This is an opportunity rather than a possession. The instinct for what will settle a room and the instinct for what will decorate it are placed side by side and left cooperating, waiting to be used. Natives who take it up become the person a difficult family gathering is arranged around, the one who knows which chair to give the awkward guest. Natives who do not take it up are merely agreeable, and never learn that the agreeableness had a professional edge available to it all along.
Where it is exercised, the results are unglamorous and durable. Negotiations go better because the other side is fed and seated well. Colour, texture and proportion are judged quickly and correctly, without theory. Old friendships survive long silences, since the native's affection does not require constant maintenance to stay warm. Money is handled with a certain grace, spent on things that are enjoyed rather than displayed, and lent to relatives with fewer conditions than most people manage.
The characteristic waste is simple neglect. Nothing in the chart forces this contact into daylight, so a great many people carry it for a lifetime and describe themselves as unartistic and shy. It responds to practice with unusual speed: six months of deliberate hosting, or of learning one craft properly, will bring out more than a decade of good intentions. The sextile rewards the native who treats pleasantness as a skill to be trained rather than a temperament to be excused.
What It Gives
- ◆quick judgement of taste
- ◆friendships that survive neglect
- ◆settling other people without effort
- ◆graceful handling of money
What It Costs
- ◆talent left entirely dormant
- ◆self-described as unartistic
- ◆opportunity noticed too late
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