These two cohabit easily, which is why the conjunction was called fortunate long before anyone examined what it costs. The native expects things to go well and is often proved right, partly because expectation is contagious and other people fund it. Generosity is real and immediate: money, time and introductions are given away before any calculation is made. There is a natural authority about such people that has nothing to do with rank, and they are frequently promoted past the point where their actual knowledge ends.
Excess is the standing hazard, and it is never dramatic enough to alarm anyone until it is late. The native takes on three commitments where one was wanted, promises what cannot be delivered by Friday, and is genuinely surprised when the shortfall is pointed out, having meant every word at the time. Sizes increase: the house, the debt, the body, the story of last summer. Because the aspect flatters, criticism is not sought and rarely lands. Such a person can be liked for thirty years without once being told the truth.
Put to work, the contact is one of the best in the book. It carries other people through difficulty, and institutions run by such natives are unusually humane. What it needs is a boundary supplied from outside: a partner who keeps the accounts, a profession with hard deadlines, a Saturn contact elsewhere in the chart doing the work of restraint. The luck is genuine but it is not infinite, and the natives who fare worst are those who reached fifty having never encountered a limit and therefore never learned the shape of one.
What It Gives
- ◆generosity offered without calculation
- ◆authority independent of rank
- ◆confidence that recruits other people
- ◆difficulty carried on behalf of others
What It Costs
- ◆promises larger than the calendar
- ◆criticism that never reaches its target
- ◆no inbuilt sense of a limit
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