Aspects
Descendant Semi-Sextile Nessus
A quiet undertone colors the bonds you form. With Nessus semi-sextile your Descendant, the theme of abuse and its ending sits a half-step from partnership, near it but not aligned, so there is a faint sense that the charge you carry about power and the way you relate are slightly out of phase. It is easy to overlook and asks only for small, ongoing attention, a little awareness of when an old wound is coloring a bond and when it merely passes through. The benefit comes quietly, from steady minor notice. Tend the small gap and your relationships steady; ignore it and it lingers as a faint, unsettled note in how you let others close.
Lean in — Notice when an old wound is coloring a relationship.
Watch for — Ignore the faint charge running under your bonds.
- nessus
- descendant
- semi_sextile
- nudge
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Nessus semisextile 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 semisextile 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 semisextile sets the theme of accountability and the chain of harm that can stop with you.