The strength is structural rather than dramatic. Under this trine the native goes on when the situation gets serious, and does it without any visible change of manner, which is why they are so often handed the difficult job. Grim material does not disturb them: they can look at the wound, the accounts, the body, the truth, and continue working. Recovery from exhaustion and illness is unusually complete. There is little of the obsessive quality found in the harder Pluto contacts; the depth is simply available.
The risk is not weakness but insensibility. A person who is never frightened does not learn what fear is for, and this native tends to underestimate what a situation is costing the people beside them. They are also careless with their own reserves, spending them on jobs that did not need that much, because there has never been a bill. Others sometimes find them intimidating for reasons the native cannot detect, having no experience of being intimidated themselves.
Left alone the trine produces a competent, unexamined life with one or two impressive episodes in it that the native describes flatly and briefly. Directed, it becomes the backbone of serious work in medicine, rescue, investigation or anything requiring a person to remain functional in conditions that reduce others to spectators. The development required is not more strength but more attention: learning to notice the effect on other people, and to spend the reserve on something worth the depth rather than on whatever happened to ask.
What It Gives
- ◆functional when others cannot be
- ◆unshaken by grim material
- ◆deep and complete recovery
- ◆authority that needs no display
What It Costs
- ◆insensible to others' fear
- ◆reserves spent on trivial demands
- ◆strength never examined or aimed
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