This contact supplies nerve rather than compulsion. The native who uses it can say the unsayable thing in a marriage at the right moment, can name a price without flinching, and can sit with somebody in the worst week of their life without needing them to cheer up. The native who does not use it remains pleasant and slightly guarded, aware of an unused capacity for seriousness and never given a crisis sharp enough to require it. The aspect makes no demands of its own.
In work it favours anything involving other people's private matters: valuation, probate, therapy, restoration, criminal defence, the running of funds. Money attaches to this native gradually and through other hands, by inheritance, partnership or the management of what belongs to someone else, and it is rarely mishandled. In love the same instinct shows as a taste for company that has been through something. The native is unshockable, which makes them the person others confess to, usually at about two in the morning.
Its weakness is that ease can pass for depth. Because the intensity is on tap, it need never be paid for, and a native may reach middle age fluent in other people's crises and untouched by any of their own. The remedy is to want something openly and risk being refused. Used that way the sextile becomes one of the steadiest contacts a person can have: magnetic without menace, discreet without evasion, and completely reliable in the kind of trouble that makes other friends unavailable.
What It Gives
- ◆unshockable in another's crisis
- ◆discretion others rely on
- ◆handles valuation and inheritance well
- ◆says the difficult thing on time
What It Costs
- ◆depth exercised only on other people
- ◆wanting kept safely unstated
- ◆seriousness dormant without a crisis
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