Saturn and Uranus complete a cycle in about forty-five years, so their conjunction belongs to a narrow band of birth years, and within it the temperament is unmistakable. The native is conservative in manner and radical in substance. They keep the hours, file the papers and observe the courtesies, and then propose an alteration that would remove the reason the department exists. Colleagues find them hard to place, since the manner promises orthodoxy and the content does not deliver it.
Practically, this is the aspect of the engineer, the constitutional lawyer, the surgeon of new procedures, anyone whose novelty must survive contact with material reality. The native has no patience for revolution as a mood. They want the drawing, the tolerance and the test. What they cannot do is endure a rule they know to be nonsense, and their working life usually contains one or two abrupt departures on a point of principle that outsiders find disproportionate and the native regards as the only possible response.
The strain is internal and constant, since both requirements are absolute: it must be free and it must be sound. Under pressure this produces a rigidity that is easily mistaken for stubbornness, a jaw set against everybody, including allies. Nervous strain, insomnia and back trouble follow the contact often enough to be worth mentioning. What relieves it is a long piece of technical work with real constraints, where the two halves have the same job and stop pulling at each other.
What It Gives
- ◆originality that survives testing
- ◆reform carried out methodically
- ◆immunity to fashionable opinion
- ◆resignation on principle when required
What It Costs
- ◆rigidity mistaken for mere stubbornness
- ◆constant internal strain
- ◆rules broken at disproportionate cost
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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