From: nizwer@shell.portal.com (Nizwer Husain)
Subject: Re: Love Planets compatibility metric
Keywords: compatibility
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:11:50 GMT

In article <EIVERSON.92Dec27012221@mykene.nmsu.edu> eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) writes:
>
>I have been reading Love Planets by Abadie and Bader and have been
>fooling around with the compatibility metric in the back.  It seems
>quite good.  I inputted an old girlfriend and got the following:
>
>me:	[[sun,leo],[moon,cap],[asc,aqu],[venus,leo],[mars,lib]]
>her:	[[sun,pis],[moon,ari],[asc,aqu],[venus,aqu],[mars,aqu]]
>
>asc	 matches 		asc
>asc	 matches 		venus
.........
>venus	 opposite 		mars
>moon	 conflicts with 	moon
>mars	 Mars-conflicts with 	moon
>Total = 150
>
>Where a score of over 160 is considered to be damn near perfect. 
>I'm curious what people on here think of this.  Obviously a numerical
>scale simplifies things somewhat, but it seems like a good start.  Has
>anyone run any tests on couples vs. a random control group?  I might
>be interested in trying that.
>
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I have experimented with Love Planets metric (Claudia and Abadie Bader)
and compared with numerous
people I have known. One catch though is that if you do not know their
time of birth then you have a large variation in rating, because the ascendant
is not known. I married someone who rates 60, it did not work out and we are
going through a divorce. I had two very comfortable relationships at different
times with people rated 190 and 220 respectively. There was sex there were good
times but the physical attraction was not as high as the lower numbers. I did
not want a marriage because they were 6 years older than me, and I believe
that a small age difference is good. Dont ask me why.
My marriage was one of very high physical attraction, little else. Same with 
my childhood sweetheart, score less than 0! She found someone else to marry. I
have yet to have a close relationship with someone in the 125-160 range, but
what little I experienced has been great, with adequate physical attraction
and mutual respect and comfort with that person. However, intuitively I have
felt that if we became very very close there would be areas to work on.
Since I am a very peaceful person I like the relationship to be peaceful too
more likely to be found in the higher compatability ratings.
I dont like unpleasantness and fighting. Personally I look for a relationship
in the soulmate range 160 above, and I think the physical attraction can
be corrected outside of astrology, such as cultural upbringing, genetics etc.

I have a grand square in my chart involving the fixed signs, therefore
it is nigh impossible to get a high rating with people in Scorpio, Leo and
Taurus. My own Sun sign aquarius brings both ease and difficulty. The people
I have scored very high so far have been Sun signs Aries, Libra, Capricorn,
and Virgo, with most of their other placements also in Cardinal or Mutative 
signs. Of these Librans and Virgos have been very elusive, both for