This is the one Mars-Neptune contact where effort and inspiration can be combined without either dissolving the other. The native is capable of working hard on something imagined, which sounds ordinary and is not; most people can do one or the other. Practical kindness is the everyday form. Help is offered in the shape of a lift, a meal or an afternoon of labour rather than a sentiment, and it is offered to people the native has no obligation towards.
Nothing compels any of it. A sextile is an open door in a corridor the native need never walk down, and many do not: they keep the imagination for private consumption and the effort for paid work, and the two never meet. Such lives are unremarkable rather than unhappy, though there is often a late and unfocused regret about art or service not attempted. The aspect provides no crisis to prompt the attempt and no punishment for declining it.
Where it is used, the fields are predictable and the results are not modest: music, dance, photography, medicine, rescue work, teaching the very young or the very ill. The native reads atmosphere quickly and acts on the reading before it can be argued away, which in a sickroom or a crowd is worth more than analysis. The chief caution is stamina. Sympathy of this kind is metabolically expensive, and the native who takes the door should also keep a strict private timetable of rest.
What It Gives
- ◆hard work on an imagined thing
- ◆practical rather than spoken kindness
- ◆quick reading of atmosphere
- ◆effective in emergencies of care
What It Costs
- ◆imagination kept for private use
- ◆no prompt to attempt anything
- ◆sympathy that drains the body
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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