The sextile is an open door rather than a gift. It puts the expansive faculty and the organising one on speaking terms, so that a plan can be made larger and better founded in the same afternoon. Natives who use it are the ones asked to grow a department, restore an institution, or turn a good idea into a going concern. Natives who do not use it simply seem sensible and mildly hopeful, and nothing further is said about them. The contact never insists. That is its whole limitation.
Where it does operate, the behaviour is recognisable. The person proposes something ambitious and, unprompted, brings the timetable and the budget with it. They are trusted by cautious people and liked by bold ones, which is an unusual combination and worth a great deal in committee. Setbacks are absorbed without drama because the estimate allowed for them. Contracts get read. Promises made by this native tend to be smaller than what is eventually delivered, and colleagues learn to rely on the margin.
The trap is not excess but inertia. Because the aspect makes nothing hurt, many people carry it for a lifetime without ever asking anything of it, and a capacity for measured growth spends itself on tidy household accounts. The remedy is deliberate: take on a project one size beyond present competence and see the aspect wake up. Study, professional training and long apprenticeships suit it particularly well, since both planets are satisfied by a qualification, one for the standing and one for the discipline.
What It Gives
- ◆expansion that does not overreach
- ◆credibility with cautious and bold alike
- ◆realistic timetables
- ◆steady appetite for qualification
What It Costs
- ◆capacity left entirely unused
- ◆ambition too easily satisfied
- ◆no internal pressure to act
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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