Sun Trine Jupiter

Things work out. Trains are missed and the delay proves useful; a post is lost and a better one appears within the month. After forty years of this the native has developed a settled belief that the world is fundamentally well arranged, and they say so, to people for whom it has not been. The generosity is unforced and constant, and there is no calculation in it. Such natives are widely liked and are usually the person a family turns to when something has to be paid for.

What goes undeveloped is judgement about risk. Because nothing has ever gone badly wrong, the native has no working model of how it happens, and they carry insufficient insurance in every sense of the phrase. They are poor advisers to the unlucky, offering optimism where a plan was wanted. Physical habits go unchecked for the same reason: the constitution has always recovered, so it is assumed it always will, and the first serious illness arrives with no precedent and no established method for enduring it.

The aspect gives most when it is spent on someone else. Directed at teaching, medicine, the law or any work of patronage, the confidence becomes a resource that other people can draw on, and the native's tendency to assume the best becomes a professional asset rather than a private comfort. Left undirected it produces an agreeable life with a curious hollowness at the centre, and the native at sixty, asked what they built, will find themselves describing what happened to them instead.