Aspects
Descendant Sextile Nessus
A workable strength for ending harm runs through your relationships. With Nessus A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship., a real capacity to meet the hard subjects of power and betrayal with honesty is available in your bonds whenever you reach for it, a steadiness a partner can lean on when old wounds rise. Unlike the A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice.'s effortless trust, this one rewards effort: when you actively bring your willingness to face the cycle into a relationship, the two of you can break a pattern neither could break alone. You can be the partner whose refusal to pass on the poison changes a bond. The lifelong opportunity is to keep choosing that honesty on purpose, making your relationships places where chains of harm come to rest.
Lean in — Bring your honesty into a bond and break the pattern together.
Watch for — Stay silent while control or betrayal repeats in love.
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Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Nessus sextile 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 sextile 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 sextile sets the theme of accountability and the chain of harm that can stop with you.