Wanting here is instantaneous and unmistakable. The person knows within a minute of meeting someone whether they are interested, and everyone else in the room knows shortly afterward. There is no slow warming. Courtship, if that is the word, consists of direct approach and open pursuit, and the pursuit itself is the pleasure: the chase supplies a heat that the settled arrangement afterward cannot match. This makes for exhilarating beginnings and a recurring flatness around month five.
In friendship the loyalty is genuine and physical. These are the people who turn up, who lend the money without a discussion of terms, who will fight someone on a friend's behalf and be startled that the friend wanted the matter handled quietly. They give quickly and spend quickly, on impulse and on the spot, and are more generous than careful; the account is treated as a thing to be replenished rather than guarded. Bargaining bores them. They will pay the asking price to have the object today.
The taste runs to the bold and unfussy: strong colour, clean lines, nothing overworked. Being wanted is enjoyed, but only when it has some resistance in it, and a person who capitulates entirely becomes uninteresting almost at the moment of capitulation. That is the honest cost of the placement, and the people with it usually know it about themselves. What redeems it is the absence of manipulation. Whatever they feel is on the table within the hour, and they would rather be refused outright than managed.
What It Gives
- ◆honest direct affection
- ◆spontaneous generosity
- ◆courage in making advances
- ◆loyalty in a crisis
What It Costs
- ◆interest fading after the chase
- ◆impulsive spending
- ◆impatience with slow intimacy
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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