Aspects
Descendant Opposition Flora
With Flora opposite your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world. and on your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship., you tend to find your own capacity for beauty and pleasure living in the people you partner with. You may pick blooming, vivid others while feeling plain yourself. The growth is to reclaim that quality as your own rather than only loving it from across the table. Let your partners show you what you already carry.
Lean in — Reclaim the beauty you keep seeing only in your partners.
Watch for — Don't make a partner carry the bloom you deny yourself.
- projection
- mirroring
- reclaiming
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Flora by her myth, Roman goddess of flowers and spring, as a point of blossoming, sensual beauty, and the flourishing of life, shadowed by surface-prettiness and the fear of fading.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of blossoming beauty and the Descendant, partnership and the other, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the opposition as a polarity seeking balance, often met through others.