Astrology: Will This Turn Into a Romantic Relationship?

[covenrochester]

This is a chart that an apprentice astrologer asked me to look at for a second opinion.

FACTS: The Querent is a woman. She was married recently, but the husband now wants a divorce. They no longer live together and the divorce is scheduled to take place next month. Q is working on some projects with a male colleague in her field, although they live in different cities. Q thinks that she and the male colleague both have feelings for one another, and she wants to know whether this will turn into a romantic relationship? Unfortunately, it is not known whether MC is currently in a relationship.

The Querent (Q) is Lord 1, Mars in Libra, and the Moon in Leo.

The Male Colleague (MC) is Lord 7, Venus in Leo, and the Sun in Virgo.

When I first read the facts, I thought it could be possible that Lord 7 could be the ex-husband, and that we would have to find another significator for MC, but from the receptions, I think the apprentice was quite right to give Lord 7 and the Sun to MC. The receptions also make it clear that the Ex-Husband (XH) is Saturn.

Q as Mars in detriment is feeling down on herself, but is very keen on MC as Venus by rulership and term. It is a bit unfortunate to see that Mars is in the other Venus-ruled sign, and not the sign on the 7th house cusp. That usually indicates that Q's feelings for the other person are not real, but masked by the fact that she is feeling sad or depressed, and so she thinks this other person in her environment is going to cheer her up, rather like a beneficial distraction or a rebound relationship. Mars also carries the Sun into fall, so her head is disappointed in men in general. Mars is exalting Saturn, the XH, but this is a very common thing to see at the end of a relationship. It doesn't mean she is holding up the XH on a pedestal, but that she is daydreaming about "what could have been" -- oh, this could have been a great relationship XH, if you were other than you are. But, Mars carrying Saturn into triplicity means she is not bitter toward him as a person.

Notably, Mars is on the fixed star Vindemiatrix, the Widow Maker. So, that naturally signifies the divorce process. Mars has yet to perfect the conjunction with the star, so it is not a helpful testimony at all, for a future relationship with MC, either.

Q as the Moon is very much infatuated with MC as the Sun. And the Moon also carries Saturn into detriment: her heart/emotions are very much disappointed in the XH. We also see that the antiscion of the Moon is just past the conjunction of Uranus on the 7th house cusp. That was the scheduling of the divorce that recently occurred.

So, both of her significators have contacts indicating the divorce from the XH, as we would expect.

The Part of Marriage/Relationship in this chart is at 8 Virgo 2, with Mercury as the dispositor. So, Mercury could represent the role of a potential relationship with MC.

MC's Venus is in strong dignities of the Sun, and the Sun is in strong dignities of Mercury. MC thinks highly of himself in many ways, and he would like a relationship, but he also values his own manly freedom. Mercury is under the sunbeams in its own sign, so if MC is already in another relationship, I would take Mercury as being his partner. That would make sense of the Sun's strong Mercury dignities. Unfortunately, we don't have enough facts to clear that up.

What is abundantly clear, though, is that both of MC's significators are completely indifferent to Q's significators. Even if he were in the market for a relationship, it would not be with Q.

We do have an aspect here, though. Q's Moon is going to sextile Mars and then conjunct Venus. This signifies an OPPORTUNITY for a relationship to develop. But, inasmuch as MC is completely uninterested in Q's significators, there will be NO MOTIVATION or NO INCLINATION on his part to start a romantic relationship.

After that lunar aspect the Sun is going to oppose the antiscion of Mars. Even if MC gives some kind of informal or sexual relationship a shot, he is going to regret it.

Then the antiscion of Venus is going to apply to conjunct Jupiter, which is MC's turned Lord 10. After the above, he will call off the work projects.

Judgment to the question: No.

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