Venus wants to be pleasing. The Moon wants to be answered. Squared, the native discovers early that needs are not attractive, and sets about presenting a nicer version of the case. The result is a person who apologises while asking, dresses up a plain request as a joke, and then feels quietly cheated when the joke is taken at face value. Both sides are legitimate and both must be fed, which is why the friction does not resolve by picking one. It only resolves by timing.
In practice it shows in small extravagances and small resentments. Money is spent to soothe a mood, and the purchase pleases for an afternoon. Affection is offered generously and then privately counted. The native chooses partners for their manners and is startled when good manners turn out not to feed anybody. In arguments the voice stays sweet while the content turns cold, a combination the other party finds far more unsettling than plain anger, and which is rarely intended as cruelty.
The development here is real. Sooner or later the native says an unlovely thing plainly and is not abandoned for it, and the whole architecture shifts. People with this square make unusually good hosts, counsellors and mediators once past thirty, because they know from the inside how much presentation costs. The trap is thinking the charm is a lie. It is not; it is simply insufficient on its own, and the square will keep arranging occasions on which nothing but the plain sentence will do.
What It Gives
- ◆grace under social strain
- ◆acute reading of other people
- ◆generosity that keeps no ledger openly
- ◆hard-won plain speech
What It Costs
- ◆needs dressed up until unrecognisable
- ◆spending used as consolation
- ◆sweetness covering cold content
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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