The fifth house is play, romance, children, and creative output. Uranus there arrives without warning. Attraction is instantaneous and inexplicable — the native falls for somebody entirely unsuitable within an hour and cannot afterwards explain the mechanism. Affairs begin abruptly and end the same way. Such natives are drawn to people from other worlds: other countries, other generations, other assumptions entirely, and the difference is the attraction rather than an obstacle to it.
Creative work comes in unrepeatable bursts. The native produces something genuinely original in a fortnight and then nothing for a year, and cannot manufacture the condition on demand, which makes commissioned work an ordeal. The output is formally strange — it breaks a rule the native did not know existed — and is either dismissed or admired, seldom anything between. Risk is taken suddenly, and for the interest of it rather than the gain.
The cost is a pleasure that cannot be arranged. Repetition kills it: the same holiday, the same partner on the same evening, the game played by the agreed rules. The native therefore disrupts good arrangements to see what happens, and is genuinely sorry afterwards. Children of such natives get an unconventional and stimulating parent who is not always where they said they would be, and who is better at the interesting parts than the ordinary ones.
What It Gives
- ◆Genuinely original creative work
- ◆Attracted across every boundary
- ◆Unafraid of unconventional pleasure
- ◆Stimulating, unusual parenting
What It Costs
- ◆Romances begin and end abruptly
- ◆Cannot create on demand
- ◆Disrupts good arrangements deliberately
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