Aspects
Descendant Conjunction Nessus
A bond is where the cycle can finally stop. With Nessus on your Descendant, the seventh-house point of the close other, the theme of power and its misuse is fused with partnership, so relationship becomes the arena where old wounds of betrayal and control surface, where the long chain either repeats or comes to rest between two people. You may draw partners who carry their own version of the wound, or find that a bond is where accountability at last comes due. The redemptive meaning is a relationship in which neither of you passes the poison on. The shadow is repeating the old betrayal from either side, cast as the one who controls or the one controlled. The lifelong work is to let a bond be where the harm ends rather than renews.
Lean in — Let a bond be where the harm ends, not where it renews.
Watch for — Repeat the old betrayal or its role with a partner.
- nessus
- descendant
- conjunction
- bonds
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Nessus conjunction the Descendant as the centaur of abuse and the misuse of power, the wound that travels down the line until someone ends it, 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 Nessus conjunction brings the inherited cycle of harm and betrayal into partnership and the close other, where it can repeat or be broken.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Hand frames the Descendant as the seventh house of relationship and the close other, where Nessus conjunction sets the theme of accountability and the chain of harm that can stop with you.