What is offered here is refinement rather than rescue. The native can enter a room and register its mood before a word is spoken, can console without saying anything memorable, and can produce work with a quality of feeling that nobody is able to describe afterwards. None of this is compulsory. Left alone, the aspect makes a person mildly sentimental, fond of music and sad films, and the perceptiveness stays private, exercised on strangers in cafes and never once applied to anything.
In use, its marks are practical. Colour, tone, scent, phrasing, the arrangement of a room so that people talk more freely in it. Charities and sick friends are attended to steadily rather than dramatically, and the help is well judged, because the native can tell what is actually wanted from what has been asked for. Money is treated as a means and held loosely, which works while there is enough and becomes a difficulty when there is not, since the native has no appetite for the conversation.
The risk is the pleasant blur. Because the aspect makes sympathy so easy, the native may go decades without ever having to state a hard preference, and can end up with a life composed entirely of accommodations. Boundaries need to be built deliberately, since none are supplied. Those who do build them find this one of the most useful contacts a working artist or a working nurse can have, and one of the very few that makes tenderness reliable rather than occasional.
What It Gives
- ◆mood read before it is spoken
- ◆help judged to the actual need
- ◆feeling carried into finished work
- ◆kindness sustained without drama
What It Costs
- ◆preferences never stated plainly
- ◆sympathy left as a private hobby
- ◆boundaries absent unless built
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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