The generation shares the sign; the house is what places the fog in a particular life. At the seventh, it settles over the partner. The native does not see the person they married — they see a figure assembled from longing, and they are loyal to that figure for years after the real one has behaved otherwise. Friends can describe the spouse's faults in detail. The native has heard the description and has not been able to use it.
Merging is the instinct. Preferences, tastes, and eventually opinions become shared to the point where the native cannot identify which were originally theirs, and the marriage develops the quality of a single organism. Devotion of a genuinely selfless kind is possible here, and in the good versions of this placement it produces a union of unusual tenderness. Partners are frequently artists, believers, or the unwell, and are often being rescued.
The cost falls in full view, since this is an angular house. Deception in partnership recurs — sometimes the partner's, sometimes the native's own, practised sincerely and discovered late. Sacrifices are made that nobody requested and resented obscurely afterwards. And separation is unusually difficult, not because the affection persists but because the native, having dissolved into the union, has genuinely no idea who is left when it ends.
What It Gives
- ◆Capacity for selfless devotion
- ◆Tenderness rare in marriage
- ◆Forgives without keeping account
- ◆Instinctive understanding of partners
What It Costs
- ◆Cannot see partners accurately
- ◆Deception recurs in unions
- ◆No self remains after separation
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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