Sustaining Relationships with Astrology

With natal astrology, you can find your attitude towards different kinds of relationships and what kind of needs you can provide and need from others. The following houses represent these kinds of relationships:

  • 5th House: Fun, casual, romantic relationships

  • 7th House: All one-on-one interactions

  • 8th House: Intimate relationships

  • 11th House: Friendships, group relationships

Using the concept of house derivations, you can find how you can sustain relationships by turning the natal chart to gain a different perspective.

For more information on house derivations, read this definition here. Now, house derivations work best when you have a set question you want to answer. The question asked is, “How can I stabilize and secure my relationships?” If you recall, the 2nd House is the house of security. The 2nd House secures the identity, which is the 1st House.

To stabilize your fun, casual, and romantic relationships (5th House) look to your 6th House. The 5th House is fun and inspirational, but how will you keep the inspiration flowing? Look to your habits, and pay attention to all of the little things you do. Look to your 6th House.

To stabilize your one-on-one interactions (7th House) look to your 8th House. The 7th House is the house of every one-on-one interaction you have had with another person. How do you take one conversation to the next level? By establishing an intimate relationship and sharing secrets. By being close and being honest with one another. Look to your 8th House.

To stabilize your intimate and close relationships (8th House) look to your 9th House. The 8th House is the relationship where you are completely honest. You are willing to reveal what you consciously hide, and to accept what your partner has hidden. However, what’s the purpose of this relationship? Is there a direction this meaningful relationship can take? If so, what is that direction? How will you and your partner face the world as a single unit? Look to your 9th House.

To stabilize your friendships and groups, look to your 12th House. The 11th House shows group dynamics. The 11th House is the part of the world you chose to belong. How can you keep a group of people together? Why is your friend group united? How can you sustain the feeling of belonging? How can you care for the every single being in the group you’re in? How can you disperse your identity healthily to care for the collective? Look to your 12th House.

With natal astrology, you can find your attitude towards different kinds of relationships and what kind of needs you can provide and need from others. The following houses represent these kinds of relationships:

  • 5th House: Fun, casual, romantic relationships

  • 7th House: All one-on-one interactions

  • 8th House: Intimate relationships

  • 11th House: Friendships, group relationships

This post will focus on how to sustain relationships found in the 5th House. If you have interceptions, your interpretation will be different.

Aries ruling the 5th House/Taurus ruling the 6th House: With Aries ruling your 5th House, you find your romantic and casual relationships to be a place where you can assert yourself. Due to this, you often like to take charge in your romantic relationships - making you relationships aggressive, but also passionate. To keep the fire going in your romantic relationships though, the fiery romance you ignite needs to be kept at a stable place. With Taurus ruling your 6th House, you can sustain the passionate nature of your romantic relationships by implementing a consistent and comfortable everyday routine. With a set everyday foundation, the passionate fire you assert into your romantic relationships will be kept alive. To keep passion thriving, consistency must be present.

Taurus ruling the 5th House/Gemini ruling the 6th House: With Taurus ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic and casual relationships to be a place of pleasure and stability. Due to this, you often like to indulge yourself and your partner in various pleasures - your romantic relationships will be a place for you to relax. To keep this stability and consistency though, your romantic relationships will have to be flexible and open to communication if it wants to sustain unforeseeable circumstances. With Gemini ruling your 6th House, you can keep your romantic relationships consistent by making your everyday life more open and flexible by communicating your needs. By creating more flexibility in your routine, you are creating more ways and opportunities for your relationships to be stronger, more stable, and more consistent.

Gemini ruling the 5th House/Cancer ruling the 6th House: With Gemini ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic and casual relationships to be a place to be curious and to question. Due to this, you often like to mentally stimulate yourself and your partner through learning new things and having numerous conversations. To keep your romantic relationships a place of curiosity though, your romantic relationships will have to feel comfortable and safe, for you can’t learn something new when you’re constantly looking out for danger. With Cancer ruling your 6th House, you can keep your romantic relationships fun by establishing a sense of home and safety through your everyday routine. By establishing a safe space, you are creating a space where you will be able to be curious with a minimal sense of danger.

Cancer ruling the 5th House/Leo ruling the 6th House: With Cancer ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic and casual relationships to be your sense of home. Due to this, you often like to make yourself and your partner comfortable by establishing the relationship as a safe space. To keep your romantic relationships a safe place though, your relationships has to highlight you and your partner’s individual and unique needs. With Leo ruling your 6th House, you can keep your relationships distinctly safe (like home) by paying attention to yourself and what you personally want through your daily routine. By highlighting on your unique needs, you will be able to create a relationship that feels like coming home after a long trip. Home is home because it puts a spotlight on the needs of the people living in it.

Leo ruling the 5th House/Virgo ruling the 6th House: With Leo ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic and casual relationships to be a place to showcase yourself and your partner. Due to this, you often like to do grand, dramatic, and generous gestures in your relationships, showing the best of what you can bring into a relationship to get and give validation. However, to keep your romantic relationships a grand place, your relationship has to be organized. All grand acts of love come with good planning. With Virgo ruling the 6th House, staying on top of your daily routines and habits will help you relax and have fun in your romantic relationships. If you can organize and manage the little things, you won’t have to worry about them while having fun with your relationships.

Virgo ruling the 5th House/Libra ruling the 6th House: With Virgo ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic and casual relationships to be a place of managing and helping your partner. Due to this, you often like to make sure your romantic relationships don’t fall out due to small mishaps. However, to make sure that your romantic relationships will keep on running, you have to consider contributions to the relationship from both you and your partner. With Libra ruling the 6th House, seeking to work together and to have a balanced everyday life will encourage you to constantly pay attention to the needs of your partner, eventually leading to paying attention to your romantic relationship. If you can consider your partner’s needs and thoughts, then you can always work and try to help them in your romantic relationships.

Libra ruling the 5th House/Scorpio ruling the 6th House: With Libra ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic relationships to be a place of socializing and peace. Due to this, you often like to be considerate of your partner and you will always try to balance the idea of give and take. However, to make sure that your relationship stays in your idea of balanced, you have to understand the secret intensity that lies between you and your partner. With Scorpio ruling the 6th House, keeping your everyday life and habits a secret from the world and being dedicated to establishing a deeper connection in the daily life between each other will keep the peace you want in your romantic relationships. If you can handle chaos effectively in your everyday life, you can keep peace in your romantic relationships.

Scorpio ruling the 5th House/Sagittarius ruling the 6th House: With Scorpio ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic relationships to be a place where you can be deep and establish an intimate connection to your partner. Due to this, you often like to be secretive and passionate in your romantic relationships. You want your relationships to be meaningful. However, to keep your romantic relationships intense, you have to able to have fun with one another. With Sagittarius ruling your 6th House, implementing fun, freedom, and novelty into your daily routine will give you a break from having your relationship be too intense. If you can have fun and and learn a thing or two from your partner, you can definitely stick closer together. You can’t be close to a person you don’t have fun with.

Sagittarius ruling the 5th House/Capricorn ruling the 6th House: With Sagittarius ruling the 5th House, you find your relationships to be a place of freedom and fun. You often seek for discovery in your romantic relationships. Due to this, you often like to initiate spontaneity, surprises, and fun in your relationships. However, to keep the fun going and to find something new, you need to establish the opposite: seriousness and what you know. With Capricorn ruling the 6th House, establishing a set and realistic routine will ground your adventurous romantic relationships. If you want to have an adventure, you have to have a point of departure. If you can be serious and responsible with your partner, then you can definitely have fun without bounds with minimal consequences.

Capricorn ruling the 5th House/Aquarius ruling the 6th House: With Capricorn ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic relationships to be a place that is long-lasting, serious, realistic, and meaningful. Due to this, you often like to have a sense of realism and structure in your romantic relationships. However, to keep your relationship structured to guide you on the right path, your relationship must be able to go through unpredictability. With Aquarius ruling the 6th House, not conforming to the typical daily routine and trying interesting things will help test and improve the serious romantic relationships you want. If your romantic relationships can go through the weirdest surprises and get past the most unconventional routines, your relationship can stand against time.

Aquarius ruling the 5th House/Pisces ruling the 6th House: With Aquarius ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic relationships to be a place where you can be unique, weird, and unconventional with your partner. Due to this, you often like to try interesting new things and to keep the relationship unpredictable. However, to keep your relationship full of surprises, your relationship must be able to embrace ambiguity and a lack of structure. With Pisces ruling the 6th House, being flexible and creative in your relationships will often bring the surprises you are looking for in your romantic relationships. If your romantic relationships can stand through confusion and a lack of structure, then your relationships can definitely take the exciting yet unexpected turn you’ve been looking for.

Pisces ruling the 5th House/Aries ruling the 6th House: With Pisces ruling the 5th House, you find your romantic relationships to be a place where you can overly extend yourself by being creative and compassionate to your partner. Due to this, you often like to give a lot to the relationship and to delve deep into what your partner needs. However, if you want to make your relationship a place of constant giving and love, you have to make sure you know yourself well to know your limits. With Aries ruling your 6th House, fighting to assert what you want and being independent in your daily life will help you sustain a working identity in giving romantic relationships. If you can fight for yourself, then you can most definitely fight against circumstances to be deeply compassionate and loving.