Venus is at her most unguarded here, and the capacity for tenderness is genuinely large. Such a person forgives before an apology is offered, takes on a partner's mood as if it were weather, and gives without any accounting of what comes back. The compassion extends past the people it should; a stranger's misfortune lands with the same weight as a friend's. Others find themselves telling this person things they had not planned to tell anyone.
Courtship is dreamy and imprecise. An image of the beloved forms early and is defended against contrary evidence for as long as possible, which produces both the beautiful early months and the long disappointment afterward. Ordinary faults arrive as revelations. Saying no is nearly impossible, so unsuitable people are admitted and then endured for years out of pity, and the rescuing impulse is mistaken for love often enough to be considered the standing hazard of the placement.
The taste runs to the soft, the atmospheric, and the beautiful without function: music above all, water, old fabric, a room at dusk. Money slips away in small amounts, lent to people who will not repay it and spent on gifts that are more generous than the occasion required. Being wanted is deeply enjoyed and poorly bounded. What such people need, and rarely arrange for themselves, is one plain-spoken friend who will say, without cruelty, what is actually happening.
What It Gives
- ◆deep compassion and tenderness
- ◆capacity for real forgiveness
- ◆sensitivity to beauty and music
- ◆unselfish devotion
What It Costs
- ◆idealising unsuitable partners
- ◆inability to refuse
- ◆sacrifice that becomes self-erasure
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