Dossé-Via Trenou - Signs & Skymates: The Ultimate Guide to Astrological Compatibility

LET ME TELL YOU A SECRET: THE UNIVERSE WANTS YOU TO FEEL LOVE. It wants you to experience rich friendships. And it wants you to excel in whatever you decide to pursue. The Universe wants you to laugh your butt off at happy hour and to feel vulnerable enough to let someone who loves you wipe away your tears at the crack of dawn. The Universe wants you to feel sexual bliss and intellectual stimulation. It wants you to travel, learn, teach, remember. It wants you to let yourself get angry, jealous, resentful, and passionate when those emotions come over you, and it also wants you to meditate, be still, and feel peace.

The Universe wants you to see yourself reflected within it. Its here to help you create a life you feel compatible with, while meeting and merging with those with whom youre most in tune. And if youre reading this, youve probably asked yourself the question, Well, what people am I compatible with and how can I find them? Youre in the right place. I have several in-depth insightsand many more questionsfor you as we embark on this journey. And by the time youre done reading Signs & Skymates, you may very well have a path to finding your answers.

Who am I? Im Doss-Via, an evolutionary astrologer, author, and artist. I help humans who are seeking a spiritually awakening experience cultivate healthier relationships through studying their natal charts. With the insights I gain, I share how their connections can become enriching experiences that flow and grow with them, rather than work against them. What exactly is an astrologer? My definition is pretty simple. Its someone who seeks to understand the skies and themselves, simultaneously. Someone who sees the skies within themself. Thats me! And that can be you too, if youd like.

One thing you must know about me: Im an astrologer, but not necessarily a relationship expert or guru. One could say Ive had an atypical path exploring relationships, particularly romantic ones. Then again, is there even such a thing as a typical path? I entered a relationship with my college boyfriend when I was eighteen, we got married in 2016, and we stayed together until about two years ago, when I was twenty-six. We have two kids together, whom we co-parent, but ever since my separation from him, we havent been romantic partners anymore. It wasnt until the end of my twenties that I experienced the dating world. This is my first time being single in my adult life. But what does it actually mean, to be single, to be in a relationship, to be engaged, to be best friends, to be lovers? What do our connections with others mean, and how do our perceptions of these connections shape the way we see ourselves? These are questions to ask of our minds and heartsbut also of the stars. That feels truer to me now than ever before, as this turn of events in my life has heightened my awareness and curiosity about astrological compatibility.

This puts me in an ideal position to write a compatibility book, because like some of you, I have my moments of skepticism when it comes to whether Ill ever successfully date long term again. I also have my moments of idealism when I match with someone on a dating app, we go on a few dates, and I immediately project us into a fantasy future in which I feel loved and all is right in the world. I have moments of despair, too. I wonder if theres something wrong with me personally, if Im an insatiable lover, or human in general. I have experienced passionate and torrid love affairs, as well as moments of being primarily in a relationship with myself and relishing in it. And I also have moments of contentment with my current journey, even if my relationships are either a roller coaster or seemingly nonexistent. I, like you, have moments of indifference and dullness and drama and epic sagas. In fact, its one of those moments, which took place on the 18th of February 2021, a year and a half into my separation from my husband, that motivated me to start writing this bookfor my own sake.

I had just gotten back from a workout and decided to check something on my old cell phone. I was on a new year, new me resolution kick and had recently gotten a new phone. Id transferred only 25 percent of my contacts to it, eager to start fresh. And yet what did I immediately see on my old phone as I opened up WhatsApp? A message from a past Scorpio loversomeone who had disintegrated into a person I once knew, talked to, loved. With just three days left in the first Mercury Retrograde of that year, I wasnt surprised when his name popped up on my screen. Instead, I sighed.

I remembered the days when seeing his name would have made me shriek with delight or feel butterflies in my stomach. But this time it made me wonder, What does he want from me now? Did he forget to send his invoice for the work project were wrapping up? It was the first day of Pisces season, so a small part of me allowed myself to fantasize that maybe, just maybe, he had reached out because he had been thinking nonstop of me, of us, and of all that we had been and could still be. Maybe, just maybe, he realized what he had missed out on when he stopped investing as much time, energy, and intimacy into the connection. Maybe hed declare a grand apology and let me know that all he wanted was to be with me, but that he was too afraid to show itthat his Scorpio soul was so drawn to mine but didnt know how to fully explore it. Maybe hed say, Im finally ready to study my birth chart, Doss-Via. And I want to know yours. I want to know ours. I want us.