Aspects
Descendant Conjunction Pholus
A bond is where the lid comes off. With Pholus on your Descendant, the seventh-house axis of close relationship, the small-cause-big-effect quality is fused with the point of the close other, so partnership becomes, for you, the place where what was long contained finally uncorks, a relationship that triggers a release larger than either of you expected. You may draw catalytic partners, or be the one who blows a bond open, a small act between you reaching the point of no return. The gift is relationships that free what was stuck in you both, transformative in their reach. The shadow is bonds that detonate, a partner who unleashes more than you can hold, or being the trigger that wrecks a relationship past recall. The lifelong work is to let a bond uncork you without letting the flood destroy it.
Lean in — Let a bond uncork you without letting the flood destroy it.
Watch for — Be the trigger that wrecks a relationship past recall.
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Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Pholus conjunction the Descendant as the centaur of the small cause with the large effect, the sudden uncapping of what was contained, 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 Pholus conjunction releases long-held, often ancestral material into partnership and the close other.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Hand frames the Descendant as the seventh house of partnership and the close other, where Pholus conjunction sets the theme of the catalytic trigger and the point of no return.