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\"astrology<\/a>First, there is not an astrologer in the world today that makes prediction on marriage success using sun signs. \u00a0Thanks to the Internet there is enough information available to the general public about astrology to educate everyone that astrology involves far more than just the sign the Sun was in at the time of your birth. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So I am very surprised that if an academic institution like the University of Manchester was going to conduct an in-depth study on the effectiveness of astrology on predicting marriage duration, that they used sun sign prediction for their massive study of ten million marriages.<\/p>\n

They do preface the article by admitting that<\/p>\n

A\u00a0complete horoscope, or\u00a0natal chart, includes information about where the sun, moon and planets would have\u00a0been observed relative to each other and to the constellations of the zodiac at the time\u00a0and place of the subject\u2019s birth. Popular astrology in the West focuses on one key\u00a0element in this chart: the \u2018sun sign\u2019 (or \u2018star sign\u2019 in colloquial parlance), which is\u00a0determined by the position of the earth in its annual revolution around the sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it doesn\u2019t really make sense that the study then goes on to conflate \u201castrology\u201d with Sun signs.<\/p>\n

You can read the study yourself <\/a>if you like, but suffice it to say that the research found no correlation between marriages and astrological signs that was greater than the statistical chance would suggest.<\/p>\n

Even if we put aside for a moment the argument that Sun signs are generally one of the LEAST significant indicators of compatibility, I have found in 30 years of working with clients that the most successful marriages are among the least compatible charts. \u00a0Compatibility is just not that significant an indicator of marital success.<\/p>\n

Most of us are seeking a soulmate \u2013 a partner who will help us to grow and evolve as human beings. \u00a0In order for that to be accomplished we often need a partner who has different strengths and weaknesses from ours. \u00a0Recently I did a reading for a couple who had one of the most incompatible charts I had ever seen, but they had been married for 50 years. \u00a0Each of them pushed the other, it wasn\u2019t necessarily comfortable all the time, but it was one of the happiest partnerships I have seen.<\/p>\n

Sun signs are important \u2013 they represent the soul\u2019s journey this time around. \u00a0But when it comes to relationships, Sun signs are just not that important.<\/p>\n

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