What is on offer is a reserve tank. The native can, when they choose, go considerably further than their ordinary capacity suggests, and can also apply a concentrated attention that gets to the bottom of things other people leave half-examined. Used deliberately, it makes an unusually effective negotiator, since the native is willing to sit with an uncomfortable silence and let the other party fill it. Physical recovery from illness and injury tends to be better than the prognosis.
Unlike the harder contacts, nothing here obliges the native to find out. A great many people with this sextile live entirely within their ordinary capacity, mildly aware of a depth they have not needed, and only discover it in a crisis at fifty, if at all. The aspect is often reported afterwards rather than in advance: the person who nursed a parent through a final year, or rebuilt after a fire, and was astonished by what they turned out to contain.
Taken up on purpose it suits any work involving hidden things: research, forensic and financial investigation, psychotherapy, salvage, mining, the management of dangerous materials. There is none of the compulsion the conjunction carries, so the native can put the subject down at the end of the day, which is precisely what makes them last in fields that burn other people out. The one warning is that influence acquired quietly is still influence, and this native can accumulate a good deal of it before anyone, themselves included, has noticed.
What It Gives
- ◆reserves available on demand
- ◆concentration that reaches the bottom
- ◆composure in uncomfortable silences
- ◆recovery beyond the prognosis
What It Costs
- ◆depth discovered only in crisis
- ◆influence accumulated unnoticed
- ◆capacity left permanently untested
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