The third house is everyday speech, siblings, and short local trips. Mars there sharpens the tongue. The native contradicts as a reflex, enjoys a disagreement the way other people enjoy a meal, and can dismantle a weak argument in three sentences without noticing the damage to its owner. Speech is direct to the point of bluntness. The native believes they are simply being accurate, and is puzzled by the offence this reliably causes.
Sibling relations carry heat. There is usually one brother or sister with whom the native fought seriously in childhood, and the argument continues by other means for forty years. Short local trips are undertaken at speed and with impatience; this is the placement of the fast driver, the aggressive cyclist, the person who takes the traffic personally. Debate, advocacy, polemical writing, and hard-edged reporting all suit the intelligence well.
The cost is a mind that will not disengage. The native cannot let a false statement stand, however trivial and however unwise the correction, and thereby loses arguments that were already won. Nervous heat produces headaches and broken sleep. There is also a habit of using speech as a weapon and then claiming the privileges of plain speaking — cutting deliberately, and denying afterwards that anything was aimed.
What It Gives
- ◆Fearless, direct speech
- ◆Formidable in argument
- ◆Quick practical decisions
- ◆Learns by doing immediately
What It Costs
- ◆Contradicts as a reflex
- ◆Long-running quarrel with siblings
- ◆Sharpness disguised as honesty
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