What this placement has faith in is the collective and its capacity to improve. Not a particular creed but the general proposition that arrangements can be made fairer, and that intelligence applied openly will get there. Fortune arrives socially: the friend who mentions a name, the association joined out of curiosity that supplies a livelihood a decade later, the reputation built by being useful to people who could not repay it. Since this placement is shared with everyone born in the same year, the flavour is generational and the personal expression is in what they choose to organize.
Generosity is unusually impersonal and unusually broad. They give to causes rather than to individuals, sit on committees, run the thing nobody else will run, and treat a stranger's claim as equal to a friend's on principle. What they teach is that the existing arrangement is not the only possible one, which is genuinely liberating for people raised to believe otherwise. They are excellent at making a group feel like a group.
The excess is doctrinal. Certainty about the right shape of society hardens, tolerance is extended to every position except the reactionary one, and the person becomes rigid in exactly the area where they believe themselves most open. Meanwhile a friend goes uncalled for a year. From inside it feels like principle held consistently. From outside it can look like someone who loves humanity in general and finds particular humans, especially the ones nearest to them, considerably harder work.
What It Gives
- ◆luck through friends and networks
- ◆generosity extended to strangers
- ◆vision of better arrangements
- ◆talent for building community
What It Costs
- ◆principle hardened into doctrine
- ◆closeness neglected for causes
- ◆openness that excludes dissenters
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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