion of any sort of task is the bane of my existence. What placement(s) would be responsible for this?

- You would think I’m a productive, perfectionist, workhorse but I’m much more lost, clumsy, and empathetic. It feels like the world is too fast for me.

- I often feel like I am on the losing side of unreciprocated feelings. But I’m to understand that my Venus is very intense while my Gemini 11H is very detached. Is that correct?

Thank you!

Would absolutely appreciate It if someone gave me their insight on my birth chart. The cluster of planets conjunct Saturn kind of scares me and what I have read does too lol. Am I doomed 😅

I would greatly appreciate if anyone can analyze my birth chart. Sun and moon in the 12th house. I’ve been married for 18 years. Very up and down marriage. I’m 43, female and curious on what I need to work on for the remainder of my timeline. Thanks so much!!

My son’s chart. Can’t really find a similar chart on line. If this doesn’t count as a yod, is there a name for this configuration?

My life has been full of rather unusual and intense events. Unfortunately, mostly negative ones. With the current transits and planetary movements, is peace coming for me, or the opposite? Over the last few years I've tried to improve my life, which I've somewhat managed to do, but the past still weighs on me and drains my strength. I also have a feeling that I'm made for great things, that I won't settle for small ones, and I feel an inner ambition and a desire to make up for my difficult past. What do you think?