The fifth house is play, romance, children, and creative output. Mercury there treats thinking as recreation. Such natives make up games, invent rules for them, and enforce the rules with mock severity. Puzzles, wordplay, and the elaborate joke sustained across a whole evening are the placement's natural produce. The creative work, when it comes, is verbal or structural — writing, comedy, design, teaching that entertains — and it is made for an audience rather than for the drawer.
Courtship is conducted by conversation. The native flirts in sentences, is attracted to cleverness before beauty, and loses interest in a companion who cannot hold up a good argument over dinner. Letters and messages proliferate at the start of an affair. Children respond to this native enormously, since they are treated as conversationalists rather than as charges, and are asked genuine questions and given honest answers.
The cost is a certain unseriousness with which the native is not always comfortable. Ideas are produced in great numbers and abandoned at the point where invention ends and labour begins. Speculation attracts — a clever wager, a stake taken because the reasoning was amusing — and the reasoning is often better than the outcome. There is also the habit of turning feeling into performance, so that a real distress is offered as an anecdote and the sympathy it earns is for a version.
What It Gives
- ◆Inventive and playful mind
- ◆Wit that draws people in
- ◆Talks easily with children
- ◆Steady flow of new ideas
What It Costs
- ◆Ideas abandoned before completion
- ◆Attraction to clever gambles
- ◆Feeling converted into performance
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