Aspects
Chariklo Opposition Descendant
What you hold for others tends to meet you squarely in your closest bonds. With Chariklo opposite your Descendant, anchored on the self end of the relationship axis, the gift of sanctuary is centered in you yet keeps finding its place in partnership, so the steadiness you carry tends to be poured into a bond, a refuge you become for whoever you are with. You may be the one who shelters every partner, or find that a relationship is where your own holding is finally returned. The gift is a self that brings deep refuge to love. The shadow is shouldering all the holding while the bond gives little back. The lifelong work is to bring your sanctuary to a bond while letting it hold you too.
Lean in — Bring your sanctuary to a bond and let it hold you too.
Watch for — Shoulder all the holding while the bond gives little back.
- chariklo
- descendant
- opposition
- holding
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Chariklo opposition the Descendant as the centaur of grace and the holding of space, the dignity that can stay present with great pain, working through partnership and the close other.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene frames the Descendant as the place where Chariklo opposition brings the capacity to hold and shelter others into partnership and the close other.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Hand frames the Descendant as the seventh house of relationship and the close other, where Chariklo opposition sets the theme of sanctuary and steady, healing presence.