Aspect

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Venus Conjunct Pluto

Desire and power are the same faculty under this conjunction: the native wants completely or not at all, and every serious attachment ends by rearranging the person who entered it.

Nothing here is casual. Attraction arrives with the force of a verdict, and the native's interest, once given, is difficult to withdraw and difficult for the other party to survive being the object of. There is no register between indifference and total absorption. Small talk is a burden, mild affection is not recognised as affection, and the native is drawn to whatever is hidden in a person, frequently to the one thing that person has spent their life keeping out of sight.

The concrete signs are ownership and disposal. This native throws things away with a completeness that alarms their family, and then keeps one object from a finished relationship for twenty years. Money is handled with real competence, particularly other people's: legacies, debts, the funds of an institution, the accounts nobody else wants to open. Jealousy is not a mood but an investigation, conducted quietly and thoroughly. Beauty is preferred in a somewhat ruined condition, and the native is bored by anything that has never been damaged.

The conjunction guarantees at least one attachment that functions as a demolition. Something is destroyed in it, usually a self-image, and what is built afterwards is more durable than what stood before. This is the aspect of a life divided into distinct eras, each begun by a person and closed by them. What must be learned, and it takes decades, is that the intensity is the native's own and not a property of the beloved. Once that is granted, the same force becomes formidable in art, in surgery, in money and in loyalty.

What It Gives

  • loyalty of absolute degree
  • competence with other people's money
  • sees what a person conceals
  • rebuilds entirely after loss

What It Costs

  • jealousy pursued as investigation
  • no register between all and nothing
  • attachments that must demolish something

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