The third house is everyday speech, siblings, the neighbourhood, and the restless mind. Jupiter there makes the ordinary conversation expand. Asked the time, the native supplies the time, the history of the clock, and an opinion about the man who repaired it. This is genuinely enjoyable to listen to for about a quarter of an hour. Such natives read widely, talk constantly, and carry more information about their locality than any official record contains.
Teaching in the informal sense is the placement's real occupation, whatever the job title says. The native explains things to people, patiently and well, and is the one the neighbours consult. Siblings are usually a benefit — an older brother who opened a door, a sister who supplies the connections — and the relationship is warm even when it is not close. Short local trips multiply: this native drives further in a week than the errands require.
The cost is inflation of the small. A minor matter is elaborated into a doctrine, and a piece of local news becomes, in the retelling, a larger and better story than the one that occurred. The native exaggerates without lying and is genuinely puzzled when corrected. Attention is spread across too many subjects for any to be mastered, and the placement, being cadent, produces a great deal of talk in a small radius and rather little that leaves it.
What It Gives
- ◆Explains things generously
- ◆Wide practical general knowledge
- ◆Warm relations with siblings
- ◆Welcome throughout the neighbourhood
What It Costs
- ◆Cannot answer briefly
- ◆Stories enlarge in retelling
- ◆Interests too scattered to master
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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