I'd describe an Energy Vamp. as a person who makes you feel drained, as if your ALWAYS giving but never getting anything back. And it's nothing tangible your giving, so you can't understand the visceral resentment you feel.

It's like, you feel inexplicably angry towards them for some reason, and yet, it's nothing you can quite put your finger on. Only then, you feel like an asshole for feeling such things, so you stay because you don't want to be an asshole, yet you ill stcontinually feel drained, so your anger and resentment grows.

It's a visceral clusterfuck really.

Astrology wise? I dunno. Their Neptune aspecting a Personal Planet of yours maybe?

I had an absoloutly awful experience just recently with an energy vampire. So awful In fact I actually left an excellent job with great benefits just to escape the mother sucker! I think i lasted about 3 1/2 months before I darted as fast as I could out the back door.

I was working in a very small office (about 3m x3m so extremly close) alone with this girl (this is why i left eventually there was no escape). At first she seemed really friendly a little to friendly maybe. Put it this way my scorpio antenna was up straight away i had a deep feeling in my gut that this girl was well different to any ive ever met before. Her energy was very gittery and compulsive i thought her behaviour in the office was very erratic and strange at times. One minute she would be up the next very down. One minute in my face one minute dreadfully silent and unfriendly. i was confused after the first couple of weeks i tried adjusting thinking that it was just a case of getting to know her better and all would come to light. Unfortunately this never happened it felt the more and more time i spent in the office the more drained and tired i felt for no reason. I had never felt like this before. Ofcourse i had been the new girl many times before so knew it would be a bit of an effort but what was making this feel so ... strange.

Then the headaches and lethargy started. Am i imagining this energy? But surely not its so real i can feel it shes making me feel physically sick and everyday i just couldnt wait to get home. I started to try to make even more of an effort to try to lighten the atmosphere but to no evail. What was really interesting was It seemed that after a weekend break Monday mornings would be the showdown day she would basically pick and comment and bang things and even swear sometimes rather agressivly just to get the week off to a great start. Always invading my space and pushing the boundaries.

Im english and in England we do not use the term energy vampires i had to do a little research to come up with some understanding about how to handle these types of people. I understand the scientific term would be psycopath! This girl even looked like a vampire she had pale skin with sunken black peircing eyes very thin and well mental looking.

Ive just checked our synastry (as being a scorpio i always have my ways of getting the dirt and we have ALL OF the proposed aspects mentioned above by K.

I Hope this inspires those who are stuck around any vampires to really run for the hills!

@sassyscorp: it sounds like you made the right decision! What an awful experience :((

It could be any number of things as the posters above mentioned. But I think that it would show in the natal chart if a person has a tendancy to do this with lots of people. I think IM is right, I think it's Neptune afflicted. Possibly Saturn in harsh aspect to any planets depending on what house they are in. I think a planet in the 12th aspected harshly by Saturn or Saturn in the 12th aspecting a planet (any planet) harshly can make someone want to pull energy from elsewhere because they may feel starved. Pluto can also play a huge role in this. Pluto can make us feel empty as well.

Also 8th house is all about the Pathos and if they feel starved they will try to pull it out of others.

After reading all the comments, these considerations pop into my mind, in terms of defining or refining the topic:

• Is the alleged vampire conscious/aware that they "do this" or that they are perceived as doing this (or have that effect), or are they oblivious
• If they are aware, is the behavior intentional (chosen) or "compulsive" (they do it despite themselves; have difficulty not doing it)
• Do they think there is anything wrong or problematic with their behavior? (And really, is there? Which brings us to: synastry)

As for natal placements of the alleged vampire (only), vs synastry with a specific other person (or persons):

I am of the opinion that the "energy drain" effect is one entirely of synastry.

Case in point: I know I am considered an energy vampire by many. For example, I could (try to) have the same conversation (with attendant show of emotions, body language, etc.) with John, and he would walk away feeling totally drained. With Sally, I wouldn't even get 1/4 way in before she "died" on me. And then Roberta would totally get me (whether she agreed with me or not), our interaction would build (intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, physical gusto) and we would BOTH walk away uplifted, recharged, having GAINED something.

Some people cannot take the full me. (I have learned not to 'go there' with them.) Others seek me out and thrive and keep coming back for more. Those people are precious to me (as I am to them).

So, clearly, it's not my natal placements per se. It's how my natal placements dance or clash with yours. Synastry.

In my experience this is a real thing and the potential for it can have a source in the horoscope and that is the 8th house - other people's resources. My experience is afflicted Moon in the 8th house can be a marker for it, for one. This can potentially be a person who seeks emotional nourishment and comfort through others resources and energy. This doesn't mean everyone will be this way or even that it's necessarily vampirism because it only becomes draining when the person takes without giving back. Usually it's when  coupled with bad boundaries (Neptune/Sun hard aspect possible) and an afflicted Venus, like Mars square Sun or Venus because of a "me-first" attitude.