Aspects
Descendant Square Nessus
Old power struggles keep catching on your closest bonds. With Nessus square your Descendant, the theme of abuse given and received and the demands of partnership grate against each other, so the old wound tends to erupt in relationship before you see it coming, a power struggle blindsiding a bond, a pattern of control or betrayal pressing on a tie you valued. You might find yourself cast as dominator or dominated in love, then ambushed by the fallout. The friction is not punishment; it is the skipped step asking to be walked in the open of a relationship. The lifelong task is to meet the discomfort as a doorway, learning to catch the cycle before it strikes, so your bonds become where the chain stops rather than where it repeats.
Lean in — Catch the cycle before it strikes a relationship.
Watch for — Get cast as dominator or dominated, then feel ambushed.
- nessus
- descendant
- square
- crisis
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Nessus square 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 square 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 square sets the theme of accountability and the chain of harm that can stop with you.