The offer here is influence without compulsion. The native can be forceful when they decide to be and is not obliged to be forceful the rest of the time, which is a considerable advantage over the harder Pluto contacts. There is an instinct for where the real decisions in an organisation are taken and who takes them. There is also a tolerance for unpleasant information: this native can be told the worst without flinching, and people work that out quickly.
Taken up, the aspect produces steady accumulation of position. Not spectacular rises, but a career in which the native ends up holding rather more than their title suggests, having been useful during three or four crises that other people would rather forget. Money and other people's resources are handled competently. Research, surgery, law, finance and any work involving the management of risk suit this contact, and so does the long rehabilitation of something damaged.
Dormant, it shows only as a private taste for dark subject matter and a self-knowledge that goes nowhere. The native reads about power, understands it thoroughly, and declines every opportunity to hold any, then explains this as integrity. It is more often avoidance. The aspect asks to be exercised: taking charge of something consequential, seeing a difficult matter through to its conclusion, refusing to look away when a situation requires an honest reckoning. Used, it makes the native genuinely trustworthy with weight. Unused, it makes them a spectator with good analysis.
What It Gives
- ◆force available on demand
- ◆unflinching with bad news
- ◆sound instinct for real influence
- ◆steady rebuilding of damaged things
What It Costs
- ◆power declined and called integrity
- ◆depth kept entirely private
- ◆insight that never becomes action
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