When Stars Collide Part 1: How Signs Combine in Love Compatibility Reports

Astrology uses a lot of terms which it has created specificly to use in the discipline of studying how stars affect people's personalities. Sometimes it can be a little difficult to get your head around! Today we are looking at the specific terms for how signs work together, especially in the context of a love compatibility report.

When you get a love compatibility report, you'll find out how each partner's Venus sign intersects with the other's Mars sign. You can either check online to find your Venus sign and Mars sign (there are many simple tables on the net that will tell you where particular planets were on your birth date and time ... providing you know it accurately!), or more usefully, have a personal natal chart made up. Having your own chart made up will tell you where every planet was at the minute of your birth, quickly and easily, and will also give you a context to understand that in (signs and planets don’t act alone in astrology). Once you know both yours and your partner's Venus and Mars signs, here is a detailed explanation of the terms used for expressing how they relate to each other: your Venus to their Mars, and your Mars to their Venus.

Trine signs

When two people's signs in love compatibility are trine, it is believed that their relations will feel easy, natural and essentially compatible. These two people express love in similar ways, so understand each other immediately. If either partner was involved in an unhappy relationship before their current one, the new partner will no doubt sympathize to the core with the other's feelings. Acceptance and harmony are the keywords for a relationship with trine Venus-Mars signs -- there will be no dizzying highs and terrifying lows, but there will be plenty of creamy centers ... life will be like a box of chocolates.

Conjunct signs

This means that your Venus sign is the same as your partner's Mars, or vice versa. As you can imagine, understanding is also a feature of this relationship, as well as instant recognition of the other person's feelings. But remember all those things that you hate about yourself? Sometimes they'll creep, ever so quietly, into your partner's expressions. You may need to step out of yourself at times to make things work in the love compatibility area.

Stay tuned for the next post on love compatibility for your Venus and Mars signs -- we'll check out what sextile, semi-sextile, inconjunct, opposite and square signs mean for you.