Both bodies want more, and they want more of different things. Venus wants the particular pleasing object. Jupiter wants the larger version, the better address, the story that can be told about it afterwards. Squared, the native buys the larger version and does not much like it. Rooms fill with things purchased for an idea of a life rather than the life actually being lived. Promises follow the same pattern, offered warmly, at a scale the calendar cannot support, and then quietly rearranged.
In love the friction is over scale. The native is drawn to people who represent something, a milieu or a standard, and finds the daily version of them less interesting than the prospect had been. Money is the reliable battleground. Debt taken on for a holiday, a wedding or a good cause is defended on principle long after the interest has stopped being defensible. Such arguments are conducted generously, which is worse than meanly, because generosity makes a position hard to attack and nearly impossible to correct.
What this square eventually teaches is editing, and it teaches by attrition. Somewhere after the third expensive lesson the native begins to notice which pleasures survive repetition and which only survived being anticipated. Those who get that far make unusually good hosts, buyers and patrons, since they have learned by paying for it what a thing is actually worth. Those who do not live slightly beyond their means and slightly disappointed by what the means bought. The appetite never shrinks. It gets aimed.
What It Gives
- ◆generosity that survives exploitation
- ◆instinct for occasion and welcome
- ◆resilience after financial reverse
- ◆hard-won eye for real worth
What It Costs
- ◆spending beyond visible means
- ◆promises made at impossible scale
- ◆pleasure confused with display
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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