The fifth house is play, romance, children, and creative output. Jupiter there produces a large appetite for enjoyment and very little guilt about it. The native throws the party rather than attending it, plans holidays that expand in the planning, and treats an ordinary Tuesday as an occasion if given the slightest excuse. Creative work is made on a generous scale — long books, big canvases, projects that begin with an ambition three sizes above the resources.
Romance is conducted warmly and abundantly, sometimes simultaneously. The native is a genuinely good lover of the encouraging kind, believing in the other person's talents rather more than the evidence supports and thereby occasionally making the belief true. Children flourish around this placement. Such natives make expansive parents — trips, enthusiasms, permission — and are usually the favourite adult in any room containing anyone under twelve.
The cost is a life that assumes the good afternoon will continue. Risks are taken cheerfully with money that was needed elsewhere, and this is the placement of the confident gambler who is right often enough to keep going. Indulgence has no natural brake. And children, real or figurative, are given every encouragement and very little discipline, since the native finds saying no to a happy person genuinely disagreeable.
What It Gives
- ◆Generous creative ambition
- ◆Encouraging, warm in love
- ◆Expansive and beloved parent
- ◆Real talent for celebration
What It Costs
- ◆Gambles with needed money
- ◆Indulgence without a brake
- ◆Reluctant to impose discipline
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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