Aspects
Descendant Opposition Nessus
The wound you carry keeps coming due in your closest bonds. With Nessus opposite your Descendant, anchored on the self end of the relationship axis, the theme of abuse given and received is centered in you yet keeps surfacing through partnership, so the charge you hold around power and harm tends to go off in relationship, an old pattern of yours meeting a partner braced for something else. You may be the one who reenacts the betrayal, or who finally refuses to. The redemptive turn is a self that brings the cycle into a bond in order to end it. The shadow is leaving a trail of wounded ties, or visiting on a partner the harm done to you. The lifelong work is to bring your charge to a bond with the resolve to break, not extend, the chain.
Lean in — Bring your charge to a bond resolved to break the chain.
Watch for — Visit on a partner the harm that was done to you.
- nessus
- descendant
- opposition
- betrayal
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Nessus opposition 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 opposition 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 opposition sets the theme of accountability and the chain of harm that can stop with you.