Rest and attack want incompatible conditions, and both press their claim daily. The native wants a settled house and cannot stop striking sparks in it. Irritation rises fastest with the people who are safest, so colleagues get the courtesy and the family gets the edge, which the native knows and finds humiliating. Sleep is often broken. Hunger, tiredness and frustration are not distinguished from one another until well into adult life, and each is answered as though it were anger.
The recognisable scenes are domestic. A reasonable request is heard as an accusation and returned at twice the volume. The native rushes to defend a relative against criticism the relative had accepted calmly. Cooking, housekeeping and money produce quarrels whose real subject is always something older. Mother, or whoever stood in that place, is remembered as someone to be argued with, and the argument is transferred wholesale to a partner. Afterwards the remorse is genuine, immediate and does not alter Wednesday.
This square is the most productive contact in many charts, and the productivity is bought with real damage along the way. Forced to reconcile a temper with a need for people, the native builds the thing others get for free: deliberate patience. It arrives in the middle thirties and holds. Such people are formidable advocates for anyone weaker than themselves, and they do not tire. What has to be surrendered is the belief that the anger is caused by whoever is currently in the room.
What It Gives
- ◆fierce defence of the vulnerable
- ◆endurance in prolonged conflict
- ◆patience genuinely built rather than inherited
- ◆honesty about one's own faults
What It Costs
- ◆sharpest with those closest
- ◆old grievances fought through new people
- ◆remorse that changes nothing
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