The fifth house is the arena of play, courtship, children, and creative output, and the Sun is entirely at ease there. Such natives make things — pictures, songs, dinners, elaborate games for other people's children — and the making is not a hobby appended to the life but the point of it. There is an appetite for the applause that follows, admitted or not. Work without an audience feels to this native like rehearsing in an empty hall forever.
Romance is conducted with generosity and a certain theatre. The native courts properly, plans the evening, remembers the anniversary of small things. Affection is given lavishly and expected back in visible form. Children, whether the native's own or borrowed for an afternoon, restore the constitution; the native plays with them as an equal rather than supervising from a chair. Risk is taken cheerfully, and usually for pleasure rather than gain.
The cost is a low tolerance for the unglamorous middle of any undertaking. Beginnings are radiant, finishes are managed, and the long grey stretch between is where projects die. Pride is easily injured by indifference — not criticism, which can be argued with, but the absence of response. There is also a persistent difficulty in distinguishing between people who love the native and people who enjoy the show, and the distinction usually becomes clear at an expensive moment.
What It Gives
- ◆Genuine creative fertility
- ◆Warmth and generosity in love
- ◆Natural ease with children
- ◆Courage in taking risks
What It Costs
- ◆Needs an audience to persist
- ◆Pride wounded by indifference
- ◆Loses interest mid-project
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