Aspects
Ceres Opposition Descendant
Your own need to nurture and be nurtured stands across from your closest bonds. With Ceres opposite your Descendant, anchored on the self end of the relationship axis, the theme of care is centered in you yet keeps surfacing through partnership, so you may carry a strong nurturing nature into your bonds and find relationships testing how you give and receive care. You might over-mother a partner from your own side, or seek in a bond the sustenance you struggle to give yourself. The gift is a caring presence that a relationship can lean on. The shadow is pouring care outward and forgetting to receive it, or making your own worth depend on being the one who tends. The lifelong work is to bring your nurturing self to a bond as an equal, fed as much as feeding.
Lean in — Bring your nurturing self to a bond as an equal, fed as well as feeding.
Watch for — Pour care outward and forget to receive it in return.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads the natal Ceres opposition the Descendant as the nurturing principle, the giving and receiving of care, shaping partnership and the close other.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Karma and Transformation (1978)Gives the modern depth reading of Ceres opposition the Descendant, the loss-and-return cycle of nourishment working through partnership and the close other.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Hand frames the Descendant as the seventh house of partnership and the close other, where Ceres opposition sets the theme of care, feeding, and what sustains us.