Aspects
Amor Square Sun
Who you want to be and your urge to love unconditionally keep getting in each other's way. Compassion can pull you into self-sacrifice that crowds out your own life, or your need to assert yourself collides with your reflex to accept and forgive, and you resent whichever you give up. There is a real risk of the martyr who loves past all reason, or the hardened heart that shuts compassion down to protect the self. This A tense aspect between planets about 90 degrees apart that creates friction and a push to act. Squares are challenging but are often what drives real growth. will not settle for a comfortable middle, it asks for action: to love unconditionally without erasing yourself, until being yourself and loving openly stop fighting.
Lean in — Love openly without erasing yourself in the giving.
Watch for — Love past all reason, or harden the heart to protect the self.
- self-vs-compassion
- martyrdom
- integration
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Amor among the additional asteroids, its principle of unconditional, compassionate love as it meets the Sun.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Amor-Sun aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Amor-Sun contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.