What it says about your relationship and why it is important in your birth chart

The rising sign is one of the most recognizable elements of the birth chart in astrology. However, its opposite, the descending sign, does not always receive the same attention. The truth is that this part of the birth chart provides us with valuable information about our relationship.

It is called the descending sign because it is at the exact opposite point of the ascendant. The fundamental difference between one and the other is that, “while the ascending sign is a personal and individual learning path, the descending sign marks a learning path that comes from contact with another,” he explains to Clarion the astrologer and teacher Juan Pedro Gimenez.

The astrologer specifies that in a synastry, the measurement that consists of comparing the birth charts of two people, the descendant “is one of the three most important factors to consider, along with the Moon and Venus of each person.” Giménez details that each person will have the descendant in a different sign and that is why the learning that they must carry out in a couple dynamic will be different.

The descending sign is always located in House VII, one of the twelve houses (or areas) of the birth chart. It is commonly known as “the Other’s House.”

In that sense, Giménez considers it essential to make a distinction: the descender is only the line that marks the beginning, the ‘cusp’ of the seventh house. The clarification is worth it because, as he explains, it may happen that a planet is positioned in another degree of House VII of a birth chart without it directly influencing the descending sign.

The astrologer (on Instagram @motorjohn) clarifies the following: “The descendant Do not mark per se the sign that our partner should havebut rather some characteristics that are generated in the dynamics of the couple, that path of learning to bond.”

Next, look sign by sign to see what characterizes each descendant. Keep in mind that if you know your ascending sign, your descending sign will be its complementary opposite. For example, if you are a Taurus ascendant, your descendant sign will be Scorpio.

For those who have an Aries descendant, it is likely that “the other person will teach us to connect more with personal confidenceto do without looking at the results, without taking into account what they will say, without being afraid of what others will think,” says Giménez.

“It may be the case, for example, if you are a more timid person, that from a descendant in Aries, through a partner, through a partnership, the more you are in contact with that proactive force and personal trust.”

In this case, the astrologer explains that learning will be based on “consolidating, materializing and coming into contact with financial solidity.” The person with a Taurus descendant may not be so clear about how structure your financial life and that “the couple or the relationship dynamic helps significantly in these issues.”

On the other hand, Taurus is related to the body and sensory pleasures. “Maybe they have a partner who dances, who enjoys their body and who teaches us to enjoy that way, to connect with our senses and with sexuality as well,” says the specialist.

People with this descendant will surely experience a bonding dynamic in which they will learn to sharpen your communication skills, to socialize. “A person who has a Gemini descendant can learn from their partner to open up a little more, to share with others, to use social networks, for example,” says the teacher.

The expert also adds that this learning path can be aimed at getting out of rigidity and exploring how flexible and adaptable we are in the relationship sphere.

“With a descendant in Cancer we can learn from our partner to connect with our emotions, to protect, to generate a family environment. Open ourselves more to feel and a more intimate, deeper connection,” explains Giménez.

If, for example, we are somewhat superficial in our daily lives, this descending sign indicates that “a partner comes along who activates those more emotional qualities” and that perhaps that desire to start a family will arise.

In the case of people with Leo descendants, it is likely that our partner encourages us to shine. In this learning to link, the other person invites them to bring out the best in youall his creative potential and his charisma.

Furthermore, according to the astrologer, “Leo, like every fire sign, can connect us more with our playful side, to play and not be so rigid in our daily lives.”

For people with a descendant in this Earth sign, learning and bonding dynamics will be based especially on connecting more with the creating efficient systemsfulfilling obligations (big or small), taking care of health and well-being.

The small chores that provide more stability and neatness will be a fundamental element in your relationship and in what you see that you will have to incorporate when seeing it in the other.

“For the Libra descendant, the partner can help get away from a too individual vision and closed, to open oneself to the opinion of the other, to interact weighing the pros and cons,” explains Giménez.

“Of all the possible descendants, this is the one that most invites us to share, to integrate,” says the specialist, who adds that it is common for the presence of the other person to help us find balance and learn to connect with our most harmonious part. .

“If we have a descendant in Scorpio, it means that when we get into a relationship, we go deep. The relationship is not going to be casualit is not going to be superficial and perhaps it will lead us to connect with emotions in an all or nothing way,” says the specialist.

In short, if these people get married or form a couple, “a very intense bonding dynamic awaits them,” says the astrologer, an experience full of learning and challenges so that they give themselves over to passion and do not feel limited by their more conservative side. .

For a person with a descendant in Sagittarius, the bond of a couple will translate into learning focused on great knowledge, philosophy, teachings, religiosity and spirituality.

Giménez points out that the dynamics of their relationship are likely crossed by the desire to adventure, to undertake trips to unconventional destinations and to see how others handle their interaction with other cultures. Don’t be surprised if your partner invites you to India, for example.

For people with a descendant in Capricorn, the astrologer explains that the other will teach them to connect with your own ambition professional, to make constant efforts and live just enough, without wasting too much.

A couple that emerges from this descendant will not settle for a 9 to 5 job but will show a drive to reach as high as possible, always aiming for excellence.

In the case of this descendant, “our partner teaches us the path of freedomThat is, everything is fine between the two people, but they are not controlling each other,” says the expert.

The astrologer also explains that it is likely that people with an Aquarius descendant will learn from their partner a way to rebel against certain injustices, to connect with the field of politics, to “open their mind” to more holistic knowledge and to imagine futuristic possibilities.

For a person with this descendant, learning from their partner takes it out of the concrete of reality and brings you closer to the world of dreams, music, poetry, the universe that is not measurable but that also inhabits us.

“Pisces is a sign focused on the spiritual, the esoteric, the musical,” says the specialist, so it is likely that the couple’s dynamics activate these areas and awaken that more ethereal desire in the person.