Aspects
Arethusa Square Venus
Arethusa 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. your Venus, so the urge to flee pursuit grates against your wish for harmony, often through pulling away when courted. The work is to let the friction teach you which pursuit to welcome and which to escape.
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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.