Grace is the word for how this operates. Trouble arrives and something intervenes: a friend, a small legacy, a change of circumstances that nobody arranged. The native comes to expect it, not arrogantly but as a settled description of how things go. They are kind without effort, forgive quickly, and are almost never bitter, which makes them restful company. Suffering elsewhere in the world moves them sincerely, and the sincerity is not usually followed by any particular action.
The talent that goes unused here is the imaginative one. Such natives can compose, write, paint or console, and often do a little of each without ever submitting the work to a standard that could fail it. Ask them how they do it and no answer comes, because nothing was ever assembled deliberately. The pleasant fog around the whole aspect is its real hazard: appointments drift, letters go unanswered, savings are not made, and the disorder is excused on the grounds that things have always worked out.
What redeems it is contact with a hard edge. A demanding teacher, a professional standard, an obligation to somebody who genuinely depends on them, and the fluency stops being decorative. This is the aspect that makes the humane doctor, the priest who is actually useful, the illustrator who delivers. Where nothing sharpens it, the native reaches sixty having been very likeable, mildly gifted and largely unproductive, and is generally the last to consider this a loss.
What It Gives
- ◆effortless sympathy and forgiveness
- ◆natural fluency in an art
- ◆trouble that resolves itself
- ◆absence of bitterness
What It Costs
- ◆gift never tested against a standard
- ◆compassion that stops at feeling
- ◆practical affairs left to drift
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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