Aspects
Descendant Conjunction Eris
A bond is where the discord lives. With Eris on your Descendant, the seventh-house point of the close other, the theme of strife that exposes the excluded is fused with partnership, so relationship becomes the arena of necessary conflict: you draw partners who shake up your world, find the fight you cannot avoid arrives through a bond, or play the disruptor who keeps a relationship from comfort. You may attract combative or polarizing others, or be the uninvited one in someone's life. The gift is a relationship honest enough to fight cleanly, a partner who refuses to let you hide. The shadow is needless battles in love, a chip on your shoulder with intimates, or being cast out of bonds repeatedly. The lifelong work is to let the discord in your bonds force needed growth rather than just war.
Lean in — Let the discord in your bonds force needed growth.
Watch for — Wage needless battles or carry a chip with intimates.
- eris
- descendant
- conjunction
- bonds
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads the natal Eris conjunction the Descendant as the dwarf planet of discord and the excluded one who forces a reckoning, the strife that exposes what was left out, working through partnership and the close other.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Eris as an archetype of disruptive, boundary-shattering force; here the Descendant is where Eris conjunction brings that necessary discord into 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 seventh house of relationship and the close other, where Eris conjunction sets the theme of the outsider, the uninvited, and the conflict that cannot be avoided.