Aspects
Descendant Square Egeria
There is friction between guiding the one you love and standing beside them as an equal. You may slide into advisor when the relationship needed a peer, and resent it later. Notice the slide, and trade some of the counseling for the harder work of being simply present and equally vulnerable.
Lean in — Choose partnership as equals over the safety of being the wise helper.
Watch for — Do not turn every relationship into one where you counsel and they receive.
- mutuality friction
- equal footing
- vulnerability
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Egeria by her myth, Roman water nymph and counselor to King Numa, as a point of wise guidance behind the scenes, nourishing inspiration, and the risk of losing oneself in another.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of quiet counsel and the Descendant, partnership and the other, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the square as dynamic tension that drives growth through friction.