The first house is the body and the manner of arriving. Uranus there guarantees that the arrival is odd. Something in the appearance does not conform — the hair, the spectacles, an asymmetry, a manner of speaking that belongs to no recognisable region. The native is remembered by people who met them once. Attempts at ordinariness fail conspicuously, and by thirty most such natives have stopped attempting it and are considerably better off.
Independence is the governing instinct. The native will not be managed, resigns rather than submits, and reacts to any attempt at control with a coldness that surprises people who thought the relationship warmer. Reflexes are quick and slightly erratic; decisions arrive whole and without warning, including the decision to leave. Such natives change their appearance abruptly and completely — a life divided into eras that can be dated from photographs.
The cost is a self organised around not being like others, which is a form of dependence on others in reverse. The native rejects a reasonable arrangement because it is the expected one. Intimacy is difficult, since closeness looks from here like the first stage of capture, and the native pulls away exactly when things are going well. Nervous excitability runs high, and the body objects to it in sudden episodes rather than in slow complaints.
What It Gives
- ◆Complete personal independence
- ◆Immediately memorable presence
- ◆Quick, original reactions
- ◆Unmoved by social pressure
What It Costs
- ◆Rejects the reasonable option
- ◆Withdraws when closeness grows
- ◆Nervous system easily overloaded
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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