Aspects
Amor Square Saturn
Your open, accepting heart and your sense of limit keep grinding against each other. Fear, old hurt, or a learned belief that love must be earned can make you withhold acceptance, attach harsh conditions to your affection, or wall off the compassion you long to give. There may be real loneliness or coldness where you wish for openness. This square does not want grim guardedness, it wants action: to risk loving without condition despite the fear, to let acceptance be safe enough to offer, and to grieve the conditional love you may have received, until compassion and self-protection stop fighting and the open heart can give and receive freely.
Lean in — Risk loving without condition despite the old fear.
Watch for — Attach harsh conditions to the love you long to give freely.
- withheld-love
- conditional-affection
- healing
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Amor among the additional asteroids, its principle of unconditional, compassionate love as it meets the Saturn.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Amor-Saturn aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Amor-Saturn contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.