"The Big 6: Beyond Your Big 3"
By now everyone knows their Big 3 — Sun, Moon, and Rising. It's the standard astrology intro, and it's genuinely useful (the three signs that matter most). But the real flex, and the one that actually runs your love life, is the Big 6 — your Big 3 plus the three personal planets that dating is made of: Venus, Mars, and Mercury. If the Big 3 is who you are, the Big 6 is how you love. Here's the upgrade.
The three placements the Big 3 leaves out
Your Big 3 covers your core (Sun), heart (Moon), and surface (Rising). The Big 6 adds the relational planets:
- Venus — how you love, flirt, and receive affection; your taste and romantic style (your Venus sign is your dating aesthetic).
- Mars — how you desire, pursue, and fight; your passion and your anger (your Mars sign).
- Mercury — how you think, talk, and text; your communication style (Mercury, the factor nobody checks).
Venus, Mars, and Mercury are the personal planets closest to us — the ones that most directly shape attraction, desire, and connection. Skipping them is why Big-3 astrology feels incomplete for dating.
Why the Big 6 is the real dating cheat sheet
The Big 3 tells you about a person; the Big 6 tells you how they do relationships:
- Venus = their love language and what they find attractive.
- Mars = their sex drive, their fight style, how they chase.
- Mercury = how you'll actually communicate day to day.
When two people compare Big 6, you get a far richer picture than sun signs: whether your Venuses vibe, your Marses spark or clash, your Mercuries click. It's the difference between "we're both Leos" and actually understanding how you'll love, want, and talk to each other.
What it does — and doesn't — mean
The Big 6 is a brilliant shortcut, not the whole chart. It's a huge upgrade from the Big 3 for anything love-related — but it's still six placements out of a whole sky of planets, houses, and aspects. It won't capture the deep compatibility contacts between two charts (that's full synastry), and it's a snapshot of style, not a verdict on fate. Think of it as the best quick-read there is, not the final word.
It's a tendency, not a sentence. Knowing your Big 6 (and someone else's) is the single most useful "first date" level of astrology — enough to understand how you each love, want, and communicate, and where those might harmonize. For the deeper "are we compatible," you still bring the two full charts together. The Big 6 opens the conversation beautifully.
Why two systems are better than one here
Western astrology gives you your Big 6 by tropical sign. Vedic astrology often places several of those six in different signs — so your Big 6 can read differently in each system, which is exactly why Alwenna badges each. Vedic then goes deeper on the Moon (via nakshatra) and weighs true compatibility through the Ashtakoota. One gives you the six-placement snapshot; the other adds sidereal depth and real fit. Each clearly badged, together they turn a fun intro into genuine insight.
How Alwenna reads it
Alwenna reads all six placements — Sun, Moon, Rising, Venus, Mars, Mercury — for both of you, in both systems, each clearly badged. Then she tells you, in plain language, how you each love, desire, and communicate, and where your Big 6 harmonizes or contrasts. The perfect first look; and when you want the deep read, she brings the two full charts together.
Bring her the two of you and ask, "How do our Big 6 fit?" She'll tell you honestly — and in context. Ask Alwenna about you two →