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Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 13, Group IX/UW, No. 37, 1915 MOMA

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I saw a recent ask about soulmates, and I was wondering, how do I know if my current partner is my soulmate? Is it okay if she isn't?

Signs that Someone is Your Soulmate

Your heart skipping a beat is not one of them.

1) The mutual benefit is balanced.

Imagine that a young woman is in a relationship with a rich old man. She needs him to pay for her tuition, rent, car, bills and clothes. He needs her for sex. The mutual benefit is not balanced. She would starve without him. But he, with all his money, could easily replace her with another just as pretty. They are not soulmates. They cannot be.

2) There is elemental compatibility.

If Water is the dominant element in your natal chart, and your boyfriend is Earth-dominant, that is a major sign that he is your soulmate. The compatible elements are: Water and Water, Earth and Earth, Water and Earth, Air and Air, Fire and Fire, and Air and Fire. Everything else is not.

3) Fixed energy dominates both of you.

This is in relation to the previous point. If you are Fire-dominant, and your wife is Water-dominant — Fire and Water being incompatible — this negativity can be overridden by mutual Fixed energy dominance. If you are a Leo dominant and she is a Scorpio dominant, there is still a big possibility that you are meant to be. This is because Fixed signs share the ideals of loyalty and stability.

4) Your skills are on par with each other’s.

If a man is a famous actor, and his husband does not work under the spotlight, but is a successful real estate broker, then their skills are on a similar level. Neither fame nor income is the criterion, but the level of reputation in their respective fields. There will never be a huge disparity between two halves of the same soul.

5) Neither of you has an ounce of fear.

Not of death, disease, failure, suffering or poverty. Such fear is present in all of us at some point. But fear of the other person’s cruelty or infidelity. Countless people in relationships stay loyal not out of love but out of fear of being found out. And countless more live in fear that their partner is betraying them behind their back. When either is present, you are with the wrong person.

6) Their touch does not feel foreign.

When kissing or making love, their body will feel like an extension of yours. Sexual or not, their every touch and embrace will be a true comfort to you. The body often acts as a mirror of the soul. If your souls are halves of one, your bodies will feel it too.

7) More than love, respect is shared.

Butterflies in your stomach, or romantic love as we know it, is just chemicals in your brain. That is why lovers are replaceable. Because the same chemical reaction can be triggered by different people. Our brain, and therefore our heart, do not really know the difference. But respect is a conscious choice made by our soul. Someone who can earn our full respect is likely to be the right one.

This list is a mixture of socio-economic, astrological, intellectual and emotional circumstance. But at the end of the day, you will simply know if they are the one.

Mars in Capricorn: The Power of a Volcano

I was discussing mars in Capricorn with a friend recently. She told me they are designed for elegant efficiency and i was thinking…yes, this is true, definitely. But there’s more to it. People with mars in Capricorn always leave me with this sense for layers, you know. But not in the complex way Scorpio or Gemini or Pisces are layered, no, it’s different. The main difference is you just don’t feel it’s up for exploration. With other signs, you get the idea that they would like to share their depths, to be known by the people they choose…their complexities and depths feel like a beautifully decorated museum where you explore room after room full of many intricacies and curiosities. Mars in Capricorn doesn’t feel inviting. It doesn’t feel accessible either. Their depth is not for show, it’s for use only - they don’t have various rooms of complexities, they possess layers after layers after layers that they’ve created. And that whole overwhelming structure creates their core, the core of mars in Capricorn. That’s where they take their energy from. This is what one might call “the powerhouse of the cell”. Depths they’ve designed and know better than the back of their hand, this is what creates the tremendous amounts of energy they channel into the ruthless efficiency with which they pursue their goals. That core exists so they can get what they want. And access for exploration is not something that can be easily granted to anybody.

This is why mars in Capricorn is most like a volcano out of the mars signs. I mean, one usually associates lava with fire, so explosions are seen as something of the fire realm, but with volcanos the thing is fire comes from the earth. The fire (mars) core exists beneath layers and layers of earth so it can keep together this whole high-functioning mechanism of the planet that we live on. this is why mars exalts in Capricorn - this is not a single destructive explosion of anger and will, this is a deep, deep core of power that fuels constructive and incessant action.

Two of the most important people in my life have mars in Capricorn and honestly…it feels incredible to be with someone like this. A little off-astrology, but according to human design i’m a projector so basically i’m a non-energy type and i seek out other people whose energy i can access and direct. Basically, the more open centers you have - and i have almost all of them - the more you can sample and taste other people’s energy to consider which one is best fitting for your guidance. With mars in Capricorn ppl, the feeling is kind of overwhelming for me. it’s like…i can smell it under the surface, that energy core which keeps them wired and i feel pulled towards it as if towards some sort of abyss. With my ex it really felt as if for the first time in my life i have the energy to do things. unlimited energy. Well, ofc i kept doing pointless stuff - come on, i’m a projector, i’ve never had a drop of energy in my life, what do you expect me to do with it all of a sudden lmfao. But it was an amazing feeling.

It’s not all strength and resilience though. Some people with mars in Capricorn may be going through life with the feeling that there is something locked deep down inside them, something so powerful it frightens them. This is the case especially when mars is afflicted with difficult aspects (square, opposition, quincunx, sometimes conjunction) with Saturn or Neptune. There is a feeling for power one cannot yield properly and wastes away. With difficult aspects with Pluto or Uranus the individual might feel as if they can access their own power but they’re much too frightened to use it as it bears a twisted quality to it. These aspects often bring a feeling shame connected to sexual preferences and a feeling that the individual is twisted or sick in some way, they might feel as if their desires are dirty and no good. Mars in Capricorn is a very potent placement, so it can be difficult to make use of and depending on the rest of the chart it can either bring strong fulfillment and ability to go after what you want or the sense of wasted potential. F.e. it can be pretty difficult for someone with a lot of Venus influence in the chart to have mars in Capricorn and it can lead to hyper identification with either Martian or Venusian energy and total disregard of the opposite one. If the individual with mars in Capricorn identifies too much with it in an attempt to run away from the Venus side that is trying to suffocate it they may act out, become workaholic, live goal to goal, promising themselves rest which never comes until they reach a complete burn out, try to control people all the time or even get addicted to sex. So yeah, especially with the exalted placements it’s important to remember one has to integrate their polarities fully. And try to not get lost in what feels like power if it cripples you of other aspects of your authentic self.

Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 14, Group IX/UW, No. 38, 1915

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