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Jupiter Trine Pluto

Power comes easily and is rarely examined: the native attracts resources and influence without effort and seldom asks what they are for or whom they cost.

Doors that are shut for others are ajar for this native. Money, backing and access arrive through people who have them, and the native's part in the arrangement is mostly to be plainly competent and unafraid. Crises pass over them. When an institution is falling apart they are calm, useful and often better placed afterwards than before, and they cannot explain how, since nothing was engineered. Others suspect calculation. There generally was none.

The unexamined part is what the influence is for. Because the aspect gives no resistance, it also gives no occasion for scruple, and a person can accumulate a great deal without ever once deciding to. Such natives can be casually high-handed, settling other people's affairs on their behalf with perfect confidence and some accuracy, and they are surprised to be resented for it. The talent for seeing through a situation is real and is used mainly for their own convenience.

Set against something that will not yield, the same faculty becomes serious. This is a fine aspect for a person who takes on a genuine reform, a long investigation or the rebuilding of a ruined enterprise, since the appetite for scale is joined to a stomach for the unpleasant parts. Left comfortable, it produces a prosperous, slightly complacent life and a habit of explaining other people's misfortunes as failures of nerve. Both outcomes look effortless from outside. Only one of them is worth anything.

What It Gives

  • ◆calm competence in collapse
  • ◆resources that arrive unsought
  • ◆clear sight through a situation
  • ◆stomach for unpleasant work

What It Costs

  • ◆power accumulated without decision
  • ◆high-handedness with other people's affairs
  • ◆misfortune judged as failure of nerve

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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