The eleventh house holds friends, alliances, and the future one is working toward. With the Sun there, the native's character is drawn out by company of a particular kind — not the intimacy of the seventh house but the shared purpose of a committee, a band, a union, a circle of colleagues who became something more. Such natives collect people. The address book is enormous and, unusually, active. They are the ones who introduce two strangers and change both lives.
There is a genuine orientation toward what has not happened yet. This native is comfortable with plans that mature in fifteen years and with technologies, causes, or ideas that the surrounding town considers premature. Reform suits them. So does the long, unglamorous work of organising, because they can see the finished thing and do not need it soon. Loyalty to the group is strong, sometimes stronger than loyalty to any individual within it.
The cost is a certain thinness at close range. The native who is beloved by two hundred people may be genuinely known by none of them, and the family sometimes finds itself behind the cause in the queue. Belonging can become the whole identity, so that leaving a group — or being expelled from one — is disproportionately shattering. There is also the danger of preferring humanity to persons, which is the cheaper of the two affections.
What It Gives
- ◆Wide and active networks
- ◆Natural talent for alliance
- ◆Clear sense of the future
- ◆Generosity toward shared causes
What It Costs
- ◆Intimacy thinner than friendship
- ◆Identity fused with the group
- ◆Causes placed before family
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