The first house is the body and the manner of arriving. Jupiter there makes the arrival generous. The native comes in warmly, greets people they have met once, and fills the available space with voice and gesture. There is a physical largeness to the placement — height, breadth, or simply an expansive way of occupying a chair — and a tendency for the frame to broaden steadily from the middle thirties onward, which the native notices later than everyone else.
Optimism functions as a practical asset here rather than a temperament. The native expects things to go well, acts on the expectation, and is therefore in the room when the opportunity arrives. Strangers extend credit, literal and otherwise, on very little evidence. Such natives are lucky in the specific sense that they are always in motion toward something and consequently intersect more possibilities than a cautious person ever will.
The cost is a chronic want of proportion. The native promises more than can be delivered, in perfect sincerity, and is surprised each time by the shortfall. Excess follows the appetite — of food, of drink, of undertakings accepted in a good mood on a Friday. There is also a habit of taking up the room's oxygen without noticing, and of dispensing advice to people who came for sympathy and left having been improved.
What It Gives
- ◆Warm, expansive first impression
- ◆Optimism that creates opportunity
- ◆Strangers extend goodwill readily
- ◆Genuine physical presence
What It Costs
- ◆Promises exceed delivery
- ◆Appetites run to excess
- ◆Advice offered unasked
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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