The first house is the body and the manner of arriving. Venus there produces a person the room accommodates. Doors are held, queues are jumped without protest, the difficult official softens. This is not necessarily beauty in the photographic sense — it is a manner: unhurried, agreeable, attentive to the other person's comfort. Such natives dress with care even for the shops and are genuinely unsettled by being seen in poor condition.
The instinct is to smooth. Entering a tense room, this native lowers the temperature within a minute, often without saying anything about the tension. Peacemaking comes easily and is done half-consciously. There is real aesthetic feeling turned on the self — the placement of a scarf, the choice of a frame for a face — and it usually extends outward to the rooms the native inhabits, which become pleasant without appearing to have been worked on.
The cost is a life in which nothing has ever been difficult in the ordinary way, and a corresponding weakness where difficulty is required. The native avoids confrontation past the point of self-interest, agrees in the room and dissents afterwards, and lets small resentments accumulate because raising them would spoil the afternoon. Being liked is confused with being valued. And an appearance that has always worked becomes an uncomfortable subject at the age when it begins to change.
What It Gives
- ◆Immediately agreeable presence
- ◆Instinct for defusing tension
- ◆Refined personal taste
- ◆Doors open without asking
What It Costs
- ◆Avoids necessary confrontation
- ◆Being liked mistaken for being valued
- ◆Vanity about appearance
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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