The sign is shared with a generation; the eleventh house is where this native personally loses the boundary. It happens among friends. The native merges with the circle they join, adopting its language and its enthusiasms so completely that a former self is mislaid. Friendship is offered indiscriminately, and the native cannot easily distinguish between somebody who is a friend and somebody who is merely present and in need.
The pull toward collective feeling is genuine. Such natives belong to movements, congregations, and communities founded on an ideal, and they are among the few who actually believe the stated aims rather than enjoying the company. Music and shared ritual affect them powerfully in a crowd. There is a real gift for seeing what a group could become, and for describing it to the group in terms that make people willing to attempt it.
The cost is exploitation and drift. Friends borrow and do not repay; a cause absorbs a decade and dissolves without result. Hopes are held in a form too vague to pursue — the native wants something enormous and unspecified, and therefore never begins. And a person who dissolves into every circle they enter arrives at fifty with a great many acquaintances, several abandoned enthusiasms, and no clear account of what they themselves intended.
What It Gives
- ◆Sincere belief in shared ideals
- ◆Friendship offered without conditions
- ◆Sees what a group might become
- ◆Moved deeply by collective feeling
What It Costs
- ◆Friends borrow and exploit
- ◆Hopes too vague to pursue
- ◆Self mislaid inside groups
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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