The two are placed to help each other without merging, so confidence is on hand rather than built in. Ask this native to speak at a funeral, take a new post, or travel somewhere they have never been, and they will manage it well and be quietly pleased. Left unasked, they stay where they are. The aspect produces no restlessness of its own and supplies no discontent, which is precisely why it is so often unspent. Opportunity of this kind waits without complaint and does not knock twice loudly.
Where it is taken up the pattern is distinctive: modest beginnings, one useful introduction, and a career that turns out larger than the qualifications predicted. Teachers and older colleagues take an interest in these natives for no reason either party can name. Foreign countries, higher study and the law are the traditional fields, and they hold up in practice. The native is trusted with other people's money and generally deserves it, since the honesty here is unforced rather than principled and therefore does not crack under strain.
The failure mode is a small life lived by a person capable of a larger one, with no unhappiness attached and nothing to point at. Such natives reach sixty comfortable and faintly puzzled, aware that something was on offer and unable to say what. The corrective is unspectacular: say yes to the invitation, apply for the post that seems a size too big, ask the favour that would be granted. This aspect rewards the request and ignores the wish, and the distinction is the whole of the instruction.
What It Gives
- ◆patrons who appear without being courted
- ◆honesty that holds under strain
- ◆ease in unfamiliar countries
- ◆competence beyond the qualifications held
What It Costs
- ◆favours never actually requested
- ◆no discontent to prompt movement
- ◆a life smaller than the capacity
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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