The arrangement is cooperative without being automatic. The native can lift a subject from the specific to the general when it suits them, and can bring a grand idea back down to a usable example, but they must decide to do it. Learning is pleasant here rather than compulsive. Books are enjoyed, courses are finished more often than not, and foreign places and foreign ideas are approached without anxiety. Nothing pushes. A great many with this contact remain well informed amateurs their whole lives and are perfectly content to be.
Where it is exercised, the returns are steady rather than spectacular. The native explains things clearly to people who are not experts, which is a rarer skill than any expertise, and they are trusted accordingly. They give sound advice because they can see a situation in proportion. Publishing, teaching, the law, medicine, and any work involving foreigners or the explaining of one trade to another all suit. Good fortune in this contact is mostly a matter of being recommended by people who remember a helpful conversation years earlier.
The unused version is a person of pleasant opinions who has read a good deal and produced nothing. There is no penalty attached, which is what makes it easy to leave alone. Activation requires an audience and a deadline: a class to teach, a piece commissioned, a course examined at the end. Given those, the sextile develops fast and keeps developing, because the pleasure is real and does not wear off. It is one of the few contacts in a chart that can be picked up at fifty and still yield most of what it had to give.
What It Gives
- ◆clear explanation to non specialists
- ◆proportion in giving advice
- ◆study that remains a pleasure
- ◆ease with foreign places and ideas
What It Costs
- ◆learning that never becomes work
- ◆opinions in place of production
- ◆no penalty for leaving it idle
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