Ninety degrees between them sets scale against substance. The native's sense of what they are entitled to attempt runs permanently ahead of what they can presently do, and the gap is felt as frustration rather than as a warning. Promises are made in good faith and broken by arithmetic. Such people are usually thought arrogant when they are in fact merely early; the vision is often sound and the timetable never is. Expenses exceed income by a fairly constant margin at every level of earning.
The visible cost is a series of collapses. A business expands into a second city and fails there; a course of study is begun at a level three years too advanced and abandoned; a house is bought on the assumption that the good year will repeat. Each failure is genuinely educational and none of them is quite enough on its own. Religious or political convictions are held with more force than the native has examined, and are dropped abruptly when a better one arrives, which happens perhaps three times in a life.
This is one of the few squares that improves its owner steadily rather than in one late reckoning. Every overreach teaches a specific limit, and by the middle years the native has a working knowledge of scale that the naturally moderate never acquire, having never tested one. They become excellent judges of other people's ambitions and are relied upon for exactly that. The appetite itself is not cured and should not be; without it the native would attempt nothing. What changes is that the sums are now done first.
What It Gives
- ◆vision that outruns the present position
- ◆hard-won knowledge of scale
- ◆shrewd judgement of others' ambitions
- ◆willingness to attempt the untried
What It Costs
- ◆promises broken by arithmetic
- ◆expenses permanently ahead of income
- ◆convictions adopted before examination
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