Aspects
Descendant Square Pomona
Pomona A tense aspect between planets about 90 degrees apart that creates friction and a push to act. Squares are challenging but are often what drives real growth. the relationship axis, so your instinct to nurture and improve a partner meets friction from their own direction. They may not want pruning, however lovingly meant. The growth here is learning to tend only what is invited, and to let the other ripen on their own terms.
Lean in — Offer cultivation only where a partner truly wants it.
Watch for — Do not prune people who never asked to be tended.
- over-tending
- consent
- friction
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Pomona by her myth, Roman goddess of orchards and fruit, as a point of devoted cultivation, ripening care, and the abundance that follows patient tending.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of devoted cultivation 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.