Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates Quotes

“What did they give us, and what did we give them? Were they a catalyst for us? How would the choices we made in our life be different today without having known them?”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“I now release and am released from those who are no longer part of the divine plan of my life, as they now release me and find their good elsewhere. I expand quickly into the divine plan of my life where all conditions are permanently perfect." "You are in my life by divine appointment. You have crossed my path so that I may learn something from you, and so that I may give you my blessing. I now do this and you are released to your highest good.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“When love becomes more limiting and difficult than freeing and joyful, that’s not love—that’s emotional attachment, and this can create future suffering.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“I believe the fifth house experience is connected to our second chakra, the pleasure chakra of sexuality and creativity. When we encounter a fifth house mate’s sexy chemistry, we’re bowled over and wowed. The problem is, while long-term relationships are meant to wow our whole being—all chakras—our karmic partners hang out mostly in the ooey-gooey feel-good chemistry of our second chakra. A committed relationship cannot vibrate on second chakra bandwidth exclusively; our body cannot take it, and these relationships eventually burn out like a comet.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“Short-term relationships have the power to resolve longstanding karma, which is essentially soul-freeing.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“The Mars person enjoys an equally strong-willed partner who can stand up for themselves and tolerate their sometimes demanding, competitive, and spontaneous nature. A warrior needs a worthy opponent.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“A fifth house planet may have a few love lessons to learn that are specific to that planet, but it also offers the potential for a rich, full, exciting creative life. By cultivating the art of total absorption and immersion in the present moment—by creating art, spending time with children, attending fun events, and making a place in our life for absorbing experiences of joyful spontaneity—we’re less vulnerable to the shadowy aspect of the fifth house. And when we liberate that falling-in-love feeling of fascination, astonishment, absorption, and joie de vivre from being dependent on another person, we feel ageless, like a kid again.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“A fifth house planet may have a few love lessons to learn that are specific to that planet, but it also offers the potential for a rich, full, exciting creative life.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“The South Node holds the repository of our soul’s heart memory, which extends beyond this lifetime, starting up like an old phonograph record waiting for resolution again.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House

“Isabel Hickey also influenced me, when in her monumental book Astrology, A Cosmic Science, she said something very interesting about the fifth house: “This is a house of hidden karma; hidden karma specifically involving how we’ve misused our will and the love principle.”
― Jessica Shepherd, Karmic Dates & Momentary Mates: The Astrology of the Fifth House