The eleventh house is friends, alliances, groups, and the future being worked toward. Uranus there operates on its own ground. The native's circle is a collection of people who have nothing in common except the native — a physicist, a plumber, somebody's grandmother, a nineteen-year-old from another continent. Friendship is formed on shared ideas rather than shared background, and the native is genuinely indifferent to the social categories that organise other people's address books.
The orientation is forward. The native belongs to the movement, the cooperative, the network built around a technology or a principle that the surrounding town regards as premature. They are often the first to see where an arrangement is going, and they say so, several years before anyone wants to hear it. Reform is not an interest but a temperament: the native looks at an institution and sees the version that should replace it.
The cost is loyalty of an abstract kind. The native is devoted to the group's principle and can drop a particular friend, without much distress, on the day their politics diverge. Membership ends abruptly and often — the sudden resignation, the position that could not be reconciled. And a future held this vividly makes the actual company of actual people, with their small conservatisms, permanently slightly disappointing.
What It Gives
- ◆Friendships across every category
- ◆Sees developments years early
- ◆Genuine talent for reform
- ◆Indifferent to social hierarchy
What It Costs
- ◆Friends dropped over principle
- ◆Memberships ended abruptly
- ◆Present company disappoints
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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