Words come easily and come with atmosphere attached. Such natives tell a story well, choose the apt image without hunting for it, and are believed. Complicated feeling is put into ordinary language and made simple, which is a rare service. The mind works by pattern and resemblance rather than by sequence, so conclusions are reached obliquely and are usually sound. There is little of the confusion the harder Neptune contacts bring; the two faculties take turns without argument and without much comment.
The danger is fluency itself. What can be said beautifully is assumed to be true, and the native seldom applies pressure to their own sentences, because the sentences never resist. A vague idea in this chart sounds finished. Others, charmed, do not press either. Over time this produces a body of work, or a manner of speech, that is admired, quoted, and slightly hollow, and the native is invariably the last person to hear about it.
There is also an unforced sympathy that costs so little it is spent carelessly. The native soothes people by reflex, agrees in order to keep the temperature down, and later cannot remember what they committed to. The corrective is contact with something that cannot be charmed: a technical subject, a rigorous editor, a discipline with right and wrong answers. Held against that, the gift becomes remarkable. Left alone it stays pleasant, and pleasant is a considerable waste of it.
What It Gives
- ◆apt imagery without effort
- ◆difficult feeling made plain
- ◆a voice people trust immediately
- ◆understanding reached by resemblance
What It Costs
- ◆fluency mistaken for truth
- ◆agreement given to lower the temperature
- ◆own sentences never pressure-tested
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