Are you drawn to reading your love horoscope whenever you look at a magazine, go online, or browse your handheld devices? If so, you're not alone. Millions of people find their daily, weekly, monthly, and compatibility love horoscopes meaningful and apply them to their lives.
Tips for Understanding Love Horoscopes
An astrologer would need complete birth data--date, time, and location--to give personal predictions about love and relationships or delineate potential love compatibility. That's impossible when creating love horoscopes for the public. However, astrologers don't simply pull love horoscopes out of thin air. Tips to remember:
- Love horoscopes are not personal; they're generic and written for millions of individuals with the same sun sign.
- When reading your love horoscope, be thoughtful, compare it to what's happening in your love life, and interpret it within that context.
- If you know your rising sign, read that sign also, then synthesize both.
- Predictive love horoscopes are meant to help you gain clarity and align your intentions with the planetary movements and alignments in the sky.
- Sun to sun compatibility love horoscopes are fun and accurate but almost irrelevant when it comes to love. Remember, millions of people are born each year with the same sun signs.
Predictive Love Horoscopes
Astrologers who write predictive love horoscopes consider all twelve zodiac signs, the sign positions of the sun, moon, and transiting planets and planetary aspects before distilling the most important daily, weekly, or monthly love trends for their readers.
Demystifying Predictive Love Horoscopes
Predictive love horoscopes use a horoscope that places each zodiac sun sign on the ascendant point (first house). The circle is sliced into twelve 30-degree sectors, and each sector is assigned a zodiac sign. The signs are placed counterclockwise on each of the twelve sectors, which, like the astrological houses, represent an area of life. The horoscope is then rotated, so each of the twelve signs becomes the ascending sign. The rest of the houses, planetary positions, and aspects are then seen in relation to the specific sun sign on the ascendant. Finally, the transiting sun, moon, and planets are advanced for the specified time frame--daily, weekly, or monthly. This enables astrologers to create twelve unique horoscope interpretations based on the twelve sun signs.
For example, if your sun sign is Taurus, then Taurus would be on the ascendant or first house, followed by Gemini/second house, Cancer/third house, Leo/fourth house, Virgo/fifth house, Libra/sixth house, Scorpio/seventh house, Sagittarius/eighth house, Capricorn/ninth house, Aquarius/tenth house, Pisces/eleventh house, and Aries/twelfth house.
Daily Love Horoscopes
Daily love horoscopes are written using the transiting moon. The moon changes signs about every 2.5 days. As it changes signs, it affects your moods, behaviors, and affections. The transiting moon highlights one area of life and usually makes several connections with other planets over the course of a day.
Daily Transits for Leo
Suppose you have a Leo sun, and on a particular day, the moon in Cancer is in Leo's twelfth house. The transiting Cancer moon first sextiles Venus in Taurus, then moves on to trine Neptune in Pisces and oppose Pluto in Capricorn.
Daily Leo Love Horoscope Example
Don't stash your emotions away today (Cancer/twelfth house) because affairs of the heart are spotlighted. The morning hours pass sweetly (moon sextile Venus) and seem magical (moon trine Neptune). Enjoy! But, take care this afternoon because jealousy is likely to intensify your emotions and cloud your objectivity (moon opposite Pluto.)
Weekly Love Horoscopes
Weekly love horoscopes usually focus on the signs of the planets. The aspects the transiting planets make, retrograde planets, and moon phases.
Weekly Transits for Capricorn
Suppose you're a Capricorn, and Venus is in Capricorn (Capricorn/first house) sextile Neptune in Pisces (Capricorn/third house). Neptune also turns retrograde, and there's a new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius (Capricorn/twelfth house.)
Capricorn's Weekly Love Horoscope Example
This week, thoughts of love abound, so to give yourself some love (Venus in Capricorn) and dream a little dream or two. Imagine your dream lover (Venus in Capricorn sextile Neptune in Pisces) and ask yourself if you're being realistic (Neptune retrograde). This week, it's ok to have your head in the clouds as long as your feet are planted firmly on the ground. As the week draws to a close, doing a little soul-searching could lead to a significant emotional breakthrough and a new romantic beginning (eclipse and new moon in Sagittarius.)
Monthly Love Horoscopes
Monthly love horoscopes are longer and more in-depth than daily or weekly love horoscopes. Horoscopes for each sign are created in the same way. However, monthly love horoscopes cover the transiting sun and all the planets, along with their signs, house placements, and the connection they make during the month. They also include planets moving into retrograde or forward motion and their movements from sign to sign. The signs of the full and new moon and particular attention is paid to lunar and solar eclipses.
Love Horoscope Compatibility
The sun is the heart of a birth chart. Individuals who successfully identify with their sun sign are known to have happiness and a sense of harmony in their daily lives. The sun is a significant factor in love horoscope compatibility. When the sun signs of two individuals are in a harmonious aspect, the two hearts support and encourage one another. Love horoscopes typically talk about what each sun sign needs in love, then go on to say which sun signs are the most compatible and why.
Love Horoscopes Are Creative Astrology
Love horoscopes are a fun introduction to astrology. They can be very accurate, but in essence, love horoscopes are creative astrology meant to provide encouragement and motivation and to help you understand and align your mind, body, and spirit with the unique love vibration of your sun sign. If you'd like something more personal, your best bet is to have an astrologer interpret your chart from the perspective of love and relationships.
