Venus can never be more than forty-eight degrees from the Sun, so this conjunction appears in a large minority of charts and describes a common temperament rather than a rare one. Identity and the sense of what is pleasing are fused. The native does not decide to be charming; charm arrives with the personality, unearned and often unnoticed by its owner. Taste is confident and specific from childhood. Such people are usually good-looking or convincingly persuade others that they are, which amounts in practice to the same thing.
The difficulty is that pleasing and being are the same act, so displeasing anyone costs more than it should. The native postpones the necessary quarrel, softens the necessary refusal, and ends up in arrangements they agreed to only because disagreeing would have been unpleasant at the time. Money follows the same rule. Comfort is bought before it is affordable, and the accounts are examined only when they can no longer be avoided. In work, the native is drawn to what is elegant and away from what is merely correct.
How close the two stand alters the picture considerably. Within a degree or two the sweetness thickens into something the native cannot get out from behind, and the reputation for being nice becomes a cage. At thirty or forty degrees the effect is lighter and the native can be disagreeable when required. The configuration serves best in work where relations must be kept in repair over years: diplomacy, medicine, teaching, any trade in which a difficult person must be sent away satisfied. The bill arrives whenever a decision demands that somebody be disappointed.
What It Gives
- ◆charm that arrives unrequested
- ◆confident taste from childhood
- ◆relations kept in repair for years
- ◆an eye for what pleases others
What It Costs
- ◆refusals postponed until too late
- ◆comfort bought before it is affordable
- ◆niceness hardened into a role
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