Wanting and being wanted are at odds here, and the native experiences desire as a problem to be solved rather than a pleasure to be had. Attraction attaches itself to difficulty. The person who is available becomes somehow less interesting by Thursday, while the one who is complicated, unavailable or actively unsuitable holds the attention for years. This is not a taste for suffering. It is that the square requires resistance in order to feel anything at full strength.
Relations are conducted at temperature. Arguments carry a charge that both parties feel and neither mentions, and reconciliation is the part of the cycle the native looks forward to. Money and sex are the usual battlegrounds, often at the same time. In work the same pattern appears as a talent for pushing a project through opposition and a curious flatness once approval is granted. Such natives are rarely dull and are frequently exhausting to live beside.
The development this square forces is learning to generate intensity from within rather than importing it from conflict. That usually means a craft, a sport, or creative work with genuine resistance of its own, so that a partner is not required to supply it. Natives who find one become far easier to love and lose none of their vitality. Those who do not repeat the same three-act affair with different people, each time convinced the trouble lay with the other party.
What It Gives
- ◆vitality that does not fade
- ◆pushes work through real opposition
- ◆courage in pursuing what is wanted
- ◆honest about appetite
What It Costs
- ◆attraction requiring an obstacle
- ◆conflict used to raise temperature
- ◆contentment mistaken for boredom
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