The two blend without seam, and the native has no instrument for telling the beloved from the picture of the beloved. Attraction is immediate and pitched high. Faults are noticed and then edited, not out of dishonesty but because the whole apparatus of perception is running the other way. Such people give more than they can spare, forgive early, and mistake pity for attraction with a regularity that becomes visible in the biography long before it becomes visible to them.
The compensations are considerable and mostly aesthetic. This is the conjunction of musicians, photographers, perfumers, colourists, of anyone whose work depends on an atmosphere that cannot be itemised. Money is where the vagueness does its damage: receipts unread, sums lent without terms, subscriptions running for years, an accountant who is trusted absolutely and should not be. The native gives things away, then quietly grieves for them. Beautiful objects are acquired and lost with the same lack of ceremony.
The correction is not disenchantment, which tends to produce a bitter and still deluded person, but attaching the capacity to something that cannot be disappointed by being seen clearly. Devotional work, the care of the sick, or an art with a technical discipline in it will absorb the whole of this contact and give it back in usable form. In love the requirement is duller: verify the facts, put the arrangement in writing, and let the affection be what it is once the arithmetic is done.
What It Gives
- ◆compassion without conditions
- ◆atmosphere rendered in art
- ◆forgiveness that is genuinely meant
- ◆beauty perceived in overlooked things
What It Costs
- ◆the beloved replaced by an image
- ◆money lent and never accounted
- ◆pity mistaken for attraction
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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