One hundred and eighty degrees puts the two in permanent negotiation, and the negotiation is usually conducted with somebody else. The native takes the side of effort and calls the other side hot air, or takes the side of vision and calls the other side small. Which end is owned depends on the rest of the chart; the disowned end is what keeps walking through the door. Business partnerships formed under this contact tend to split over exactly one question: how big the next step should be.
Internally it shows as a swing rather than a blend. A month of hard, narrow, competent work is followed by a fortnight of expansive schemes that ignore what the work just proved. Money is earned carefully and then committed to something decided in a single evening. The native is capable of both scepticism and enthusiasm and rarely of both at once, which makes them unreliable witnesses to their own plans. Colleagues learn to ask which of the two they are speaking to today.
Resolution is not a matter of picking the sober end. An opposition held properly gives an unusual public gift: the ability to argue a large case and then execute the small one, which is the whole of good leadership. It arrives late and by way of a partner or an opponent who will not go away. Until then the native should treat any decision made at the top of an enthusiasm as provisional, and any refusal made at the bottom of one as equally suspect.
What It Gives
- ◆large case argued convincingly
- ◆both scepticism and nerve available
- ◆learns scale through opponents
- ◆public presence in disputes
What It Costs
- ◆swings between caution and excess
- ◆conflict outsourced to partners
- ◆decisions made at peak enthusiasm
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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