The fifth house is play, romance, children, and creative output, and Venus is entirely comfortable there. The native courts as a matter of craft. Flowers arrive on days that are not anniversaries. The table is laid before the guest knocks. Attraction is easily felt and easily provoked, and such natives pass through youth with a great deal of attention and not much difficulty in obtaining it.
Creative work is made for delight rather than for meaning — the placement produces decoration, ornament, melody, and pleasure, and is unembarrassed that these are not solemn. Talent tends toward the visual and the musical. Children are enjoyed rather than managed; the native plays properly, dresses them beautifully, and teaches them to notice colour. Romance and creativity draw on the same fund here, and a love affair reliably produces a productive year.
The cost is a taste for the early part of love. Courtship is delicious and the fourth year is not, and the native who has never learned to be interested in a settled affection may leave three of them looking for the feeling of the first fortnight. Praise is required in quantity. And there is a persistent tendency to prefer the pleasing version of a thing to the true one, in art and in the assessment of a lover's character.
What It Gives
- ◆Genuine artistic facility
- ◆Courtship conducted with grace
- ◆Delight in children
- ◆Easily attracts affection
What It Costs
- ◆Prefers courtship to commitment
- ◆Requires frequent praise
- ◆Chooses the pleasing over the true
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