The friction is not between action and rest but between action and illusion. The native works hard, frequently on the wrong thing, for a person or an ideal that turns out on inspection to have been partly invented. Ventures fail late and quietly rather than dramatically. Money lent is not repaid. The partner is not who they were said to be, and the native, questioned afterwards, admits they had known for some time and preferred the version they had made.
Direct conflict is avoided at some cost. The native does not refuse, they simply do not arrive; they do not argue, they withdraw and then complain to a third party. Fatigue, low-grade infection and unexplained loss of strength cluster around periods of suppressed anger. There is also a persistent guilt about wanting anything at all, so ambition is disowned and then pursued in a roundabout manner that fools nobody except the native. Reputations are damaged here more often by vagueness than by malice.
The square earns its keep by making the native an expert on self-deception, first their own and then everyone's. Few things are more useful in a healer, an investigator or a director of actors. What has to be built, deliberately and against the grain, is a habit of writing things down: the terms agreed, the sum lent, the date promised, the reason for going. Documents are unromantic and they are the specific medicine here. Disillusion under this angle is not a misfortune; it is the instruction arriving in the only form the native will accept.
What It Gives
- ◆hard-won insight into self-deception
- ◆capacity for devoted effort
- ◆sympathy for the disillusioned
- ◆imagination eventually put to work
What It Costs
- ◆effort spent on invented aims
- ◆anger expressed as absence
- ◆strength that fails without cause
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