The offer here is influence in exchange for seriousness. This native understands what is actually going on beneath the official account of a situation, and can say enough of it, tactfully, to be trusted with more. Advancement tends to come through being told things: the confidence of a senior figure, access to what the accounts really show, knowledge of who is leaving before it is announced. None of this is sought by manipulation. It accrues to people who can be relied on not to flinch.
Where it is taken up, the work is often research, surgery, finance, law, therapy or reform, anything that pays for the willingness to look at what others avoid. Recovery is another mark of the aspect: such natives come back from illness, bankruptcy and disgrace with their appetite intact, and they are useful to others in the same position because they are neither shocked nor sentimental. The capacity strengthens with every crisis it is used in.
Left alone it does very little. Since Jupiter reaches this angle to Pluto for a stretch of months at a time, a cohort holds it, and in most of them it amounts to a taste for grim subject matter and an occasional shrewd guess. The house placement and any personal planet in contact decide whether it becomes a working faculty. The one caution is the pleasure of knowing more than one says, which curdles into a small private vanity if it is never put to use.
What It Gives
- ◆trusted with unspoken things
- ◆appetite intact after disgrace or ruin
- ◆shrewd reading of an institution
- ◆steadiness in other people's crises
What It Costs
- ◆vanity in withheld knowledge
- ◆depth left as idle taste
- ◆influence never actually claimed
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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