The conviction underneath is that a person is capable of more than circumstances suggest, and this placement acts on it, chiefly by backing people. They find the promising apprentice, put money behind them, tell them in public that they are good. It works remarkably often, since confidence conferred generously tends to be repaid. Their own fortune runs through patrons, through being noticed, and through the enduring willingness of others to give them a platform they have not strictly earned yet.
Generosity is large, visible, and warm. They pick up the bill, throw the party, give the extravagant present chosen with actual attention. There is display in it and the display is not insincere; giving well in front of witnesses is simply how they understand the act. What they teach is self-respect, and they teach it best to people who arrived without any. Children and juniors flourish around them because someone finally treated them as consequential.
The excess is scale. The house is bigger than needed, the celebration cost more than the year could bear, and generosity extended past the point of prudence goes on regardless because retracting it would be humiliating. Pride keeps the spending going long after the money has stopped. From inside it feels like refusing to live small. From outside, at its worst, it looks like a person who cannot separate their own worth from the size of what surrounds them, and who is frightened of the smaller version.
What It Gives
- ◆lavish and sincere generosity
- ◆talent for encouraging others
- ◆natural authority in a room
- ◆luck through patrons and sponsors
What It Costs
- ◆living beyond the means
- ◆pride preventing retreat
- ◆worth measured by display
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