Why do I keep attracting the same partner?

Different names, different faces, the same relationship. If you have asked yourself why you keep choosing the same kind of partner, the birth chart has a precise answer, and it is not "bad luck". The pattern is written in a few places of the chart, and once you can see it, you can see it coming.

Where the pattern is written

  • Venus and Mars: what you are drawn to, and how you pursue it. Their signs and aspects describe the type, not the person.
  • The seventh house and its ruler: the partner you expect, often before you have met anyone. Saturn here brings older or heavier partners; Neptune, partners who need rescuing; Uranus, partners who leave.
  • The Moon: what feels like love, learned long before the first relationship.
  • The south node: in karmic astrology, the relationship you already know how to have. The familiar partner is the south-node partner, and the familiarity is exactly why the relationship repeats.
  • Chiron: the wound the pattern keeps touching, and the reason the same ending hurts in the same way each time.

Why knowing the type is not enough

Most people already know their type. What they do not know is what the type is for. In a karmic analysis the repeated partner is read as a messenger: each one brings the same lesson, and the relationship ends when the lesson is refused. The report names the lesson. That is the moment the pattern loosens, because a lesson that has been named can be learned in a different way, without another identical relationship.

An example of how it reads

Imagine Venus in the twelfth house, Neptune on the seventh-house cusp, and the south node in the seventh. The person falls for partners who are unavailable in some way: married, far away, drowning in their own troubles. Each time it feels like a great love, each time it ends with the person alone and exhausted. The chart says: the comfortable place is sacrifice, and the direction, with the north node in the first house, is a life of one's own first, a partner second. The report would describe the pattern, the lesson, and, from the transits, when the next messenger is likely to appear, so that the person can recognise the moment.

What the analysis gives you

The relationship pattern is read in the personal karmic life-path analysis. If a specific relationship is the question, the relationship analysis reads the two charts together. Many people order both at the combined price.

Before the report, it helps to write down the last three relationships in two lines each: how they began, how they ended. You do not have to send this; it is for you. When the report names the pattern, you will recognise it in those six lines, and that recognition is what makes the next choice a different one.

Have the pattern read in your own chart

The personal karmic life-path analysis costs €135 / $145, the combined order with a relationship analysis €189 / $205; both arrive within 72 hours. Send your birth date, time and place and your question to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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