What is Attraction - Astrology May Have a Surprising Answer

Most people are convinced that attraction has to do with physical appearance. They tend to judge relationships with others based on this. To some extent there can be no doubt that physical appearance has a great deal to do with attraction. The sums paid to movie and tv stars, mostly because their appearance is pleasing to look at, proves this. Men who are taller often have better jobs than smaller fat men, for people tend to be attracted to what is pleasing to look at it, and our society pays for this in big ways.

Yet, if this is all there is to attraction, then what explains in far greater numbers, the millions of people whose lives find them in relationships with people who have none of the glamour of movie stars, and in fact may even have less than pleasing physical appearances. The fact is, that most relationships, are based on a kind of attraction that is deeper than what our physical senses can perceive.

Astrology has a much more significant answer to attraction that society as a whole would do well to consider. To understand this, think for a moment, of some unexplainable situations that have certainly occurred in your life. Have you ever found yourself attracted to someone and could not understand why? Maybe even your family and friends tried to dissuade you from pursuing a relationship with someone they might not have thought was suitable for you. Yet, you might have persisted anyway.

Not only that, but in most instances, individuals pursue anomalous relationships, regardless of pressures from families, peers, co-workers or even what they believe to be their own best judgment.

Sometimes these relationships work out, regardless of the rules of society or the social boundaries they break. Yet, the question of why these relationships exist in the first place, seems elusive to any good common sense that some of us are from time to time blessed with.

Astrology in its incredible fairness to all, never judges attractiveness by physical appearance. It recognizes the fact that some people have more pleasing features than others, and can often describe these features with different Ascendants, yet the question of why people become involved in deeply attracted relationships for no outward apparent reason happens because of a very simple astrological fact.

Every planet in your chart is in a certain zodiac sign at a certain degree. This is true for all people even though the signs and degrees are different. Attraction occurs when specific planets in another person's chart are affecting your planets.

Thus, if you are a female with Mars at a certain degree of Aries, you would find yourself attracted to any male whose Venus is at the same degree of Aries as your Mars. In the female, Mars symbolizes what she is looking for in a male, while in the male chart, Venus symbolizes what the individual idealizes in a female.

What becomes so fascinating about this, is that physical appearance, age, philosophical or religious values, income status, or a host of many other variables become secondary to the strength of the planetary magnetism that somehow brings individuals together.

Yet astrological attraction is not limited to Mars and Venus chart contacts. Astrology not only recognizes planetary attractions from all the planets, but even differentiates as to what kind of relationship these attractions are, based on the nature of the planets involved as well as the signs they are in.

As a result, if the female with Mars in Aries happened to meet someone with Saturn in Aries at the same or almost the same degree, the attraction would be more of a student-teacher relationship, where Mars the planet of youth learns from Saturn the planet of old age and wisdom.

So, the next time you see what appears to be the most unlikely couple walking down the street, especially if it is a tall young statuesque woman with a short fat bald man, just remember, what they feel is written in the stars, way beyond the standards of physical attraction.

A complete study of Attraction can be found in the book Karmic Relationships by this author, which describes astrological chart contacts between two charts and the kind of relationships they produce, with special attention to those aspect contacts that contain unfinished lessons from past lives.

Martin Schulman is the published author of over 50 astrology Best-Sellers in many languages. He is recognized as the founder of Karmic Astrology,- seeing life as a continuation of soul lessons it began in past lives. More articles, stories, site features, and astrological information from this author known for so many excellent Astrology Books