Aspects
Descendant Square Pholus
Your catalytic charge keeps catching on your closest bonds. With Pholus square your Descendant, the small-cause-big-effect quality and the demands of partnership grate against each other, so the releases you set off in relationship tend to blindside you, a small act detonating a bond before you grasped the stakes, an old pattern of uncorking more than a partnership could hold. You might blow up a relationship without meaning to, or be ambushed by the flood a small move unleashed. The friction is purposeful: it pushes you to learn the reach of your catalytic charge in love. The lifelong task is to meet the discomfort as a doorway, learning to sense when a small act is about to detonate a bond, so your charge frees rather than wrecks.
Lean in — Sense when a small act is about to detonate a bond, and pause.
Watch for — Blow up a relationship and then be ambushed by the flood.
- pholus
- descendant
- square
- crisis
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads the natal Pholus square the Descendant as the centaur of the small cause with the large effect, the sudden uncapping of what was contained, 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 Pholus square releases long-held, often ancestral material into partnership and the close other.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Hand frames the Descendant as the seventh house of partnership and the close other, where Pholus square sets the theme of the catalytic trigger and the point of no return.