Aspects
Arethusa Quincunx Venus
Arethusa forms a An awkward aspect between planets about 150 degrees apart, joining signs with nothing in common. It asks for constant small adjustments between things that do not naturally fit. to your Venus, so the urge to flee never quite fits your wish for closeness, asking ongoing adjustment between freedom and intimacy. The work is to keep recalibrating the two.
- arethusa
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- venus
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Arethusa by her myth — the nymph turned into a pure underground spring to escape the river-god's pursuit — as a point of the protected source, flight to preserve one's freedom, and transformation under pressure.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats an aspect as a specific working relationship between two principles, read by the geometry of the angle between them.