The first thing to understand about this conjunction is that the native genuinely does not have a firm sense of being one definite person. They take the colour of the room. In sympathetic company they are charming and perceptive; in hostile company they thin out and become vague, and afterwards cannot say what they thought. Photographs of such people rarely look alike. The talent that comes with it is real: imagination, musicality, an instinct for what is unspoken, and a capacity for compassion that does not have to be summoned.
The difficulty is equally real and shows up as a chronic problem with facts about oneself. Ages, incomes, qualifications and intentions are described a little more attractively than they are, not from dishonesty but because the native's own picture is soft at the edges. Deception by others is common, and so is the strange discovery, years later, that a relationship everyone else could see clearly was misread from the start. Alcohol, medication and any substance that softens the outline further should be treated with more caution here than elsewhere.
This is a personal contact despite Neptune's slowness, because the Sun is involved. Development comes from anything that imposes an edge: a craft with materials that resist, regular hours, a discipline that produces a countable result. The native who paints, plays, nurses or writes to a deadline converts the diffusion into work. The native who does not tends to live inside a superior version of their life and to feel, always, that the real one is about to begin. Neptune gives everything except a place to stand.
What It Gives
- ◆compassion offered without calculation
- ◆strong imaginative and artistic feeling
- ◆sensitivity to unspoken atmosphere
- ◆readiness to give up self-interest
What It Costs
- ◆outline lost in other people
- ◆facts about oneself softened
- ◆vulnerability to deception and escape
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