according to the renowned 20th century American clairvoyant, the late Edgar Cayce, all souls have been split in two. One manifests as the masculine and the other as the feminine...although at time one will manifest in the opposite gender and be found to be homosexual. This is Gods' way or rectifying past life karma. Yes, homosexuality is part of Gods' plan and it is why we all should be tolerant of those within our societies that are of that orientation.
So, there is a TRUE soulmate for each and everyone of us. But there is only one and there's no way to know who that person is or if they are even alive in the same time. Except there is one way to tell if a person might possibly be that TRUE soulmate and that is if your composite Venus comes out to be in the 14th degree of Aries. I know this from working with the Yeshu'a/Jesus birth chart I produced and if you'll read the post I have titled "Birth Chart of Mary" you'll find the explanation for this.
I very likely found my true soulmate [in my book and in threads here in this forum I identify Her as "Miss X"] and she was the one that provided me with the understanding that led to producing the true natal chart of Yeshu'a/Jesus of Nazareth. Our composite Venus is in the 14th degree of Aries. (Tropical Zodiac only when working with the Sabian Symbols. They are not tied to the Sidereal) I was just recently given permission to reveal Her name to the world. I believe I will do so later today in the appropriate sub forum.
It's the Sabian Symbol for that Tropical Degree that provides the further understanding behind this matter.
From Dane Rudhyar's wonderful book on the Sabian Symbols, I present to you all the 14th degree of Aries. [it is about the longest interpretation for any symbol Dane analyzed and He analyzed all 360 of them. There was no one more suited, more qualified, whom was alive at the time or is yet presently, to do the "job" than Dane. He "ROCKED IT"]
"ARIES 14°: A SERPENT COILING NEAR A MAN AND A WOMAN.
KEYNOTE: Identification in bipolar relationship with the impersonal rhythm of natural energy.
The symbol for Phase 4 pictures a man and a woman in love walking together. At this new and more mentally stimulated level of experience and consciousness, a third factor appears: the serpent, whose coiling represents the spiral-like process of evolution - not merely 'sex' according to the maker of cathartic symbols, Sigmund Freud. We can understand this 'triangular' image — man, woman and the serpent — if we relate it to the preceding one in the series, the unexploded bomb of the anarchist or activist. The urge to blow up some structure which somehow has become in the activist's mind a symbol of the Establishment — the ruling elite — is usually the protest of an alienated and often immature mind that refuses relationship, because in the relationship he would occupy a subservient position. In this symbol, the serpent represents the acceptance of relationship by the two polarized human beings.
There must be a polarization before there can be fulfillment. The tragedy of so many contemporary lives is that, having become sharply individualized, the men and women cannot find their truly matching polar-opposite. Because they are not fulfilled at the root level of human emotions and vitalistic forces, they pass their lives seeking the ideal complement, often glamorized as the "soul mate." This search can find its expression at several levels. At the mystical level we have the examples of the 'spiritual marriage' of Saint Francis of Assisi and Santa Clara, or recently of Sri Aurobindo and Mother Mira.
The Adam and Eve story (in Hebrew, Ish and Isha - much more significant names!) refers to this principle of polarization, although the story has been turned upside down by priestly intellects to serve their purposes. Adam and Eve accepted the Presence, not of the Tempter, but of the Individualizer, who sought to have them born out of the womb of unconscious passivity to Nature's God. But the result of the experience frightened them. They 'hid'; they failed in the great test of individualization, and in this sense the archetype of that failure is deeply imbedded in man's generic unconscious. It is repeated time after time.
Modern 'individuals' are confronted with another test, but they do not understand its meaning. It is the test of polarized conscious participation in the evolutionary process - a polarization that could dissolve alienation, isolation and egocentricity. In a sense at least, this was the old Tantric concept in India; but today many young people accept the concept only superficially and miss its real essence. They cannot understand the meaning of entering into the serpent, i.e. of developing eonic consciousness and that transpersonal living which once was characterized by the words: Not I live, but Christ lives me - Christ, whose symbolic number in Gnosticism is 888.
At this fourth stage of the third five-fold sequence, we are confronted with an image suggesting the transpersonal way to the 'cosmification' of desire and the conscious acceptance of polarization as the solution of the problems generated by individualization. But this need not mean what is currently meant by 'sex' and the glorification of the orgasm. It implies rather the RITUALIZATION OF RELATIONSHIP."
Edgar Cayce did say, in fact it was more of a "warning", that we are likely to find that our true soulmate is someone we are not going to get along with
It is my present opinion that is due more to the way the world presently is than anything to do with each of us individually. Given an idyllic world to exist in, it is my belief, that bonding with ones' true soulmate would be the perfect marriage.
"Miss X" and I certainly had great difficulties trying to keep our relationship a pleasant one.. I do love the woman and always will, it's just that I can't live with Her and I'm quite certain she will say the exact same thing about me.
Ardentika may quite possibly be correct as to everything else she wrote. I usually am celibate in the lives I incarnate into or at least most everyone of them I've had in the last 2,000 years.
I was married and happily so in my last life, in India as a wealthy Hindu businessman. In three previous lives I was of knighthood, two as a Templar the other in Briton a little over 1200 years ago but born horribly deformed with the "elephant man" malady. I know of these things having been a practitioner of yoga now for over 50 years and by the grace of Sri Rama [Haribol] I was shown the "Wheel" of my existence many years ago.
I have been without any sexual experiences presently for nearly 20 years now, but I have been with 25 different women in my life in that regard.
So what I'm saying here is that there are many here that are better qualified, most likely, to give you the answer that you truly seek and as Ardentika said she has seen better astrological synastry that makes a relationship work I consider Her words to be most valuable to you.
One advantage I may have, however, is my awareness and insight pertaining to the metaphysical realm and I do see a number of aspects that indicate intuitive and even psychic links between you and your boyfriend. That is a real plus in a relationship if you know how to work with that?
Only you can ultimately decide if this man is right for you, however.
I am also known as Devananda to those of the Sanatan Dharm and my fellow yogis. However I was born and raised a Quaker and honor and bow before all true avatars of all religions and spiritual practices. My only true "guru", "satguru", is the Word of God.
May God Bless you and assist you in finding the true love you seek if you haven't already.
ptv.