The eleventh house is friends, alliances, groups, and the future being worked toward. Saturn there thins the company. The native has four friends, made slowly, tested thoroughly, and retained for forty years. Large gatherings are endured rather than enjoyed. Such natives are often the eldest presence in any group they join, whatever their actual age, and find themselves treated as its conscience without having asked for the office.
Within an organisation they take the unrewarding role: treasurer, secretary, the person who keeps the register and chases the subscriptions. The work is done exactly and for years, and the group survives on it. Friends tend to be older or more serious than the native's contemporaries, and several of the important ones function as mentors. Loyalty, once given, is not revisited; the native will stand by a friend through conduct they privately disapprove of.
The cost is the outsider's seat. The native belongs to the group and is never quite of it, having watched from a small distance since school. Hopes are rationed — this placement does not permit itself to want the large future, having decided early that such things go to other people. And a circle this small is fragile: the death or departure of one friend removes a quarter of the native's world at a stroke.
What It Gives
- ◆Few friendships, kept for life
- ◆Does the unrewarding group work
- ◆Mentors sought and valued
- ◆Loyalty that survives disapproval
What It Costs
- ◆Never fully inside the group
- ◆Hopes deliberately rationed
- ◆A small circle easily broken
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