Moon Conjunct Venus

Need and pleasure occupy the same room here, and the native rarely troubles to separate them. To be fed well, addressed gently and loved are not three events but one, so the absence of any of them registers as the absence of all. Such people are easy company. They soften a room without appearing to work at it, remember how everyone takes their tea, and are wounded by ugliness in a manner they find impossible to justify to anyone practical. Very few of them are ever short of an invitation.

The difficulty is that comfort and affection become interchangeable currency. A quarrel is settled with a good dinner instead of a plain sentence. Someone who is pleasant, present and reliably warm gets mistaken for someone who is suitable, and the mistake can take ten years to surface. Money goes on the house, the table and the people around it, seldom on anything that appreciates. Where the conjunction sits in an unhappy part of the chart, the same appetite turns inward, and the native eats, buys or sleeps rather than speaks.

What rescues this contact is a demand made upon it. Given a craft that spends the taste, cooking, cloth, the arrangement of rooms, the making of anything obliged to be useful and lovely at once, the fusion becomes a real and uncommon competence. Left undemanded it stays charm, and charm ages badly. The native does better married than alone, and better still with a partner willing to be blunt on occasion, since bluntness is the single nutrient this configuration cannot manufacture for itself.