Draconic Chart Soulmates

When Tropical Synastry Shows Nothing

Maria Blaquier has seen this pattern repeatedly in her practice. She shares the example of a couple who are oil and water. She is introverted, he is extroverted. She likes silence, he likes noise. People always ask them how they can be married. They have been together for more than 30 years. When you look at their draconic charts, they both have the Sun in the exact same degree. Their souls recognized each other. They met and one of them suddenly realized this was the person they were going to spend the rest of their life with. And they had not even spoken yet. There was a recognition at the soul level that the tropical chart could never explain.

How Draconic Contacts Reveal Soul Bonds

When a draconic planet of one person touches a tropical planet of another, the draconic planet grabs the tropical one to express itself. The draconic level has to do with the deepest, most ancestral, most essential part of a person. It finds expression through the tropical planet with which it makes contact.

These contacts between the draconic chart and the tropical chart show how the soul finds support to deploy what it needs to express. Internally there is a pulsation, an aspiration. When two people share those deep placements, the bond goes beyond personality. It is a soul connection. The contacts show the invisible contract between people, the reason they came together.

Stars in the Same Place

The word synastry comes from the Greek for "stars in the same place." The ancients used the word star for any planet, and synastry, the branch of astrology that compares two charts, was named for what it looks for: planets in the same position across two birth charts.

In a tropical synastry, when two people have their stars in the same place, there are points of resonance between them. A connection between one person's Venus and the other's Mars predicts strong sexual attraction. A connection between Saturn and the Moon brings structure and security, but also a certain coolness. The principle holds at the draconic level too, but the meaning shifts. In a draconic synastry, the points of contact between the planets speak of a subtle resonance which, because of its unconscious character, is hard to manage. They sit underneath the personality, exerting a pull the partners often cannot name.

The Shared Scent

Maria's framing of soul recognition uses an unusual word in her book: scent. Among people with draconic contacts there is a shared scent; they recognize each other. It is common to find strong draconic connections in relationships felt as inevitable, in which both people identify with each other from the very first moment, as if they had known each other in the past and were meeting again.

Keep the orbs tight. While research on the question is still in early stages, Maria recommends no more than 3 degrees, and to focus on conjunctions and oppositions. The wider the orb, the noisier the reading.