How to find your soulmate in your birth chart

1. The seventh house and your descendant

The seventh house is the house of committed partnership. The sign on its cusp, your descendant, is always opposite your rising sign, and it describes the qualities you seek in a partner, often the ones you do not show yourself. An Aries rising with a Libra descendant is drawn to grace and diplomacy; a Virgo rising with a Pisces descendant to softness and imagination. Planets inside the seventh house add their own flavor.

2. Venus (and Mars)

Venus shows how you love and what you find beautiful; Mars shows what excites you and how you pursue. Their signs, houses and aspects describe your type in detail. Find your Venus sign free with the soulmate by birthdate calculator.

3. The ruler of the seventh house

The planet that rules your descendant sign, and where it sits, adds details about your partner and how you meet. A seventh-house ruler in the tenth house, for example, is a classic signature of meeting through work.

4. Juno, the marriage asteroid

Juno, named after the goddess of marriage, describes what you need in a long-term commitment: loyalty, freedom, devotion, equality. Its sign and aspects are a favorite soulmate indicator in modern astrology.

5. The Vertex

The Vertex is a calculated point often called the “point of fate”. Contacts between one person’s Vertex and another’s planets are associated with meetings that feel destined. It needs an exact birth time.

6. The lunar nodes

The North Node points toward growth; the South Node toward the familiar past. Strong contacts between partners’ nodes and planets are read as “karmic” or soulmate connections: the feeling of having known someone before.

7. Synastry: comparing two charts

When you have a person in mind, astrologers compare charts. The classic soulmate contacts are one person’s Sun on the other’s Moon, Venus and Mars in harmony, Moon to Moon aspects for emotional ease, and nodal contacts for the sense of destiny. A composite chart (the midpoint of both charts) shows the relationship itself.

How to read your own soulmate indicators

1. Get your exact birth time and place.
2. Calculate your chart, then note your descendant, Venus, Mars, the seventh-house ruler, Juno and the Vertex.
3. Look for repeated themes: if Venus, the descendant and Juno all point to stability, that is your soulmate signature.

Venusly reads these indicators together (your Sun, Moon, rising, Venus and seventh house) to write its soulmate reading and draw the portrait.