The gift on offer is a second answer. Faced with a stuck problem the native can generally see an approach nobody in the room has considered, and unlike the conjunction they can also choose whether to mention it. Timing improves as a result: the unorthodox move is made when it is useful rather than when the pressure peaks. Improvised repairs, unusual routes, odd hours and irregular careers all sit comfortably here, and none of them are compulsory.
The reason it so often lies idle is social rather than astrological. Acting on the second answer means being the only person doing it, and most people would rather be wrong in company. Natives who decline the opening spend their working lives with a private commentary running about how the job could be done better, and never test a word of it. There is no penalty. That is precisely the problem: the sextile makes no noise when it is refused, so nothing ever forces the question.
Taken up, it produces a particular kind of career: not spectacular, but never quite standard. Such natives end up as the person a firm keeps because they solve the awkward cases, or as a small independent operator who would be unemployable elsewhere and does perfectly well alone. Reform work suits them, since they can be radical about the method without being difficult about the meeting. The requirement is small and specific: act on one unpopular idea a year, in public, and accept the occasional embarrassment as the fee.
What It Gives
- ◆a second answer always available
- ◆radical method, civil manner
- ◆quick improvised repair
- ◆independence exercised at will
What It Costs
- ◆good ideas never spoken aloud
- ◆reluctance to act alone
- ◆no penalty for leaving it idle
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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