Partnership

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
--Chinese Proverb

Women with positive Juno influences seek the interdependency of a lifelong partnership. Not wanting to give up her identity, the Juno woman looks for a union in which two individuals join for the betterment of each.

An astrological compatibility chart, known as a synastry reading, compares two birth charts. Not a prediction of whether your relationship will succeed or fail, the chart can offer insight into your partner and into how you relate to one another.

The basis of a successful partnership is trust. If you cannot trust each other, you cannot build a healthy relationship. With a solid foundation of trust and love, a partnership elevates both parties, making life richer and happier because you are together.

When you form such a connection, your relationship with your partner becomes more important than money, social standing, or other external achievement. Without giving up your self, you shift your priorities to nurture something that is greater than either individual.

In 1936, King Edward VII gave up the English throne to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American woman. They remained married until his death in 1972.

Historically, many women could only achieve social power and position through the men they married -- not because they weren't capable and intelligent on their own but because of a male-dominated culture.

Even today many famous -- and powerful -- women get all or part of their status through their husbands: Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Imelda Marcos, for example. While Hillary Clinton is certainly successful in her own right, being the wife of the President catapulted her into a visible spot on society's screen.

Although Juno is also known as The Wife, partnership is not limited to marriage. Any two people -- of the same or opposite genders -- who forge deep bonds of intimacy, love, and trust fall under Juno's watchful eye.

The legal definition of partnership is changing. Couples live together for years before they wed -- some never formally marry but live as spouses in all other ways. In a few cities, couples can register as "domestic partners" and receive many of the same legal benefits as spouses. Same-sex couples sometimes design personal ceremonies to formalize their unions.

One person cannot hold a partnership together on her own. If you feel that you are the only one taking responsibility for or working to better the partnership, it's time to reconsider whether you belong together.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
--Mignon McLaughlin

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