The eleventh house is friends, alliances, and the future being worked toward. Venus there produces an unusual talent for friendship. The native keeps people for thirty years, across countries and quarrels, and does the small maintenance that friendship actually requires — the message on the difficult anniversary, the visit that was not convenient. Their circle is wide and, more unusually, genuinely fond of one another, because the native introduces well.
Romance frequently begins as friendship here, and the marriages that result have the durable, unspectacular quality of a good alliance. The native prefers a partner who is also a companion and is uneasy with passion that has no conversation in it. Groups, clubs, and causes are joined for the pleasure of the company as much as the aim, and the native improves any committee simply by making its meetings bearable.
The cost is a fondness spread thin. Two hundred people are owed something, and the nearest few receive whatever remains, which is often not much. The native is reluctant to lose a friend and will therefore tolerate one who behaves badly, long past the point where the circle has noticed. Ideals are held warmly rather than examined, and the native may support a cause chiefly because the people in it are pleasant company.
What It Gives
- ◆Exceptional talent for friendship
- ◆Introduces people well
- ◆Love that begins as companionship
- ◆Improves any group it joins
What It Costs
- ◆Affection spread too thin
- ◆Tolerates badly behaved friends
- ◆Causes chosen for company
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